Enter Daniel Pearl - Part 2 of Truth, Lies, and The Legend of 9/11
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We may never know the true motivation that set Daniel Pearl on a quest
that would ultimately lead to his grisly demise. However, thanks to an
invaluable article by Robert Sam Anson in the August 2002 issue of
Vanity Fair, we do know which key player was involved in guiding him
on his quest for knowledge.
Mansoor Ijaz is not a man widely known outside his circle, but his
intimate connections run deep in Washington's power circles. A counter-
terror expert, a member of the Council On Foreign Relations, a Fox
News analyst, as well as a business partner of former CIA Director
Woolsey,James, Ijaz is represented by the public relations firm of
Benador Associates, whose client list reads like a "who's who" of the
propaganda heavy-hitters who were pushing for a war in Iraq - Richard
Perle (former Chairman of the Defense Policy Board), Woolsey (also a
member of the Defense Policy Board), Iraqi scientist ( and chronicler
of Saddam's weapons program) Khidir Khamza, former Washington Times
publisher (and UPI chief) Arnaud De Borchgrave, anti-Saddam author
Laurie Mylroie, Harvard professor/CIA associate Richard Pipes (mentor
of Mylroie, and father of Daniel Pipes), and Frank Gaffney, president
of the hard-right [CSP Center For Security Policy] (of which Perle and
Woolsey are on the advisory council).
The interlocking relationships of members of this clique - or "crew",
in the parlance of organized crime - is indeed a testament to the
power of networking, yet the astonishing scope of their most recent
activities - both in the lead-up to and aftermath of 9/11 - is perhaps
indicative of a more covertly sinister tint in the psychological
makeup of some members of the political "power elite."
Ijaz's frequent writing partner, James Woolsey, for example, was one
of just 17 participants in a July 2001 bio-warfare exercise dubbed
DarkWinter, a simulation of a mass smallpox attack, co-sponsored by
the ANSER Institute of Homeland Security and the Center for Strategic
and International Studies (CSIS). Among the other participants was
Benador client Arnaud De Borchgrave and New York Times journalist
Judith Miller, who had co-authored a book with Benador client Mylroie
in the early '90's. Mylroie's book - an attempt at linking Iraq to
9/11 - was released just weeks after September 11 with a foreword
written by James Woolsey. Around the same time, Judith Miller had just
launched her own well-publicized book on the germ warfare threat -
within a week or two of her own well-publicized role as one of the
very few recipients of an "anthrax" mailing (which turned out not to
be anthrax). (See AnthraxAttacks -ed.)
As for the anthrax threat, a major principal in the company that holds
the exclusive license for the anthrax vaccine is former Chair of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff William Crowe, whose business associate in the
consulting firm Global Options is - you guessed it - James Woolsey.
As for the present smallpox threat, the man charged with overseeing
President Bush's mass vaccination policy was another "Dark Winter"
alumnus, Jerome Hauer. Hauer, a former director of Kroll Associates -
the security firm at the helm when the Twin Towers fell - is also the
man who personally pulled strings in order to get senior FBI official
John O'Neill his job as head of security at the World Trade Center.
O'Neill, who had left a 30-year career in the FBI only two weeks
before September 11, had perished in the rubble of the Twin Towers on
his very first day at the post. Incidentally, O'Neill just happened to
have been the main FBI official in charge of investigating all things
bin Laden.
Given the above social contacts, from Daniel Pearl's point of view,
Mansoor Ijaz was indeed the man to meet. "He [Pearl] wanted me to
introduce him to people who could open doors for him," explained Ijaz
in Vanity Fair. One of those doors opened to Khalid Khawaja, a former
ISI agent whose militant credentials included a longstanding
friendship with Osama bin Laden. But Khawaja was a liberal militant,
counting among his acquaintances both Ijaz and Woolsey, with whom he
carried on a lengthy correspondence.
