and Jon Kyl (who were part of the Congressional delegation to Pakistan) were
having breakfast on Capitol Hill with General Ahmad, the alleged "money-man"
(to use the FBI _expression_) behind the 9/11 hijackers...."
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PORTER GOSS THE NEW CIA HEAD
LINKED TO FUNDING 911 TERROR ATTACKS
Porter Goss Republican congress-cridder Porter Goss the new CIA director are
linked to the moneyman that funded 911 terror attack.
The chairmen of the Joint Inquiry have dubious links to Pakistan's
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) which is known to have actively supported
Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Moreover, according to intelligence sources, including the FBI, Pakistan's
ISI played a role in financing the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The two Joint Inquiry chairmen Sen Bob Graham and Rep Porter Goss were fully
cognizant of the "Pakistani ISI connection" and the role played by its
former head, General Mahmoud Ahmad.
Why then did they choose to exclude an examination of the role of the ISI
from the Joint Inquiry's 858 page Report?
While hinting to "Saudi support and involvement" in 9/11, the Report fails
to mention that the Pakistani government, its military and intelligence
apparatus (ISI), have actively supported and financed a number of terrorist
organizations, with the support of Washington.
Was it "an intelligence failure" to seek the cooperation of the Pakistani
government in the "war on terrorism" in an agreement brokered by the head of
the ISI, a spy agency, which is known to support the Islamic brigades?
This support by Pakistan's ISI to various "Islamic terrorist" organizations
was pursued prior as well as in the wake of 9/11, despite the commitment of
the Pakistani government to "cooperate" with Washington
In late August 2001, barely a couple of weeks before September 11, Senator
Bob Graham, Representative Porter Goss and Senator Jon Kyl were on a top
level mission in Islamabad, which was barely mentioned by the US media.
Meetings were held with President Pervez Musharraf and with Pakistan's
military and intelligence brass including the head of PakistanÃ??s Inter
Services Intelligence (ISI) General Mahmoud Ahmad. Amply documented, the ISI
is known to support a number of Islamic terrorist organizations. (See
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) at
http://www.cfrterrorism.org/coalition/pakistan2.html )
According to the FBI, Indian Intelligence and several press reports, the ISI
Head was instrumental in providing financial support to the 9/11 terrorists.
General Mahmoud Ahmad had allegedly ordered the transfer of $100.000 to the
presumed 9/11 ring-leader Mohamed Atta.
On the morning of September 11, the three lawmakers Bob Graham, Porter Goss
and Jon Kyl (who were part of the Congressional delegation to Pakistan) were
having breakfast on Capitol Hill with General Ahmad, the alleged "money-man"
(to use the FBI _expression_) behind the 9/11 hijackers. Also present at this
meeting were Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S. Maleeha Lodhi and several
members of the Senate and House Intelligence committees. This meeting was
described by one press report as a "follow-up meeting" to that held in
Pakistan in late August.
When the twin towers were attacked, General Mahmoud Ahmad, head of
PakistanÃ??s intelligence service, was, in Senator Graham's own words, "very
empathetic, sympathetic to the people of the United States," (Stuart News
Company Press Journal (Vero Beach, FL), September 12, 2001).
Bob Graham's description of the General Ahmad, contrasts with that of the
Washington Post:
"On the morning of Sept. 11, Goss and Graham were having breakfast with a
Pakistani general named Mahmud Ahmed Ã?? the soon-to-be-sacked head of
PakistanÃ??s intelligence service. Ahmed ran a spy agency notoriously close
to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban." (Washington Post, 18 May 2002).
While the Joint inquiry has collected mountains of intelligence material,
through careful omission, the numerous press and intelligence reports in the
public domain (mainstream media, alternative media, etc), which confirm that
key members of the Bush Administration were involved in acts of political
camouflage, have been carefully removed from the Joint inquiry's hearings.
3 August 2003
The following text published in Global Outlook , Winter 2003, provides
details on the breakfast meeting hosted by Sen Bob Gram and Rep. Porter Goss
on the morning of September 11.
