General Mahmoud Ahmad, the Pakistani ISI Chief, and 9/11

[spooked911]

Most people here probably know about the leader of the Pakistani ISI, General Mahmoud Ahmad (also Mahmood Ahmed) and the fact that he wired $100,000 to Mohamed Atta (the 9/11 hijacker "ringleader") shortly before 9/11. (If you don't, you should!)

This, of course, is something the US media likes to completely ignore, and it helps that the 9/11 commission did not bother to report this fact. The tremendous irony is that the Pakistanis are supposed to be our great allies in "the war on terror", yet there is an incredibly strong linkage between the Pakistani ISI and Al Qaeda and specifically the fact that the ISI Chief helped fund the 9/11 attacks.

One might even wonder if the report that General Ahmad wired money to Atta was really true, if not for another fact:

Shortly after 9/11, the US pressured the Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharref to remove General Ahmad from his post as leader of the ISI. (This is something I just learned recently.)

Again, this is something the US media likes to completely ignore, and it is even worse that the 9/11 commission completely ignores this story as well. But the implication is clear: the Bush administration knew there was a problem with General Ahmad.

Yet, rather than try to bring this man to justice, what does the US do? It quietly gets him removed from power.

Sounds like a cover-up to me.

Just outrageous.

Source:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=mahmoodahmed

[Frederik]

1. And what makes the story particularily piquant

is the fact that the general was in Washington when the attacks happened, that he had met with the National Security Council, Pentagon, and the CIA and was having brakefast with
Porter Goss, Bill Graham and John Kyl of the Joint Intelligence Committee when the first plane slammed into its target.

Goss, Graham and Kyl had returned from Pakistan three days before the general arrived in Washington.

Clearly, they had something urgent to discuss.

Bob Woodward, in his "Bush at War", writes that it was forunate that Ahmad was in Washington, so that Colin Powell and Richard Armitage could talk with him about the new situation. But he doesn't indicate that the general might actually be involved in the attacks.

The wire transfer of $100,000 to Atta was shortly after the attacks touted as the "smoking gun" that connected the hijackers to Osama Bin Laden. Oct 8, CNN identified the man who wired the money as Umar Syed Sheikh, one of the top people in "al-Qaeda". The day after, however, the Times of India reported that Indian intelligence officials claimed that the man who had instructed Sheikh to do so was none other than ISI chief Ahmad. They had been listening on his cell phone, among other things, and they had the proof. It was handed over to the FBI.

Guess what. Umar Syed Seikh/Omar Saed Sheikh quickly disappeared from the "official story" (as reported in US media citing "authorities"), even though he in all probability really was the man who wired the money to Atta. A series of different names and aliases were henceforth presented to obfuscate the grim reality that the man who made the money transfer to Atta was not so much al-Qaeda as ISI.

Omar Saed/Umar Syed resurfaced a few months later, though, when he was arrested and later sentenced to death in Pakistan for the murder of WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl, which he most likely didn't commit (Pearl's widow is convinced that he didn't). No mention in the media about his role in 9/11...

Then, in June 2002, the "mastermind" of the attacks is identified: Khalid Sheikh Muhammed, a Kuweiti/Baluchi who was involved in the "Bojinka plot" of 1995. He was reportedly arrested in March 2003. Only problem with that story is the fact that Pakistani police had reported in September 2002 that they killed him, they even gave a very detailed account of how it happened. Adding to the mystery, British journalists that shortly afterwards visited the house in Pakistan in which he reportedly had been arrested found that the sole person living in the house claimed that KSM had never lived there, and that the police had only taken her half retarded son who rarely left the house - accusing him of being al-Qaeda.

It has never been disclosed where KSM is held. But if we are to believe "authorities", he's a treasure trove of information.

Whether or not he really was the mastermind of 9/11, and whether he's dead or alive, KSM does not fit the usual profile of an Islamic fundamentalist. He reportedly lived an extremely lavish life in the Philippines in the 90s. He once hired a helicopter just to fly by the window of a girl he liked. This was during the period when he and others came up with the Bojinka plot. He reminds me of Mohammed Atta, another hedonistic psychopath with seemingly limitless access to cash.

US "authorities" have also come to the conclusion that KSM was probably the man who pulled the trigger on Daniel Pearl. Which surely is convenient, because that way there is no reason to ask for an extradition of Omar Saed to the American justice system. As for KSM, I doubt we'll ever see him, but I'm sure he'll keep being an invaluable treasure trove of information.

[spooked911]

2. Excellent post! I really wonder who the "KSM" they captured is.

I doubt he is who the US says he is, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was some poor retarded guy who got swept up in something he had no control over.