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GODFATHER of the Pakistan's ISI (Continuation... 2)

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Article:         The GODFATHER of Pakistan's ISI 




Article: The GODFATHER of Pakistan's ISI 
(Continuation... 2)


     Although some Islamic countries publicly disfavor American Foreign Policy as anti-Islamic, the covert support of the Americans is largely anticipated and sought by the Islamic fundamentalists as it serves the interests of both. The US foreign policy, it appears, is not keen on eliminating Islamic militancy but rather sustaining it to achieve the goals of either side. Towards this agenda, how the CIA covertly uses the international Islamic brigands, like the ISI, to carry out its nefarious objectives, can be seen from the unfolding of the following events:

     During the Taliban War, the leader of the Northern Alliance was General Ahmad Shah Masood  but the USA viewed him as a social reformer and as backed by the Russians. US covertly supported another Afghan group. This led to General Masood’s untimely death by assassination on the 9th of Sept. 2001, by two Arab suicide bombers posing as journalists. Thereafter, it was officially confirmed to the US by the Northern Alliance that the assassination was carried out under the orders received from the ISI-Osama-Taliban command.

     Two days following Masood’s killing, the USA suffered the 9/11 terrorist attacks with the use of civilian airplanes hijacked and flown into the buildings by suspected Islamic terrorists, alleged to be mostly from the Saudi Arabia. The blame and responsibility for this terrible crime was decidedly placed on the dreaded terrorist outfit of Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin Laden, even before all the attacks materialized. 

     Impossible to believe; all the sophisticated, modern defense machinery and intelligence network of the American superpower failed to prevent or stop the massive 9/11 attacks from happening.  But this huge intelligence failure and human tragedy, appearing to serve some hidden sinister purpose, indeed resulted in the US State Administration and the Pentagon gaining super momentum to endorse a new policing system of home defense and mounting its aggressive international policy of War on Terror; to hunt down and destroy the alleged mass murderer, Osama bin Laden and his dreaded Al Qaeda.  Ironically, Osama bin Laden remained alive and elusive long after 9/11 and his Al Qaeda assets went about carrying out their destructive business in whatever manner and wherever possible.

     The US intelligence was informed well in advance by foreign intelligence services such as from Germany, France, Canada and even India about the impeding threats of attack by Islamic terrorists on American soil, some very specifically.  But the US intelligence and the Pentagon chose to ignore them for reasons best known to themselves.  This act of gross carelessness or rather deliberately ignoring the crucial intelligence received, on the part of the US government, resulted in a horrible American disaster, almost similar to that of the Pearl Harbor bombing by the Japanese in December 1941.

     About a week before the attacks, the Chief of Pakistan’s ISI, General Mahmoud Ahmad, happened to in the US, supposedly to hold talk with the US State Department officials regarding the curbing of terror activities.  When the attacks took place, General Ahmad was in the USA.  And, he was still here on the 13th of September when USA declared full-scale war on world terrorism with the active support from the government of Pakistan.The irony of it all being that the ISI then, as it is now, maintained a strong relationship with the Islamic terror network, thanks to the covert support of the CIA.

     Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, there appeared in the media, on TV and in newspapers, reports that a Pakistani connection was suspected in funding the terrorists.  The Indian daily, The Times of India, broke the news that the ISI Chief, General Mahmoud Ahmad, had arranged the transfer of 100,000 US dollars to Mohammed Atta, the alleged leader of the terrorist group.  This goes to suggest that the ISI was intimately involved with the hijackers, and at the same time, maintaining close contacts within the US Administration.

     As for the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, in July 2001, he was reportedly (French daily Le Figaro October, 2001) receiving kidney dialysis treatment at the American Hospital in Dubai (The United Arab Emirates), between the 4th and 14th of July, and, meantime, this “Enemy of America” was meeting with the local CIA Head of Station in Dubai, besides being visited by family members and important persons from the Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. governments.

    Osama bin Laden then figured on the Most Wanted List of the FBI and while the CIA officials in Dubai were meeting with him at the American Hospital, questions were raised why was not bin Laden, the arch enemy of the US,  arrested there and then?

    Reuters also later reported: “At the time, bin Laden had a multi-million dollar price on his head for his suspected role in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in East Africa”.

    There is also a fascinating CBS news report stating that, as per information received from the ISI, a day ahead of the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden was receiving medical treatment in the Military Hospital at Pakistan Army’s Headquarters in Rawalpindi.  Again, surprising that the US military advisers based in Rawalpindi military sector made no move whatsoever to capture bin Laden.

    Despite the Pakistan’s ISI clear involvement with the alleged 9/11 terrorists, and Osama bin Laden’s later unrestricted movements, it shows that the US Administration’s War on Terrorism and its Foreign Policy has a parallel hidden agenda from the one that is presented and openly preached inside and outside the USA.  

    Almost a decade later, the purported long search for the Al Qaeda fugitive leader finally ended in May 2011, with his assassination in a night raid on his house in a compound near
the garrison town of Abbottabad, Pakistan, by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs.   The most wanted man was all along living there with his family and bodyguards.  

    Hard to believe, that within a walking distance were the Pakistan Military Academy,  and nearby  the Brigade Headquarters of the Pakistan's Second Division of the Northern Army Corps.

    Meantime, the ISI - the incorrigible intelligence arm of the Pakistan’s armed forces is content in being manipulated under the patronage of its godfather, the CIA.

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Paul Rodricks
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GODFATHER of the Pakistan's ISI (Continued)

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Article:         The GODFATHER of Pakistan's ISI 




Article: The GODFATHER of Pakistan's ISI 
(Continued...)

