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Intro: The following compilation of articles shows a clear and concise connection between acts of terror and the government of the
United States of America and Israel. For further evidence and proof that the aforementioned governments are indeed participating in state
sponsored terrorism, please watch the following documentaries for free on Google video or YouTube.

     1)   State Sponsored Terrorism: Terrorstorm
     2)   9/11 Terror Attacks (New York): Loose Change: Final Cut (
     3)   7/7 Terror Attacks (London): Ripple Effect

Date: September 18, 2001
Source: BBC
Title/Headline: Who Is Osama Bin Laden?

Abstract: Osama Bin Laden is both one of the CIA's most wanted men and a hero to many young people in the Arab world. He and
his associates were already being sought by the US on charges of international terrorism, including in connection with the 1998 bombing of
American embassies in Africa and last year's attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. In May this year a US jury convicted four men believed to
be linked with Bin Laden of plotting the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Bin Laden, an immensely wealthy and private
man, has been granted a safe haven by Afghanistan's ruling Taleban movement. During his time in hiding, he has called for a holy
war against the US, and for the killing of Americans and Jews. He is reported to be able to rally around him up to 3,000 fighters. He is also
suspected of helping to set up Islamic training centres to prepare soldiers to fight in Chechnya and other parts of the former Soviet Union.
His power is founded on a personal fortune earned by his family's construction business in Saudi Arabia. Born in Saudi Arabia to a Yemeni
family, Bin Laden left Saudi Arabia in 1979 to fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Afghan jihad was backed with
CIA itself, according to Middle Eastern analyst Hazhir Teimourian. While in Afghanistan, he founded the Maktab al-Khidimat
(MAK), which recruited fighters from around the world and imported equipment to aid the Afghan resistance against the Soviet army.
Egyptians, Lebanese, Turks and others - numbering thousands in Bin Laden's estimate - joined their Afghan Muslim brothers in the
struggle against an ideology that spurned religion. After the Soviet withdrawal, the "Arab Afghans", as Bin Laden's faction came to be
called, turned their fire against the US and its allies in the Middle East. Bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia to work in the family
construction business, but was expelled in 1991 because of his anti-government activities there. He spent the next five years in Sudan until
US pressure prompted the Sudanese Government to expel him, whereupon Bin Laden returned to Afghanistan. Terrorism experts say Bin
Laden has been using his millions to fund attacks against the US. The US State Department calls him "one of the most significant
sponsors of Islamic extremist activities in the world today". According to the US, Bin Laden was involved in at least three major
Kenya and Tanzania. BBC correspondent James Robbins says Bin Laden had "all but admitted involvement" in the Saudi Arabia killings.
Some experts say he is part of an international Islamic front, bringing together Saudi, Egyptian and other groups. Their rallying cry is the
liberation of Islam's three holiest places - Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. Analysts say Bin Laden's organisation is very different from
the groups that carried out bombings and hijackings in the past in that it is not a tightly knit group with a clear command
structure but a loose coalition of groups operating across continents. American officials believe Bin Laden's associates may operate
in over forty countries - in Europe and North America, as well as in the Middle East and Asia. The few outsiders who have met Bin
Laden describe him as modest, almost shy. He rarely gives interviews. He is believed to be in his 40s, and to have at least three wives.

Date: September 10, 2002
Source: CNN
Title/Headline: Have U.S. Efforts In Afghanistan Been Successful If Bin Laden Is Alive?

Abstract: Congressman Jim McDermott told CNN in 2002 that the U.S. created the Taliban and placed the group of fanatics in
Afghanistan. From a CNN transcript:
McDermott: ―It certainly is an improvement for the women of Afghanistan. But you‘ve got to remember that of
      American policy, we put the Taliban there. We gave the money to the…

Carlson: I beg your pardon?

McDermott: … Pakistanis.

Carlson: You‘re breaking news here, Congressman. I don‘t think this has ever been reported before in the United

McDermott: Oh, yes, it has been. We funded the Taliban through the Pakistanis, and all that money — we
      could have cut off that money and stopped what was going on. We knew what was going on there‖
      (CNN, 2002).

Date: Spring 2003
Source: Demokratizatsiya, Michael Powelson,
Title/Headline: U.S. Support For Anti-Soviet And Anti-Russian Guerrilla Movements And The Undermining Of Democracy

Abstract: The U.S. government has demanded that nations and international bodies join forces to combat terrorism. Yet the
United States has played an important role in fostering the very terrorism it now denounces. While terrorist groups are portrayed
as an "evil enemies" by the United States, many terrorist organizations initially received considerable support from the U.S.
government, either openly or clandestinely. From the Mujihadeen in Afghanistan to the Kosovo Liberation Army in the former
Yugoslavia, the U.S. government has provided training and support to "terrorist" organizations. One of the best ways to combat
terrorism in the world today is to pressure the United States and other governments to stop lending support to such organizations.
This is of particular importance for Russia, since terrorists originally armed and trained by the United States battled Soviet forces for over a
decade in Afghanistan, and these Mujihadeen fighters can now be found in the Russian region of Chechnya. Not only has the U.S. support
for the Mujihadeen resulted in considerable bloodshed in Chechnya, but the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan and the Russian
Federation's war in Chechnya served to undermine efforts at democratization. My principal thesis in this article is that democracy
cannot be instituted during war or under wartime conditions. In the United States own history, the periods when democracy was most
threatened occurred during wartime. During the American Civil War, for example, many civil liberties were suspended. During
World War I this was also the case, and right after the war the first "Red Scare" was instituted. World War II also saw strict limits
on democratic rights, limitations that were repeated during the Viet Nam war. Of course in the history of Russia it has been during
wartime that rights were most vigorously curtailed. During World War I no opposition voices were allowed, and with the outbreak of the
Civil War in 1918 both the Reds and the Whites instituted a reign of terror that was justified by the reality of war. It was the threat of war
that gave Stalin the excuse he needed to purge the Soviet Union of all of his opponents in the 1930s, and it was the cold war that
gave Soviet leaders the justification for preventing democracy from breaking out. Thus, democracy cannot coexist alongside war, and
from 1979 to the present, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation have been bogged down in conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya-
conflicts in which the United States has played a considerable role. In the 1980s, the Soviet war in Afghanistan served to counteract the
push toward democratization, since this war was used as an excuse for state control of speech and press freedoms. Currently, the presence
of "terrorists" in Chechnya is undermining Russia's efforts to institute democratic reforms in the country, while at the same time the
Chechen conflict has tended to empower antidemocratic forces. Under the umbrella of fighting terrorism, the Russian government
justifies the violation of basic civil rights of Russian citizens, whether Chechens or one of the many other nationalities within the
Russian Federation. In this article I will explore the ways that the United States has contributed to the spread of terrorism as it
concerns the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The U.S. role has been twofold; first, in its material support of terrorist
groups, and second, by the example set in using extreme violence to achieve ends. From there I will explore the ways in which these U.S.-
trained terrorists have played a significant role in Russia's conflict with Chechnya. The model for state-sponsored terrorism is the U.S.
role in arming, training, and supporting the Mujihadeen "freedom fighters" of Afghanistan in the 1980s. From this guerrilla
movement, initially intended to oust the Soviet Union from Afghanistan, arose terrorist groups in nations such as Indonesia, the
Philippians, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Chechnya, and the former Yugoslavia. Later, some of the Afghan-trained "freedom
fighters" were involved in terrorist acts against the United States, the very government that had given them support in the early days of
their organization. The initial bombing of the World Trade Center in 1992, the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania, the attack on the USS Cole, and the attacks of 11 September all have been linked to individuals and groups that at one
time were armed and trained by the United States and/or its allies. And while the United States has given strong logistical support
to terrorist movements, it also provided terrorists with the moral justification for their acts. For example, neither Iraq nor Libya ever
attacked the United States, yet the U.S. government believes it was justified in attacking those two countries. So too with the missile attacks
on Sudan and Afghanistan in 1998. While neither Afghanistan nor Sudan attacked the United States, President Clinton argued that the
United States had the right to launch missile attacks against them. As former Pakistani interior minister Naseer Ullah Babar described
the missile attacks, "[t]his is American gangsterism." U.S. support of the Mujahideen actually began even prior to the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan. While it is widely believed, and officially reported, that U.S. support for the Mujahideen was a response to the Soviet invasion
in 1979, former Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted otherwise in an interview with the French newspaper Le Nouvel
Observateur in 1998. In the interview he declared that: ―According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began
this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention Brzezinski defended his actions to the reporter, and declared at one point
regret it?" The actions of the Carter administration and Secretary Brzezinski can only be seen as an act of ruthless cynicism, because the
Carter administration gave support to a violent movement led by Moslem fundamentalists, a group that has little in common with the ideals
of the U.S. government and its people. By contrast, the Soviets gave support to the Afghan communist and noncommunist Left, that is,
groups that shared the Soviet perspective on domestic and international issues. But the alliance of the Mujahideen and the United States
was not rooted in any common values or perspectives, only the overriding desire to destroy the Soviet Union. Certainly Moslem
fundamentalists could see the cracks in this unnatural alliance. As Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, the Egyptian cleric who was convicted in
the conspiracy to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993, put it in an interview in 1997, Do you think we were naive enough to believe
that the United States government was helping the Afghans because it believed in their cause-to raise the flag of jihad for Islam?
That they were helping a people, a country, to free themselves? Absolutely not. The Americans were there to punish the Soviet
Union. In his article on U.S. support of the Mujihadeen, Phil Gaspar writes: Between 1982 and 1992, some 35,000 Muslim radicals from
the 1980s the Reagan administration believed that supporting Moslem fundamentalists was the best way to fight communism and socialism
in predominately Moslem countries. It was reasoned that while secular movements of national liberation, such as the Palestinian Liberation
Organization, embraced socialism, Moslem fundamentalists were vehemently anticommunist and antisocialist. In addition, support for
Moslem fundamentalist groups was looked upon with favor by Saudi Arabia, the key U.S. ally in the Gulf region. And the Saudi
regime, like the United States, disliked the strong socialist content of most modern Arab movements. What better way to undermine
both the Soviet Union and Arab and Moslem socialism than to give support to Moslem religious fanatics? Such was the cynical reasoning
of the U.S. government in the 1980s. To that end the United States encouraged Moslem fundamentalists from around the world to join the
Mujahideen in their fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan. The very reason that Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman was allowed into the
United States, despite his known ties to Moslem extremist groups in Egypt and Afghanistan, was to help recruit American Moslems
to fight the jihad in Afghanistan. Later convicted for his role in the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, Rahman was
permitted to live in the United States to recruit soldiers to fight the jihad. Rahman did his job, but when the Soviets withdrew from
Afghanistan, he set his sights on other targets. Now in the United States, a veteran of the jihad in Afghanistan, Rahman and his followers
focused their efforts on the other "Great Satan," the United States. And even after the ouster of the Soviet Union from Afghanistan, the
United States continued to play a role in fostering Moslem fundamentalism. Although the United States has been attacked for
abandoning Afghanistan after the departure of the Soviet Union, the United States and its Pakistani and Saudi allies continued to
exert influence in the region. Indeed, initial support for the Taliban was from the Pakistani government, which in turn was given
approval from the United States. It was only when the Taliban had taken control of Kabul and when Osama bin Laden had taken refuge
in Afghanistan that the United States began to withdraw its support for this fundamentalist regime. With the withdrawal of the Soviets from
Afghanistan, many jihad soldiers returned to their home countries to pick up the fight they left in Afghanistan. In Algeria, for instance,
the Islamic Salvation Front has engaged in a bloody civil war with the government, and many of its key members are veterans of
the Afghan war. This is also the case in the former Yugoslavia and in Chechnya, where key fighters gained their training and
experience during the U.S.-backed jihad in Afghanistan. Of course the best known byproduct of the Afghan jihad is Osama bin
Laden. Although the U.S. government claims that there is no direct link between bin Laden and the United States, there is no doubt
that the United States provided a favorable environment for bin Laden to build his reputation and following. It is difficult to
much more likely that the United States knew full-well of bin Laden's operation and gave it all the support they could. It was well-
known in the Moslem and Arab world that the United States preferred the type of work that bin Laden engaged in; rather than getting
money directly from the United States or some other government, bin Laden had enough cash to run his own operation. This fit well with
the U.S. government's own belief that wealthy individuals, not the state, should step forward and, in an act of charity and volunteerism,
provide the necessary funds and support for a worthy cause. Bin Laden's actions in Afghanistan fit well within the U.S. government's
concept of a "worthy cause," and so he was allowed to work to train and to recruit his following. Once the Mujihadeen's war with the
Soviet Union was through, its members turned their attention to other enemies. This was especially true in Chechnya, where former
Mujihadeen fighters joined forces with Chechen rebels battling the Russian army for control of the region. Beginning in 1993,
former Mujihadeen fighters were known to be operating in Chechnya, while the Pakistani secret police, the ISI, was training
fighters in camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan to fight in the Caucasus region. In June 1995, the Chechen leader Shamil Basayev led a
raid on the Russian town of Budennovsk, and his force included fighters from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, all of whom had fought in
Afghanistan against the Soviets. And from the civil war in Afghanistan came one of the most feared and ruthless of the Chechen
fighters, the "Arab" Kattab. Born in the border region between Saudi Arabia and Jordan, Kattab fought with the Mujihadeen in
Afghanistan as an Afghan Arab, and he later went to Chechnya to continue his religious war against the Russians. As recently as
January 2002, Kattab was identified in a videotape with Osama bin Laden, thereby underscoring the link between bin Laden and the
Chechen fighters. Although of Arab origin, Kattab spoke fluent Russian on the videotape, underscoring his long contact with Russian
speaking Chechens. Although Kattab has since been proclaimed dead by Russian authorities, he is only one example of dozens, perhaps
hundreds, of non-Chechens fighting in Chechnya with the skills they acquired from the United States or U.S.-backed groups in their fight
against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Since the CIA conducted its operations in Afghanistan through the Pakistani government and
secret police, it is difficult to document who received training and support directly from the United States, and who was trained by
U.S.-backed interests but presumably without the direct knowledge of the United States. The U.S. government has denied any
contact or support for Osama bin Laden, for example, and since no direct evidence has surfaced linking bin Laden directly with
the CIA, the U.S. government has maintained this (highly unlikely) position. But what cannot be refuted is the use of U.S.-produced
Stinger missiles in Chechnya, missiles from the conflict in Afghanistan. Not only were Stingers from the Afghan war used in Chechnya,
but the United States has unwisely given Stinger missiles to nations such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, two nations where there is strong
support for the Chechen fighters. Thus, in both training and the supply of arms, the United States and its backers have played a
strong role in the conflicts in both Afghanistan and Chechnya and thus in undermining the democratic process in Russia. In the
1980s, while then-Soviet premier Gorbachev was attempting to reform Soviet politics and society, a futile conflict in Afghanistan made his
efforts all the more difficult. And while Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union has made cautious steps toward greater freedom and
democracy, this too has been undermined by the ongoing war in Chechnya. Although there is no hard evidence that the United States is
directly supporting Chechen "terrorists," there is no doubt that the United States and/or its allies did train fighters who are now in
Chechnya fighting the Russian army. And there is considerable evidence that nations such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, two close
U.S. allies, have given aid and support to Chechen fighters.

