"...why did Mush send ISI chief to DC right before 9/11 and let him wire big sum of money to the so-called hijacker Mohd. Atta?"
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You have some evidence of this?.........
As saying goes little learning is a very dangerous thing, the following info. would enlighten you..
By: ABID ULLAH JAN
IT is apparent that any ISI and Israeli connections to the 9/11 attacks have been forsaken by both the mainstream media and the official investigators of the 9/11 events. There were no meaningful official investigations into what really happened, which is why it isnt too surprising that the hard evidence for who was behind the attacks still seems exceedingly thin.
However, by linking all the events that we know of, and the roles of the myriad different ISI and CIA intelligence assets in the pre-9/11 period, one can reasonably speculate that the ISI (or, at the very least, its top leadership and some assets) played a key role in pinning the blame of 9/11 on Arabs in Afghanistan. At the same time, Mossad and its American counterparts appear to have focused their energies on physically bringing down the WTC towers and ensuring an attack on the Pentagon. It would not be difficult to go beyond speculation, providing that an honest investigation into the most horrific crime of our age could be realized.
By now it should be apparent that the official story of 9/11 does not make sense. Anyone with an enquiring mind should have realized that it is extremely improbable for one individual sitting in an Afghan cave to have planned an operation of this proportion.
The theory that nineteen Arab fanatics, executed this plan because they hate our freedoms213 also does not make much sense. Additionally, many independent scholars have researched various aspects of the 9/11 attacks, including research on the possible controlled demolition of the towers. Other, similar research has been carried out in order to investigate the possibility of an inside job.
Although written with a different objective, Josh Meyers story in the Los Angeles Times (April 5, 2006) proves that Osama bin Laden was set-up to take responsibility for the 9/11 attacks via the help of Arab agents (Mohammed Atta and company) who were knowingly or unknowingly working for the real forces behind Operation 9/11. According to the Los Angeles Times, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was closely working with Pakistans ISI and the hijackers214 said, Osama bin Laden was a meddling boss whose indiscretion and poor judgment threatened to derail the terrorist attacks.
The planning centre for the whole operation was in the United States, and the perpetrators of 9/11 used Atta and associates most probably without their knowledge, as it was known that that they would not survive the task assigned to them on that fateful day. Select information was shared with Osama bin Laden for the sole purpose of making him discuss the possible attacks in the United States. The objective was to frame him beforehand and thus facilitate a war on Afghanistan. The way the hijackers spent their evening on September 10spending the night in a Daytona Beach strip club, drinking and dancing shows that they had little or no knowledge of the complete 9/11 operation. Similarly, Khalid Sheikh, Saeed Sheikh, and their handlers in the ISI were probably ignorant of the broader plant¬¬he way they have been silenced shows that whatever they know would be enough to help analysts piece the puzzle together and conclude that the 9/11 operation was well-planned procedure in which Arabs and ISI assets and staff were used only for setting up Osama bin Laden and the ISI itself.
According to the Los Angeles Times, He [Osama] also saddled Mohammed [Atta] with at least four would-be hijackers who the ringleader thought were ill-equipped for the job. And he carelessly dropped hints about the imminent attacks, violating Mohammeds cardinal rule against discussing the suicide hijacking plot.
The hijackers, whom bin Laden dumped on Atta, were considered ill-equipped for the job simply because they were not part of the broader plan, as Atta and company were. It was only natural that bin Laden would introduce some devoted men to help Atta, especially in light of their joint efforts to plan attacks on targets in the United States. However, they were considered a liability because Attas bosses would not trust anyone who may have been more loyal to bin Laden than to Atta and his employers.
The fact that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was working more closely with the ISI than with bin Laden is evident from this statement in the Los Angeles Times report: [Shaikh] Mohammed stated that he was usually compelled to do whatever Bin Laden wanted with respect to operatives for the September 11 operation, the interrogation summary states. That said, [Shaikh] Mohammed noted that he disobeyed Bin Laden on several occasions by taking operatives assigned to him by Bin Laden and using them how he best saw fit. His independence from Bin Laden had its limits, however, because it was Al Qaedas money and operatives that enabled the plot to go forward.
Where was the money from Al-Qaeda spent? What did the hijackers purchase with it? Obviously, not just box cutters and small knives. With this much information available, why has Khalid Sheikh not been put on public trial like Zacarias Moussaoui? These are the questions which remain unanswered. However, what is evident is that the planning centre was in the United States and Atta was working as a puppet for the real planners of Operation 9/11 in the United States, not Afghanistan. Discussions with bin Laden and financial assistance from him were part of the broader plan, used to consolidate the frame-up.
To understand the frame-up, it is necessary to review a little history. Initially, the US administration pinned the blame on bin Laden with its December 13, 2001 video release. The quality of the video was very poor and the authenticity of the tape was immediately questioned, which distressed President Bush to the extent that he made the following comment during a brief photo opportunity with the prime minister of Thailand: It is preposterous for anybody to think that this tape is doctored. Thats just a feeble excuse to provide weak support for an incredibly evil man.215 Bush added: Those who contend its a farce or a fake are hoping for the best about an evil man. This is Bin Laden unedited. This is
the Bin Laden who murdered the people. This is a man who sent innocent people to their death. The U.K. foreign secretary, Jack Straw, insisted there was no doubt it is the real thing.216 The criticisms of authenticity, combined with the vehement denials from the highest possible sources, suggest that the video may have been specifically produced to cover for the real culprits and thus pave the way for legitimizing the war on Afghanistan.
Bin Ladens comments on the November 19 tape, aired by the Arab news network, Al Jazeera,217 caused quite a stir because they contradicted the confession video. According to Toby Harnden of the Telegraph, American officials argued that bin Ladens frequent references to U.S. support for Israel were a bogus justification for his terrorism because in the dinner party tape of a private conversation there was no mention of the Middle East.218
This is in contrast to bin Ladens September 28, 2001 video in which he denies involvement in the 9/11 attacks but had plenty to say about the United States and Israel: This system is totally in control of the American-Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States. It is clear that the American people are themselves the slaves of the Jews and are forced to live according to the principles and laws laid by them. So, the punishment should reach Israel. In fact, it is Israel, which is giving a blood bath to innocent Muslims and the U.S. is not uttering a single word.219
Moreover, bin Ladens views on Israel have been consistent since 1998:We say to the Americans as people and to American mothers, if they cherish their lives and if they cherish their sons, they must elect an American patriotic government that caters to their interests, not the interests of the Jews.220
Let us assume for a moment that the December 13, 2001 tape is genuine. In which case the war in Afghanistan was launched more than two months before the world was presented with this evidenceevidence which had absolutely nothing to do with the Taliban or their government. There is no mention of the Taliban or their support in planning the attacks.
