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I would like folks to notice that here corporate MSNBC/Newsweek floats a
conspiracy theory one of the Isralis did it. And Drudge trying to float a
"mysterious" object farce, also where they floated the farce of air force one
codes. I have heard voiced by the populace only one other "Conspiracy Theory"
and quite vocal and coherent. I have heard it on a national call-in on C-SPAn
and it is quite evident on the internet, that of the NWO but nary a whimper
of whiff on the mainstream, NPR or anywhere. The news people do not report,
they manufacture "consensus," manipulate and lie for their masters.
How far will they go?
MHO
Om
K
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Hamid Gul, former head of Pakistan's intelligence service: 'I tell you, it
was a coup'
Prejudice In Pakistan
Why is Islamabad reluctant to pressure neighboring Afghanistan into turning
over Osama bin Laden?
By Rod Nordland
NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE Sept. 14� When I got Maj. Gen. Hamid Gul on
the telephone at his home to ask if I could interview him, his reaction was
guarded at first. �What�s your nationality?� he asked. �American,� I said.
�Are you a Jew?� When I said I wasn�t, he agreed to the interview. �I�m sorry
to ask you that,� he added. �It�s just that Jews wouldn�t understand what I
have to say.�
INDEED THEY WOULDN�T, and nor would most people. General Gul�s basic
message is that Osama bin Laden is innocent, and that the attacks on New York
and Washington were an Israeli-engineered attempt at a coup against the
government of the United States. He rattled off the proof: �You must look
inside. F-16s don�t scramble in time, though they had 18 minutes after the
first plane hit the World Trade Center. Radar gets jammed. Transponders are
turned off. A flight to Los Angeles turns to Washington and is in the air for
45 minutes, and the world�s most sophisticated air defense doesn�t go into
action. I tell you, it was a coup [attempt], and I can�t say for sure who was
behind it, but it�s the Israelis who are creating so much misery in the
world. The Israelis don�t want to see any power in Washington unless it�s
subservient to their interests, and President Bush has not been subservient.�
If General Gul were anyone else, it would be easy to dismiss him as a
crackpot. But here in military-ruled Pakistan, he remains an influential
figure, even in semiretirement. And as the former head of Pakistan�s powerful
Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), its intelligence service, he
had a key role in making Afghanistan what it is today. Gul is widely
considered the architect of the Afghan jihad: the man who, with financial and
logistical support from the CIA, engineered the fight of the mujahedin
against the Soviet Union and its proxy government in Kabul in the 1980s. Now,
he�s a big fan of the country�s ruling Taliban, even though they�re fighting
his former mujahedin allies.
And he�s wondering why the CIA no longer comes calling to his
comfortable home in an exclusive compound for top military brass in
Rawalpindi. �Why don�t these people talk to me?� Perhaps because they don�t
appreciate his view that all those Arabic names emerging as suspects are CIA
inventions?
MSNBC'S Military Files � U.S. Strategic Overview
� Afghanistan
� Iraq
� Pakistan
� Uzbekistan
� Yemen �Not your State Department, but the CIA and DOD
[Department of Defense], he says. �They�re the ones who count. Why don�t they
talk to me? They know me. They can trust me.�
Putting our trust in Pakistan will take, at best, a mighty leap of
faith. The country claims to be a partner in the war against terrorism, and
the current military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has made such lip service
ritually and repeatedly. After Tuesday�s attacks, he condemned them as
�brutal and horrible acts of terror� and called for the world to �unite to
fight against terrorism in all its forms.� But the Pakistani government has
so far made no effort to bring any real pressure to bear on the Taliban to
turn over bin Laden, and it has encouraged and facilitated Islamic extremist
groups in the disputed territory of Kashmir, as well.
It�s a truism that terrorists cannot function without the support of
a state, and in the case of bin Laden he couldn�t function without the
support of Afghanistan�and at least the tacit support of Pakistan as well.
Afghanistan is not only land-locked, but surrounded by enemies�with the
exception of Pakistan. Pakistan is the only way in or out of Afghanistan for
bin Laden and his supporters, and if, as is widely believed, he is commanding
and financing some 3,000 Arab soldiers in the 055 Arab Brigade, he needs a
line of supply and that can only go through Pakistan. (Alternative routes,
such as Iran and Tajikistan, are out of the question). Even air travel
depends on crossing Pakistani air space, and there�s nothing to stop the
Pakistanis from insisting on vetting the passenger rosters�something they
have indeed done in the past.
Much is made of the fact that the Taliban has grown out of control
and that Pakistan couldn�t even get it to release a wanted Islamic extremist
they sought, Riaz Basra. But that raises the question: did Pakistan, with its
military and especially its security services infiltrated by Islamic
hard-liners, really want to bring that pressure to bear? Similarly, did
Pakistan really want to stop the recent destruction of the giant Buddhist
statues at Bamiyan?
� Special Report: After the Attack
� Extra Edition: America Under Attack General Gul made his views
clear. Jihad, he said, is not just a matter of realpolitik, as it is to the
West in Afghanistan, but a matter of religious conviction. And when Gul
visited Afghanistan in August, at the invitation of the Taliban, he didn�t
see the wrecked, impoverished, famine-stricken land that everyone else
sees�but rather a place where women had regained Islamic inheritance rights
once denied them, where Taliban police were disarming civilians, where roads
were repaired, where the heroin crop had been wiped out and where peace was
restored everywhere but in the north. Far from worrying, as so many do, about
the Talilbanization of Pakistan, he says �the best way forward is for
Pakistan to be more Islamic, which means more just, more tolerant, more
honorable�those are Islam�s values.�
The old general thinks all this will blow over soon, and everyone
will eventually forget about the hunt for bin Laden and the terrorists who
hit Washington and New York. �They don�t really want to find who did it,� he
says. And he�s also certain the Americans will not make the same mistake the
Russians and the British before them made, and intervene in Afghanistan. �You
can easily go inside Afghanistan,� he said, �but you will not come out
easily. Afghans are Afghans. If they were not so obstinate, so crude, so
uncouth, they would not have defeated two superpowers in 80 years� time. Why
does America want to put its hand in that same hole again?�
Presumably Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who has been
in a series of meetings with Gul�s successor, Gen. Mahmoud Ahmad, has been
having a more realistic set of exchanges�though don�t bet on it. Mahmoud was
on a visit to Washington at the time of the attack, and, like most other
visitors, is still stuck there. �It isn�t what you say,� Armitage reportedly
told him, �It�s what you do.� In the end, despite their inclinations and
their raging prejudices, the Pakistanis may do what the United States wants.
But they won�t be terribly happy about it.
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