Freedom of Information Act reveals Pakistani General met US Central Command

[Ichingcarpenter]

The government has disclosed documents confirming that Pakistani ISI General Ahmed -
the guy who wired $100,000 to lead hijacker Atta --

Met with a "Senior Representative from the Joint Chiefs of Staff", Centcom Commander General Tommy Franks, the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Wolfowitz, Feith, other PNAC members, and probably Intelligence Committee members Graham and Goss, and others in the week before 9/11.

PDF go to link and click documents in the story: http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/07/confirmed-pakistani-general-who-wired.html

Background:
On October 6, 2001, a senior-level U.S. government official told CNN that U.S. investigators had discovered Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (Sheik Syed), using the alias "Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad" had sent about $100,000 from the United Arab Emirates to Mohammed Atta. "Investigators said Atta then distributed the funds to conspirators in Florida in the weeks before the deadliest acts of terrorism on U.S. soil that destroyed the World Trade Center, heavily damaged the Pentagon and left thousands dead. In addition, sources have said Atta sent thousands of dollars -- believed to be excess funds from the operation -- back to Saeed in the United Arab Emirates in the days before September 11. CNN later confirmed this. <1>

The 9/11 Commission's Final Report states that the source of the funds "remains unknown."

More than a month after the money transfer was discovered, the head of ISI, General Mahmud Ahmed resigned from his position. It was reported that the FBI was investigating the possibility that Gen. Ahmed ordered Saeed Sheikh to send the $100,000 to Atta <2>; there were also claims that Indian intelligence had already produced proof for the Pakistani administration that this was so.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh


http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html

[mikelgb]

1. uh oh

[SpiralHawk]

2. "MIHOP, of course. But you'll never prove it. Smirk." - Commander AWOL

"The fix is IN with the republicon-owned corporate media, and they will NEVER touch this or any 9/11 story with red meat. Smirk.

- Commander AWOL

[indepat]

4. Were this story true, the ramifications would be interesting and this would be hard to explain were

this administration held accountable for its actions (malfeasance), non-actions (nonfeasance) and mischief (misfeasance). But absolutely no one holds them accountable for anything, so eos. :D

[SpiralHawk]

3. Tie this thread in with this one: Bush Gave Taliban $43 Million

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3618895

Bush Gave Taliban $43 Million Four Months before 9/11
by Brandon Friedman
Mon Jul 14, 2008 at 05:42:01 PM PDT

As Barack Obama begins the effort of turning America’s attention toward the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan--and as American soldiers die at the hands of Taliban militants in numbers never before seen--it’s worth drawing everyone’s attention to a piece in The Nation that VetVoice’s Chris LeJeune dug up this afternoon. It was originally published May 15, 2001--less four months before 9/11.


http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010604/20010522
Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-US terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush Administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously.

That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the United States the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention.

Never mind that Osama bin Laden still operates the leading anti-American terror operation from his base in Afghanistan, from which, among other crimes, he launched two bloody attacks on American embassies in Africa in 1998.

Sadly, the Bush Administration is cozying up to the Taliban regime at a time when the United Nations, at US insistence, imposes sanctions on Afghanistan because the Kabul government will not turn over Bin Laden.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/14/203232/585/...