Even if the December 13, 2001 tape is genuine, it only proves that bin Laden was not the mastermind behind the attacks. It merely indicates that he had some prior knowledge of it, which does not make him responsible for the attacks. He states (if we accept the tape as stating anything) that he was told about the impending attack five days before it occurred.
Although bin Laden admitted to the author, during an interview in mid-August, 2001, that We are about to do something, his immediate reaction after the 9/11 attacksthat he supports the attack but he did not do it221suggests that he was set up. He was told through Arabs, who were knowingly or unknowingly working with the U.S. authorities involved in the 9/11 operation, that they were about to do something. The objective was to force the loudmouthed bin Laden into repeating the same words and talking about the attacks before they had happened. This was the best way to implicate him in advance.
The set-up to implicate bin Laden seems to span a long period of time. Even in the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, bin Laden vehemently denied his involvement and refused to take responsibility. According to General Hamid Gul, Osama swore to him on the Quran that he had nothing to do with the bombings in Africa. In General Hamid Guls words:
Mossad is strong in both countries. Remember the Israeli operation to free hostages in Entebbe (Uganda)? Both Kenya and Tanzania were part of the logistical tail. A so-called associate of Osama was framed at Karachi airport. The incidents took place on Aug. 8, 1999, and on the 10th a short, clean-shaven man disembarks at Karachi airport and presents the passport of a bearded man. Not your passport, he was told. He then tries to bribe the clerk with 200 rupees. A ludicrously small sum given the circumstances. The clerk says no and turns him in and he starts singing right away. Not plausible. Osama has sworn to me on the Koran it was not him and he is truthful to a fault. Pious Muslims do not kill innocent civilians who included many Muslim victims. The passport must have been switched while the man was asleep on the plane in what has all the earmarks of a Mossad operation. For 10 years, the Mujahideen fought the Soviets in Afghanistan and not a single Soviet embassy was touched anywhere in the world. So this could not have been Osamas followers.222
Evidence for the set-up of Operation 9/11 is further supported by the fact that in 1999, a U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) report noted that al-Qaeda suicide bombers could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the CIA, or the White House.223 Furthermore, at least 11 countries provided advance warning to the United States of the 9/11 attacks. Two senior Mossad experts were sent to Washington in August 2001 to alert the CIA and FBI to a cell of 200 terrorists said to be preparing a big operation.224 None of these individuals were arrested. This is not a sign of incompetence. It only proves that the initial propagation of information was created in order to set the trapa trap designed to convincingly hold Arabs responsible for the attacks planned by the insiders. Actually, those agents within the U.S. intelligence community who were responsible for receiving and acting on the many foreign warnings received prior to 9/11 were most probably the ones who planted the information about the possible attacks in the first place. Additionally, the United States government hid behind a façade of incompetence and inaction both before the attacks and during the period when Operation 9/11 was unfolding.
Information obtained from Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri suggest that bin Laden came to know about the impending attack only days or weeks before it actually happened. This demonstrates that neither bin Laden nor the Taliban could possibly have been the main organizers. Indeed, the relationship between the Taliban and their Arab guests was not as deep and friendly as presented by the media. The Taliban had actually confiscated communication equipment from bin Laden and his followers. This is further confirmed by the Taliban leader Mullah Omars statement reported by Reuters on September 19, 2001: We have told America that we have taken all resources from Osama and he cannot contact the outside world. And we have told America that neither the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan or Osama are involved in the American events. But it is sad that America does not listen to our word.225
This is exactly how the Bank of Credit Commerce and International (BCCI) was trapped in 1988. The same mechanism was used to implicate Osama bin Laden and the ISI in the 9/11 attacks. Yet again, the U.S. is heavily implicated in the setup. For example, Canadian police arrested Ali Mohamed, a high-ranking al-Qaeda figure. However, they released him when the FBI confirmed he was a US agent.226 As described earlier, Saeed Sheikh, who is reported to have sent money to Mohamed Atta, was reported to be a CIA agent. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review suggested that not only was Saeed closely tied to both the ISI and al-Qaeda, but he could be working for the CIA: There are many in Musharrafs government who believe that Saeed Sheikhs power comes not from the ISI, but from his connections with our own CIA. The theory is that
Saeed Sheikh was bought and paid for.227
There is more evidence that suggests that the Arabs used in the 9/11 operation were working with the U.S. government. A series of articles in the New York Times suggests that at least seven of the 9/11 hijackers were trained in U.S. military bases.228 The newspaper reported: The Defense Department said Mr. Atta had gone to the International Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama; Mr. al-Omari to the Aerospace Medical School at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas; and Mr. al-Ghamdi to the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio in Monterey, Calif.229
Ahmed Alnami, Ahmed Alghamdi, and Saeed Alghamdi even listed the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida as their permanent address on their drivers licenses.230 According to Washington Post staff writers Guy Gugliotta and David S. Fallis: Two of 19 suspects named by the FBI, Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi, have the same names as men listed at a housing facility for foreign military trainees at Pensacola base. 231 Two others, Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alnami, have names similar to individuals listed in public records as using the same address inside the base. In addition, a man named Saeed Alghamdi graduated from the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, while men with the same names as two other hijackers, Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari, appear as graduates of the U.S. International Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., and the Aerospace Medical School at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, respectively.232
A defense official further confirmed that Saeed Alghamdi was a former Saudi fighter pilot who had indeed attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.233 Abdulaziz Alomari attended Brooks Air Force Base Aerospace Medical School in San Antonio, Texas.234 Another U.S. defense official confirmed that Atta was a former Saudi fighter pilot who graduated from the U.S. International Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.235 The media dropped the story after the Air Force made an unconvincing statement that while the names are similar, we are probably not talking about the same people.236 However, the U.S. military has failed to provide any information about the individuals whose names supposedly match those of the alleged hijackers, making it impossible to either confirm or refute the story. In Daniel Hopsickers view: How easy was it to tell the Pentagon was lying? Think about it. It is neither plausible nor logical that the reports were false because of seven separate cases of mistaken identity. One or two, maybe. But seven? No way.237
Using Arab agents to entrap Osama bin Laden by forcing him into making predictions about attacks on the United States before 9/11 is further confirmed by a number of independent research. Daniel Hopsicker concludes in his book Welcome to Terrorland that, rather than being a fundamentalist Muslim, Mohamed Atta better fits the profile of a member of Arab societys privileged elite, and also a spy. Amongst many oddities contradicting the fundamentalist label and the description of a person determined to destroy the United States is the fact that his e-mail list included the names of several employees of U.S. defense contractors.238
Deciding to investigate for himself, Hopsicker phoned the Pentagon and spoke with the public information officer who helped write and disseminate their original denial of knowing the hijacker identities. From his interaction with the officer, Hopsicker discovered that someone in the Defense Department has a list with the names of the September 11 terrorists who received training at U.S. military facilities. The officer just didnt [had] the authority to release it.239
Furthermore, Hopsicker spoke to a woman who works at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama: I have a girlfriend who recognized Mohamed Atta. She met him at a party at the Officers Club, she told us. The reason she swears it was him here is because she didnt just meet him and say hello. After she met him she went around and introduced him to the people that were with her. So she knows it was him. Saudis were a highly visible presence at Maxwell Air Force Base, she said. There were a lot of them living in an upscale complex in Montgomery. They had to get all of them out of here. They were all gone the day after the attack.240
Despite it being key to any investigation into what really happened on September 11th, there has been a surprising absence of investigations into the goings on in Venice, Florida. In fact, to the contrary, the FBIs full attention seemed to have been engagednot in investigating what had happenedbut in suppressing evidence and even intimidating the witnesses who had seen and heard things that fly in the face of the official story.241 For example, Mohamed Attas former girlfriend Amanda Keller says that even after she left Venice, the FBI called on her every other day for several months, telling her not to talk to anybody. Similarly, a woman called Stephanie Frederickson who lived next door to Atta and Keller in Venice reported how she and other residents in the same apartment building were harassed and intimidated by FBI agents, to prevent them from talking to reporters.
