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.

The Odd Couple: Just Whose Side Of Terror Is The CIA On?

After years of discussing all manner of geo-political goings on from a slightly different perspective than most may be used to, a friend of mine urged me to finally start up a blog. I've posted literally thousands of political article/threads in various forums, but never actually dedicated myself to a blog of any sort. To preface, I've always been deeply interested in politics and world intrigue.

I'm 29, and can clearly remember watching the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, wondering why my Transformers was being preempted. But I was absolutely fascinated, 1987 being not just the exposure of the government's shadow side, little did I know Iran-Contra would dovetail with BCCI and CIA-crack cocainegate.
Ever since, right alongside my keen interest in giant robot anime, old school video games, webcomics..there's, well politics. "Deep politics" I should say, going *way* past the headline. I have long since become very disenfranchised from the mainstream "left", and find myself in a kind of nowhere land with my views and research.

I decided I'm going to talk about what I see the real state of "terrorism" and war that I feel both the left and right completely misses. In the post cold war era, we hear ad nasueum from both the left and the right all about "al Qaeda" and the threat of terrorism...using that pretext as the justification for all sorts of
apetizers on the revolving agenda. But I ask...is it possible, the American government may be a bit hypocritical on the whole issue?

We saw how the "Miami 7 al qaeda plot to blow up the Sears Tower", "Fort Dix" plot and now the JFK Airport plot all appear to have had US government informants leading the would be wannabe dupes all the way. Now the US appears to be using this same tactic, but for real...in Iran. According to the London Telegraph, Bush sanctioned "black ops" against Iran. The article begins:
"President George W Bush has given the CIA approval to launch covert "black" operations to achieve regime change in Iran, intelligence sources have revealed. Ok, that doesn't sound too bad right? A little Operation Ajax Redux, maybe stirring up some local anti Ahmad dissent groups. It's not like the US would be pulling a Brzezinski...right?

But what's this? The CIA is helping to fund and stimulate a Pakistani terrorist group called Jundullah to stage attacks in Iran? CIA is helping to fund and stimulate a Pakistani terrorist group called Jundullah to stage attacks in Iran? according to ABC News. Yipes. According to another report by the London Telegraph, the US using the CIA is directly funding these terror groups. The wording of things in the media is a tricky thing. In this recent Reuters article simply calls the terror attacks in Iran backed by the CIA as done by "Pakistani millitants".

So what's the problem you say? "Iran is our enemy, they are using proxy soldiers to attack the US in Afghanistan and Iraq and are building nukes" you might say, since that's what the neocon Fox news pundits keep parroting. "Isn't it better we attack Iran by proxy than with American millitary".

Well, what happens when this "Jundullah" group in reality is nothing more than a more vicious wing of al Qaeda? According to a top Pakistani newspaper, Jundullah is closely linked with al Qaeda.
Another top news sources from Pakistan Jundullah is a newer wing of al Qaeda. According to SourceWatch, Jundullah was originally headed by allefed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaek Mohammed.
Wow, that's funny. So if al Qaeda is attacking the Soveits, Serb positions in Kosovo and Albania...or blowing stuff up in Iran, then it's "ok".

What's even more disturbing is the that it's no secret Pakistani Intelligense(ISI) was involved in not just 9/11, but has long been reported to control and fund both al Qaeda and the Taliban.
It was the ISI who helped get an Indian airliner hijacked around Christmas of 1999, so it could be flown to Osama and company in Kandahar for Omar Saeed Sheikh to be released. Omar would go on to be the middle money man between the ISI and the 9/11 hijackers, as well as help kill Wallstreet Journalist Daniel Pearl(Evidence suggests Pearl was killed for finding out the fact ISI was involved in 9/11 and controls al Qaeda) It's now mainstream news Pakistani ISI used Islamic terrorists to kill hundreds in the 7/11/2006 attacks. It also appears as if the FBI is in Pakistan right now investigating top Pakistani government officials and the heads of Pakistani banks in massive insider trading and ties to al Qaeda funding.