Conclusion: In sum, U.S. policies since 1979 have served to strengthen the very "terrorism" it claims to oppose. In supporting the
Mujihadeen in Afghanistan, the United States helped push the Soviet Union into the "Afghan trap," as Zbignew Brzezinski put it,
and therefore helped to undermine the possibility of a democratic opening in the Soviet Union. With the collapse of the Soviet Union,
those same terrorists have relocated to Chechnya, where the war continues to weaken the hoped-for democracy in the newly formed
Russian Federation. It is only by halting support for these terrorists groups that the United States can help create an environment in
Russia that would encourage rather than discourage the growth of democracy. While the United States might technically claim it is
not responsible for supporting and training terrorists in Chechnya, it certainly helped to contribute to the current conflict by its role in the
Afghan war of 1979-92. Additionally, the United States continues to support Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, two nations that have been
known to give aid and support to Chechen rebels. As long as this conflict continues, there will be no hope for greater democracy in
Russia (Powelson,, 2003).

Date: January 19, 2006
Source: CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Title/Headline: Who Is Osama Bin Laden?

elusive Osama bin Laden. The United States said the operation, based at their headquarters in Kandahar, would unfold in secret across
brought to justice – and they will be." The U.S. also sent the elite special forces outfit, Task Force 121, a joint unit of commandos and
that success, the task force was sent to Afghanistan. There is one big difference between Saddam, and bin Laden and many of his al-
driven out in the 1980s. Bin Laden was still at large in January 2006. Many experts believe that bin Laden remains in hiding somewhere
Newsweek magazine. A new generation: The Washington Post has reported that there is a new generation of al-Qaeda, led by
Osama's eldest son, Saad bin Laden, 24, who is said to be in Iran along with Saif el-Adel, al-Qaeda's chief of military operations,
and Abullah Ahmed Abdullah, al-Qaeda's chief financial officer. The three and their followers are, according to the Post, surrounded
by an elite Iranian security force, loyal to hard-line Iranian Islamists, who act both as guards and jailers, both preventing attack or arrest and
restricting their movements. However, communication between father and son is apparently still possible, using written messages
carried by courier and sometimes even satellite phones, which according to some sources, are hard for U.S. signals intelligence to
pinpoint in the rugged mountains. According to the Washington Post, intelligence sources believe that the orders and organization for
two suicide bombings, in Saudi Arabia and Morocco in May 2003, came through Saad bin Laden, rather than directly from his father.
Despite American efforts, or perhaps because of them, Osama bin Laden is a hero to many people in the Middle East and South Asia.
Bazaars and marketplaces are full with bin Laden merchandise including posters, video and audio tapes, and T-shirts. Osama bin
Laden has been called America's most wanted terrorist suspect at least since the bombing in 1998 of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania. The U.S. State Department said bin Laden is "one of the most significant financial sponsors of Islamic extremist activities
in the world." His code name, "The Contractor," is maybe the best indicator of bin Laden's link to terrorism. Officials in many
countries including the United States say that bin Laden's money has paid for attacks in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. His personal
wealth is estimated at $250 million US. Osama bin Laden is believed to be the youngest of 24 brothers in a family that came from
Yemen and built up one of the largest construction companies in the Arab world, Bin Laden Group, an empire based in the Saudi
city of Jidda that made its fortune in building projects for the Saudi royal family. As a teenager and a young man, Osama bin Laden
was reported to be a typical Saudi of his generation, a bit of a playboy who used his family fortune to have fun outside of Saudi Arabia in
Europe and the Gulf states. The invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union in 1979 changed bin Laden's life. Like many young Islamists,
he went to Afghanistan to help fight the invaders, to take part in the jihad against the infidel Soviets. Bin Laden apparently received
Afghanistan. He gave the family money and his own expertise gleaned from the family business to MAK, Maktab al-Khidimat, which
recruited young Muslim men from around the world. He also used his fortune to help buy equipment for the Afghan resistance. In 1984, he
helped Abdullah Azzam, founder of the Pakistani "Office of Services," establish training camps across the border in Afghanistan.
The Office of Services' goal was to recruit and train Muslim volunteers. Bin Laden provided financial support and handling of military
affairs. Two years later, in 1986, Bin Laden established his own training camp for Persian Gulf Arabs called al Masadah, or the Lion's Den.
In 1988, as the Soviet occupation faltered in Afghanistan, bin Laden turned to a global crusade. He founded the group called al-Qaeda,
Arabic for The Base. According to one report from the CIA in 2001, al-Qaeda had at least 5,000 trained militants, who created cells
in 50 countries. The purpose of these camps was to take militants from around the world and shape them into an international network that
would bring all Muslims under a militant version of Islamic law. In 1989, the collapsing Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan and bin
Laden returned to Saudi Arabia to join his family's construction company. He kept up his contacts with al-Qaeda. In 1991, bin Laden
moved the headquarters of al-Qaeda to Sudan, where a militant Islamic government had come to power. In 1993, a bomb exploded in an
underground parking garage at the World Trade Center in New York, killing six people and injuring another 1,000. The attack
was linked to al-Qaeda. In 1994, Saudi Arabia stripped bin Laden of citizenship for alleged terrorist links and his family disavowed him,
at least publicly. In 1996, bin Laden was forced to leave Sudan for Afghanistan following intense pressure from the U.S. on the
government. While in Sudan, bin Laden met a man who was probably a key ally, Imad Mugniyah, a Lebanese said to be a leader of
Hezbollah, wanted by the United States for kidnappings and killings during the civil war in Lebanon in the 1980s. By September of that
year, the militant Taliban, capitalizing on the divisions in Afghanistan, which was torn by civil war between the mujahedeen factions, took
over the country and imposed strict Islamic rule. Bin Laden's son Saad was with Osama when he returned to Afghanistan. By 1998, bin
Laden had teamed up with an Egyptian militant, Ayman Zawahiri, to form "The International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and
Crusaders," which acted as an umbrella group for international militant groups. It issued a religious order saying it was a religious duty
of Muslims to kill Americans anywhere possible. The group in effect declared war against the West, but the declaration was
ignored by most of the media and discounted by many in the intelligence community. In October 1998, the U.S. Justice Dept. indicted
bin Laden for his alleged role in ordering the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In 1999, bin Laden moved to the
village of Farmifadda, Afghanistan, and later settled in a compound near Jalalabad. In October 2000, suicide bombers attacked the
U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbour in Yemen. Bin Laden was suspected of ordering the attack. On September 11, 2001, members of al-
Qaeda hijacked American passenger planes and attacked New York and Washington. Soon after the attack, bin Laden and his
associates fled Jalalabad for the mountains. On Oct. 7, the United States and its allies began the attack on Afghanistan and the Taliban
regime quickly collapsed. In December 2001, U.S. intelligence pinpointed bin Laden in a cave complex at Tora Bora. U.S. special and
regular forces and Afghan allies attacked the caves, but bin Laden successfully slipped through their fingers and disappeared into the
mountains. In an interview with ABC correspondent John Miller on May 28, Bin Laden made the following comment on the fatwa issued
calling Muslims to kill Americans regardless of whether they are civilians or military: "Allah ordered us in this religion to purify
Muslim land of all non-believers. After World War II, the Americans became more aggressive and oppressive, especially in the
Muslim world. American history does not distinguish between civilians and military, and not even women and children. They are
a religion that will prevent it from destroying all people" (CBC News, 2006).