The FBI arrived in Venice just hours after the 9/11 attacks. A former manager from Huffman Aviation said: They were outside my house four hours after the attack. He added: My phones have been bugged, they still are. How did the FBI get here so soon? Ask yourself: Howd they got here so soon?242 Within 24 hours of the attacks, records from Huffman Aviation, the flight school that Atta and al-Shehhi attended, were escorted aboard a C-130 cargo plane to Washington by Florida governor and brother of the President, Jeb Bush. Similarly, according to a sergeant with the Venice police, the FBI took all the police files and flew them to Washington with Jeb Bush aboard. (Presumably this was on the same flight as the Huffman records.) Hopsicker notes: The important point was that taking files was a lot different than copying them. The FBI wasnt taking any chances.243 He concludes: There is a demonstrable, provable, and massive federally-supervised cover-up in place in Florida.244
The December 13 tape was also very much part of the entrapment process as could be one or more of the hijackers because according to the Newsweek, five of the hijackers received training at secure US military installations in the 1990s.245 In all the frenzied outrage against bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network that this convenient tape has produced, it seems that very few people have actually viewed the tape carefully enough to ask the important question that arises from bin Ladens admission of having been told about the attack five days in advance: If bin Laden only knew about the attacks five days in advance then who actually organized the 9/11 attacks?
Irrespective of the existence of this tape, the likelihood of bin Laden being the mastermind behind the attacks is actually quite improbable. If sending information to bin Laden about the impending attackswhich he shared with journalists well before 9/11was not an attempt to trap him like the BCCI entrapment and the thousands of drug entrapment cases in the United States, then the possibilities left are: a) he was involved in collusion with the United States authorities or, b) he was involved independently, but the United States knew of his plans and deliberately allowed them to come to fruition, so as to reap the benefits of the attacks and achieve greater objectives rather than undermine the terrorist plan. This is perhaps why no other suspect for 9/11 was ever even contemplated, however briefly (even though the United States has plenty of enemies). An impartial, genuine inquiry into the attacks would have considered a list of suspects, such as Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Castro, one of the many Palestinian groups, Russia, China, local right-wing militias, anti-globalization activists, Syria, or someone completely unknown and unexpected. The list of possible entities that may wish harm to the United States is huge. Bin Laden would have been only one of these.
To put this in context, it took US authorities 18 years to catch the Unabomber246 . However, the persons who allegedly masterminded the 9/11 operation along with the 19 hijackers became known to the United States government and media within a few hours of the attacks. Similarly, they identified Afghanistan as the target within days. Later, a CIA official, AB Krongard, said catching bin Laden was not even important.247 Krongard was the CIAs third most senior executive. It strongly suggests that the objective of Operation 9/11 was nothing more than the invasion of Afghanistana tactic designed to dislodge the Taliban and set up the ISI, thus immediately forcing Pakistan into submission while also undermining its military capacity.
Formal government-authored inquiries into events such as the 9/11 attacks require massive organization and resources. It is an enormous task to start drawing up the list of possible suspects, possible personnel for the inquiry, and the main angles of investigation for the inquiry. In the case of 9/11, however, the conclusions were pre-determined and the pre-conceived results were announced without any real inquiry at all. Framing the Taliban occurred without any inquiry whatsoever. Without setting up any inquiry team, without any inquiry evidence, and without any reports and summaries for the President and others in the U.S. administration, , the pre-determined verdict was announced in less than 12 hours, in a country that was in chaos and confusion, having just suffered the most horrifying terrorist attack in human history.
This is one of the most preposterous aspects of the whole 9/11 affair. How did all the necessary inquiry miraculously happen? To have physically held a meeting of the senior officials needed to coordinate the inquiry within less than three days in such a chaotic situation would probably have been impossible. Yet, by this time, the United States had already claimed to have held its inquiry and established the Talibans guilt by association with bin Ladenthe main culprit. Was anything ever more obviously a set up? It is simply not possible.
Missing from the story are Saeed Sheikh and Khalid Sheikh. Despite being captured, and despite having obvious links to 9/11, both have been kept out of the picture. One possible explanation for this is that the ISIs involvement has already been used to blackmail General Musharraf. However, perhaps it is not yet time to target Pakistans military strength. Quite possibly the same cards will be used to neutralize Pakistan, once Iraq and Iran have been dealt with.