With Ijaz's letter of reference in hand, Pearl established contact
with Khawaja in Pakistan. As reported by Arshad Sharif in a February
14, 2002 item from Dawn, "Khawaja claimed that he introduced Mr. Pearl
to his contacts and arranged interviews with Taliban diplomats and
other people." According to the "official" record of Pearl's
journalistic quest, he was on the trail of Richard Reid, otherwise
known as the "shoe bomber." According to Anson, Pearl believed that
Reid was a follower of Sheikh Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, "a leader of an
obscure Muslim militant group named Jamaat ul-Fuqra."
As Khawaja spins the tale, when Pearl asked for an introduction to
Gilani in early January, Khawaja's militant toes went cold. With
Khawaja now purportedly out of the picture, Pearl was left to scrounge
up his own contacts. Eventually, Pearl found a "connected" militant
who went by the name of Chaudry Bashir - but who was, in actual fact,
Omar Saeed clothed in yet another alias. Or so that is the "official"
version. If true, our man Saeed had his terrorist appointment book
just about crammed with militant activities at the time, for he was,
according to Indian intelligence, intimately involved with the man who
took responsibility for the terrorist attack in Calcutta on January
22, 2002 - just one day before Pearl's disappearance.
On that very day, a militant/gangster by the name of Aftab Ansari
called in his claim of responsibility for the carnage. As for his
connection with Omar Saeed, here is how the Times of India reported it
on [WWW] January 22:
"[Indian] CBI Director P C Sharma told visiting FBI Chief Robert S
Mueller that Ansari, who claimed responsibility for [today's Calcutta]
attack, had taken a ransom of Rs 37.5 million to free shoe baron
Parthapratim Roy Burman through hawala channels to Dubai, CBI sources
said. Out of this amount, Omar [Saeed] ... had sent $100,000 to Atta
through telegraphic transfer, CBI sources said."
What was going on here? Apparently, the January 22 Calcutta incident
was the trigger for an update on the "legend" of 9/11 - and FBI
Director Mueller was on scene to play his part in the unfolding drama.
Within hours of the January 22 attack, the Indian Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) was circulating news that the main suspect in the
Calcutta attack, Ansari, had sent money to Omar Saeed, who then sent
it on to Mohamed Atta in preparation for the September 11 attacks. No
mention was made of the previously reported involvement of the chief
of Pakistani intelligence. In fact, The Times of India would, within
the next few weeks, back away from its October 9 article linking Omar
Saeed to the Pakistani General - perhaps at the behest of Indian
intelligence. The 9/11 money, in the [WWW] CBI's new version, came
from an August 2001 kidnapping masterminded by Ansari and Asif Reza
Khan. Unfortunately, Khan was not around by this time to confirm it,
as he had already been killed in what was believed to be a [WWW]
staged shootout with Indian police several weeks earlier.
The story at this point gets a bit murky, as it becomes difficult to
distinguish fact from disinformation, but what is clear is the very
real perception of a well-timed and coordinated set-up. The next day -
on January 23, 2002 - Daniel Pearl disappeared off the streets of
Karachi, Pakistan after setting up an appointment to meet Omar Saeed,
alias "Bashir", for the first time. Meanwhile, on that very day, Aftab
Ansari was arrested by UAE authorities at Dubai International Airport
while attempting to board a plane bound for Islamabad. Also on the
very day of Pearl's disappearance, the Los Angeles Times reinstated
Omar Saeed back into "mainstream" view by citing a report by India
Today, which mentioned the new Saeed/Ansari/9/11 Money Trail
connection. The British Independent, on January 24, also gave voice to
the Saeed revelations stemming from the Indian CBI, throwing in, for
good measure, an extensive biography of Omar Saeed. This was followed
by a January 27 item in the Telegraph that also touched upon Saeed's
link to the Calcutta attack.
