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At Border, Signs of Pakistani Role in Taliban Surge |
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New York Times
Carlotta Gall
January 21, 2006 |
QUETTA, Pakistan ó The most explosive question about the Taliban resurgence here along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is this: Have Pakistani intelligence agencies been promoting the Islamic insurgency? |
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Bin Laden Trail Still Cold, Pakistan Says |
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LA Times
Paul Watson
August 16, 2004 |
Despite a surge in arrests of Al Qaeda suspects, a senior Pakistani anti-terrorism official said investigators still had not found the trail of their main target, Osama bin Laden. |
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911 Funds came from Pakistan, says FBI |
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Times of India
Manoj Joshi
August 1, 2003 |
A top FBI counter-terrorism official told the US Senate governmental affairs committee on Thursday that investigators have œtraced the origin of the funding of 9/11 back to financial accounts in Pakistan.ÃÃ
John S Pistole, deputy assistant director of the FBIÃs counter-terrorism division, however, did not specify how those accounts in Pakistan were funded, or the role of Pakistani elements. The Times of India first reported on October 10, 2001 that India told the US that some $100,000 had been wired to the leader of the hijackers, Mahmud Atta, by British-born terrorist Ahmad Saeed Umar Sheikh. |
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The Plots and Designs of Al Qaeda's Engineer |
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LA Times
Terry McDermott & Josh Meyer and Patrick J. McDonnell
December 22, 2002 |
It is the same role that American investigators believe he played not just in Asia but also around the world: If Bin Laden has been the architect of Al Qaeda, Mohammed has been its engineer. Al Qaeda members in custody have told their interrogators that Mohammed had operational cells in place in the United States after the Sept. 11 attacks and that he was the principal proponent within Al Qaeda of developing radioactive "dirty bombs," according to European intelligence officers. |
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From the al-Qaeda puzzle, a picture emerges |
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Asia Times
Syed Saleem Shahzad
September 11, 2002 |
It was here, in this village, that al-Qaeda began smuggling its hoarded gold out of the country last year even as US bombs were falling on the organization's mountain redoubts in Afghanistan. The gold, packed in bags, was loaded onto cargo ships and shipped to Dubai, from where it was sent on to Khartoum, Sudan, and to points unknown.
But it wasn't only gold being shipped out, authorities believe. It was, in essence, al-Qaeda itself. |
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OSAMA AT LARGE,‹5: Intelligence matters |
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Asia Times
Pepe Escobar
July 19, 2002 |
Another e-mail from a key intelligence-related source inside Pakistan once more sends the message: "The new theater of war is here." The Pentagon keeps hinting almost on a daily basis at the presence of "international terrorists" in the tribal areas. But a combination of elite American soldiers, ultra-high-tech aerial surveillance and close cooperation between the FBI and the Pentagon has yielded absolutely no concrete intelligence so far on the whereabouts of bin Laden, Taliban leader Mullah Omar and other senior al-Qaeda leadership. |
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Underworld where terror and security meet |
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Guardian
Rory McCarthy
July 16, 2002 |
Sheikh gave himself up, not to police, but to his old ISI contact, Ijaz Shah, by now the home secretary of the Punjab. For the next week, he was held in secret by the ISI to the consternation of the investigators in Karachi and FBI agents who were desperate to find Pearl alive. |
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Rifts Plentiful As 9/11 Inquiry Begins Today |
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New York Times
James Risen
June 4, 2002 |
Early on Sept. 11, Senator Bob Graham and Representative Porter J. Goss were having a quiet breakfast meeting in the Capitol with the chief of Pakistani intelligence, Lt. Gen. Mehmood Ahmed. Mr. Graham and Mr. Goss, the chairmen of the two Congressional intelligence committees, were quizzing their guest |
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A Cloak But No Dagger |
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Washington Post
Richard Leiby
May 18, 2002 |
On the morning of Sept. 11, Goss and Graham were having breakfast with a Pakistani general named Mahmud Ahmed -- the soon-to-be-sacked head of Pakistan's intelligence service. Ahmed ran a spy agency notoriously close to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.
A Goss aide handed a note to his boss. Goss read it and handed it to Graham. Soon they would evacuate the Capitol, but not before Goss, the designated speaker pro tempore, symbolically opened the House for one minute. |
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National Security Advisor Holds Press Briefing |
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White House press briefings
Condoleezza Rice
May 2, 2002 |
[Gen. Mahmud Ahmed's name removed from white house website.]
Q Dr. Rice, are you aware of the reports at the time that --
was in Washington on September 11th, and on September 10th, $100,000
was wired to Pakistan to this group here in this area? While he was
here meeting with you or anybody in the administration?
DR. RICE: I have not seen that report, and he was certainly not
meeting with me. |
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