An important question remains regarding the hijackers. If the planes were not remote controlled, as some theories have suggested, then pilots knew that they were on a suicide mission. It is difficult to believe that Americans, or those loyal to the United States, would knowingly participate in a suicide mission. One explanation is that some of the hijackers were genuinely hostile to the United States and were either participating in an attack that they thought would damage it, or did not realize that the scope of the operation would end up in their own death and such devastation. Albert D. Pastore, who carefully studied, painstakingly researched, and analyzed in detail all the sources and events of 9/11, also reaches the same conclusion in his book, Stranger than Fiction. His logical deduction is that perhaps, the hijackers were another group of angry Arab patsies who were not even aware of who their true handlers were or what the broader strategic aim of the mission actually was.248
Perhaps these individuals were under the impression that their plan was secret from the United States government. Possibly they were used to send a message to bin Laden that they were about to do something. That is why bin Laden started bragging to journalists, telling them that the myth of American might needed to be shattered. However, bin Laden did not know what the real perpetrators of 9/11 had actually planned for the Arabs used as pawns in Operation 9/11. That is why, soon after the 9/11 attacks, bin Laden said he approved of the attacks on United States interests, but categorically denied his involvement in the operational planning.249
What puts the hijacking part of the official story of 9/11 in serious doubt is the revelation that at least seven of the alleged hijackers are still alive. Wail and Waleed al Shehri are brothers and both are alive.250 Others who are still alive are Satam al Suqami, Abdul Aziz al Omari, Fayez Banihammad (from the UAE), Ahmed al Ghamdi, Hamza al Ghamdi, Mohand al Shehri, Saeed al Ghamdi, Ahmad al Haznawi, Ahmed al Nami, Majed Moqed, and Salem al Hazmi (the brother of Nawaf al Hazmi).251 The FBI, however, remains silent. How can the 9/11 Commission be taken seriously when it refers to 9/11 hijackers who are still alive?
The hijackers used stolen identities of at least five Saudis who worked in the airline industry as pilots, mechanics and flight attendantspeople who would have had increased access in airports, a Saudi government official told the Sun-Sentinel.252 In his book, Stranger than Fiction, Albert Pastore concludes, We have established that at least 7 of the 19 hijackers are alive and well,253 and that identities of 9 hijackers are in question due to identity theft.254
No Afghan nationals were included in the list of alleged hijackers. Their country has, however, been made to pay the price for the alleged involvement of Osama bin Laden. Pakistan and Afghanistan were treated in very different ways after 9/11, despite the fact that there was no evidence of Taliban involvement in the attacks. As we discussed earlier, Pakistans ISI seems to be far more involved, at least in the set-up part of the 9/11 operation, than the Taliban.
Still, the Pakistani government has not be asked to clarify why General Mahmud Ahmed of Pakistans Intelligence Services (ISI) ordered Saeed Sheikh to transfer $100,000 to the alleged ring-leader of the 9/11 hijackers255 shortly before 9/11.256
According to the Wall Street Journal (October 9, 2001), the Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported on October 9, 2001 that Islamabad had replaced the head of its Inter-Services Intelligence agency, Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmed, after the FBI investigators established credible links between him and Umar Sheikh, one of the three militants released in exchange for passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999.257 There was no mention of their role in the 9/11 attacks.
In an August 3, 2004 article in the Washington Times Arnaud de Borchgrave wrote: former Pakistani intelligence officers knew beforehand all about the September 11 attacks. He goes one step further in pinning the blame solely on the ISI: They even advised Osama bin Laden and his cohorts how to attack key targets in the United States with hijacked civilian aircraft. And bin Laden has been undergoing periodic dialysis treatment in a military hospital in Peshawar, capital of Pakistans Northwest Frontier Province adjacent to the Afghan border.258 One thing that could be seen as incriminating is the U.S. governments silence in respect to these comments. Imagine if these allegations were leveled against an Iranian or Syrian intelligence agency.
According to Borchgrave, this information even came to the notice of the 9/11 Commission in the United States. He writes: The information came to the commissions attention in a confidential report from Pakistan as the commissions own report was coming off the presses. The information was supplied with the understanding that the unimpeachable source would remain anonymous.
The Friday Times carried a report by Ahmed Rauf in its issue for the first week of March, 2006, about the alleged payment of bribes amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, through its American lobbyists, to the members of the 9/11 Commission. The Friday Times report stated: Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan and Special Secretary Sher Afgan were present at the meeting when an FO (Foreign Office) official, Sadiq, who was part of the secret negotiations with members of the U.S. inquiry team and has just returned from Washington after completing a three-year tenure at the Pakistan Embassy, revealed that a lot of money had been spent to silence the members of the Inquiry Commission and induce them to go soft on Pakistan
According to the FO official, dramatic changes were made in the final draft of the Inquiry Commission report after Pakistani lobbyists arranged meetings with members of the Commission and convinced them to remove anti-Pakistan findings. This information is also given in the PAC records available with TFT (the Friday Times) and reveals that Pakistan won over the sympathies of 75 U.S. Congressmen as part of its strategy to guard the interests of Pakistan in the United States.259
ISI-CIA collusion is evident from their deliberate attempts to hide some recognized facts. For example, the 9/11 Commission failed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the kidnapping and brutal murder of Daniel Pearl. A comprehensive enquiry into this murder was necessary in order to establish the pre-9/11 link of assets (belonging to the ISI and the CIA) with the hijackers of 9/11, and the involvement of ISI officials in transferring funds to the lead hijacker. The 9/11 Commission did not believe it possible that Daniel Pearl might have lost his life because there was a fear among the intelligence agencies of Pakistan and the United States that Pearls enquiries could have exposed the secret preparations for Operation 9/11. The 9/11 Commission also remained silent over the assessment of events preceding 9/11, even after scrutinizing the records of the intelligence agencies, including the interrogation report of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.
Khalid Sheikhs statement, that he informed the ISI before 9/11 about the planned terrorist attacks on the U.S targets, suggests that it is highly unlikely that the Pakistani agency would not have shared this information with its U.S. counterparts. If the ISI and the CIA did not act on information provided by their prime intelligence asset, it means these agencies probably knew more than their assets. Therefore, they are not only guilty of gross negligence but also of complicity in the attacks and their subsequent cover-up. Daniel Ellsberg, the former U.S. defense department whistleblower has stated: It seems to me quite plausible that Pakistan was quite involved in this
To say Pakistan is, to me, to say CIA because
its hard to say that the ISI knew something that the CIA had no knowledge of. Ahmeds close relations with the CIA would seem to confirm this.260
The 9/11 Commission avoided scrutiny of these facts, which makes the Commission and the U.S. government complicit in this crime as well.
Shaukat Qadir, a retired brigadier of the Pakistan army, wrote in the Friday Times (August 2, 2002) that the ISI and the CIA have a lot to account for in their errors of commission and omission, not only in Afghanistan but elsewhere also. I do hope that someday they will reveal what was going on. But to build from this a case that Pakistan was the principal financier for the 9/11 attack and imply that the CIA collaborated in it and is now covering up seems too far-fetched.
This one-sentence defense of the ISI does not fit with the following facts:
1. General Mahmood Ahmad, the head of Pakistans intelligence agency (the ISI), was in Washington the week prior to the 9/11 attacks, meeting with CIA chief George Tenet and other U.S. officials.
2. ISI Chief Mahmood Ahmad had ordered $100,000 to be sent to Mohammed Atta prior to 9/11.
3. The Bush administration pressured Pakistan to dismiss Ahmad as ISI chief after publication of the story that he had ordered ISI money sent to Atta.