In late August 2001, barely a couple of weeks before 9/11, Senator Bob
Graham, Representative Porter Goss and Senator Jon Kyl were in Islamabad for
consultations. Meetings were held with President Musharraf and with
Pakistan's military and intelligence brass including the head of
PakistanÃ??s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) General Mahmoud Ahmad. An AFP
report confirms that the US Congressional delegation also met the Afghan
ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef. At this meeting, which was barely
mentioned by the US media, "Zaeef assured the US delegation [on behalf of
the Afghan government] that the Taliban would never allow bin Laden to use
Afghanistan to launch attacks on the US or any other country." 1
Note the sequencing of these meetings. Bob Graham and Porter Goss were in
Islamabad in late August 2001. The meetings with President Musharraf and the
Afghan Ambassador were on the 27th of August, the mission was still in
Islamabad on the 30th of August, General Mahmoud Ahmad arrived in Washington
on an official visit of consultations barely a few days later (September
4th). During his visit to Washington, General Mahmoud met his counterpart
CIA director George Tenet and high ranking officials of the Bush
administration.2
9/11 "Follow-up Meeting" on Capitol Hill
On the morning of September 11, the three lawmakers Bob Graham, Porter Goss
and Jon Kyl (who were part of the Congressional delegation to Pakistan) were
having breakfast on Capitol Hill with General Ahmad, the alleged "money-man"
behind the 9-11 hijackers. Also present at this meeting were Pakistan's
ambassador to the U.S. Maleeha Lodhi and several members of the Senate and
House Intelligence committees were also present. This meeting was described
by one press report as a "follow-up meeting" to that held in Pakistan in
late August. "On 8/30, Senate Intelligence Committee chair Sen. Bob Graham
(D-FL) 'was on a mission to learn more about terrorism.' (Ã?â) On 9/11,
Graham was back in DC 'in a follow-up meeting with' Pakistan intelligence
agency chief Mahmud Ahmed and House Intelligence Committee chair Porter Goss
(R-FL)" 3 (The Hotline, 1 October 2002):
"When the news [of the attacks on the World Trade Center] came, the two
Florida lawmakers who lead the House and Senate intelligence committees were
having breakfast with the head of the Pakistani intelligence service. Rep.
Porter Goss, R-Sanibel, Sen. Bob Graham and other members of the House
Intelligence Committee were talking about terrorism issues with the
Pakistani official when a member of Goss' staff handed a note to Goss, who
handed it to Graham. "We were talking about terrorism, specifically
terrorism generated from Afghanistan," Graham said.
Mahmood Ahmed, director general of Pakistan's intelligence service, was
"very empathetic, sympathetic to the people of the United States," Graham
said.
Goss could not be reached Tuesday [September 11]. He was whisked away with
much of the House leadership to an undisclosed "secure location." Graham,
meanwhile, participated in late-afternoon briefings with top officials from
the CIA and FBI." 4
While trivializing the importance of the 9/11 breakfast meeting, The Miami
Herald (16 September 2001) confirms that General Ahmad also met Secretary of
State Colin Powell in the wake of the 9/11 attacks: "Graham said the
Pakistani intelligence official with whom he met, a top general in the
government, was forced to stay all week in Washington because of the
shutdown of air traffic Ã??He was marooned here, and I think that gave
Secretary of State Powell and others in the administration a chance to
really talk with himÃ??. Graham said."5
Again the political significance of the personal relationship between
General Mahmoud (the alleged "money man" behind 9/11) and Secretary of State
Colin Powell is casually dismissed. According to The Miami Herald, the high
level meeting between the two men was not planned in advance. It took place
on the spur of the moment because of the shut down of air traffic, which
prevented General Mahmoud from flying back home to Islamabad on a commercial
flight, when in all probability the General and his delegation were
traveling on a chartered government plane. With the exception of the Florida
press (and Salon.com, 14 September), not a word was mentioned in the US
media's September coverage of 9-11 concerning this mysterious breakfast
reunion.
