Jon Gold
3/30/2009

On March 25th, 2009, the New York Times reported that the Taliban gets “direct support from operatives in Pakistan’s military intelligence agency” [...] ACCORDING TO AMERICAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS (emphasis mine).

According to President Obama, these revelations “aren’t new.” As it turns out, he’s right.

Over the years, there have been so many reports about the ISI’s connection to 9/11, and to terrorism. The U.S. Government has been confronted on this issue on more than one occasion, and yet, NOW they are miraculously discovering this connection.

Are people like Paul Thompson, the makers of 9/11: Press For Truth, and myself, just that much smarter, and better researchers than your average CIA analyst whose job it is to know these kinds of things? The answer to that question is no. And if your average CIA analyst knows of this information, then so does their boss, and their boss, and their boss, and eventually even our elected officials know this. So why then have they ignored this relationship?

In 9/11: Press For Truth, Paul Thompson asks a very pertinent question. “The question to me is, who else was involved with Al-Qaeda? Was Al-Qaeda used as a tool? Just as in the 1980’s the Mujahadeen were used by the U.S. Government?”

On April 3rd 2007, ABC News reported that “a Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.” [...] “Pakistani government sources say the secret campaign against Iran by Jundullah was on the agenda when Vice President Dick Cheney met with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in February.”

Knowing that, knowing about the allegations of bribery, knowing about Danny Pearl, knowing about the CIA’s connection to the ISI, and knowing everything else that has been reported over the years, it’s not hard to figure out why the ISI’s involvement with terrorism has been ignored. At least, it’s not hard to “theorize” about why it has been ignored.

Because the relationship between the ISI and terrorists is advantageous to elements within the U.S. Government, and to other Governments as well.

As Paul Thompson asked, I wonder if anyone took advantage of that relationship for 9/11? In my opinion, it’s certainly not out of the realm of possibilities.

Is it my imagination, or is the White House protecting Pakistan? Also, look at what Condi said:

“What we are emphasising to the Pakistani government is the need to follow the evidence wherever it leads and to do so in the most committed and firmest possible way.”

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Dana Perino
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room

Source: whitehouse.gov

9:32 A.M. EST

MS. PERINO: Good morning. The President is currently in the Situation Room receiving an update on the recent attacks in Mumbai. He also got an update on Iraq this morning. And as I announced last evening, Secretary Rice will travel to India on Wednesday, and I expect that she’ll report back to the President upon her return, which I think is Thursday night, maybe Friday morning.

In just about 30 minutes President Bush will mark World AIDS Day 2008 with a statement on the North Lawn, and he and Mrs. Bush will present the 28-foot ribbon that is hanging in front of the White House. This is the second year in a row that we’ve had the ribbon to mark this day.

In addition, they will participate in the Saddleback Civil Forum on Global Health, and that will be at the Newseum, with Pastor Rick Warren. This event will highlight the success of the administration’s Global HIV/AIDS Initiative. The President will announce today that the PEPFAR initial goal of treating 2 million people has been met several months ahead of schedule. As of September 30, 2008, PEPFAR supported lifesaving antiretroviral treatment for over 2.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS around the world. And globally the U.S. is supporting care for more than 10.1 million people. So you’ll hear from the President on that in just a moment.

And with that I’ll go to questions. Jennifer.
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Jon Gold
11/30/2008

The planning of the recent Mumbai “terrorist attacks” are said to have originated in Pakistan. There are allegations that Pakistan was involved in the 9/11 attacks as well. Since 9/11, Pakistan has been considered to be an ally, or partner in the “War On Terror.” Why would the U.S. become an ally with, and reward a country that was allegedly involved in the 9/11 attacks? Wasn’t it Bush who said, “we will make no distinction between those who committed these acts and those who harbor them?” Could it be because during the Bush Administration, Pakistan policy was “essentially being run from Cheney’s office?”
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From historycommons.org:

October 1, 2001: Kashmir Suicide Attack Involves 9/11 Funder Saeed Sheikh
A suicide truck-bomb attack on the provincial parliamentary assembly in Indian-controlled Kashmir leaves 36 dead. It appears that Saeed Sheikh and Aftab Ansari, working with the ISI, are behind the attacks. [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 3/3/2002; Vanity Fair, 8/2002] Indian intelligence claims that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is later given a recording of a phone call between Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Maulana Masood Azhar and ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed in which Azhar allegedly reports the bombing is a “success.” [United Press International, 10/10/2001]

To read excerpts from Mariane Pearl’s book “A Mighty Heart”, click here.