4. The ISI (and not merely bin Laden) was behind the assassination of Ahmad Shah Masood (the leader of Afghanistans Northern Alliance), which occurred just after the week-long meeting between the heads of the CIA and the ISI.
5. The ISI was involved in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Reporter Daniel Pearl.
6. Gerald Posners report that Abu Zubaydah claimed that a Pakistani military officer, Mushaf Ali Mir, was closely connected to both the ISI and al-Qaeda and had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. Mushaf later died in a mysterious plane crash.
7. ISI agent Rajaa Ghulum Abbas predicted in 1999 that the Twin Towers would be coming down.261
To understand how the ISI ended up playing a role in the 9/11 set-up, one has to understand the root causes. General Musharrafs opportunism is a major factor in this regard. In a coup détat on October 12, 1999, General Pervez Musharraf ousted the elected government in Pakistan. He arrested Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and installed a military regime. The United States immediately issued statements that it would continue to do business as usual. The European Union, Commonwealth, and other governments followed suit. Musharraf made corruption and economic mismanagement of the previous government an excuse for usurping power. He promised economic progress, political stability, eradication of poverty, creation of investor confidence, and restoration of democracy as quickly as possible.
By 9/11, none of these promises had been fulfilled. The economy was on knife edge and there was growing popular discontent with falling living standards and increased violations of basic human rights. The regime was under fire not only from political opposition but also from its supporters in the ruling military elite. The schisms in the military reflected the internal and external pressure the regime had to face. While the United States and other major powers tacitly accepted the coup, they had become increasingly critical of Musharrafs failure to carry out the economic measures demanded by the International Monetary Fund, and his failure to crack down on Islamic fundamentalists within and outside the armed forces. The United States had effectively blocked IMF loans and had not lifted economic sanctions imposed on Pakistan after its 1998 nuclear tests. The United States also demanded that Musharraf put pressure on the Taliban to hand over Osama bin Laden, whom the United States blamed for the bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Musharrafs regime confronted serious debt problems as a result of the IMFs repeated delays in disbursing $1.56 billion in loans. Without the IMFs backing, Pakistan had been unable to reschedule its $38 billion in foreign loans and was at the risk of defaulting on repayments of $5 billion loans that were due by the end of the year. According to official records, Pakistans foreign exchange reserves were down to only one third of a billion dollars. To fulfill IMF demands, the military regime resorted to outright repression.
At the same time, Musharrafs regime secretly tried to approach the United States and extended cooperation in military and intelligence services. It covertly helped the United States in its operations in Afghanistan. Publicly, Musharrafs statements started making headlines such as: Musharraf tells Mulla Rabbani-led team: Resolve Osama issue, form broad-based government.262
Against this background, the ISI was busy in its business in Afghanistan and Pakistan. With CIA backing and the injection of massive amounts of military aid, the ISI had developed into a major intelligence network wielding enormous power over all aspects of Pakistani civilian and military life. In the 1980s and 1990s the ISI has a staff of military and intelligence officers, bureaucrats, undercover agents, and informers estimated at 150,000. 263 This active collaboration between the CIA and the ISI continued in the form of covert intelligence operations in the interests of the United States in Afghanistan and Central Asia.
Musharraf needed legitimacy for his regime. Gaining American support could only be possible through serving American interests. ISI Director Gen. Mahmood Ahmed visited Washington in April 2000. He met officials at the CIA and the White House. In a message meant for both Pakistan and the Taliban, U.S. officials told him that al-Qaeda had killed Americans and people who support those people will be treated as our enemies.264 This was the beginning of the ISI slowly sliding into the intricate trap that had been laid for it.
More evidence has come to light thanks to India having a more than casual interest in the daily proceedings of its neighbor. A discussion paper released by the India-based South Asia Analysis Group released a statement in May 2001 about the secret visits from top U.S. officials to Pakistan. A paper, titled Musharraf: From CIA with Love revealed that the CIA director made a quiet visit to Pakistan to meet with President Pervez Musharraf in May 2001. There is little known about other secret contacts that may have taken place between the ISI and the CIA since Mahmood Ahmeds visit to the United States in April of 2000. Tenet had an unusually long meeting, with General Musharraf while in Islamabad in May of 2001. He also met with his Pakistani counterpart, ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed. At the same time, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a former covert operative and Navy Seal, traveled to India on a publicized tour.
During this time, Pakistan actively played a role in the United States plan to dislodge the Taliban and to pave the way for a military invasion of the country. Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani diplomat, has said that senior U.S. officials told him in mid-July of 2001 that they planned to attack Afghanistan by mid-October at the latest, before the winter snow set in.265 On July 21, 2001, three American officials, Tom Simons (former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan), Karl Inderfurth (former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs), and Lee Coldren (former State Department expert on South Asia) met with Pakistani and Russian intelligence officers in a Berlin hotel.266 It was the third of a series of back-channel conferences called Brainstorming on Afghanistan. Taliban representatives sat in on previous meetings, but boycotted the third meeting due to worsening tensions. However, the ISI relayed information from the meeting to the Taliban.267 At the meeting, former U.S. State Department official Lee Coldren passed on a message from Bush officials. He later said, I think there was some discussion of the fact that the United States was so disgusted with the Taliban that they might be considering some military action.268
Naik also said it was doubtful that Washington would drop its plan even if bin Laden were to be surrendered immediately by the Taliban.269 One specific ultimatum conveyed through this meeting to the Taliban was to choose between carpets of bombs or carpets of gold.270 Niaz Naik says Tom Simons made the carpets statement. Simons claims: Its possible that a mischievous American participant, after several drinks, may have thought it smart to evoke gold carpets and carpet bombs. Even Americans cant resist the temptation to be mischievous. Naik and the American participants deny that the issue of gas pipelines was an issue at the meeting, which negates the theory that the United States dislodged the Taliban only to have access to petroleum resources and thus facilitate the production of gas pipelines.271
During the summer of 2001, Defense Secretary Rumsfelds office sponsored a study of ancient empiresMacedonia, Rome, the Mongolsto determine out how these ancient civilizations maintained dominance.272 By September 9, 2001, a former National Security Presidential Directive describing a game plan to remove al-Qaeda from the face of the Earth had been placed on Bushs desk for his signature. The plan dealt with all aspects of a war against al-Qaeda, ranging from diplomatic initiatives to military operations in Afghanistan. According to NBC News reporter Jim Miklaszewski, the directive outlines essentially the same war plan
put into action after the Sept. 11 attacks. The administration most likely was able to respond so quickly to the attacks because it simply had to pull the plans off the shelf.273
So, the plan to wage a war of aggression in Afghanistan was ready before 9/11. However, it was not possible to carry it out. Sandy Berger, Clintons National Security Advisor, stated, You show me one reporter, one commentator, one member of Congress who thought we should invade Afghanistan before September 11 and Ill buy you dinner in the best restaurant in New York City.274 In July 2002, British Prime Minister Tony Blair clearly stated: To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11.275 These statements demonstrate that a horrifying event, such as a repeat of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, was necessary in order to obtain public support for the administrations plan to invade and conquer Afghanistan.