The US government allowed Pakistani ISI
fly out some of the heads of al Qaeda and Taliban according to MSNBC and even a top CIA commander came out and said that the US had let Osama escape. No surprise, since according to ABC Pakistan is giving Osama safe harbor. According to the New Yorker's Seymour Hersh, Rumsfeld was the one that gave the orders to allow Pakistan to fly out top al Qaeda and Taliban and let Osama flee. In the Times of London, one of the top former CIA heads said Osama should be allowed to roam free. It should be of NO shock that even the NY Times Pakistani ISI is behind the Taliban resurgence attacking coalition troops in Afghanistan. And yet, YET according to this NBC news clip, the US government gives A BILLION to Pakistan a year to "find Osama".
What a joke. Osama is the modern day "Goldstein" trotted out to incite fear
and legitimize the nearly one TRILLION dollar "war on terror"...now that my friends, is one hell of an expensive boxcutter.


I could go on how it came out that
Sudan was behind the USS Cole attack and controls al Qaeda. And even tho Sudan ALSO is behind the genocide in Darfur, for some reason the CIA is in bed with the Sudanese government in Khartoum. We know it wasn't just Pakistan involved in 9/11, but according to top ranking US officials Saudi Arabian intelligence was involved...tho Bush seems to be covering that up. A lot of people don't know this, but the United Arab Emirates is also deeply embedded with not just al Qaeda and a Falcon hunting buddy of Osama, but is one of the main hubs where Afghani opium meets arms sales and terror funding.
Aw, sounds like the good ol BCCI
days...where the CIA, Mossad, ISI and Saudi Intelligence had an orgyastic money laundering feast with Mujahadeen terror funding, and narco trafficking and black arms finances. According to the Washington Post, all roads lead to UAE and Dubai when it comes to terrorist funding. Most of the Pakistani ISI, Saudi intelligence and other funding for 9/11 to Mohammed Atta was conduited through the UAE, most notably Standard Charter Bank(which had a headquarters in World Trade Center 7) With UAE's elites hobnobbing with Osama at Falcon Hunting trips(apparently the Arab world's version of Bohemian Grove or Bilderberg) and UAE's clear ties to al Qaeda overall...President Bush wanted to sell out our ports to these guys?

Finally, after Khalid Mohammed "confessed" at Gitmo to being behind everything from 9/11 to World Trade Center 1993(even tho that had clear FBI involvement) to practically every terror plot in existance(I'm surprised he didn't "confess" to Katrina, Anna Nicole Smith and rigging American Idol)
Time Magazine strongly linked KSM as being funded and sheparded by members of the Qatari royal elites and Pakistani Intelligence. It should REALLY disturb people that the mastermind of the 1998 African Embassy bombings and the main architect of Osama's nuttyness and al Qaeda overall is a free man under witness protection, and was once an FBI and CIA operative. Just like how 7/7 London mastermind Harsoon Awat is a protected MI6 operative who was flown out of the UK right after the July 7th attacks.

Is THIS how the western world is going to conduct business? Invoking the fear of "Islamic terror" to justify everthing from private millitary contractors out of control and torture, to everything in between...YET at the same time be knowingly in bed with the very countries that control and shepard al Qaeda? It was only a few decades ago that the CIA, NATO and Italian security forces were staging false flag deadly attacks on hundreds of innocents to blame on other forces. A few years ago according to the BBC, Italian forces planted explosives to blame on peaceful G8 protestors. I won't even get into how many of the IRA bombings appear to have been MI5 provocateured, but you get the picture.

Where does "terrorism" end, and state sponsored provocateuring begin?

As a side note, there is an *excellent* and powerful documentary about the 9/11 families struggle for justice, that goes a bit into Pakistan's role in 9/11 and al Qaeda. Here's the full documentary 9/11 Press For Truth(full documentary)

And a clip from the film that goes into the ISI involved in 9/11 from as far back as 1999.