Pakistan lobbied (and bribed?) 9/11 Commission to drop references

[JackRiddler]

And now for the latest story exposing the 9/11 Commission as a complete fraud - which will ultimately be proven as a criminal fraud.

Telegraph of India
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060313/asp/nation/story_5962372.asp

Pakistan weekly spills 9/11 beans
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

New Delhi, March 12: The Pakistan foreign office had paid tens of thousands of dollars to lobbyists in the US to get anti-Pakistan references dropped from the 9/11 inquiry commission report, The Friday Times has claimed.

The Pakistani weekly said its story is based on disclosures made by foreign service officials to the Public Accounts Committee at a secret meeting in Islamabad on Tuesday. It claimed that some of the commission members were also bribed to prevent them from including damaging information about Pakistan.

The magazine said the PAC grilled officials in the presence of foreign secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan and special secretary Sher Afghan on the money paid to lobbyists.

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The above is a pick-up of the story from the Indian press. The original was published in "The Friday Times" of Pakistan, written by one Ahmed Rauf. Google pegs the link as follows:
http://www.thefridaytimes.com/main31.shtml
Unfortunately, you can't go there without a subscription. I don't suppose anyone here subscribes?

This is what Google lists:

"Welcome to The Friday Times" Did Pakistan influence the 9/11 Commission Report? Ahmed Rauf. According to an FO official, "dramatic changes" were made in the final draft of the 9/11 ... www.thefridaytimes.com/main31.shtml - 38k

This is very, very big if true. We can start holding 9/11 Commission Report shredding parties. Can we get them up on charges for fraud? (As though Able Danger and Page 172 and the other omissions did not sufficiently justify that - to say nothing of the farce even before the Commission started, Kissinger, Zelikow, the Cleland defection, etc.)

And as for the Pakistani Connection to 9/11, which is actually the CIA connection, how long is the list now?

ISI-Qaeda, ISI-Taliban, ISI-CIA connections.
Osama at a military hospital in Pakistan, Sept. 10, 2001.
Ahmed in Washington DC a week before 9/11.
Ahmed meeting the future "investigators" of 9/11, Goss and Graham, who left him out of their report.
Ahmed sends $100,000 to Atta via Omar Saeed Sheikh.
Ahmed forced to resign at insistence of FBI.
"He's buddy-buddy with George Tenet, he's buddy with Mohamed Atta."
Pentagon lets "Osama" escape into Pakistan from Tora Bora.
Pentagon clears air corridor to let Pakistani ISI and al Qaeda operatives airlift out of a besieged Kunduz.

Read all about it here:
http://justicefor911.org/iiA3_PakistaniISI_111904.php

NL

[reprehensor]

1. Another straw.

How many can the camel hold?

[mirandapriestly]

2. so the ISI & CIA connection is the Pakistan involvement?

I can never understand the Pakistani involvement, although I've read that ISI was started by the CIA.

from the article:
"After the commission tipped the lobbyists about the damaging revelations on Pakistan’s role in 9/11, they contacted the panel members and asked them to go soft on the country. The Friday Times claimed that a lot of money was used to silence these members."


"A lot of money" - is there no end to it? what else are they hiding? who is going to do something about this? (sigh)

[JackRiddler]

3. You are going to do something about this.

See the treatment of the ISI issue in the Justice for 9/11 petition, hope it clarifies your questions:
http://justicefor911.org/iiA3_PakistaniISI_111904.php

I figure bribes were hardly necessary to get them to cover up the Pakistani connection (which of course leads back to the CIA).

Here's my article about the latest news:
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060313080211207

Now go to 911Truth.org, sign up, check out the grassroots contacts page for someone in your area, get involved...

[mirandapriestly]

7. hm-kay, I will do both.

[mirandapriestly]

9. it seems like the US

would be hurt more by the info than Pakistan. The corporate media/Gov only gives out little bits of this info, not the big picture, for example:
"it is perhaps revealing that the White House version of the press conference transcript, as well as the version published by CNN, both deleted the words "the ISI chief" from the journalist's question, making it incomprehensible."

[Kevin Fenton]

4. Link

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:1PuJGi1HdkkJ:www.bharat-rakshak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D1883%26start%3D40%26sid%3Dd93050d771e895f7e4ef7fb3a3b640a4+%22were+made+in+the+final+draft+of+the+9/11+Commission+Report%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&client=firefox-a
What appears to be the original Friday News article is at the bottom. It is implying the money was spent on lobbyists.

[Kevin Fenton]

5. CR

This is the 9/11 Commission's recommendation regarding Pakistan:
"If Musharraf stands for enlightened moderation in a fight for his life and for the life of his country, the United States should be willing to make hard choices too, and make the difficult long-term commitment to the future of Pakistan. Sustaining the current scale of aid to Pakistan, the United States should support Pakistan's government in its struggle against extremists with a comprehensive effort that extends from military aid to support for better education, so long as Pakistan's leaders remain willing to make difficult choices of their own."
p. 369

How many fighters did they get?

[JackRiddler]

6. The 911truth link has the original text (both articles) fully archived

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060313080211207

[seatnineb]

8. You forgot about the ISI and Mossad............

Zia al Haq decided to establish a clandestine relationship between Inter-Services Intelligence and Mossad via officers of the two services posted at their embassies in Washington, DC.

The ISI knew Mossad would be interested in information about the Libyan, Syrian, Jordanian and Saudi Arabian military. Pakistani army officers were often posted on deputation in the Arab world -- in these very countries -- and had access to valuable information, which the ISI offered Mossad.
http://www.bangladesherdak.net/Archive/03/September/9/i...