Date: August 6, 2007
Source: Der Spiegel, Siegesmund Von Ilsemann
Title/Headline: The Checkered History of American Weapons Deals

Abstract: The United States has upset its European allies with plans for a massive arms deal with several governments in the
Middle East. Washington has been down this road before. Karsten Voigt, the German government‘s Coordinator for German-American
Cooperation, was completely gobsmacked last week. How Washington could encourage democratic change in the Middle East by
selling Saudi Arabia billions of dollars in weapons, he said, was ―a huge question mark.‖ The Islamic kingdom might be a US ally in
name, but it wasn‘t ―particularly democratic,‖ said Voigt, and its oppressive family regime continued to be a fertile breeding ground for
Islamic terrorists. At a summit meeting at the end of July, top US officials announced a deal to send major new weapons systems to
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel and other governments in the Middle East to counterbalance Iran's growing influence there. Voigt
wondered whether it was a wise move. "The region is not suffering from a lack of arms, but from a lack of stability," he said. "I have strong
doubts whether stability could be achieved with these weapons." But such arms deals have a long tradition in Washington. ―The enemy of
my enemy is my friend‖ was a maxim of several US governments during the Cold War. Washington‘s foreign policy often sanctioned
selling weapons to questionable regimes promising to help contain the communist threat regardless of the potential consequences. The
deals frequently ended as debacles: US soldiers have all too often stared down the barrels of guns their own government sold to the armies
of countries that used to be their supposed allies. The convoluted US-Iranian relationship is a textbook example of such policies. After the
Shah of Iran consolidated his power with CIA help in 1953 in what is known as Operation Ajax, the country became America‘s
most important ally in the Middle East after Israel. In return for access to Iran‘s bountiful oil fields, Washington sold the Shah an
arsenal of modern weapons. With state-of-the-art fighter jets, new rockets and powerful tanks, Iran became a leading military
power in the Persian Gulf. Some 40,000 US military advisors taught Iranians how to use the weapons. After the Islamic
fundamentalist regime led by Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the Shah in 1979 and sparked a crisis by taking 52 Americans hostage, it became
painfully clear to Washington that its weapons were now in the wrong hands. And so the US government quickly turned to the biggest
enemy of the religious fundamentalists -- Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. For eight years -- until 1988 -- Hussein waged a brutal
war with his eastern neighbors, supported with weapons and know-how from American sources. Even Donald Rumsfeld, who
would go on to plan the current war in Iraq as defense secretary under US President George W. Bush, visited Hussein in 1983. As a
sweetener, the Americans offered Baghdad classified aerial photographs that allowed Hussein‘s generals to inflict great damage on
Iranian forces -- sometimes using chemical weapons. Only a few years later, of course, US soldiers would wage a war with the very Iraqi
military that Washington had so meticulously helped build. The United States also supplied Afghan freedom fighters in the 1980s with
money and arms for their struggle against occupying Soviet troops. One of the best customers for the CIA back then was Saudi
millionaire Osama Bin Laden. Two decades later, US commandos are hunting for the world‘s most notorious terrorist and his
Taliban helpers. Military and civilian aircraft flying over Afghanistan are still forced to make evasive maneuvers to avoid Stinger missiles
fired at them which were originally supplied by the United States to fight the Communists. Washington protected and supported
Panamanian dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega for years. Despite all the cash and weapons from America, he also was deeply involved
in the drug trade. That led the father of the current US president, George Bush senior, to depose the strongman by sending troops
to the Central American country in Operation Just Cause. Noriega was sent to jail in Miami. The Americans also had little luck with
their strategy in the Philippines. As Ferdinand Marcos came to power in Manila in 1965, it appeared as if both sides would benefit. The
new president sent Filipino troops to bolster Washington‘s flagging war effort in Vietnam. In return, the United States supported the
regime in Manila both politically and militarily -- even though it was clear that Marcos‘ henchmen were using US weaponry to
oppress the country‘s opposition. The instability that continues to plague the Philippines today is part of that legacy. US Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice defended the latest string of weapons deals during her recent diplomatic tour of the Middle East. "We are
determined to maintain the balances -- the military and strategic balances -- within the region," she said. But American weapons
have a way of outlasting the shifting goals of American foreign policy (Von Ilsemann, 2007).

Date: December 16, 2009
Source: Telegraph, Dean Nelson
Title/Headline: Mumbai Suspect Is US Double Agent, India Claims

reconnaissance missions in the run-up to the Mumbai attacks, in which 166 people were killed. He is also believed to have been
present in the terrorists' "control room" in Pakistan where their handlers directed the killing spree over an open telephone line.
According to Indian officials, Headley travelled to India again in March this year, with the knowledge of American agencies who did not
inform their Indian counterparts. During the trip, Headley is alleged to have collected intelligence for future terrorist attacks on
civilian and military targets, including India's National Defence College. Indian officials are desperate to question Headley but
have been frustrated by American refusals to grant them access. A team of Indian investigators travelled to Washington shortly after
Headley was arrested in October but soon returned after their American counterparts told them they would not be able to meet him. They
want to question him about the Mumbai attacks involved Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency in any way and the role of Indian
extremists in providing logistical support. American officials say that under US law they cannot force any person in their custody
to give evidence to foreign agencies. But Indian intelligence officers have questioned why Washington is not doing more to help their own
inquiry and suggested Headley's connections with American intelligence agencies is behind the reluctance. Headley, who was born Daood
Syed Gilani and schooled in Pakistan before moving to Philadelphia with his American mother in 1977, was convicted of smuggling heroin
into the United States in 1998. He served only 15 months in jail after agreeing to become an informant for the Drugs Enforcement
Administration (DEA). He changed his name to David Headley in 2006. According to Indian officials he continued to serve as a DEA
informant until shortly before his arrest in October. Indian intelligence sources believe Headley may have been recruited to work for
the CIA which, along with the FBI, shared intelligence with the DEA and other government agencies after the creation of the
National Counter-Terrorism Centre in 2004. B. Raman, a former senior official in India's intelligence agency, said: "He was working for
Lashkar e Taiba, taking photographs and video recordings of the [Mumbai] hotels and harbour. And he was an agent for the DEA on drugs,
so in that sense he was a double agent. "Indian officials are very keen to question him about his network, but we can't because we
might find out about any connections with the CIA or ISI. They don't want that to happen. The Americans say 'you ask us what you
want us to find out and we'll share the information'," he added (Nelson, 2009).

Date: December 17, 2009
Source: The Sunday Times, Rhys Blakely
Title/Headline: Mumbai Terror Suspect David Headley Was „Rogue US Secret Agent‟

Abstract: A key terror suspect who allegedly helped to plan last year‘s attacks in Mumbai and plotted to strike Europe was an
possibly working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — but switched his allegiance to LeT. ―India is looking into whether
Headley worked as a double agent,‖ an Indian Home Ministry official said yesterday. Mr Headley, who changed his name from Daood
Gilani, was in Mumbai until two weeks before the attacks on the city, which claimed 166 lives last November. It is alleged that he spent
months checking targets in India‘s commercial capital, using his Western looks and anglicised name to move in elite social circles,
hobnob with Bollywood actors and even to pass himself off as Jewish. Despite being firmly on the radar of the US intelligence agencies,
he was allowed to return to India as recently as March. Indian officials are furious that their American counterparts did not share
details of that visit at the time. The Indian media has raised the possibility that Mr Headley was being protected by his American
handlers — a theory that experts say is credible. ―The feeling in India is that the US has not been transparent,‖ said B. Raman, a
former counter-terrorism chief in the Indian foreign intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing. ―That Headley was an agent
for the DEA is known. Whether he was being used by the CIA as well is a matter of speculation, but it is almost certain that the
CIA was aware of him and his movements across the subcontinent.‖ According to Mr Raman, it is probable that Mr Headley, who was
arrested when the US authorities learned that he was about to fly to Pakistan, was listed on the main database of the US National
Counterterrorism Centre, a facility used by the CIA and several other American agencies to track terror suspects. Indian officials suspect
that US agencies declined to share intelligence to avoid compromising other secret operations and to be able to deny any link with Mr
Headley. Analysts believe that the US may also have been anxious to avoid sharing information that could further raise tensions between
India and Pakistan, nuclear-armed neighbours who have fought three wars. According to documents put before a court in Chicago, Mr
Headley had links with the Pakistan Army and, through it, with al-Qaeda. As well as helping to co-ordinate the Mumbai atrocity,
Mr Headley is accused of planning attacks on Mumbai‘s Bollywood film industry, the Shiv Sena, a Hindu extremist group also
based in Mumbai, a major Hindu temple, and a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
The US authorities allege that he was close to Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a former Pakistani schoolmate and businessman who is also being
charged with planning to attack the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten. Mr Rana is accused of having known about the attack on Mumbai
in advance. The CIA denied that Headley had worked for the organisation. ―Any suggestion that Headley was working for the CIA is
complete and utter nonsense. It‘s flat-out false,‖ Paul Gimigliano, from the CIA‘s Office of Public Affairs, said. The Indian Home
Secretary, Gopal Krishna Pillai, has said that his Government would seek the extradition of Mr Headley — a request that has so far been
stonewalled by US officials (Blakely, 2009).