Jon Gold
8/27/2008

Recently, Mike Berger from 911Truth.org was interviewed by the “Conscience of Kansas” Conservative Paul Ibbetson. During the interview, Mike mentioned the alleged bribery of the 9/11 Commission by Pakistan to omit any incriminating information about them. I figured a lot of people weren’t familiar with this story, so I was inspired to write this “recap.”
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Source: ipsnews.net

Analysis by Gareth Porter*

WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (IPS) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s resignation Monday brings to an end an extraordinarily close relationship between Musharraf and the George W. Bush administration, in which Musharraf was lavished with political and economic benefits from the United States despite policies that were in sharp conflict with U.S. security interests.

It is well known that Bush repeatedly praised Musharraf as the most loyal ally of the United States against terrorism, even though the Pakistani military was deeply compromised by its relationship with the Taliban and Pakistani Islamic militants.

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I’ve tried corresponding with Dennis Lormel. If you don’t know who he is, you’ll learn by reading the following emails I sent to him. As the story goes, I found out where he works now. I called his offices to speak with him, and did so. He told me that a quote of his was taken out of context, and based on the available information, it appears that it was. However, he didn’t elaborate any further. He asked me to send him information in an email. I did send him information to his work email, and he asked me to send it to his private email. I did so, and it got bounced back to me as a bad email address. I sent him another email to his work address telling him that the email address he gave me was bad. I never heard back from him. He is definitely someone that should be brought forward in a real investigation to testify publicly, and under oath. The following is the first informative email I sent to his work address, and to the “private” email address he gave me:

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Accuses Pakistan of inflicting more damage on his organisation; Mustafa says al-Qaeda men also attacked Danish embassy in Islamabad

Source: thenews.com.pk

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

KARACHI: Senior al-Qaeda commander Mustafa Abu al-Yazid has claimed in an exclusive interview with Geo News that Pakistan has damaged the terrorist organisation more than any other country.

The operational chief of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan also said that the recent attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad was conducted by his organisation. He also claimed that al-Qaeda was growing in strength in Afghanistan and would soon occupy the entire country.

He strongly debunked the view that al-Qaeda was actually protecting American interests and said it carried out the 9/11 attacks on the US and that 19 of its supporters launched the devastating attacks. He added that many of his comrades were involved in training the hijackers.

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hindustantimes.com

Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, June 29, 2008

A decade before 9/11, plans to use aircraft for terror strikes were mooted by ISI-backed Punjab militant group to target India, a former top intelligence official said.

A Babbar Khalsa militant had admitted that he was asked by Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) to join a flying club and crash his plane on the Bombay High oil platform during a solo flight, former Additional Secretary in the Research and Analyses Wing B Raman said.

“What was new about the 9/11 strikes was the dramatic manner in which this modus operandi was executed for carrying out well-orchestrated attacks on the nerve centres of US power,” Raman said.

In his latest book ‘Terrorism: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’, Raman warns that mushrooming of airlines, rapid rise in the number of private planes owned by corporates and high-end individuals, coupled with a massive shortage of pilots in India, has made the task of preventing terrorists from using aircraft to carry out attacks “more complex”.

Recommending a comprehensive security vetting procedure for checking the background of foreign pilots before recruitment and monitoring their contacts and activities after recruitment, he said “this trans-national migration of pilots might be exploited by terrorist organisations to have their members qualified as pilots infiltrated into airline companies.”

In the book published by Lancers, he said a Babbar Khalsa terrorist trained by the ISI, was arrested by the Indian authorities in the early 1990s. During interrogation, he said the ISI had asked him to join the Mumbai flying club and crash his plane on the Bombay High oil platform on a solo flight.

India, which has been a victim of a series of hijackings since January 1971, also experienced the June 1985 blowing up of Air India’s Kanishka aircraft by Babbar Khalsa and the 1999 Kandahar hijack.

Referring to the Kandahar hijack of an Indian Airlines plane, Raman said it brought to light serious deficiencies in India’s national security management.

These included the “failure” of intelligence agencies to detect the presence of Harkat-ul Mujahedeen (HuM) hijackers in Mumbai since November 5, 1999, the “failure of the Crisis Management Group” (CMG) to ground the plane in Amritsar, the delay in starting negotiations at Kandahar and the “total lack of coherence and professionalism in the handling of the crisis by CMG at the political and professional level.”

This was the first hijack of an Indian aircraft by a Pakistan-based terror outfit which is a member of Osama bin Laden’s International Islamic Front.

It was carried out by the second largest terrorist team of five hijackers in the world, the first being seven Palestinians who hijacked an Air France flight to Entebbe in 1976.

He said the Kandahar hijack was the sixth major one since 1948 in which the targeted government conceded the demands of the hijackers. It was the first hijacking in India in which the terrorists “intentionally and brutally” killed one of the passengers to intimidate the pilot.

Raman also noted an “explosive increase” in the number of hijacks worldwide with 38 in 1968 followed by 82 the next year. One reason for this was the CIA-inspired hijackings to destabilise the Fidel Castro government that had taken over in Cuba in January 1959, he said.