     Pakistan government has wavered between democracy and dictatorship and as always its military-intelligence apparatus, the ISI, has maintained strong go-between links with the successive USA Government administrations.  ISI appears to be the only covert apparatus in the intelligence world that maintained direct ties with Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda; again, without doubt, as the “go-between” of the ubiquitous CIA. Moreover, during the Cold War period, Osama bin Laden was an important intelligent asset of the CIA.

     General Zia ul-Haq created the ISI, during his dictatorship rule (1977-1988) over Pakistan, in order to oversee intelligence on the Afghan-Pakistani border. The development of the USA’s improved relationship with the Pakistan General Zia ul-Haq’s regime, also resulted with the reinforcement of the CIA-ISI nexus.

     In the process of fiercely implementing his policy of the  ‘Islamisation” of the Pakistan State, General Zia, promoted the mushrooming of the religious schools, “madrassas”,  all over Pakistan; the breeding ground for Islamic militants and die-hard Jihadist, namely the “Mujahideen”. These schools initially were mostly financed by the fanatical Islamic Wahabi sect from the Saudi Arabia.  Naturally, under the control of the CIA, the ISI provided the militant “Jehadi” doctrine and guerilla-style training of warfare. For all his zealous efforts, General Zia had to ultimately pay the price with his death (in August 1988) when his sabotaged plane crashed.  There were media reports suspecting CIA links with the untimely death of General Zia.

     Pakistan government and the ISI helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden in the war to get the Soviets out of Afghanistan (1989). The fanatical Taliban government, supported by massive aid from Pakistan’s military and intelligence throughout these years, under the direction of the CIA, was no doubt tolerated by the USA, despite its inhuman excesses under Sharia Law, because the ruling Taliban served its geopolitical interests in the region. For the USA being in Afghanistan, by any means, meant taking control of the massive oil and gas resources of the Caspian Basin region.

     Elsewhere, the CIA used ISI as go-between the Islamist militant outfits for carrying covert operations in Balkans, Caucasus – Chechnya and Dagestan and Central Asia including China’s Xinjiang-Uigur region. These terrorists were indoctrinated and trained in the CIA-sponsored camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Even during the civil war in Yugoslavia, the Bosnian Muslims were provided support arranged through the ISI network including war-experienced Mujahadeen and huge quantities of weapons and ammunition. USA even turned a blind eye to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards infiltration of fighting men and rockets into Bosnia.

     The funding in particular came and still does from the oil-money rich Saudi Islamic Wahhabi sect, other Gulf States, as an economic aid, from their large corporate establishments and their private citizens, as charity and donations, and not the least from a host of illegal activities such as, drug-money laundering, stolen oil from pipelines, counterfeit money, and smuggling of weapons including nuclear materials, also prostitution, kidnapping and so on. In the past, Afghanistan’s fertile opium fields contributed to over 70% of world’s heroin while CIA assets controlled this heroin trade for US strategic reasons.
     

To be continued ...



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GODFATHER of the Pakistan's ISI




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Article:         The GODFATHER of Pakistan's ISI 




One gets the impression from the general media coverage of the Pakistan’s military action against the Taliban and the various Islamic terror outfits, and behind the scene the covert role, however questionable, of its powerful intelligence arm, the ISI - the Inter-Service Intelligence Agency - that the Government of Pakistan and its spy agency, itself riddled with Islamic fundamentalists, are finally realizing that the State’s democratic future lies in redoubling its campaigns in the war against terrorism.

Despite all such outward appearances, there is hardly any attempt made to curb or get rid of the extremist sympathizers inside the government and the ISI. In fact, extremist leaders of the supposedly banned terror organizations are freely roaming the corridors of power and dictating the government policy, and further influencing and intimidating the judiciary. Today, the government of Pakistan has made a mockery of democracy.

There’s no doubt that Pakistan and the ISI have been destabilizing the peace in the subcontinent region.

Since many decades, the Pakistan government’s anti-India policy and its ISI’s sponsored Islamic militant insurgencies in Kashmir, in the garb of separatists, continue to be hell-bent in creating and sustaining terror in this Indian State. 

After the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, the ISI wholeheartedly aided in the creation of the militant Jammu and Kashmir Hizbul Mujahideen, with the Pakistan armed forces lending a strong, active support to the terror operations by the insurgents crossing into India.

On December 2001, with ISI’s logistic, arms, training and financial support coming mainly from the illegal sources including drug-money, the trained militants from Lashkare-and Jaish-e-Muhammad groups, brazenly attacked the very sanctity of the Indian Parliament, and years later, on 26th of November 2008, the prominent locations in the financial hub of Mumbai, causing death and much international outcry. The masterminds of these terror operations are living openly in the Pakistani society being patronized by the state players and the intelligence agency.

Indian and foreign correspondents and officials have alleged that these covert ISI aided terror operations could not have been possible, though publicly decried by the USA government, without the latter’s silent nod or awareness. 

Subsequent developments and the aftermath findings, following investigations and analysis of the events, the finger pointed in such a direction. Ultimately, what mattered was not the method or sources used, but maintaining the geopolitical goal and vested interests of the main player, the USA, in the region.

The international role of the ISI is primarily and predominantly dictated by its bigger counterpart - the USA's foreign policy and its State Department’s covert managers, the CIA.  

While presenting to the world, Pakistan, as being USA’s important and active participant in fighting the world’s war on terror, this ally of the great power also actively helps to sponsor Jihadi and militant activists through CIA’s proxy outfits and front organizations (e.g. the infamous and now defunct Pakistani’s BCCI bank) around the world towards safeguarding the interests of the USA and its allies. 


To be continued ...


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