Date: January 23, 2010
Source: Press TV
Title/Headline: Pakistan Govt. Urged To Explain Blackwater Presence

Abstract: Pakistani lawmakers say the government must to come clean about the presence of the notorious American security firm
Blackwater (now known as Xe Services LLC) in the country. The lawmakers, both pro-government and opposition parties, during a
heated debate on Friday, urged Islamabad to break its silence and own up as there are strong evidences of the presence of Xe Services LLC
in Pakistan. The call came after US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates admitted that Xe Services and DynCorp have been operating
in Pakistan. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Sharif Senator Zafar Ali Shah, citing Gates' confirmation on Thursday, demanded Interior
Minister Rehman Malik to step down over the issue. Malik had earlier stated that he would tender his resignation if anyone proved
Blackwater's presence in the country (Press TV, 2010).

Date: January 30, 2010
Source: Press TV
Title/Headline: US Refuses To Share Info On Mumbai Suspect

Abstract: Despite the horrific attacks, the US has refused to share details about the past records of a key terror suspect of the 2008 Mumbai
attack, Indian intelligence sources say. The Indian team tasked with probing the Mumbai bombing is desperately looking for information
regarding the role David Headley played in the deadly attack, but Washington has denied them access to the details. Indian intelligence
sources claim that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has continued to withhold information on the suspect. Despite the fact
that the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence have denied any links with Headley, the report said, he was hired by the US
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Headley came to the attention of the US security services in 1997 when he was arrested in New York
for heroin smuggling. He earned a reduced sentence of 15 months in jail in exchange for working as an agent for the DEA. Headley
reportedly worked for the DEA since then until an American court convicted him in December 2009 of having played a role in the
Mumbai attack. The report said that the CIA was in possession of Headley's records as he was earlier sent by the DEA to Pakistan on a
secret mission. Indian officials suspect that the US agencies declined to share intelligence in order to be able to deny any link with
Headley (Press TV, 2010).

Date: February 24, 2010
Source: New York Times, Mark Mazzetti, Jane Perlez
Title/Headline: C.I.A. And Pakistan Work Together, Warily

have kept a watchful eye on a senior Taliban leader captured last month. With the other eye, they watch each other. The C.I.A. and its
secret war beyond the mountainous tribal belt and deep into Pakistan‘s sprawling cities. Beyond the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani
from bases in the cities of Quetta, Peshawar and elsewhere, according to Pakistani security officials. The raids often come after
sunscreen and neon glow sticks that allow them to identify their positions at night. Successful missions sometimes end with American
and Pakistani spies toasting one another with Johnnie Walker Blue Label whisky, a gift from the C.I.A. The C.I.A.‘s drone campaign
ties to violent militant groups in the region. A C.I.A. spokesman declined to comment for this article. Officials in Washington and
2008, when the C.I.A.‘s deputy director traveled to Pakistan to confront ISI officials with communications intercepts indicating
that the ISI was complicit in the bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The spy agencies have built trust in part
through age-old tactics of espionage: killing or capturing each other‘s enemies. A turning point came last August, when a C.I.A. missile
The drone attack on Mr. Mehsud is part of a joint war against militants in Pakistan‘s tribal areas, where C.I.A. drones pound militants from
the air as Pakistani troops fight them on the ground. And yet for two spy agencies with a long history of mistrust, the accommodation
remain far apart. Even as the ISI breaks up a number of Taliban cells, officials in Islamabad, Washington and Kabul hint that the
represent Pakistani interests in a future Afghan government. This contrasts sharply with the American goal of battering the Taliban and
strengthening Kabul‘s central government and security forces, even if American officials also recognize that political reconciliation with
elements of the Taliban is likely to be part of any ultimate settlement. Tensions in the relationship surfaced in the days immediately after
to transfer Mullah Baradar to Afghan custody, which could allow the Americans unrestrained access to him. Besides Mullah Baradar,
several Taliban shadow governors and other senior leaders have been arrested inside Pakistan in recent weeks. A top American military
settlement between the Taliban and the Afghan government. ―I don‘t know if they‘re pushing anyone to the table, but they are certainly
preparing the meal,‖ the officer said. In the three decades since the C.I.A. and the ISI teamed up to funnel weapons to Afghan militias
Islamabad rely on the Pakistani spy service for its network of informants. But they are wary of the ISI‘s longstanding ties to militants like
the Taliban, which Pakistani spies have seen as a necessary ally to blunt archrival India‘s influence in Afghanistan. The ISI gets millions
counterterrorism division), yet is suspicious that the Americans and the Indians might be playing their own ―double game‖ against
Pakistan. In Islamabad, officials are nervous about the intensification of the C.I.A.‘s drone campaign in North Waziristan against the
interests. C.I.A. officials believe that Mr. Haqqani‘s group played a role in the killing of seven Americans in Khost, Afghanistan, in late
December, and since then have carried out more than a dozen drone strikes in the Haqqani network‘s enclave in North Waziristan. The ISI,
suspected by Western embassies in Islamabad of planting anti-American stories in Pakistani newspapers. It has also been criticized
were persistent reports that security forces, including intelligence services, tortured and abused persons.‖ The head of the Pakistani
conflict Afghanistan, making it more important for Pakistan to continue to influence the Taliban in the years to come. As a result there
Washington and Kabul admit that they are almost completely in the dark about Pakistan‘s long-term strategy regarding the Taliban. ―We
have a better level of cooperation,‖ said one top American official who met recently in Islamabad with General Kayani. ―How far
that goes, I can‘t tell yet. We‘ll know soon whether this is cooperation, or a stonewall and kind of rope a dope‖ (Mazzetti & Perlez,

Date: February 25, 2010
Source: Webster Griffin Tarpley
Title/Headline: The Battle For Baluchistan: Iran Nabs Top NATO Terrorist With Help From Pakistan

Abstract: Iran announced the capture of Abdulmalek Rigi, the boss of the terror organization Jundullah, which works for NATO.
The capture of Rigi represents a serious setback for the US-UK strategy of using false flag state-sponsored terrorism against Iran
and Pakistan, and ultimately to sabotage China‘s geopolitics of oil. The Iranians claim to have captured Rigi all by themselves, but the
Pakistani ambassador to Teheran is quoted in The Dawn as claiming an important role for Pakistan. The Iranians say that Rigi was
attempting to fly from Dubai to Kyrgystan, and that his plane was forced to land in Iran by Iranian interceptors. This exploit recalls Oliver
North‘s 1985 intercept of the accused Achille Lauro perpetrators, including Abu Abbas, forcing their Egyptian plane to land at Sigonella,
Sicily. But other and perhaps more realistic versions suggest that Iran was tipped off by the Pakistanis, or even that Rigi was
captured by Pakistan and delivered to the Iranians. Jundullah, otherwise known as the Rigi organization, is a clan-based Mafia
organization that has long infested the Iran-Pakistan border. The Rigis are traditionally smugglers and drug pushers of royalist
persuasion, and now they have branched out into terrorism. Jundullah is mounting a Sunni rebellion against the Shiite Iranian regime in
Iranian Baluchistan. They have blown up a Shiite mosque, killing 25, and managed to kill 50 in a bombing in Pishin last October, where
their victims included some top commanders of Iran‘s Revolutionary Guard, against which Mrs. Clinton has now declared war. There is no
doubt that Jundullah is on the US payroll. This fact has been confirmed by Brian Ross of ABC News, the London Daily Telegraph,
and by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker. Hersh noted that Jundullah has received some of the $400 million appropriated by the
US Congress in the most recent Bush-era regime change legislation targeting Iran. Jundullah is a key part of the US-UK strategy of
fomenting ethnic and religious civil war in both Iran and Pakistan. Jundullah is a twofer in this context, since it can help destabilize
both sides of the Iran-Pakistan border. Baluchistan has special importance because any oil pipeline linking Iran with China must go
straight across Baluchistan. Jundullah‘s false flag jihad is a means to make sure that strategic pipeline, which would help solve
China‘s energy problem, is never built. There is also no doubt that Jundullah functions as an arm of NATO, a kind of irregular
warfare asset similar in some ways to the KLA of Kosovo. Rigi is reported by the Iranians to have met with Jop de Hoop Scheffer when
he was NATO Secretary General. Rigi has also met with various NATO generals operating in Afghanistan. Who knows — he may have
met with McChrystal himself, a covert ops veteran from Iraq. This capture comes at a moment when Baluchistan is the object of intense
US-UK exertions. The current US-NATO offensive in southern Afghanistan targets Marjah and the rest of Helmand province, which
directly faces Baluchistan. Many observers were puzzled when the US and NATO publicized the Marjah offensive in advance. Militarist
talking heads like General Barry McCaffrey responded that the main goal of the Marjah offensive was not to destroy the Taliban, but to
drive them out of the province. It was thus clear from the beginning that the real goal was to drive the Helmand Taliban fighters into
Pakistani Baluchistan. Why? A statement from the Afghan Taliban covered on the RIA Novosti web site suggests that the real goal of
the US-NATO offensive in Marjah-Helmand is to attack Chinese economic interests in Pakistani Baluchistan, and especially the
port of Gwadar, one of China‘s largest overseas projects. If the US can push the Taliban into Pakistani Baluchistan and into the
area around Gwadar, they will have a pretext for militarization – perhaps through Blackwater mercenaries, who are already
operating massively in Pakistan, or perhaps through direct US military involvement in the zone. US jackboots on the ground in
Baluchistan would interfere mightily with Chinese economic development plans. They would also allow the US to commandeer
Gwadar as the home port of a new NATO supply line into southern Afghanistan, allowing the avoidance of the Khyber Pass bottleneck.
The US could also use Baluchistan as a springboard for bigger and better terror ops into Iran, electronic surveillance of Iranian
activities, and so forth. The US and NATO had evidently planned a double envelopment of Baluchistan, with Taliban fighters from
Helmand arriving from the north, while the Jundullah escalated their own activity on the ground. Now that Rigi has joined his
brother in Iranian jails, Jundullah has been decapitated, and the NATO strategy has consequently been undermined. Iran has bagged a
dangerous terrorist foe. Another winner is Pakistan, where The Dawn celebrated the capture of Rigi as ―a godsend‖ and ―a lucky break‖ for
Pakistan. By helping Rigi to fall into Iranian hands, Pakistan may have finally found an effective way to counter the US-UK strategy,
which notoriously aims at the breakup and partition of Pakistan. The coming Iranian trial of Rigi may go far towards exposing the
real mechanism of terrorism in today‘s world, with the CIA sitting in the dock next to Rigi (Tarpley, 2010).

