Bush does NOT care about capturing Al Qaeda financiers...the one he let go

[Oilwellian]

With all the recent hoopla over the media story about Bush tracking the fianciers of terrorism, my memory was refreshed of the story behind Pakistan's chief of the ISI, General Mahmud Ahmad, (now quietly retired) and his wiring $100 grand to Atta just weeks before 911. To make the story even more interesting, General Ahmad was in DC on the day of 911, having lunch with Bob Graham and Porter Goss, both chairman of the House & Senate Intelligence committees at the time. He also paid a visit to the National Security Council as well as the Pentagon.

After India's intelligence exposed General Ahmad for his involvement in financing Al Qaeda, why did the Bush crime family allow him to just quietly retire? (I know, that's a rhetorical question.) Why didn't the media report this bombshell of a story? You have an Al Qaeda financier schmoozing it up with government officials on the day of 911. Then, when he was exposed, the same government officials allowed him to just quietly retire. Where is General Ahmad now and is he continuing to finance our enemies with the Bush crime family's blessing?

Perhaps the answer lies in an October 9 bombshell, courtesy of the Times of India:

"While the Pakistani Inter Services Public Relations claimed that former ISI director-general Lt-Gen Mahmud Ahmad sought retirement after being superseded on Monday, the truth is more shocking. Top sources confirmed here on Tuesday that the general lost his job because of the "evidence" India produced to show his links to one of the suicide bombers that wrecked the World Trade Center. The U.S. authorities sought his removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 were wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by at the instance of General Mahmud ."

In short, the Times of India revealed that Omar Saeed was acting under the direct orders of the head of Pakistani intelligence and not Osama bin Laden. That in itself could perhaps have been explained away, as it was widely acknowledged that Islamic elements in the ISI were sympathetic to the Taliban and their al-Qaida guests. Yet tracing the "smoking gun" money trail to General Ahmad created an entirely new smoking gun that led straight back to Washington, D.C. - for General Ahmad had already been reported as having breakfast in the nation's capital with Senator Bob Graham and Representative Porter Goss on the morning of September 11 (Both Graham and Goss would go on to co-chair the joint Senate-House 9/11 inquiry). In fact, as early as September 9 - two days before 9/11, for those who didn't notice - Karachi News had weighed in with the following observation:

"ISI Chief Lt-Gen week-long presence in Washington has triggered speculation about the agenda of his mysterious meetings at the Pentagon and National Security Council... What added interest to his visit is the history of such visits. Last time Ziauddin Butt, predecessor, was here during Nawaz Sharif's government, the domestic politics turned topsy-turvy within days. That this is not the first visit by in the last three months shows the urgency of the ongoing parleys."

If ever there was a paper trail leading to the 9/11conspirators, these articles provided the print-smeared paving. Taken together, they would conjure up the following plausible scenario: Omar Saeed, acting under the direction of General Ahmad and the ISI, had provided money and "training" (as reported in the Telegraph) to the hijackers while "false-flagging" himself to the hijackers as an operative of al-Qaida. The General, on the other hand, may have represented himself to Omar Saeed as acting exclusively under ISI authority, when in fact he was acting under the direction of his American-Anglo handlers. With Omar Saeed seeding the "legend" of a bona fide money trail leading back to bin Laden, the stage would then be set for Omar Saeed to take the fall as the main patsy providing the smoking gun of al-Qaida complicity for 9/11. Yet at some point, this carefully enacted "legend" began to unravel once Indian intelligence was able to establish (or just mischievously leaked) Saeed's link with General Ahmad, forcing a reluctant FBI - or, alternatively, a cooperative element in the FBI outside of the hermetically compartmentalized loop - to go along and confirm the findings.

http://911review.org/Wiki/TruthLiesOmar.shtml

[nealmhughes]

1. I have always thought that India had vast and effective security services

re:Pakistan... It is too obvious for them not to have. All one has to do is be circumcised to "pass" as a Pakistani.
A militant Islamic Pakistan is India's nightmare, and God knows India and Pakistan won't let Kashmir and Jammu alone and let it return to its former reputation as "Paradise on Earth."

[magellan]

2. Our friends the Pakistanis!

Our Friends the Pakistanis -- Wall Street Journal editorial, Oct 10, 2001

Yesterday we noted a report from a Pakistani newspaper that Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmad had been fired as head of Islamabad's Inter-Services Security agency after U.S. linked him to a militant allied with terrorists who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in 1999. Now the Times of India says Ahmad is connected to the Sept. 11 attacks:

Top sources confirmed here on Tuesday, that the general lost his job because of the "evidence" India produced to show his links to one of the suicide bombers that wrecked the World Trade Centre. The US authorities sought his removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 were wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the instance of Gen Mahumd.

Senior government sources have confirmed that India contributed significantly to establishing the link between the money transfer and the role played by the dismissed ISI chief. While they did not provide details, they said that Indian inputs, including Sheikh's mobile phone number, helped the FBI in tracing and establishing the link.

Wow -- FIRED and RETIRED. Not arrested and hauled off to Gitmo for a little Q&A. Ya hear that, FREEPS? This is YOUR leader and HIS hypocrisy at work yet again. You morans must love the smell of shit to bear the stink coming from the WH.

Thanks for sharing this, George Oilwellian.