Opportunistic Musharraf and the ISI played their role by supporting the set-up of a fake al-Qaeda connection to the 9/11 attacks. To establish a financial link between Al-Qaeda and Mohammed Atta, ISI Chief General Mahmood Ahmed was used as described in the section on Saeed Sheikh.
The FBI had information relating to the money trail. They knew exactly who was financing the terrorists. Less than two weeks after the attacks the findings of the FBI were confirmed by the Agence France Presse and the Times of India, quoting an official Indian intelligence report.276 At the Group of Eight Summit held in Italy in July of 2001, plans were discussed for the ousting of the Taliban from power. Wolfowitz, Perle, and Nitze pushed for the American occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. Bushs cabinet intended to take military action to take control of the Persian Gulf whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. The blueprint written in September 2000 was supported by an earlier document written by Wolfowitz and Libby, which recommended maintaining American bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, in order to maintain American control over Arab oil.
Pakistan remained the frontline launching pad for the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Musharraf possibly considered it the best opportunity of his life to serve the U.S. and in return gain legitimacy for his illegitimate rule. The ISI went as naïvely into the trap as it had been playing into the CIAs hands beforehand. In late August 2001, during the last phases of planning a couple of weeks before September 11, Representative Porter Goss, Senator Bob Graham, and Senator Jon Kyl were on a top level intelligence mission in Islamabad. They held meetings with General Musharraf and with the military and intelligence officers including the head of the ISI, General Mahmood Ahmad.
It has been documented that Porter Goss had an established personal relationship to the Head of Pakistan Military Intelligence (ISI), General Mahmood Ahmadwho was needed due to his control over a spy agency notoriously close to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.277 According to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), General Mahmood Ahmad briefed Porter Goss and Bob Graham about the situation in Afghanistan at ISI headquarters in Rawalpindi. One can understand the depth of their planning from the following note from the CFR:
Senator Bob Grahams first foreign trip as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in a late-August 2001, with House intelligence Chairman Goss and Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, focused almost entirely on terrorism. It ended in Pakistan, where (ISI Chief) General Mahmood Ahmeds intelligence agents briefed them on the growing threat of al-Qaeda while they peered across the Khyber Pass at an obscure section of Afghanistan, called Tora Bora. The Americans also visited General Ahmeds compound and urged him to do more to help capture Osama bin Laden. The general hadnt said much, but the group had agreed to discuss the issue more when he visited Washington on September 4, 2001.
During the implementation phase of Operation 9/11 planning, General Mahmood Ahmad arrived in the United States on an official visit on September 4, 2001. General Mahmoods meetings with his U.S. counterparts, including CIA Head George Tenet, continued during this time. He also had an important meeting with unspecified officials at the White House and the Pentagon, including a meeting with Marc Grossman, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
The first event of the larger scheme of Operation 9/11 unfolded on September 9, 2001, two days before the attacks, when the leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, Ahmed Shah Massood, was assassinated. The ISI, headed by General Ahmad, was allegedly involved in ordering the assassination of General Massood. The rationale behind the assassination is obviousGeneral Massood was the last remaining hurdle to the Northern Alliances cooperation with the United States in the coming invasion of Afghanistan. The official statement from the Northern Alliance also suggested the involvement of the ISI in the assassination of Ahmad Shah Masood. If the assassination had been decided by the ISI or its own accord, this would have occurred long ago because he was the last remaining hurdle in the way of the Talibans final military victory. However, this was not the case. Assassinating Masood was a strategic event in the U.S. plans for invading and occupying Afghanistan.
The United States wanted footholds in Northern Afghanistan, and the full support of the Northern Alliance, which would not have been possible in the presence of Ahmad Shah Masood. No matter how strongly opposed he and other former Mujahideen commanders were to the Taliban, they were not in favor of another invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Therefore, Ahmad Shah Masood had to be replaced before the arrival of the U.S. forces. The way Masoods low level commanders were immediately showered with dollars as they unconditionally surrendered to the U.S. after the death of Ahmad Shah Masood is described by a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, Gary Schroen, in his book First In: An Insiders Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan.
In Ahmad Shah Masoods last interview he stated that the United Stated had approached the Afghan foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah, through Christin Rocca, the U.S. Secretary of State representative. No one had asked Ahmad Shah Masood directly due to his position against direct intervention by outside forces. When asked: Should the United States support you militarily or in any other way? He replied: We have our supplies of ammunition, even though not enough. What is important is not direct military support. Taliban, when left alone, without any external support, are not the force to be seriously considered in the long run.278
In the light of the information presented here, it seems apparent that certain elements within the Israeli government were involved in the 9/11 attacks. The Zionist movement has a long history of attacking the United States and then framing Arabs in order to gain support from the U.S. It is absolutely critical to the arguments presented in this text that the reader reviews some historical precedents regarding International Zionisms history of manipulating America (and other nations) for their own purposes.
9/11 has become a rallying cry of modern day fascists. The information we receive, however, is composed of half-truths. It is time to draw a curtain on the largely ignored role of the American, Pakistani, Israeli, and British intelligence agencies. Those who planned Operation 9/11 literally flooded the world with warnings of impending attacks on the United States. The intelligence agencies of France, Germany, Russia, Argentina, Egypt, Morocco, and Jordan echoed the warnings, which were deliberately leaked as part of the set-up for the 9/11 attacks.
In August 2001, Mossad handed over a list of 19 individuals in the United States whom it believed to be planning terrorist activities. Four of them ended up on the list of alleged 9/11 hijackers. It is difficult to determine if Mossad gave up these names as a result of confidence that they would not be caught before the 9/11 operation, or due to the conviction that the U.S. agencies would not act upon this information before the culmination of Operation 9/11. This apparent show of helpfulness could be one of the pre-9/11 measures to create the impression that Mossad was serious about capturing terrorists for the United States.