Date: April 20, 2010
Source: Daily Express
Title/Headline: U.S. Blamed For Pakistan Violence

Abstract: An Islamist politician whose party lost several members in a suicide attack has blamed Pakistan's alliance with the US
for the violence and urged Islamabad to break ranks in the war on terror. The comments showed the depth of anti-Americanism in
Pakistan, whose support Washington considers key to stabilising neighbouring Afghanistan. In the past three days, attacks in Pakistan have
killed some 74 people in a new wave of violence. A remote controlled bomb on Tuesday hit an army convoy as it travelled in the Hangu
district close to the Afghan border, killing three soldiers and a civilian, said police official Farid Khan. The Jamaat-e-Islami party was hit
on Monday when a suicide bomber apparently targeted police watching over a rally of the pro-Taliban group. Many of the 24 dead and 45
wounded were party loyalists, while two were officers, police official Khan Abbas said. Although authorities blamed the Taliban in the
immediate aftermath of the attack in Peshawar, the Islamist party's leaders have declined to do so, instead alleging the CIA or
Indian intelligence were behind it. "It is because we have brought America's war to our own country," Sirajul Haq, a provincial
party leader, said in Peshawar after attending funerals for some of the victims. "Still, there is time to end this alliance with America" to
avoid more bloodshed. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but that is not unusual in cases where many ordinary
Pakistanis die. Earlier on Monday, a bomb exploded outside a school run by a police welfare foundation, killing a young boy and
wounding 10 people. And over the weekend, multiple bombs in the Kohat region elsewhere in the north-west killed nearly 50 people.
Taliban and al-Qaida militants based in the Afghan border region - who are fighting Pakistani police and the army - have carried
out hundreds of attacks over the last three years. They have frequently targeted security forces, government officials and their
supporters or family members in mosques, schools and markets, showing no concern for civilian casualties. Peshawar, the capital of
the north-west region, has been one of the hardest-hit cities because it lies close to the border area (Daily Express, 2010).

Date: May 3, 2010
Source: Prison Planet, Paul Joseph Watson
Title/Headline: Al-Qaeda Terror Tape Proven Fraudulent Once Again

Abstract: Investigators say no evidence of foreign involvement in Times Square car bombing, contradicting alleged Taliban tape
released by dubious Pentagon front group. Everything about SITE indicates that it is nothing more than a dummy organization being
brutal, pointless and manufactured war on terror. SITE miraculously were able to obtain the highly suspicious September 2007 Bin
Laden video tape before it was released by the so-called Al-Qaeda group who had made it. A month before the release of this tape,
SITE‘s sister organization IntelCenter was caught adding its logo to a tape at the same time as Al-Qaeda‘s so-called media arm As-
Sahab added its logo, proving the two organizations were one and the same. SITE has been positively endorsed by Blackwater USA,
the infamous military contractor co-founded by former Navy Seal Erik Prince that was found to have been involved in several massacres of
innocent Iraqi civilians. SITE‘s continued existence relies on fleecing the American taxpayer by way of contracts with the U.S.
government and constantly invoking and hyping the hugely exaggerated threat of alleged Al-Qaeda groups in the Middle East.
Having been caught once again releasing a suspicious video in which Middle Eastern terrorists claim responsibility for something
that investigators say they had no involvement in, Americans really need to start asking hard questions about why their tax dollars are
being thrown at such a dubious outfit, not to mention how investigations into acts of terror are being confused and hampered by frivolous
claims of responsibility that turn out to be baseless. The fact that the corporate media still treats such videotapes with presumed
authenticity, despite the fact that they have been proven fraudulent on almost every occasion, tells you everything you need to know about
the role of the establishment press in propping up the mirage of the war on terror. Of course, now that foreign involvement has been
dismissed, it‘s almost guaranteed that the amateurish botched bombing attempt in Times Square will now be blamed on
―homegrown extremists‖ and used to increase the purge of any and all dissent against big government, bolstering efforts to censor
and silence passionate but peaceful criticism on talk radio and the Internet, a move being heartily cheered by liberals who cried foul when
they were called traitors for criticizing the invasion of Iraq under Bush (Watson, 2010).

Date: May 6, 2010
Source: Prison Planet, Paul Joseph Watson
Title/Headline: Times Square Bomber Linked With CIA-Controlled Terror Group

Abstract: A man arrested in Pakistan in connection with the Times Square car bombing attempt who had traveled with accused
bomber Faisal Shahzad is a member of a terrorist organization that is controlled by British MI6 and the CIA. Sheik Mohammed
Rehan, who was arrested on Tuesday in Karachi, ―Allegedly drove with Shahzad from Karachi to Peshawar on July 7, 2009, in a pickup
truck, authorities said. They returned to Karachi July 22. It is not known why they went to Peshawar and whether they met with anyone
there,‖ reports the L.A. Times. Rehan is a member of the militant group Jaish-e-Muhammad, a terrorist organization that came to
prominence in the mid-1990‘s and has been involved in attacks in the disputed Kashmir border region between India and Pakistan.
The group also helped carry out the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament which brought India and Pakistan to the
brink of nuclear war, tensions that proved very lucrative for British and American arms manufacturers who sold weapons to both
sides.―The December 2001 terrorist attacks on the Indian parliament — which contributed to pushing India and Pakistan to the
brink of war — were conducted by two Pakistan-based rebel groups, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad, both of which are
covertly supported by Pakistan‘s ISI,‖ writes Michel Chossudovsky. ―Needless to say, these ISI-supported terrorist attacks serve the
geopolitical interests of the US. They not only contribute to weakening and fracturing the Indian Union, they also create conditions
which favor the outbreak of a regional war between Pakistan and India.‖ Jaish-e-Muhammad, the group now emerging in connection
Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In a report on Jaish-e-Muhammad‘s involvement in the murder of Daniel Pearl,
who was investigating the ISI, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that the Pakistani government, ―Believe that Saeed Sheikh‘s
power comes not from the ISI, but from his connections with our own CIA.‖ Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf also
alleged that Sheikh was recruited by MI6 while studying in London for the effort to destabilize Bosnia. During the 1992-1995 Bosnia
conflict, the CIA helped Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda to train and arm Bosnian Muslims. In 2002, the London Times reported that
Sheikh ―is no ordinary terrorist but a man who has connections that reach high into Pakistan‘s military and intelligence elite and
into the innermost circles of Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda organization.‖ Despite Sheikh‘s intimate involvement in
numerous acts of terror as well as political kidnappings, including the 2008 Mumbai massacre, he was protected by both the CIA
and British intelligence at every turn. To recap, this is the man who founded the group now emerging in connection with the botched
Times Square bombing – a CIA and MI6 asset. ―Experts believe Jaish-e-Muhammad still benefits from links with Pakistan‘s powerful
government intelligence community. Some experts believe Pakistan‘s Inter-Services Intelligence agency facilitated the group‘s formation,‖
states yesterday‘s L.A. Times article. As the vast majority of geopolitical analysts concur, the Pakistani ISI is virtually nothing more than a
CIA outpost. The ISI does nothing without the Agency giving its approval. The CIA has paid millions of dollars to the ISI since 9/11,
accounting for no less than a third of the ISI‘s entire budget, despite the foreign spy agency‘s notorious history of funding and
arming terrorist groups like Jaish-e-Muhammad and despite the fact that it bankrolled the 9/11 hijackers. Since the CIA has its
fingerprints all over almost every Middle Eastern terror group, it‘s unsurprising that an Agency connection to the Times Square
bomber has come to light. We‘ve never come across a terrorist who wasn‘t trained, equipped, radicalized, entrapped, or
provocateured by a western intelligence agency or a terror group controlled by a western intelligence agency (Watson, 2010).

Date: May 21, 2010
Source: MSNBC News, Haji Mujtaba
Title/Headline: Taliban Blow Up 'U.S. Spies' In Pakistan

Abstract: Taliban militants strapped explosives to two men accused of being U.S. spies and blew them up at a public execution in
northwest Pakistan, intelligence officials and residents said on Friday. The killings took place on Thursday evening in North
Waziristan, a lawless al-Qaida and Taliban sanctuary on the Afghan border where the United States has stepped up attacks with missile-
firing drone aircraft, fuelling militants' fears of spies. Five masked militants paraded the handcuffed men before dozens of people in
the Datta Kheil area and accused them of passing information to the United States on targets for its CIA-operated pilotless drone
aircraft. "They strapped explosives around their bodies and then blew them up," a Pakistani intelligence official in the region told Reuters
by telephone. Militants have killed hundreds of people they suspect are spies for the United States or the Pakistani government over
the past few years.
They usually decapitate or shoot the suspects. Residents said this was the first time the militants had blown up suspected spies
(Mujtaba, 2010).

Date: June 15, 2010
Source: Press TV
Title/Headline: Taliban Claim No ISI Relationship

Abstract: The Taliban in Afghanistan reject a London-based report which depicts the relationship between them and Pakistan's
intelligence agency as being "strong." The London School of Economics (LSE) claimed the relationship between the Afghan Taliban and
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is greater than previously estimated and that the intelligence agency "orchestrates, sustains and
strongly influences the movement." On the same issue, the Los Angeles Times reported that "Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency not
only funds and trains Taliban insurgents fighting the US-led troops in Afghanistan, but also maintains its own representation on
the insurgency's leadership council." The LSE said that its report was based on interviews it had had with nine Taliban field commanders
in Afghanistan between February and May of this year. The Taliban also alleged the report was concocted to "protect" American and
British interests (Press TV, 2010).

Date: June 20, 2010
Source: Press TV
Title/Headline: Jundallah Leader Rigi Executed In Iran

Abstract: Iran says it has executed ringleader of the Pakistan-based Jundallah terrorist group. Abdolmalek Rigi arrested while
preparing to launch a new round of attacks on the country. Rigi was hanged on Sunday morning in Tehran's Evin prison upon a ruling
issued by the country's Islamic Revolution Court, Fars news agency reported. The Jundallah ringleader was charged with 79 counts of
various crimes including armed robbery, bombing operations in public places, armed attacks on the army, police personnel, and
ordinary civilians, assassination attempts, disrupting regional stability, kidnapping and murder. Rigi's execution comes as Iranian
security forces arrested him on February 23 in eastern Iran while he was on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan. Following his arrest,
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said that Rigi was at an American base 24 hours before his capture, and that the
United States had forged an Afghan passport for him. Rigi, accompanied by his lawyer, appeared in court for the first time on May 27
in the presence of the families of the victims killed by his terrorist group. In the court session, Iranian prosecutors demanded the death
penalty for him. Following the demand, Rigi claimed responsibility for the crimes committed by his terrorist group, acknowledging
that his acts were in violation of the Islamic and human regulations. After pleading guilty to all charges against him, the Jundallah
ringleader went on to ask for forgiveness and made an appeal against the decision for his execution. Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah
Sadeq Amoli Larijani, however, rejected the appeal and ordered his execution. The terrorist leader had earlier confessed to having links
with NATO officials in Afghanistan and foreign spy agencies like the CIA and Mossad. Jundallah, which is based in Pakistan, has
carried out numerous bombings, assassination attempts, and terrorist attacks in Iran. One of the cited attacks left 40 people dead,
including several senior commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, in Iran's southeastern city of Pishin (Press TV, 2010).