"A Cloak but No Dagger"
Eight months later on the 18th of May, two days after the "BUSH KNEW"
headline hit the tabloids, the Washington Post published an article on
Porter Goss, entitled: "A Cloak But No Dagger; An Ex-Spy Says He Seeks
Solutions, Not Scapegoats for 9/11". Focusing on his career as a CIA agent,
the article largely served to underscore the integrity and commitment of
Porter Goss to waging a "war on terrorism". Yet in an isolated paragraph,
the article acknowledges the mysterious 9/11 breakfast meeting with ISI
Chief Mahmoud Ahmad, while also confirming that "Ahmad :ran a spy agency
notoriously close to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban":
"Now the main question facing Goss, as he helps steer a joint House-Senate
investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks, is why nobody in the far-flung
intelligence bureaucracy -- 13 agencies spending billions of dollars -- paid
attention to the enemy among us. Until it was too late.
Goss says he is looking for solutions, not scapegoats. "A lot of nonsense,"
he calls this week's uproar about a CIA briefing that alerted President
Bush, five weeks before Sept. 11, that Osama bin Laden's associates might be
planning airline hijackings.
"None of this is news, but it's all part of the finger-pointing," Goss
declared yesterday in a rare display of pique. "It's foolishness." [This
statement comes from the man who was having breakfast with the alleged
"money-man" behind 9-11 on the morning of September 11]
Goss has repeatedly refused to blame an "intelligence failure" for the
terror attacks. As a 10-year veteran of the CIA's clandestine operations
wing, Goss prefers to praise the agency's "fine work."
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. 6 (Washington Post, 18 May 2002)
"Putting Two and Two together"
While the Washington Post scores in on the "notoriously close" links between
General Ahmad and Osama bin Laden, it fails to dwell on the more important
question: what were Rep. Porter Goss and Senator Bob Graham and other
members of the Senate and House intelligence committees doing together with
the alleged 9/11 "money-man" at breakfast on the morning of 9/11. In other
words, the Washington Post report does not go one inch further in begging
the real question: Was this mysterious breakfast venue a "political lapse",
an intelligence failure or something far more serious? How come the very
same individuals (Goss and Graham) who had developed a personal rapport with
General Ahmad, had been entrusted under the joint committee inquiry "to
reveal the truth on 9-11."(see p. )
The media trivializes the breakfast meeting, it presents it as a simple fait
divers and fails to "put two and two together". Neither does it acknowledge
the fact, amply documented, that "the money-man" behind the hijackers had
been entrusted by the Pakistani government to discuss the precise terms of
Pakistan's "collaboration" in the "war on terrorism" in meetings held behind
closed doors at the State department on the 12th and 13th of September. 11
7(See Michel Chossudovsky, op cit)
Smoking Gun
When the "foreknowledge" issue hit the street on May 16th, "Chairman Porter
Goss said an existing congressional inquiry has so far found 'no smoking
gun' that would warrant another inquiry." 8 This statement points to an
obvious "cover-up". The smoking gun was right there sitting in the plush
surroundings of the Congressional breakfast venue on Capitol on the morning
of September 11.
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Notes
1 Agence France Presse (AFP), 28 August 2001.
2. Michel Chossudovsky, Political Deception, The Missing Link behind 9/11,
Global Outlook, No. 2, 2002, See also .
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO206A.html ; See also Michel
Chossudovsky, Cover-up or Complicity of the Bush Administration? The Role of
Pakistan's Military Intelligence (ISI) in the September 11 Attacks, November
2001, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html
3. The Hotline, 1 October 2002.
4 Stuart News Company Press Journal, Vero Beach, FL, 12 September 2001.
5 Miami Herald, 16 September 2001.
6. Washington Post, 18 May 2002.
7. Michel Chossudovsky, op. cit.
8. White House Bulletin, 17 May 2002.
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