Osama shifted to Afghanistan to get Benazir, Musharraf, Fazl killed under his supervision: ISI

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Osama shifted to Afghanistan to get Benazir, Musharraf, Fazl killed under his supervision: ISI

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KARACHI: Exactly 10 years after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, according to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency’s information regarding the December 2007 incident, it was revealed that Osama bin Laden, the former chief of al-Qaeda, was supervising the assassination plot of Benazir Bhutto and for this reason, he had shifted to Afghanistan; the explosives to execute this plot were provided by the courier of Osama bin Laden.

This information has come to the forefront years after it was provided to the Ministry of Interior in Dec 2007 by the Pakistan Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in three reports and the letters obtained from the former al-Qaeda chief’s residence.

In these secret intelligence reports, the Ministry of Interior was warned that Osama bin Laden had issued orders to kill then-president Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan People's Party’s former chairperson Benazir Bhutto and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman.

According to the documents received by our correspondent, the most important letter by the ISI to the Ministry of Interior was written on Dec 19, 2007; the letter was directed to the Interior Ministry’s then-director coordination of the Crisis Management Cell Colonel Muhammad Imran Yaqub.

This letter was sent signed by Lt-Col (retd) Zaigham Islam Butt for DG Intelligence. The letter, titled “President Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto and Fazlur Rehman’s murder plan”, was written on Wednesday. The text of the letter read: “We have received this information that Osama bin Laden has issued the order to kill President Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto and Fazlur Rehman. He [Osama bin Laden] has planned to send his courier, who is a national of Pakistan and a resident of Multan, named Musa Tariq, through Waziristan with explosives to be used in executing the murder plots. On coming Sunday — which is Dec 22 — this person will be in the area of Dera Ismail Khan.”

This letter’s last three lines contained quite confidential content, which read: “Osama bin Laden is personally supervising this entire plan and for this reason, he has shifted to Afghanistan.”

On the other hand, from the last line of this letter, it became quite clear that the sources of ISI were mailing some secret information to it as well. In the last line of this letter, the ISI had requested the interior ministry to make urgent security arrangements.

At that point, this information was so important that the copies of this letter were also dispatched to the Military Intelligence Directorate, GS Branch and General Headquarters, Rawalpindi.

After receiving the above-mentioned letter from the ISI, the General Staff Branch of the Military Operations Directorate of General Headquarters, on the next day—that is Dec 20, 2007—sent a letter to then-interior secretary Syed Kamal Shah.

Six days before the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, this letter was issued with the signature of then-chief of the general staff Lt-Gen Salahuddin Satti’s Lt-Col Staff Khurram Shahzad. The text of this letter read: “It has been informed that Osama bin Laden has issued the order to kill the President of Pakistan [Pervez Musharraf’s name was not mentioned in the letter, but his designation was mentioned], Ms Benazir Bhutto and Fazlur Rehman. According to the letter, he [Osama bin Laden] has planned to send his courier Musa Tariq, who is a national of Pakistan and a resident of Multan, through Waziristan with explosives to be used in executing the murder plots of the above-mentioned. On coming Sunday, this person will be in Dera Ismail Khan. This has also come to our knowledge that Osama bin Laden is personally supervising this plan and for this reason, he has shifted to Afghanistan.”

Before both of these letters were written, on Dec 11, 2007, ISI’s then-chief Lt-Gen Nadeem Taj’s Colonel for DG Intelligence Fayyaz Hussain Chaudhary had written a letter to then-chief of the Crisis Management Cell of the Ministry of Interior, Brigadier (retd) Javed Iqbal Cheema.

In this letter, it was mentioned that the terrorist and extremist groups related to al-Qaeda had planned to assassinate Benazir Bhutto and her then-security adviser Rehman Malik during the election campaign.

In the letter, the interior ministry was requested to make adequate security arrangements. Following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Dec 27, a short letter was sent to Osama bin Laden after two days. The copy of this letter has been obtained by our correspondent. The correspondent was bound to only publish its content, but he was restricted to share the letter with anyone.

The text of the letter written on Dec 29 read: “Sheikh Abdul Hameed has sent a report regarding some special task. He is also the in charge of work in Pakistan. We have carried out various attacks in Pakistan. The last attack was carried out two days ago in Rawalpindi. We have taken revenge for our brothers and sisters of Jamia Hafsa and Lal Masjid.”

Further, in this letter, some irrelevant content is present. But the most important point mentioned in this letter was regarding consultation of opening a branch in Pakistan. This letter — recovered from Osama’s home — is Pakistan leadership’s main part of investigation. After thorough examination of the Pakistan Army, ISI and Osama bin Laden’s letters, a lot of new questions have surfaced, which may also include al-Qaeda’s former chief’s presence in Pakistan. A lot of reporting on this issue will be done in years to come.
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[khansaheeb]

Exactly my reaction!