Why was Omar Saeed suddenly being "resurrected" worldwide within hours
of the January 22 attack, after being mostly forgotten after October
9? It should be pointed out that Saeed's purported links to the Pearl
kidnapping were not yet "known" until February 5, 2002. In that light,
Robert Mueller's subsequent travel itinerary bears closer scrutiny. As
reported by the Los Angeles Times on January 23, "FBI Director Mueller
said Tuesday (i.e. January 22) that Indian authorities provided leads
in the search for Al Qaeda members and cells, based on arrests in
India." There was no word from Mueller, however, on his reported
discussions with the CBI Chief concerning the 9/11 money trail.
The very next day - January 23 - Mueller was in Pakistan, just in time
for the Pearl kidnapping by Omar Saeed. Of course, Mueller could not
have known by then that the person who was mentioned to him the day
before as being the 9/11 paymaster would be involved in the Pearl
kidnapping the very next day. One might even chalk it up to
coincidence - or maybe not. On January 24, Mueller reportedly took up
the matter of Omar Saeed with Pakistan President Musharraf. Was he
discussing CBI Chief Sharma's revelations about Omar Saeed and the
9/11 money trail? As later revealed by an "anonymous" Bush
administration official, Mueller was formally requesting the
extradition of Omar Saeed - for a 1994 kidnapping of an American
tourist.
What, according to the "mainstream" media, prompted this sudden,
rather overdue, request? According to the February 24, 2002 issue of
Newsweek, Saeed was "secretly" indicted back in November 2001 for that
obscure kidnapping. As reported by CNN on February 28, 2002: "Justice
Department officials won't say what prompted that indictment, which
came more than six years after the incident." It also came several
weeks after Saeed was first outed as the 9/11 paymaster.
The possibility also exists that the November 2001 "secret" indictment
was a late February fiction meant to explain Mueller's sudden interest
in Omar Saeed. For good measure, timed with the Newsweek revelation,
Wendy Chamberlin, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, revealed to CBS
News that she had preceded Mueller's request with an informal approach
to Musharraf concerning Saeed's extradition a few months before. The
reader would be cautioned as to drawing any firm conclusions as to the
true nature of the "secret" November indictment. Instead, one should
focus on the compelling circumstantial evidence of a disinformation
campaign that appears to be organized around a number of conveniently
timed set-ups. According to CNN, Mueller was also the one who first
informed Musharraf of the Pearl kidnapping. So, to recap: only two
days after the Times of India reported Mueller's discussions with the
CBI concerning the Omar Saeed link to 9/11, Mueller reportedly
discussed Omar Saeed only in connection with an obscure 1994
kidnapping, while broaching a new kidnapping that occurred the day
before, which, in a matter of weeks, would publicly be linked
to...Omar Saeed.
Incidentally, the FBI also happened to be instrumental in coordinating
Saeed's eventual capture as the Pearl kidnap mastermind. As the
"official" story had it soon after Saeed's "official" arrest on
February 12, the case was solved when the authorities successfully
traced a series of e-mails back to one of Saeed's alleged accomplices,
who then confessed that he was only acting under Saeed's orders. The
government's case, as reported by Zarar Khan of the Associated Press
on July 1, 2002, "rests heavily on technical FBI evidence, which
traced the e-mails to fellow defendant Fahad Naseem."
Mueller, incidentally, also played a crucial role in arranging for the
deportation of Aftab Ansari from the UAE to India. Ansari, by reason
of the Calcutta bombing, was delivered to Indian custody on February
9, just three days before Omar Saeed was "officially" arrested for the
Pearl kidnapping. In short, these two purported 9/11 partners had been
arrested separately in the same week of February for crimes they had
separately committed in the same week of January.