Date: July 6, 2010
Source: Fox News, Associated Press
Title/Headline: CIA, Pakistan Locked In Aggressive Spy Battles

Abstract: A Pakistani man approached CIA officers in Islamabad last year, offering to give up secrets of his country's closely
guarded nuclear program. To prove he was a trustworthy source, he claimed he had spent nuclear fuel rods. But the CIA had its
doubts. Before long, the suspicious officers had concluded that Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, was trying to run a
double agent against the them. CIA officers alerted their Pakistani counterparts. Pakistan promised to look into the matter and, with
neither side acknowledging the man was a double agent, the affair came to a polite, quiet end. The incident, recounted by former U.S.
officials, underscores the schizophrenic relationship with one of America's most crucial counterterrorism allies. Publicly, officials credit
Pakistani collaboration with helping kill and capture numerous Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders. Privately, that relationship is often marked
by mistrust as the two countries wage an aggressive spy battle against each other. The CIA has repeatedly tried to penetrate the ISI and
learn more about Pakistan's nuclear program; and the ISI has mounted its own operations to gather intelligence on the CIA's
counterterrorism activities in the tribal lands and figure out what the CIA knows about the nuclear program. Bumping up against
the ISI is a way of life for the CIA in Pakistan, the agency's command center for recruiting spies in the country's lawless tribal regions.
Officers there also coordinate Predator drone airstrikes, the CIA's most successful and lethal counterterrorism program. The armed,
unmanned planes take off from a base inside Pakistani Baluchistan known as "Rhine." "Pakistan would be exceptionally uncomfortable
and even hostile to American efforts to muck about in their home turf," said Graham Fuller, an expert on Islamic fundamentalism
who spent 25 years with the CIA, including a stint as Kabul station chief. That means incidents such as the one involving nuclear fuel
rods must be resolved delicately and privately. "It's a crucial relationship," CIA spokesman George Little said. "We work closely
with our Pakistani partners in fighting the common threat of terrorism. They've been vital to the victories achieved against Al
Qaeda and its violent allies. And they've lost many people in the battle against extremism. No one should forget that." Details about
the CIA's relationship with Pakistan were recounted by nearly a dozen former and current U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials, all of
whom spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter. An ISI official denied that the agency
runs double agents to collect information about the CIA's activities. He said the two agencies have a good working relationship and
such allegations were meant to create friction between them. But the CIA became so concerned by a rash of cases involving suspected
double agents in 2009, it re-examined the spies it had on the payroll in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. The internal investigation revealed
about a dozen double agents, stretching back several years. Most of them were being run by Pakistan. Other cases were deemed suspicious.
The CIA determined the efforts were part of an official offensive counterintelligence program being run by Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the
ISI's spy chief. Pakistan's willingness to run double agents against the U.S. is particularly troubling to some in the CIA because of the
country's ties to longtime Osama bin Laden ally Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and to the Haqqani network, a Pakistan-based Taliban
faction also linked to Al Qaeda. In addition to its concerns about Pakistan's nuclear program, the CIA continues to press the
Pakistanis to step up their military efforts in North Waziristan, the tribal region where Hekmatyar and Haqqani are based. CIA
Director Leon Panetta talked with Pasha about ISI's relationship with militants last year, reiterating the same talking points his predecessor,
Gen. Michael Hayden, had delivered before him. Panetta told Pasha he had needed to take on militant groups, including those such as
Hekmatyar and Haqqani, a former U.S. intelligence official said. But the U.S. can only demand so much from an intelligence service it
can't live without. Recruiting agents to track down and kill terrorists and militants is a top priority for the CIA, and one of the clandestine
service's greatest challenges. The drones can't hit their targets without help finding them. Such efforts would be impossible without
Pakistan's blessing, and the U.S. pays about $3 billion a year in military and economic aid to keep the country stable and cooperative. "We
need the ISI and they definitely know it," said C. Christine Fair, an assistant professor at Georgetown University's Center for
Peace and Security Studies. "They are really helping us in several critical areas and directly undermining us in others." Pakistan
has its own worries about the Americans. During the first term of the Bush administration, Pakistan became enraged after it shared
intelligence with the U.S., only to learn the CIA station chief passed that information to the British. The incident caused a serious
almost threw the CIA station chief out of the country. A British security official said the incident was "a matter between Pakistan and
America." The spate of Pakistani double agents has raised alarm bells in some corners of the agency, while others merely say it's the
cost of doing business in Pakistan. They say double agents are as old as humanity and point to the old spy adage: "There are
friendly nations but no friendly intelligence services." "The use of double agents is something skilled intelligence services and the better
terrorists groups like Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, provisional Irish Republican Army and the Tamil Tigers have regularly done. It's not something
that should be a surprise," said Daniel Byman, a foreign policy expert at the Saban Center at Brookings Institution. Nowhere is the tension
greater than in the tribal areas, the lawless regions that have become the front line in what Panetta described on Sunday as "the
most aggressive operations in the history of the CIA." The area has become what's known in spy parlance as a wilderness of
mirrors, where nothing is what it appears. The CIA recruits people to spy on Al Qaeda and militant groups. So does the ISI. Often,
they recruit the same people. That means the CIA must constantly consider where a spy's allegiance lies: With the U.S.? With
Pakistan? With the enemy? Pakistan rarely -- if at all -- has used its double agents to feed the CIA bad information, the former U.S.
officials said. Rather, the agents were just gathering intelligence on American operations, seeing how the CIA responded and how
information flowed. Former CIA officials say youth and inexperience among a new generation of American officers may have contributed
to the difficulties of operating in the tribal regions, where the U.S. is spending a massive amount of money to cultivate sources. After the
2001 terrorist attacks, the CIA dispatched many young officers to Pakistan and Afghanistan to recruit Al Qaeda spies. Young
officers sometimes unwittingly recruited people who had been on Pakistan's payroll for years, all but inviting Pakistan to use their
longtime spies as double agents, former CIA officials said. The Pakistanis "are steeped in that area," Fuller said "They would be tripping
over a lot of the same people." Many former CIA officials believe a lack of experience among agency officers led to the bombing in Khost,
Afghanistan, last year that killed seven CIA employees. The CIA thought it had a source who could provide information about Al Qaeda's
No.2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was believed to be hiding in the tribal lands. But the person turned out to be a double agent wired with
explosives. Ironically, the CIA steered the source to Khost because officers were concerned ISI would spot him if they brought him to
Islamabad for questioning or possibly even arrest him because he was an undocumented Arab. But experience isn't always the problem.
One example of how the suspicious relationship constrains operations was the CIA's base in the remote town of Miram Shah in
North Waziristan. U.S. military and CIA officers worked with the ISI together there, under the protection of the Pakistani army,
which kept the base locked down. The two intelligence agencies sometimes conducted joint operations against Al Qaeda but rarely
shared information, a former CIA officer said. Haqqani spies were well aware the CIA was working there, and the base frequently took
mortar and rocket fire. Two former CIA officers familiar with the base said the Americans there mainly exercised and "twiddled their
thumbs." Just getting out of the base was so difficult, U.S. personnel gave it the nickname "Shawshank" after the prison in the movie "The
Shawshank Redemption." The CIA closed the base last year for safety reasons. None of that tension ever spilled into the public eye.
It's the nature of intelligence-gathering (Fox News, 2010).

Date: July 13, 2010
Source: Prison Planet, Paul Joseph Watson
Title/Headline: CNN Host Calls Deadly Terror Bombings “Helpful” To NWO Agenda

the fact that such attacks are ―helpful‖ for the military-industrial complex agenda to take over and occupy third world countries
under AFRICOM, the United States African Command. Speaking with a former CIA agent, Sanchez stated, ―You know what‘s
interesting about this, in a strange way the event is helpful to the cause of those of us who know how sadistic these fundamental
radical Islamic terrorists are and if it helps get the message out there that these are not the good guys then so be it‖ Sanchez is
brazenly admitting that deadly terror attacks like the bombings in Uganda only aid the military-industrial complex agenda to take over and
occupy third world countries. Given the fact that such attacks help the geopolitical agenda of the powers that control the United
States, who has the strongest motivation to carry out the attacks? We heard similar rhetoric back in 2008 when shocking excerpts of
confidential recordings released under the Freedom of Information Act featured former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talking with
attack on America. The tapes were released as part of the investigation into the Pentagon‘s ―message force multipliers‖ program in which
top military analysts were hired to propagandize for the Iraq war in the corporate media. In the audio recording, Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong
bemoans shrinking political support for Neo-Con war plans on Capitol Hill and suggests that sympathy for the military-industrial complex
agenda will only be achieved after a new terror attack. Rumsfeld agrees that the psychological impact of 9/11 is wearing off and the
―behavior pattern‖ of citizens in both the U.S. and Europe suggests that they are unconcerned about the threat of terror:
DeLong: ―Politically, what are the challenges because you‘re not going to have a lot of sympathetic ears up there until it [a terror attack]

Rumsfeld: ―That‘s what I was just going to say. This President‘s pretty much a victim of success. We haven‘t had an attack in five
        years. The perception of the threat is so low in this society that it‘s not surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low
        threat assessment. The same thing‘s in Europe, there‘s a low threat perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack.
        And when that happens, then everyone gets energized for another [inaudible] and it‘s a shame we don‘t have the maturity to
        recognize the seriousness of the threats…the lethality, the carnage, that can be imposed on our society is so real and so present
        and so serious that you‘d think we‘d be able to understand it, but as a society, the longer you get away from 9/11, the less…the

In a similar vein to CNN‘s Sanchez, Neo-Con writer Stu Bykofsky expressed his yearning for ―another 9/11″ in order to ―help
America‖ restore its sense of ―outrage and national resolve‖ in an August 2007 column for the Philadelphia Daily News. Lt.-Col. Doug
key to bolstering Western resolve is another terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit bombings of two years ago.‖ The same
sentiment was also explicitly expressed in a 2005 GOP memo, which yearned for new attacks that would ―validate‖ the President‘s war on
terror and ―restore his image as a leader of the American people.‖ In June 2007, the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party
statements take on an even greater significance when we consider the fact that the U.S. military-industrial complex and the government has
openly planned and even admitted to carrying out terrorist attacks as part of its geopolitical strategy. Operation Northwoods, a plan
signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon to to ―kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create
public support for a war‖ made headlines in May 2001 when it was revealed by investigative journalist James Bamford in his book
Body of Secrets. Operation Ajax, a CIA program of false flag terror to crush Iran‘s first democratic government in the 1950‘s, was
responsible for the deaths of around 300 people. The CIA admits to the program on their own website. Then there‘s Operation Gladio, a
populations‖ run by NATO in collusion with the CIA, a campaign which included the 1980 bombing of the Bologna train station which
killed 85 people. Given this dark history, it‘s no surprise to learn that terror attacks in the modern age are still being directed by the same
forces. That‘s not to say that there aren‘t Islamic fundamentalists who are perfectly willing to commit violence, but every major terror
attack we have investigated leads back to the same players. The most recent example of this was the November 2008 Mumbai
massacre, an attack overseen by David Headley, a Pakistan-born American national and a CIA agent who has been protected from
questioning by American authorities since the attack. The consequences of the attacks in Uganda which killed 74 people will
doubtless be used to further the integration of Africom, the African arm of the move towards global government under the United
States African Command, and the events will also be exploited to pave the way for further U.S. military incursions and occupations
of the continent in pursuit of controlling Africa‘s rich and untapped natural resources. As CNN‘s Rick Sanchez rightly points out,
this week‘s tragic terror attacks in Uganda will serve to be immeasurably ―helpful‖ in the pursuit of both of these agendas (Watson, 2010).