Moreover, the German newspaper Der Spiegel reported on October 1, 2002, that the U.S. government said that the unspecific Israeli warning was for attacks outside the United States, not within the U.S. Again, this could have been part of the overall deception game played by the intelligence agencies. It would be naïve to assume that Mossad had not known Mohammed Atta and company for some time, or that Mossads decision to pass information to U.S. law enforcement agencies was a surprise. Those who closely watched these developments concluded that there are indications that Mossad knew about Mohammed Atta and his gang long before they let U.S. law enforcement in on the secret.185
A reporter, Jim Galloway, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,186 reported that, of the 1,100 foreigners arrested by the FBI for suspicion of involvement in the September 11 incidents, 100 are Israelis. Galloway also claimed that the FBI had evidence suggesting that Mossad, along with some rogue American and foreign spy agencies may be deeply involved in, or even entirely responsible, for the September 11 attacks as well as other acts of terrorism against the United States. On September 11, 2001, five Israeli nationals were arrested by the FBI after several witnesses saw them dancing, high-fiving, and celebrating as they took pictures of the World Trade Center disaster from across the river in New Jersey. Steven Gordon was the lawyer who volunteered to represent the five Israelis. He was asked by a Hebrew newspaper why the five men were being detained by the FBI. Here is what Gordon told Yediot America:
On the day of the disaster, three of the five boys went up on the roof of the building where the company office is located, said Gordon. Im not sure if they saw the twin towers collapse, but, in any event, they photographed the ruins right afterwards. One of the neighbors who saw them called the police and claimed they were posing, dancing and laughing, against the background of the burning towers
.Anyhow, the three left the roof, took an Urban truck, and drove to a parking lot, located about a five-minute drive from the offices. They parked, stood on the roof of the truck to get a better view of the destroyed towers and took photographs. A woman who was in the building above the lot testified that she saw them smiling and exchanging high-fives. She and another neighbor called the police and reported on Middle-Eastern looking people dancing on the truck. They copied and reported the license plates.187
The answer to one of the pro-Israeli argument that someone posted this information without any evidence is that where is even this much evidence against the Taliban? Where is the evidence against Osama that he masterminded 9/11? If the idea that genuine intelligence agents of any persuasion would not act so stupidly and is immensely unlikely, must not we ask, how likely is it for a person sitting in caves in Afghanistan to help others hijack four airplanes at the same time, remain for hours in the air, yet avoid the U.S. air defense system. Involvement of the Taliban and Osama is more unlikely than Israels involvement in 9/11. Even FBI has now admitted that it has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.188
When the photos were developed, they revealed the dancing Israelis smiling in the foreground of the New York massacre.189 Pro-Israeli analysts argue that, if indeed this is true and not completely fabricated, then it could be that these people were not Israelis. However, there are other factors to be considered. According to ABCs investigative journalism program 20/20, in addition to their outrageous and highly suspicious behavior, the five also had the following items in their possession; box-cutters, European passports, and $4700 cash hidden in a sock.190 These men, from a phony moving company in Weehawken, New Jersey, turned out to be agents of the Israeli military intelligence, Mossad. Furthermore, their moving van tested positive for explosives, which fits well with the credible claims of many experts that the WTCs were brought down by controlled demolition.191 Dominic Suter, the Israeli owner of Urban Moving Systems, the phony moving company, fled in haste, or was allowed to escape, to Israel before FBI agents could interrogate him. The Israeli agents were later returned to Israel on minor visa violations.192
Why were these Israeli agents so happy about the horrifying massacre that was unfolding in front of them? What could possess people who are supposed to be Americas allies, and who receive billions of dollars in financial and military aid from U.S. taxpayers each year, to publicly rejoice as innocent people (including many American Jews) were dying? Could it be that these Israeli agents were in some way linked to this monstrous attack? Thats what officials close to the investigation initially told The Bergen Record newspaper of New Jersey.193 One of the Israeli agents later told Israeli radio that they had been sent to document the eventthe event which took the lives of some 3,000 people.194
Two more Israelis were caught in a truck on Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania, near the crash site of American Airlines flight 93. Police became suspicious when they found maps of the city with certain locations highlighted, box cutters, and other incriminating evidence. Police also said that bomb sniffing dogs reacted as if they smelled explosives when they were brought to the Israelis truck.195
There are many reports showing that in the months before September 11 Mossad had launched a major covert operation in the United States, involving hundreds of agents who not only kept a close watch on the terrorists but may have effectively blinded U.S. anti-terrorism investigators to the activities of al-Qaeda in the United States.196 The question isif Mossad was acting in good faith, why did it not work in tandem with the U.S. agencies? Why the need for secrecy and infiltration? Why would a foreign intelligence agency attempt to thwart the efforts of local anti-terrorism agencies if it were at all interested in preventing terrorist activities?
Sylvain Cypel wrote in Le Monde (March 5, 2002) that one of the Israeli agents tasks was to track the al-Qaeda terrorists on American territorywithout informing the federal authorities. This seems simply incredible. Either Israeli agents were not working in the interests of the United States, or the U.S. agencies (or some of their members) were working in partnership with the Israelis. There are reports about evidence in the U.S. governments own documents, leaked by its own employees, and in its public pronouncements before the decision was made to quash [related stories] at any cost.197 What does this tell us? It shows that Mossad was probably not acting aloneit would appear that cooperation was extended to it from within the United States.
The following warning from the National Counterintelligence Centerwhose mandate empowers it to identify and assess possible threats to U.S. national securitywas posted in March of 2001, and still exists on its web site:
Suspicious Visitors to Federal Facilities
In the past six weeks, employees in federal office buildings located throughout the United States have reported suspicious activities connected with individuals representing themselves as foreign students selling or delivering artwork. Employees have observed both males and females attempting to bypass facility security and enter federal buildings.
If challenged, the individuals state that they are delivering artwork from a studio in Miami, Florida, called Universal Art, Inc, or that they are art students and are looking for opinions regarding their work. These individuals have been described as aggressive. They attempt to engage employees in conversation rather than giving a sales pitch.
Federal police officers have arrested two of these individuals for trespassing and discovered that the suspects possessed counterfeit work visas and green cards. These individuals have also gone to the private residences of senior federal officials under the guise of selling art.
Other reporting indicates that there may be two groups involved, and they refer to themselves as Israeli art students. One group has an apparently legitimate money- making goal while the second, perhaps a non-Israeli group, may have ties to a Middle Eastern Islamic fundamentalist group.
