The Wallstreet Journalist And The Ugliest Secret

While people are making a bunch of noise about Jolie playing a woman of color in the upcoming new film A Mighty Heart, the BIG story is getting unnoticed. The film is about the kidnapping of American Wallstreet Journalist reporter Daniel Pearl by Islamic extremists in Pakistan, and his wife Mariane Pearl's search for truth and justice.

The ugly secret? That, Daniel Pearl(and from it sounds like his widow) along with others in the book of A Mighty Heart...have some suspicions regarding September 11th, as well as the role of Pakistani ISI.

This is a direct quote from pages 183-184:

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(this is regarding the man who was said to be responsible for Pearl's death Omar Saaed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Sheikh)

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It's become clear that Omar doesn't know where Danny is. That's never been his role. He was the lure; others are the captors. Who's in that group? Omar has served up the name of a go-between, the man who's had contact both with Omar's cell and the kidnapping team. That's a start. But who is overseeing it all? Who pulls all the strings?

I think about things like this: Who told Omar that Danny is Jewish? Who had that information to give?

Information flies out of the Internet. I am amazed to find how much is circulating out there about Omar and his apparent links to both Al Qaeda and the ISI. I read that the U.S. embassy in Islamabad asked the Pakistani government to hand over Omar on January 21--two days before Danny was kidnapped. The reason given for the U.S. request was that the 1994 kidnapping included an American citizen. But it seems clear to me that the U.S. authorities wanted to follow up on a much more disturbing trail. I read a news report from October that claimed the FBI had found "credible links" between Omar Saeed Sheikh and then director of the ISI Lieutenant General Mahmood Ahmed. It was alleged that it was Ahmed who instructed Omar to wire the $100,000 to Mohammad Atta.

I read too that disclosure of this finding led to Ahmed's dismissal as the head of the ISI by President Musharraf on October 7, 2001.

So it appears Omar may have been associated with both the head of ISI and Al Qaeda. He surrendered to another former ISI officer who held him in custody for a week until just one day before Musharraf met with President Bush. Just in time for Musharraf to go before Bush and the American press and, pointing to the "arrest" of Omar Sheikh, declare, "We are as close as possible to getting [Danny] released."

Questions bounce back and forth in my brain like a Ping-Pong ball gone wild. The distinctions between good and bad, government organizations and terrorist organizations, are not simply fading; they seem to be faces of the same coin.


Did Musharraf know Omar was in custody? Could he not know?


The CIA (God only knows what their position is here) didn't know? Which of Omar's ex-ISI friends are involved and to what degree? What about Brigadier Abdullah, responsible for the Kashmir Cell of ISI before his dismissal by Musharraf during the recent purges of the organization. Is he involved, too? Does he work for Osama bin Laden? What was Omar promised in exchange for his arrest?

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Gee, I wonder if this will be in the movie? Even toward the end of the HBO documentary on Pearl's kidnapping called "The Journalist and the Jihadi", as well as the book "Who Killed Daniel Pearl", it appears Pearl was killed for finding out that Pakistani ISI controls al Qaeda and was involved in 9/11.
When KSM "confessed" he killed Pearl and was a part of 9/11, he was correct. Only, he was being puppeteered by the ISI. And I wonder who the ISI answers to?

In Page 31 Marianne Pearl writes:

Corruption is endemic among the Pakistani police; that's a story Danny and I have been researching for months. In fact, it's possible that calling the police is precisely the wrong thing to do now. Can we call Pakistani intelligence? ISI, Inter-Services-Intelligence--the role of the agency is so murky, frightening. We've heard it called "a kingdom within a state"; we know that little happens in this country without ISI knowing about it. But what if they're involved?

It's no wonder ISI has been behind the Taliban resurgence, is helping to protect Osama, and is linked to so many terror attacks.

Pages 27 thru 30 of her book go into how her and Daniel were told by top ISI officials that it was "Israeli Mossad" behind 9/11, and regardless if there really was...it's clear that between people like General Mahmoud Ahmed, RG Abbas, Omar Sheikh, etc 9/11 had ISI complicity all over it.

As a side note of irony, Marine writes on page 30:

In Pakistan, Danny reported, pilots, scientists, and experts had gathered for analysis, and they had all concluded that the attacks could not have succeeded without the help of American intelligence services or the Israelis. "Pakistani air force officers casually opine that 'Mossad is the only one that could do it.' Respected newspapers in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates run news items suggesting authorities suspect some Israelis of involvement in the attack... One Pakistani commentator told the BBC Friday that America's belligerent attitude 'gives credence' to conspiracy theories spreading on the Internet."

Ironically, its been exposed in the mainstream that Saudi Arabia was involved in 9/11, and Bush is covering for it.
Saudi Arabia was involved in 9/11, and Bush is covering for it. It's also been widely shown that the United Arab Emirates was involved in 9/11 as well as directly funding al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. These say royals and officials in bed with al Qaeda of course regularly meet with the Bush administration. What's going on here?

Thanks to Jon Gold for transcribing pages from the book. Check out the trailer here for the movie coming out soon.