Date: July 18, 2010
Source: Press TV
Title/Headline: Ahmadinejad: US Behind Terror Attacks

Abstract: Iran's president says US and NATO forces offer financial and material support to terrorists, yet US President Barack
Obama, ironically enough, sends a condolence message on the recent deadly terrorist attacks in southeast Iran. Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that US troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan sponsor such acts of terror, reported IRNA. "No grouping other
than US-backed terrorist groups which are devoid of human feelings can commit such acts," added President Ahmadinejad. The
president further called on the Iranian Foreign Ministry to follow up the terror attack through the Pakistani government. "We are friends
with the Pakistani nation, … but the Pakistani government should be held accountable", he said. Mahmoud Ahmadi also instructed his
office to lodge a complaint with international circles base on the 'existing documents', and follow up on NATO and Israel's
cooperation with the terrorists. "The puppeteers pulling the strings in this show will get nothing", President Ahmadinejad said. "Such
aggressive policies will only fuel public hatred", he underscored. Two bombs were detonated in quick succession in front of the Zahedan
Grand Mosque in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan last Thursday. At least 27 people lost their lives and more than 100
others were injured in the terrorist act (Press TV, 2010).

Date: July 26, 2010
Source: The Guardian, Munir Ahmed
Title/Headline: Pakistani Spy Agency Denounces US Intel Docs

Abstract: Pakistan's most powerful spy agency on Monday lashed out against a trove of leaked U.S. intelligence reports that
alleged close connections between it and Taliban militants fighting NATO troops in Afghanistan, calling the accusations malicious
and unsubstantiated. The reports, which were released by the online whistle-blower Wikileaks, raised new questions about whether the
U.S. can succeed in convincing Pakistan to sever its historical links to the Taliban and deny them sanctuary along the Afghan border —
actions that many analysts believe are critical for success in Afghanistan. The U.S. has given Pakistan billions in military aid since 2001
to enlist its cooperation. But the leaked reports, which cover a period from January 2004 to December 2009, suggest Pakistan
allows representatives of its Inter-Services Intelligence agency to meet directly with the Taliban to organize militant networks that
fight U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders, according to The New York Times. A senior ISI
official denied the allegations, saying they were from raw intelligence reports that had not been verified and were meant to impugn the
reputation of the spy agency. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with the agency's policy. Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, spokesman for
Pakistan's army, was not reachable for comment Monday on the intelligence reports. The ISI is under the command of the army. Hamid
Gul, a former head of the spy agency who is mentioned many times throughout the more than 91,000 intelligence reports released,
also denied allegations that he was working with the Taliban. "These leaked documents against me are fiction and nothing else," said
Gul. Wikileaks released the documents, which include classified cables and assessments between military officers and diplomats, on its
documents. The Guardian also expressed skepticism about the allegations in the documents, saying "they fail to provide a convincing
smoking gun" for complicity between the ISI and the Taliban. But the U.S. has had little success convincing Pakistan to target Afghan
Taliban militants holed up in the country, especially members of the Haqqani network, an al-Qaida-linked group that the U.S.
military considers the most dangerous in Afghanistan. Pakistan helped the Taliban seize power in Afghanistan in the 1990s.
Although the government renounced the group in 2001 under U.S. pressure, many analysts believe Pakistan refuses to sever links with the
Taliban because it believes it could be a useful ally in Afghanistan after foreign forces withdraw. White House national security adviser
Gen. Jim Jones defended the partnership between the U.S. and Pakistan in a statement Sunday, saying "counterterrorism cooperation has
Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., said the documents "do not reflect the current on-ground realities." The United States,
Afghanistan and Pakistan are "jointly endeavoring to defeat al-Qaida and its Taliban allies militarily and politically," he said
(Ahmed, 2010).

Date: August 12, 2010
Source: Fox News, The Wall Street Journal
Title/Headline: Report: U.S. Military Stops Lobbying Pakistan To Help Root Out Militant Group

their Afghan strategy. Until recently, the U.S. had been pressing Islamabad to launch major operations against the Haqqani network, a
militant group connected to Al Qaeda that controls a key border region where U.S. defense and intelligence officials believe Usama bin
Laden has hidden. The group has been implicated in the Dec. 30 bombing of a CIA base in Khost, a January assault on Afghan government
includes housing, intelligence and even strategic planning, During a trip to Pakistan last month, Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the
defense officials delivered earlier this year. The U.S. also had intensified the pressure for Pakistani operations in North Waziristan in
May after the attempted bombing of New York's Times Square was linked to militants in Pakistan. Pakistan officials reject the U.S.
intelligence service has severed all ties with the Haqqani network (Fox News, 2010).

Date: August 28, 2010
Source: Press TV
Title/Headline: Bin Laden Is A CIA Agent, Castro Says

Abstract: Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has said al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is a US agent used by former US
President George W. Bush to scare the world. "Any time Bush would stir up fear and make a big speech, bin Laden would appear
threatening people with a story about what he was going to do," Castro said on Friday, AP reported. The former Cuban leader added that
Bush had bin Laden's full support. "Bush never lacked for bin Laden's support. He was a subordinate." Castro says US military
documents on the Afghan war recently released by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks have effectively proven that bin Laden is a
CIA agent. Castro officially stepped down in February 2008, and Cuba's National Assembly elected his brother Raul Castro as the new
president. Castro, who turned 84 on August 13, returned to public life on July 7 after four years of convalescence from a serious illness
(Press TV, 2010).

Date: August 29, 2010
Source: Veterans Today, Gordon Duff
Title/Headline: Crash Of Airbus 320 Outside Islamabad Now Believed Hijacked , Heading For Nuke Facility

Abstract: Informed sources in the Government of Pakistan have told Veterans Today that they are developing ―hard evidence‖
indicating the Air Blue Airbus 320 that crashed July 28th outside Islamabad was a terrorist hijacking tied to rogue American
security forces operating inside that country. Sources indicate that the plane crash was an unsuccessful hijacking attempt intended
to crash into the nuclear weapons facility at Kahuta, outside Islamabad. Such an attack may have been blamed on India and would
likely have led to retaliation which could easily have escalated to a nuclear exchange between these two nations that have spent decades at
each other‘s throats. Suspicions were raised inside Pakistan‘s military and intelligence organizations when American military
contractors employed by Blackwater/Xe showed up on the scene immediately after the crash, seizing the black box and ―other
materials.‖ There is no confirmation that parachutes or electronic equipment had been removed when Blackwater/Xe security
relinquished control of the crash scene to Pakistani investigators. Royal Television in Islamabad, owned by the brother of the head of
Pakistan‘s powerful JI (Jamate Islami), the Islamic political party, has reported that investigations are underway tying American based
contractors to the planning of the attack. Pakistan‘s ISRP (Inter-Services Public Relations) has failed to confirm this but private
sources indicate that an active investigation of these allegations is, not only underway but has established ties between an American
group and the hijackers. Military and intelligence officials inside Pakistan, in concert with the American embassy, are withholding all
official details of the investigation and are likely to continue doing so. This same facility had been the subject of an armed penetration
by American contractors, believed to be employed by the State Department, in 2009. Four Blackwater employees, armed and
possessing explosives were arrested outside the Kahuta nuclear facility in 2009. The four, driving a Jeep 4×4 and possessing
advanced surveillance and jamming equipment of Israeli manufacture, were intercepted 1.5 miles from the Kahuta nuclear facility.
The four spoke fluent Pushtu and were dressed in a manner as to resemble Taliban fighters. The order for their release, given by Minister
of the Interior Rehman Malik, is an issue of considerable controversy between the civilian government in Pakistan and the powerful
military. The passenger jet with 152 on board slammed into a hillside in what was believed to be Pakistan‘s most serious air crash.
At least 2 Americans were believed to be on board but, a month later, the US Embassy in Islamabad has left this unconfirmed.
Reports received today, however, confirm that at least 5 Americans, military contractors said to be employed by Xe, may also have
been on the craft but could not be identified as they had been traveling in local garb and had boarded with false identification. Xe
is an American based military and intelligence contracting firm formerly known as Blackwater and has been the subject of
considerable controversy for activities inside Pakistan. Sources indicate that the attackers stormed the cockpit in a hijacking attempt.
The pilot is said to have jammed the flight controls, careening the Airbus 320 and all aboard into a hillside rather than allowing the
plane to be used in a ―9/11″ type attack inside Pakistan or flown into Indian air space for a repeat of the 2008 Mumbai attack.
Pakistan has, at times in error, referred to American contractors employed by the Departments of Defense, State or the Central Intelligence
Agency as Blackwater. However, it is believed the majority of such employees are, in fact, members of that organization or is derivitive,
Xe. The same group, often criticized for irregularities in Iraq, has been contracted by the Central Intelligence Agency to operate
Predator drones inside Pakistan, operations that have resulted in a significant number of civilian deaths and said by political
leaders of several factions to do little but recruit terrorists (Duff, 2010).

