[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:7067] Cover-up or Complicity (fwd)

[Al Kagan]

This article is especially worth reading.

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>COVER-UP OR COMPLICITY OF THE BUSH ADMINSTRATION ?
>The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence Agency (ISI)
>in the September 11 Attacks.
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>by
>Michel Chossudovsky
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>Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
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>Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) at globalresearch.ca, 2 November
>2001
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>SUMMARY
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>The complete text of this article is at
>http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html.
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>Pakistan's chief spy Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad "was in the US when the attacks
>occurred." He arrived in the US on the 4th of September, a full week 
>before the
>attacks. He had meetings at the State Department "after" the attacks on the
>WTC. But he also had "a regular visit of consultations" with his US
>counterparts at the CIA and the Pentagon during the week prior to 
>September 11.
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>What was the nature of these routine "pre-September 11 consultations"? Were
>they in any way related to the subsequent "post-September 11 consultations"
>pertaining to Pakistan's decision to cooperate with Washington. Was the
>planning of war being discussed between Pakistani and US officials?
>On the 9th of September while General Ahmad was in the US, the leader of the
>Northern Alliance Commander Ahmad Shah Masood was assassinated. The Northern
>Alliance had informed the Bush Administration that the ISI was allegedly
>implicated in the assassination:
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>The Bush Administration consciously took the decision in "the post 
>September 11
>consultations" with Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad to directly "cooperate" with
>Pakistan's military intelligence (ISI) despite it links to Osama bin Laden and
>the Taliban and its alleged role in the assassination of Commander Masood,
>which coincidentally occurred two days before the terrorist attacks.
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>Meanwhile, senior Pentagon and State Department officials had been rushed to
>Islamabad to put the finishing touches on America's war plans. And on the
>Sunday prior to the onslaught of the bombing of major cities in Afghanistan
>(October 7th), Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad was sacked from his position as head
>of the ISI in what was described as a routine "reshuffling."
>In the days following General Ahmad's dismissal, a report published in the
>Times of India, revealed the links between Pakistan's Chief spy Lt. General
>Mahmoud Ahmad and the presumed "ring leader" of the WTC attacks Mohamed Atta.
>The Times of India article was based on an official intelligence report of the
>Delhi government that had been transmitted through official channels to
>Washington. Quoting an Indian government source Agence France Press (AFP)
>confirms in this regard that: "The evidence we [the Government of India] have
>supplied to the US is of a much wider range and depth than just one piece of
>paper linking a rogue general to some misplaced act of terrorism."
>The revelation of the Times of India article has several implications. The
>Indian intelligence report not only points to the links between ISI Chief
>General Ahmad and terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta, it also indicates that
>other ISI officials might have had contacts with the terrorists. Moreover, it
>suggests that the September 11 attacks were not an act of "individual
>terrorism" organised by a separate Al Qaeda cell, but rather they were part of
>coordinated military-intelligence operation, emanating from Pakistan's ISI.
>The Times of India report also sheds light on the nature of General Ahmad's
>"business activities" in the US during the week prior to September 11, raising
>the distinct possibility of ISI contacts with Mohamed Atta in the US 
>"prior" to
>the attacks on the WTC, precisely at the time when General Mahmoud and his
>delegation were on a so-called "regular visit of consultations" with US
>officials.
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>In assessing the alleged links between the terrorists and the ISI, 
>it should be
>understood that Lt. General Ahmad as head of the ISI was a "US approved
>appointee". As head of the ISI since 1999, he was in liaison with his US
>counterparts in the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the
>Pentagon. Also bear in mind that Pakistan's ISI remained throughout the entire
>post Cold War era until the present, the launch-pad for CIA covert operations
>in the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Balkans
>The existence of an "ISI-Osama-Taliban axis" was a matter of public 
>record. The
>links between the ISI and agencies of the US government including the CIA are
>also a matter of public record. The Bush Administration was fully cognizant of
>Lt. General Ahmad's role. In other words, rather than waging a 
>campaign against
>international terrorism, the evidence would suggest that it is indirectly
>abetting international terrorism, using the Pakistani ISI as a "go-between".
>The Bush Administration's links with Pakistan's ISI --including its
>"consultations" with General Ahmad in the week prior to September 11-- raise
>the issue of "complicity". While Ahmad was talking to US officials at the CIA
>and the Pentagon, ISI officials were allegedly also in contact with the
>September 11 terrorists.
>
>In other words, according to the Indian government intelligence report, the
>perpetrators of the September 11 attacks had links to Pakistan's ISI, which in
>turn has links to agencies of the US government. What this suggests 
>is that key
>individuals within the US military-intelligence establishment might have known
>about the ISI contacts with the September 11 terrorist "ring-leader" Mohamed
>Atta and failed to act.
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>Whether this amounts to the outright complicity of the Bush Administration
>remains to be firmly established.
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>What is crystal clear, however, is that this war is not a "campaign against
>international terrorism" as claimed by The Bush Administration. It is a war of
>conquest with devastating consequences for the future of humanity.
>And the American people have been consciously and deliberately misled by their
>government.
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>Ultimately the truth must prevail. The falsehoods behind America's war against
>the people of Afghanistan must be unveiled.
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>The above is a Summary. The complete text of this article is at
>http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html.
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>Copyright, Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG),
>October 2001. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to post this text on
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