Entre o muito que vem sendo escrito sobre a recente demissão do Director da CIA, Porter Goss, apetece-me destacar este artigo de Michel Chossudovsky no CityPaper de Filadélfia, para perceber que há muita coisa que tresanda nalguns aliados da presente estratégia de luta contra o terrorismo. Falta acrescentar que na manhã do fatídico 11 de Setembro o Sr. Goss até tomou o pequeno-almoço com o representante da Nação amiga Paquistanesa, o mencionado General Mahmoud Ahmad.

Pakistan’s chief spy Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmad "was in the U.S. when the attacks occurred." He arrived in the U.S. on Sept. 4, a full week before the attacks. He had meetings at the State Department after the attacks on the World Trade Center. But he also had "a regular visit of consultations" with his U.S. counterparts at the CIA and the Pentagon during the week prior to Sept. 11.

What was the nature of these routine pre-Sept. 11 "consultations"? Were they in any way related to the subsequent post-Sept. 11 consultations pertaining to Pakistan’s decision to cooperate with Washington? Was the planning of war being discussed between Pakistani and U.S. officials?

On Sept. 9, while Ahmad was in the U.S., the leader of the Northern Alliance, Commander Ahmad Shah Masood, was assassinated. The Northern Alliance had informed the Bush administration that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was allegedly implicated in the assassination.

The Bush administration consciously took the decision in the post-Sept. 11 consultations with Ahmad to directly "cooperate" with Pakistan’s military intelligence despite its links to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban and its alleged role in the assassination of Masood, which coincidentally occurred two days before the terrorist attacks.

In the days following Ahmad’s dismissal, a report published in the Times of India revealed the links between Pakistan’s chief spy Ahmad and the presumed "ringleader" of the World Trade Center attacks, Mohamed Atta. The Times of India article was based on an official intelligence report of the Delhi government that had been transmitted through official channels to Washington. Quoting an Indian government source, Agence France-Presse confirms that: "The evidence we [the government of India] have supplied to the U.S. is of a much wider range and depth than just one piece of paper linking a rogue general to some misplaced act of terrorism."

The article’s revelation has several implications. The Indian intelligence report not only points to the links between ISI’s Ahmad and terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta, it also indicates that other ISI officials might have had contacts with the terrorists. Moreover, it suggests that the Sept. 11 attacks were not an act of "individual terrorism" organized by a separate al-Qaeda cell, but rather they were part of a coordinated military-intelligence operation, emanating from Pakistan’s ISI.

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Como se alcança desta notícia, pelo menos os serviços secretos indianos parecem estar a fazer um bom trabalho para desmontarem os verdadeiros actores do tal axis of evil, enquanto Allah o Misericordioso executa milagres no Bornéu.