HARNESSING THE INDIAN/PAKISTAN SUB-CONTINENT
Aug 31, 2009 News & Events, Pakistan
India and Pakistan are the focus of a lot of foreign policy attention in recent years–and for good reason: Both are rival nuclear powers as well as long-time client states of competing world powers Russia and China, respectively. However, during the last three decades the US has made extensive covert inroads–first into Pakistan–and then into India. Ultimately, I believe, US globalist leaders are attempting to take advantage of this second most populous area of the globe to create a future counter force to China’s growing hegemony. However, in the interim period Pakistan and India have been used to foment both state-sponsored terrorism and nuclear proliferation on behalf of CIA black operations. Bits and pieces of this story have began to emerge from the statements of retired Lieutenant General Hamid Gul who was the head of Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence Agency from 1987 to 1989, the last two years of the CIA-managed, secret war against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
General Gul obviously knows a lot about the CIA’s relationship with Osama bin Laden and other “former” US allies in the proxy war against the Soviets–perhaps too much. Whereas the US tells the story that Osama bin Laden turned against the US, Gul believes the covert mission of the CIA for bin Laden changed, creating a top secret group of private terrorists called al Qaeda that would be used to act as a catalyst for intervention and change in the New World Order.
Gul, for example, does not believe that al Qaeda pulled off the 9/11 attacks independent of the US, but that it was an “inside job.” Gul told Alex Jones in a December 2008 interview that “9/11 took place on the American soil, [and] not a single person has been caught inside America, even though for doing such a job I think [it would] require a huge amount of logistic support in the area where such operation is carried out.” He’s absolutely correct. The hijacked airliners alone were incapable of bringing down the two main WTC towers, let alone building 7 which symmetrically imploded even though never directly hit or structurally damaged by debris.
Just to plant the amount of explosives in the various WTC buildings needed to bring them down at near free fall speed would require at least 50 explosives experts trained in high rise demolition work. Such work had to be planned and implemented with highly sophisticated electronic timers and the use of special thermite burning explosives to deal with the massive size of the vertical main steel columns–technology exclusive to the West. The WTC buildings were completely shut down for “maintenance” the weekend prior to the attack, something that had never been done before, and which was ordered by the building security people themselves–not Middle Eastern terrorists. I think that’s when the final explosives were planted. No small group of Middle Eastern terrorists could have gained that kind of official access to the highly secured buildings.
Because Gul believes 9/11 was an inside job, he has become the target of a major disinformation and smear campaign by the US. US officials have even induced India to accuse him of helping plan the Mumbai attacks. India is demanding his extradition on those charges. Pakistan says “show us the evidence” and we will try him in open court–but so far, no evidence.
It appears Gul knows enough secrets involving high ranking US and Pakistani officials to ensure his safety from extradition from Pakistan, but certainly not enough to keep the US from trying to paint him as a supporter of the Taliban and other terrorist organizations. That is why he is speaking out more openly now, not only to defend himself but to tell the truth before he gets killed.
Here are comments and excerpts from his various interviews. First, from the Foreign Policy Journal, Jeremy R. Hammond reports: “He has been called ‘the most dangerous man in Pakistan.’ and the U.S. government has accused him of supporting the Taliban, even recommending him to the United Nations Security Council for inclusion on the list of international terrorists. In an exclusive interview with Foreign Policy Journal, I asked the former ISI chief what his response was to these allegations.
“He replied, ‘Well, it’s laughable I would say, because I’ve worked with the CIA and I know they were never so bad as they are now’ [Gul correctly views his work with the CIA to destabilize the Russian occupation of Afghanistan as legitimate, but not the CIA's subsequent use of terror to attack targets in the West]. He said this was ‘a pity for the American people’ since the CIA is supposed to act ‘as the eyes and ears’ of the country. As for the charge of him supporting the Taliban, ‘it is utterly baseless. I have no contact with the Taliban, nor with Osama bin Laden and his colleagues.’ He added, ‘I have no means, I have no way that I could support them, that I could help them.’
“After the Clinton administration’s failed attempt to assassinate Osama bin Laden in 1998, some U.S. officials alleged that bin Laden had been tipped off by someone in Pakistan to the fact that the U.S. was able to track his movements through his satellite phone. Counter-terrorism advisor to the National Security Council Richard Clarke said, ‘I have reason to believe that a retired head of the ISI [Gul] was able to pass information along to Al Qaeda that the attack was coming.’ When I put this charge to him, General Gul pointed out to me that he had retired from the ISI on June 1, 1989, and from the army in January, 1992 [and that this info from the CIA about the hunt for bin Laden could only have come to Gul through the ISI -which was still controlled by the CIA]. ‘Did you [the US] share this information with the ISI?’ he asked. ‘And why haven’t you [the US] taken the ISI to task for parting this information to its ex-head?’ [devastating argument, to which the US or ISI has no response]. The U.S. had not informed the Pakistan army chief, Jehangir Karamat, of its intentions, he said, so how could he have learned of the plan to be able to warn bin Laden?”
In fact, bin Laden, still working for the CIA to help organize the actual hijackers (none of which were the named hijackers), was tipped off, and the CIA picked Gul to take the rap as the fall guy, to divert attention away from the ISI and others.
“General Gul turned our conversation to the subject of 9/11 and the war on Afghanistan. ‘You know, my position is very clear,’ he said. ‘It’s a moral position that I have taken. And I say that America has launched this aggression without sufficient reasons [at least, not the stated reason]. They haven’t even proved the case that 9/11 was done by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.’ He argued that ‘There are many unanswered questions about 9/11,’ citing examples such as the failure to intercept any of the four planes after it had become clear that they had been hijacked. He questioned how Mohammed Atta [or Hani Hanjour], ‘who had had training on a light aircraft in Miami for six months’ could have maneuvered a jumbo jet ’so accurately’ to hit his target. He made reference to the flight that hit the Pentagon and the maneuver its pilot had performed, dropping thousands of feet while doing a near 360 degree turn before plowing into its target.
“‘And then, above all,’ he added, ‘why have no heads been rolled? The FBI, the CIA, the air traffic control —- why have they not been put to question, put to task?’ Describing the 9/11 Commission as a ‘cover up’, the general added, ‘I think the American people have been made fools of.’
“At this point in our discussion, General Gul explained how both the U.S. and United Kingdom stopped granting him an entry visa [which he views as contradictory to their attempts to get him extradited to India]. ‘If I’m a security risk [and charged with terrorism], then it is paradoxical that you should exclude me from your jurisdiction. You should rather nab me, interrogate me, haul me up, take me to the court, whatever you like [Good point. They want him tried in India where others can deal with rigging the evidence].
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