M. Bréqs wrote:OK, I read a little more on KSM. Apparently he's taking credit for beheading Mr. Pearl as well. Interesting. I thought they were confident that Zarqawi did that one... Or am I thinking about Nick Berg?
[EDIT: I don't mean to imply that Nick Berg beheaded Daniel Pearl, I meant to say that I might be confusing the timing of Berg's death with Pearl's]
Anyways, it's possible he's telling tales here; think about it: He's probably rightfully implicated in 9/11 planning / preparation, but by taking credit for a lot more, he can distract pursuit of the actual culprits of the other attacks. Plus, he could be like many Jihadists; a status seeker. It seems that a bomb goes off in Israel and there's three dozen different organizations taking credit.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6455307.stm
The Beeb have neglected, purely through sheer laziness I'd imagine, to explain exactly what Pearl was doing in Pakistan in 2002 so here's 3 guesses:
1. Investigating Pakistani ISI involvement with Al-Quaeda and 9/11
2. Investigating Pakistani ISI involvement with Al-Quaeda and 9/11
3. Investigating Pakistani ISI involvement with Al-Quaeda and 9/11
Khalid, and his good chum Saeed Sheik (9/11 bankroller), were very well looked after by our 'allies' in the T.W.A.T. - the Pakistani ISI. From the 'Cooperative Research 9/11 Timeline':
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/time ... hmoodAhmed
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/time ... ikMohammed
"It's former chief, General Mahmood Ahmed, was repeatedly in contact with Sheik during 2000 and was actually in the States between Sept 4th till the 11th 2001 conducting meetings at the Pentagon and National Security Council as well as meetings with CIA Director Tenet, unspecified officials at the White House and the Pentagon, and his “most important meeting” with Marc Grossman, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. At the time of the attacks, ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed was at a breakfast meeting at the Capitol with the chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Senator Bob Graham and Representative Porter Goss (Goss is a 10-year veteran of the CIA’s clandestine operations wing) The meeting is said to last at least until the second plane hits the WTC. [Washington Post, 5/18/2002] Graham and Goss later co-head the joint House-Senate investigation into the 9/11 attacks, which has made headlines for saying there was no “smoking gun” of Bush knowledge before 9/11.
On October 7th 2001 Mahmood was replaced as head of the ISI after Pakistan is threatened by US Deputy Secretary Of State Richard Armitage."
Of course there's absolutely no links between anyone in the American government or Secret Services to the Pakistani ISI, Bin Laden or even the Afghan drug trade - you'd be a potential terrorist to even suggest it 