Meanwhile, Daniel Pearl's chaperone, the "militant" Khalid Khawaja,
was beginning to feel the heat due to his involvement in managing
Pearl's appointment book. For a presumed partisan of bin Laden,
Khawaja seemed to be unduly concerned about the bad press that Pearl's
disappearance was garnering him. According to a February 15, 2002
article in Dawn by Arshad Sharif: "Khawaja said it was on the
intervention of [Mansoor] Ijaz that Newsweek toned down its article
which was allegedly raising an accusing finger on him." In a typical
example of post-9/11 news management, Khawaja - presumed friend of
Osama bin Laden - shared his correspondence from editorGretel Kovach
of Newsweek:
"If it is of any consolation, you may have read in the e-mails I sent
Mansoor that the Newsweek article would have been much stronger in
pointing the finger at you as the person who led Danny into trouble.
Thankfully, I spoke with Mansoor and was able to offer a contrary
account - that you refused Danny's request, and that others tricked
him into thinking he could meet Gilani."
Mansoor Ijaz - fellow propagandist and business partner of the
ubiquitous James Woolsey - wasn't exactly a disinterested party in the
matter, for if it was Khawaja who had led Pearl to his ultimate fate,
so, too, by association, would suspicion lie with Ijaz, who had sent
Pearl on to Khawaja.
Meanwhile, Omar Saeed appeared to be at the very broiling geo-
political center of the Pakistan-India stand-off. With Indian
authorities publicly highlighting Omar Saeed as the poster boy of
Pakistani terrorism, using him as a cudgel to prod the reluctant
Americans into action against the Pakistani ISI, one could read
Mueller's trip to the region as an effort to broker the competing
interests of these incompatible allies in the so-called War on Terror.
Publicly, Mueller was in India on January 22 as part of a U.S.-Indo
Working Group on Counter-Terrorism. But as we do not have access to
the minutes of those meetings, we might surmise that, behind closed
doors, Mueller was negotiating with his Indian counterparts the final
dispensation of Omar Saeed within the overall 9/11 Legend. Not that
negotiations were going particularly smoothly - as evidenced by the
upsurge in daring attacks against Indian interests in the few months
previous. Yet it seems that a quid-pro-quo had been worked out along
the following lines: the Indian authorities would excise the ISI Chief
from their version of 9/11 and instead splice in a less incriminating
"gangster" from Dubai as the partner of paymaster Omar Saeed. In
return, the Americans would redouble their efforts in moving against
terror groups based out of Pakistan.
Mueller, for his part, would deal with this new version of the Omar
Saeed/Money Trail Story in the same manner that he dealt with the
older version - by ignoring it. With the Indian CBI now circulating
this new version of the Omar Saeed/ Money Trail Story to various
mainstream Western newspapers in the wake of the January 22 Calcutta
attack, Mueller would publicly go on record as reserving judgment as
to the true culprits and motives behind that incident - while
assisting India behind-the-scenes in arranging for the deportation and
arrest of Aftab Ansari. And while the Indian press was widely
presenting the Calcutta attack as an Ansari/ISI production, according
to the January 23, 2002 Indian Express, the Indian government was
backing down on pushing an ISI link to Calcutta after consultation
with the U.S. government. Why the apparent U.S. squeamishness
concerning the ISI in regards to the Calcutta attack? Perhaps due to
its proximity to the latest Omar Saeed/Ansari/Money Trail Story being
marketed by the Indians - for if the American aim was to gradually
erase Omar Saeed from the 9/11 paymaster role and place him in a
post-9/11 context, Omar Saeed would have to come by his ISI
connections through a different route, one that would in fact distance
him from his reported role on September 11. In other words, the
Americans would need to muddy the waters over Omar Saeed and the role
of the 9/11 paymaster.
It wouldn't be easy. As reported by Paul Sperry of WorldNetDaily on
January 30, 2002 (i.e. one week before Omar Saeed was first outed as a
suspect in the Pearl kidnapping):
"India's Central Bureau of Investigation is turning up evidence that
is proving inconvenient for the Bush administration as it tries to
maintain its shaky alliance with Pakistan. As administration
officials, led by State Secretary Colin Powell, praise Pakistan for
its help in the war on terrorism, FBI agents responding to Indian
leads are quietly investigating Pakistan-based terrorist groups
connected to al-Qaida and the Sept. 11 hijacking."