 

[U-571]

the agency didn't even know osama was hiding right under their noses in abbottabad near PMA

and they think we can believe this crap.

 

[ARMalik]

Do you guys still believe in the OBL episode? You are smart people, why would you believe in a fake fairy-tale created by the US and Hollywood? Hopefully you guys also do know that Santa is fake, and doesn't leave gifts under a tree.

 

[U-571]

Do you guys still believe in the OBL episode? You are smart people, why would you believe in a fake fairy-tale created by the US and Hollywood? Hopefully you guys also do know that Santa is fake, and doesn't leave gifts under a tree.

so why doesnt pak army say, that OBL episode is another santa story?

 

[Kuru]

the agency didn't even know osama was hiding right under their noses in abbottabad near PMA

and they think we can believe this crap.

I have a feeling that this agency only knows what's happening in Afghanistan more than it does about what's happening in Pakistan. That's the only possible explanation why they had no idea about OBL staying just a stone throw away from Pak military academy. He lived there for half a decade and nobody in Pakistan knew it.

 

[U-571]

I have a feeling that this agency only knows what's happening in Afghanistan more than it does about what's happening in Pakistan. That's the only possible explanation why they had no idea about OBL staying just a stone throw away from Pak military academy. He lived there for half a decade and nobody in Pakistan knew it.

agency is incompetent nothing else, to hide their incompetence and sometimes their own involvement they issue such BS statements

 

[Dalit]

LOL the Americans still haven’t shown Osama’s body which they supposedly dumped into the ocean. BTW the most wanted man on the planet. Go figure. Talk about a bad closure LOL

Who are these people fooling here? A story which has more holes than Swiss cheese.

Are we suppose to believe that the Yanks crashed their chopper which went up in flames and kept shooting in broad daylight for hours nearby an army vicinity without anyone noticing it? Even a bad movie has a better script.

The most beautiful part of all. The Yanks who claim to have done the heroics are divided on the entire narrative. What a joke.

 

[Maarkhoor]

LOL the Americans still haven’t shown Osama’s body which they supposedly dumped into the ocean. The most wanted man on the planet. Go figure. Talk about a bad closure LOL

Who are these people fooling here? A story which has more holes than Swiss cheese.

Are we suppose to believe that the Yanks crashed their chopper which went up in flames and kept shooting in broad daylight for hours nearby an army vicinity without anyone noticing it? Even a bad movie has a better script.

Only fishes of the sea or American know where is Osama the stooge is.

 

[Dalit]

Only fishes of the sea or American know where is Osama the stooge is.

It is a comedy.

 

[khujliwal]

I have a feeling that this agency only knows what's happening in Afghanistan more than it does about what's happening in Pakistan. That's the only possible explanation why they had no idea about OBL staying just a stone throw away from Pak military academy. He lived there for half a decade and nobody in Pakistan knew it.

The intent here is to assert that Musharraf had no hand in Bb assassination.

 

[ARMalik]

so why doesnt pak army say, that OBL episode is another santa story?

We are ordinary people, and have no clue on the inside hanky panky dealings of the military and US. BUT, Think about this; the US found OBL in Pakistan, the same person the US declared war on after 9/11 and threatened every country harboring OBL's and his mates. But after the US "finds" OBL in Abbottabad Pakistan, Pakistan is NOT attacked. Pakistan's "Non Nato major ally" status still remains. US still continues to give aid to Pakistan, and so on.

-US then claimed that after the raid U.S. forces took bin Laden's body to Afghanistan for identification, then buried him at sea within 24 hours of his death in accordance with Islamic tradition. (Do you smell horse shi.t here?). I didn't know burying at sea was an "ISLAMIC TRADITION".

-US releases no video evidence of OBL's body, no proof of identification, no pictures released of his dead body.

- Accordingly to highly respected Seymour M. Hersh, Pakistani military must have had knowledge of the operation. And not only this, no fire-fight took place.

And there are other countless articles questioning the validity of the US claims.

In short, the falseness of this incident is right in front of everyone's face.

 

[LeGenD]

Is this a new narrative in the making? They want to provide a closure to questions pertaining to assassination of Benazi Bhutto.

In a state where crimes like Baldia factory fire are overlooked for a long time, what do you expect?

Nobody dare to touch Asif Ali Zardari either.

 

[Sankpal]

This is a known fact.

US always try to maintain relationships with pakistan with hiding few facts from the world.