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11's Smoking Gun: The Many Faces of Saeed Sheikh |
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Cooperative Research
Paul Thompson
August 20, 2005 |
As the London Times has put it, Saeed Sheikh ìis no ordinary terrorist
but a man who has connections that reach high into Pakistan's military and intelligence
elite and into the innermost circles of Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda organization. |
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Omissions and Errors in the Commission's Final Report |
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Rep. McKinney 9/11 Congressional Briefing
John Newman
August 18, 2005 |
Itís now clear that these Islamist generals who installed Musharaf in the 1999 coup were behind Saeed Sheikh. Musharaf fired them all the same day, October 7th, the day after Saeed Sheikhís links to them were discovered. |
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Bush Team on Defensive Over al-Qaeda Leak |
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Inter Press Service
Jim Lobe
August 10, 2004 |
WASHINGTON - One of the greatest coups in Washington's nearly three-year war against al-Qaeda has suddenly turned sour with reports the White House prematurely exposed the identity of a key source whose contacts and communication with the terrorist group's operational masterminds had yet to be fully exploited. |
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2 Allies Aided Bin Laden, Say Panel Members |
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LA Times
Josh Meyer
June 20, 2004 |
Washington - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia helped set the stage for the Sept. 11 attacks by cutting deals with the Taliban and Osama bin Laden that allowed his Al Qaeda terrorist network to flourish, according to several senior members of the Sept. 11 commission and U.S. counter-terrorism officials. |
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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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Did Pearl die because Pakistan deceived CIA? |
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Pittsburgh Tribune Review
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March 3, 2003 |
There are many in Musharraf's government who believe that Saeed Sheikh's power comes not from the ISI, but from his connections with our own CIA. The theory is that with such intense pressure to locate bin Laden, Saeed Sheikh was bought and paid for. True or not, it would be logical for the CIA to recruit an intelligent, young political criminal with contacts in both India and Pakistan. That he was uncontrollable may not have been a factor ó until too late! |
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Who Killed Daniel Pearl? |
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Time
Tim McGirk
January 26, 2003 |
A Pakistani court has sentenced to death one man, Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, 28, and imprisoned three others for their roles in the abduction and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl a year ago in Karachi. But the mystery of who wielded the knife that beheaded Pearl is still unsolved. Now Pakistani police sources tell TIME that at least one witness says Pearl's throat was slit by a top al-Qaeda terrorist, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. A Kuwaiti of Pakistani descent, Mohammed is believed by U.S. authorities to have been a key organizer of the Sept. 11 hijackings. A suspect in the... |
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Improving Intelligence |
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PBS Newshour
Gwen Ifil & Sen. Bob Graham
December 11, 2002 |
SEN. BOB GRAHAM: I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing -- although that was part of it -- by a sovereign foreign government and that we have been derelict in our duty to track that down, make the further case, or find the evidence that would indicate that that is not true and we can look for other reasons why the terrorists were able to function so effectively in the United States. |
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The Journalist and The Terrorist |
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Vanity Fair
Robert Sam Anson
August 1, 2002 |
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All this had been reported. What no one had tumbled to, except for Danny and
Journal correspondent Steve LeVine, were U.T.N.'s connections to top levels
of Pakistan's ISI and its military. General Hamid Gul — a former ISI director
with pronounced anti-American, radically Islamist views — identified himself
as U.T.N.'s "honorary patron" and said that he had seen Mahmood during
his trip to brief bin Laden. Danny and LeVine also discovered that U.T.N. listed
as a director an active-duty brigadier general, and ran down a former ISI colonel
who claimed that the agency was not only aware of Mahmood's meeting with bin
Laden months before his detention but had encouraged his Afghan trips. |
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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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