Federal employees observing any activity similar to that described above should report their observations to appropriate security officials.198
According to Le Monde, a report submitted to the American Justice Department shows that many of the fine-arts students suspected of illicit activity have a military past in Israeli information or advanced technology units. Some entered and left the United States on several occasions, remaining each time for short periods. Several are related to the hi-tech Israeli-owned companies of Amdocs, Nice, and Retalix.199
Furthermore, Le Monde reports:
Six of the intercepted students had a cellular telephone bought by an Israeli ex-vice-consul in the United States. Two others, at an unspecified time, flew to Miami from Hamburg and went directly to the residence of an FBI agent to try to sell him artwork. Shortly after, they left again for Chicago, where they visited the residence of an agent of the justice department, and then took a plane directly to Torontoall during the course of one day.200
The question is: How did the Israelis discover the home addresses of these senior officials? More importantly, a third of the nearly 200 Israeli suspects lived in Florida, the remaining two thirds residing in 42 different cities across the United States. At least 10 of the 19 hijackers also resided in Florida.
An alert from the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) was the earliest premonition of the attacks, coming some six months before September 11. In the summer of 2001, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) prepared a comprehensive report about the activities of Israeli agents.201 According to the report a number of incidents had occurred since at least the beginning of 2000 and had increased in November. After April 2001, the number of reported incidents
declined[;] however, the geographic spread of the incidents was extended to Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Los Angeles. In addition to visiting DEA offices, these art students also descended on a number of other law-enforcement and Department of Defense facilities across the continental United States. The majority of recorded incidents, however, seem to have occurred in the southern half of the country, with the epicenter of activity located in southern Florida.202 According to the report:
The nature of the individuals conduct, combined with intelligence information and historical information regarding past incidents involving Israeli Organized Crime, leads us to believe the incidents may well be an organized intelligence gathering activity.203
These Israeli agents had served some time in the military. Most of them had been deployed in elite units. The DEA report lists name, rank, and serial numbers: Itay Simon, Marina Glickman, and Dilka Borenstein are all described as former members of Israeli military intelligence. Zeev Miller is identified as a combat engineer, and Ofir Navron identified as a bomb disposal expert. Aran Ofek, the son of a two-star Israeli general, was apprehended in Dallas. Taken together, their credentials are impressive: intelligence officer, electronic intercept operator, special forces, demolition/explosive ordnance expert. Fox News was the only media corporation which covered the story, and then posted the story on its web site. Suddenly, without explanation, Fox News erased the story from their web site, never to mention it again.
According to the (now deleted) Fox News report (December 11, 2001), the Bush administration treated questions about the detention of 60 Israelis in connection with 9/11 like hot potatoes. Ari Fleischer, then White House Press Secretary, said: I would just refer you to the Department of Justice with that. Im not familiar with the report. Colin Powell, the then Secretary of State, said: Im aware that some Israeli citizens have been detained. With respect to why theyre being detained and the other aspects of your questionwhether its because theyre in intelligence services, or what they were doingI will defer to the Department of Justice and the FBI to answer that.
Elements in the FBI who had no prior knowledge and who were not complicit in the terrorist attacks had performed their duties. It seems that the real culprits undermined their hard work and the arrests they made in connection with the 9/11 attacks. For example, on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, the FBIs Newark Office broadcast an alert asking surrounding police departments to be on the lookout for a van containing three suspected Israelis. We got an alert to be on the lookout for a white Chevrolet van with New Jersey registration and writing on the side, said Bergen County Police Chief John Schmidig.
Three individuals were seen celebrating in Liberty State Park after the impact. They said three people were jumping up and down
Vehicle possibly related to New York terrorist attack. White, 2000 Chevrolet van with New Jersey registration with Urban Moving Systems sign on back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center. Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion. FBI Newark Field Office requests that, if the van is located, hold for prints and detain individuals.204
A Fox News report by chief political correspondent Carl Cameron showed how Mossad had thoroughly penetrated top-secret communications systems in the United States. In his words:
There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9/11 attacks, but investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A highly placed investigator said there arequotetie-ins. But when asked for details, he flatly refused to describe them, sayingquoteevidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. Its classified information.205
What should have been a bombshell from Fox News ended with complete silence from the rest of the mainstream media. Details and evidence implicating Israel in 9/11 were instantly censored and debunked. However, the March 5, 2002 article in Le Monde by Sylvain Cypel described the link between Mossad and the hijackers who were already in touch with the CIA and ISI agents. Sylvain reported that four of the five members of the group that diverted American Airlines flight number 11Mohammed Atta, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Walid and Waïl Al-Shehri, as well as one of the five terrorists of United flight 175, Marwan Al-Shehhiall resided at various times in Hollywood, Florida. Hollywood was also the temporary home of the Israeli agents. As for Ahmed Fayez, Ahmed and Hamza Al-Ghamdi and Mohand Al-Shehri, who took over United flight 75, and Saïd Al-Ghamdi, Ahmed Al-Haznawi, and Ahmed Al-Nami, of United flight 93 which crashed in Pennsylvania, and Nawaq Al-Hamzi of AA flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, they all at one time resided at Delray Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale.206
At this point, all the pieces of the puzzle come together. The ISI and the CIA were closely involved with Mohammed Atta and others who, in turn, were used to pass on select information to Osama bin Laden. Mossad was busy observing the prospective hijackers. It is highly unlikely that Mossad was not part of the overall plan; otherwise it would not have dedicated the surveillance resources required for such long periods. In the German weekly Die Zeit (October 14, 2002) Oliver Schröm published an article called Next Door to Mohammed Atta:
Everything indicates that the terrorists were constantly observed by the Israelis. The chief Israeli agent was staying right near the post office where the terrorists had a mailbox. The Mossad also had its sights on Attas accomplice[,] Khalid al-Midhar, with whom the CIA was also familiar, but allowed to run free.
Oliver Schröm further notes:
[Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehi] lived in Hamburg before they settled in Hollywood, Florida[,] in order to plan the attacks. A Mossad team was also operating in the same town. The leader, Hanan Serfati, had rented several dwellings. One of Serfatis apartments was located on the corner of 701st St. [701 South] and 21st Ave. [sic] in Hollywood, right near the apartment of Atta and al-Shehi, French intelligence reported later.
In the light of the information presented here, it seems apparent that certain elements within the Israeli government were involved in the 9/11 attacks. The Zionist movement has a long history of attacking the United States and then framing Arabs in order to gain support from the U.S. It is absolutely critical to the arguments presented in this text that the reader reviews some historical precedents regarding International Zionisms history of manipulating America (and other nations) for their own purposes.
Without a basic understanding of this history, it would be impossible to comprehend the complex arguments surrounding Israels involvement in 9/11. Of particular importance and relevance are: Zionism in World War 1;[207] Zionism in World War 2;208 removal of the Palestinian protectors;209 America becoming a Zionist whore,210 the Zionist power struggle in America,211 and the totalitarian designs of the State of Israel.[212]
Note: This is an excerpt. For details and references, refer to Abid Ullah Jans book From BCCI to ISI: The Saga of Entrapment Continues.