In other words, India was apparently putting the screws to the
Americans. If the Americans, for purely pragmatic reasons, had opted
to cozy up to the Musharraf regime, India needed insurance to hedge
against the possibility that its strategic interests would be harmed
through this likely temporary alliance. In that context, it would be
somewhat naive to assume that India just happened to "discover" the
Omar Saeed/ ISI Chief/ 9/11 connection through one of those ubiquitous
cell phone "intercepts" - for as early as September 23, 2001, the
British government was reported as seeking India's help in locating
Omar Saeed. Moreover, in view of the fact that the Mustafa Ahmad
paymaster alias also made its debut on that very day through Bush's
Global Terrorist Executive Order, there is perhaps another plausible
explanation for India's apparent obsession with Omar Saeed and his
activities.
Next: Flashback: Assembling The Legend Truth Lies Flashback
February 22, 2002 The Death of Daniel Pearl: After nearly a month
of pleas for the release of Daniel Pearl and mysterious communiques
indicating that he might still be alive, the US Consulate in Karachi
receives a revolting video which depicts Pearl "confessing"---- "I am
a Jew, my mother is a Jew" just before his throat is cut and his body
decapitated on camera. [His death probably occurred in late January,
about a week after his disappearance. "Worldwide revulsion at murder
of American journalist on video," Independent (UK), February 23, 2002.
On March 22nd Ahmed Omar Sheikh and three other Muslim militants were
charged in a Karachi court with the kidnapping and murder of Pearl.
Not only did Sheikh confess to the kidnapping (not under oath) but
also notes in his handwriting had been found which matched the content
of e-mail messages sent about Pearl. (Seven other suspected
accomplices remained at large.) Sheikh was a leader of the Jaish-e-
Mohammed (Army of Mohammed), a fundamentalist group that was banned by
President Musharraf after 9-11. It had been covertly supported by
ISI, the Pakistani intelligence service. The United States, which had
already indicted Sheikh, asked for his extradition. New York Times,
March 22 and 23, 2002. Initially Musharraf seemed to be unwilling to
hand over Sheikh. He reportedly told US Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain
that he would rather hang Sheikh himself than extradite him,
undoubtedly fearing that the ties between the ISI and terrorist
organizations would be exposed. Times of India, March 28, 2002.
Abdullah Iqbat in Dubai's Gulf News suggests that Daniel Pearl was
really researching exactly those links and also the role of the US in
training the ISI, rather than getting interesting background material
on shoe-bomber Richard Reid. He had been warned by other journalists
of the very sensitive nature of his pursuit. One of Pearl's major
stories had been the "fabrication" by Western sources of certain
Kosovo "atrocities," a subject not likely to endear him to certain
government circles. "Pearl was probing spy agencies' role," Gulf News,
March 25, 2002.]
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Never said I didn't like it. I love fiction.
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I love Fiction too, the WMD bush story was a Hoot.
rober...@rogers.com
> still more tin foil hat crap
Precisely what are you refuting in his story here?
What, to believe everything you're told by the MSM also involves
turning off your mind regarding anything not in line with the official
narrative, now so much flutteriung paper in the form of the 9/11
Commission Report.
Please explain and clarify what you are referring to specifically.
Thanks
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That said, I don't whatever I read, either way. Always evaluating.
Sifting the wheat from the chaff, and boy have the PTB ever been
pumping out the chaff these last seven years..!
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> What, to believe everything you're told by the MSM also involves
> turning off your mind regarding anything not in line with the official
> narrative, now so much flutteriung paper in the form of the 9/11
> Commission Report.
>
> Please explain and clarify what you are referring to specifically.
> Thanks
Don't need any so called "reports" on it, I was there that day
and I believe my own eyes.
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