Date: September 16, 2010
Source: Online Journal, Wayne Madsen
Title/Headline: Blackwater/Xe Cells Conducting False Flag Terrorist Attacks In Pakistan

Abstract: WMR (Wayne Madsen Report) has learned from a deep background source that Xe Services, the company formerly
―Pakistani Taliban.‖ Only recently did the US State Department designate the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the
links to ―Al Qaeda‖ before the 9/11 attacks on the United States. TTP‘s leader is Hakimullah Mehsud, said to be 30-years old and
operating from Pakistan‘s remote tribal region with an accomplice named Wali Ur Rehman. In essence, this new team of Mehsud and
―Global Jihad‖ against the West. However, it is Xe cells operating in Karachi, Peshawar, Islamabad and other cities and towns that
the source. The Blackwater/Xe involvement in terrorist attacks in Pakistan have been confirmed by the former head of the Inter
weapons and munitions into Pakistan. Earlier this year WMR reported that ‖intelligence sources in Asia and Europe are reporting that
the CIA contractor firm XE Services, formerly Blackwater, has been carrying out ‗false flag‘ terrorist attacks in Afghanistan,
Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) personnel. A number of terrorist bombings in Pakistan have been blamed by Pakistani Islamic
the CIA and the Pentagon. On December 3, 2009, the Pakistani newspaper Nawa-i-Waqtreported: ‗Vast land near the Tarbela dam has
Analysis Wing] and Israeli Mossad are working in collaboration with the CIA to carry out extremist activities in Pakistan.‘‖ The
bombing of a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan last December was blamed on the TTP but may have actually involved the covert
Xe/CIA program to stage false flag attacks and something went drastically wrong with the operation that resulted in the deaths of
seven CIA personnel, including the Khost station chief. The TTP was also linked to the failed Times Square ―bombing‖ last May.
Responsibility for the recent bomb attack of a pro-Palestine Shi‘a rally in Quetta that killed 54 people was claimed by the Pakistan Taliban,
Western powers to secure its nuclear weapons and remove them from the country in a manner similar to the procurement by the
West of South Africa‘s nuclear weapons prior to the stepping down of the white minority government in the early 1990s. WMR has
been informed that any American, whether or not he or she holds a security clearance, is subject to U.S. national security
prohibitions from discussing the U.S.- sponsored terrorist attacks in Pakistan. In one case, a threat was made against an individual
who personally witnessed the Xe/CIA terrorist operations but is now threatened, along with family members (Madsen, 2010).

Date: September 23, 2010
Source: The Times Of India
Title/Headline: CIA Runs 3,000-Strong Covert Army To Hunt Down Al-Qaida In Pakistan

Abstract: America's CIA is running a 3,000-strong covert army to hunt down key leaders of Taliban and al-Qaida in not only
Afghanistan but across the border in Pakistan. This heavily-armed irregular force manned entirely by Afghan personnel operates in
small units called Counter- terrorism Pursuit Teams, the New York Times reported today quoting extracts from a new book 'Obama's wars'
by journalist Bob Woodward. The stunning disclosures in the book which is making waves for laying bare the policy divisions and the
personality clashes among the Obama advisors on the Afghan policy may complicate relations between Washington and Islamabad, the
paper said. "Firing missiles from unmanned drones patrolling over Pakistan's turbulent northwest tribal region at a rate that has
outstripped the Bush administration's record is bad enough and now to have brigade size paramilitary units operating inside
Pakistan marks a significant expansion of the covert war that the Obama administration has waged there," the book claims. These
forces, the paper said, conducted clandestine raids into Pakistan as part of stepped-up campaign against al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban
havens there. The CIA directs and funds the force, which is being billed as the best Afghan fighting force which has made major
contributions to stability and security, the book claims. "The covert army captures and kills Taliban fighters and seeks support in
Tribal areas," the NYT reported and quoted Pentagon officials as saying that these Afghan units were closely working with American
Green Berets to go after Taiban fighters. According to the Woodward's book, by the end of 2009 strategy review, the President had
concluded that the task in Afghanistan could not succeed without wiping out al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban havens operating with
impunity in the border tribal areas of Pakistan. The book says that Obama has remarked, "We need to make clear to the people that
the cancer is in Pakistan", so the CIA had turned into its classic old strategy of setting up of a lethal proxy unit. The book says that such
"kill teams" were also operating within Afghanistan to target groups like Haqqani network, closely linked to Taliban and al-Qaida.
The members of these hot pursuit units have been probably recruited from the private militias of warlords (The Times Of India, 2010).

Date: September 27, 2010
Source: New York Times, Mark Mazzetti, Eric Schmitt
Title/Headline: C.I.A. Steps Up Drone Attacks On Taliban In Pakistan

Abstract: The C.I.A. has drastically increased its bombing campaign in the mountains of Pakistan in recent weeks, American
officials said. The strikes are part of an effort by military and intelligence operatives to try to cripple the Taliban in a stronghold being used
to plan attacks against American troops in Afghanistan. As part of its covert war in the region, the C.I.A. has launched 20 attacks with
armed drone aircraft thus far in September, the most ever during a single month, and more than twice the number in a typical
month. This expanded air campaign comes as top officials are racing to stem the rise of American casualties before the Obama
administration‘s comprehensive review of its Afghanistan strategy set for December. American and European officials are also
evaluating reports of possible terrorist plots in the West from militants based in Pakistan. The strikes also reflect mounting frustration
both in Afghanistan and the United States that Pakistan‘s government has not been aggressive enough in dislodging militants from
their bases in the country‘s western mountains. In particular, the officials said, the Americans believe the Pakistanis are unlikely to
launch military operations inside North Waziristan, a haven for Taliban and Qaeda operatives that has long been used as a base for attacks
against troops in Afghanistan. Some Pakistani troops have also been diverted from counterinsurgency missions to help provide relief to
victims of the country‘s massive flooding. Beyond the C.I.A. drone strikes, the war in the region is escalating in other ways. In recent
days, American military helicopters have launched three airstrikes into Pakistan that military officials estimate killed more than 50
people suspected of being members of the militant group known as the Haqqani network, which is responsible for a spate of deadly
attacks against American troops. Such air raids by the military remain rare, and officials in Kabul said Monday that the helicopters
entered Pakistani airspace on only one of the three raids, and acted in self-defense after militants fired rockets at an allied base just across
the border in Afghanistan. At the same time, the strikes point to a new willingness by military officials to expand the boundaries of the
campaign against the Taliban and Haqqani network — and to an acute concern in military and intelligence circles about the limited time to
attack Taliban strongholds while American ―surge‖ forces are in Afghanistan. Pakistani officials have angrily criticized the helicopter
attacks, saying that NATO‘s mandate in Afghanistan does not extend across the border in Pakistan. As evidence of the growing frustration
dismantle the militant networks in North Waziristan, according to American officials. ―Petraeus wants to turn up the heat on the safe
havens,‖ said one senior administration official, explaining the sharp increase in drone strikes. ―He has pointed out to the
Pakistanis that they could do more.‖ Special Operations commanders have also been updating plans for cross-border raids, which would
require approval from President Obama. For now, officials said, it remains unlikely that the United States would make good on such
threats to send American troops over the border, given the potential blowback inside Pakistan, an ally. But that could change, they
said, if Pakistan-based militants were successful in carrying out a terrorist attack on American soil. American and European
intelligence officials in recent days have spoken publicly about growing evidence that militants may be planning a large-scale attack in
Europe, and have bolstered security at a number of European airports and railway stations. ―We are all seeing increased activity by a
more diverse set of groups and a more diverse set of threats,‖ said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano before a Senate
panel last week. The senior administration official said the strikes were intended not only to attack Taliban and Haqqani fighters, but also to
disrupt any plots directed from or supported by extremists in Pakistan‘s tribal areas that were aimed at targets in Europe. ―The goal is to
suppress or disrupt that activity,‖ the official said. The 20 C.I.A. drone attacks in September represent the most intense
operatives at a remote base in eastern Afghanistan. According to one Pakistani intelligence official, the recent drone attacks have not
have taken place in North Waziristan. The Obama administration has enthusiastically embraced the C.I.A.‘s drone program, an
official said that the recent strikes had been aimed at several groups, including the Haqqani network, Al Qaeda and the Pakistani
Taliban. The United States, he said, hopes to ―keep the pressure on as long as we can.‖ But the C.I.A.‘s campaign has also raised concerns
that the drone strikes are fueling anger in the Muslim world. The man who attempted to detonate a truck filled with explosives in
Times Square told a judge that the C.I.A. drone campaign was one of the factors that led him to attack the United States. In a
meeting with reporters on Monday, General Petraeus indicated that it was new intelligence gathering technology that helped NATO forces
locate the militants killed by the helicopter raids against militants in Pakistan. In particular, he said, the military has expanded its fleet of
technology, General Petraeus said, has also enabled the expanded campaign of raids by Special Operations commandos against Taliban
operatives in those areas (Mazzetti & Schmitt, 2010).

Date: October 10, 2010
Source: NDTV News
Title/Headline: Pak-Based British Militant May Have Worked For UK Police: Report

Abstract: A Pakistan-based British Al-Qaida militant, who was part of a group plotting Mumbai-type attacks in Europe before his
possible killing in a drone attack, may have worked as a police community support officer in the UK, raising fears that Osama bin
Laden's group may be trying to infiltrate the security system here. Abdul Jabbar, said to be from the Manchester area, was part of
a group of between 10 and 20 Islamist extremists linked to recent intelligence warnings about Mumbai-style attacks in Britain,
France and Germany, 'The Sunday Times' reported. The group is based at militant camps in the tribal areas of North Waziristan in
Pakistan. Community support officers - so-called 'plastic policemen' - have fewer powers than ordinary officers, but they have
access to police databases that could be invaluable to extremists planning an attack. Security officials said Jabbar was "a rising
star" of Al-Qaida. But they have played down suggestions that any formal British branch of Al-Qaida had been set up or that
Jabbar was directly linked to any plan to attack European public places. Three years ago it emerged that up to eight police officers
and civilians were on a secret list of alleged radicals said to be working in the Metropolitan police and other forces. Some were
thought to have attended training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to the report, the list was drawn up amid fears that
individuals linked to Islamic extremism were taking advantage of police attempts to increase staff from ethnic minorities. A spokesman for
Greater Manchester police declined to comment on suggestions that a terror suspect had previously worked there as a community support
officer. "Everything is being handled by the security service," he said. A counter-terrorism official said it was a policy of Mi5 -
Britain's internal intelligence service - never to confirm or deny such claims. The Manchester link has emerged as part of an Mi5
investigation into a web of terrorists planning attacks in Europe. The network is believed to be led by Al-Qaida commander called Ilyas
Kashmiri, a one-eyed Pakistani who has reportedly boasted that he had sent cells to attack Britain and Germany. Intelligence
officials disclosed ten days ago that they had received "credible but non-specific" information that simultaneous commando attacks
were planned in European cities. Extremists were thought to be organising an assault similar to the Mumbai attack in 2008 when 10
Pakistani terrorists armed with machine guns and grenades killed over 160 people. In response, the CIA had stepped up its drone attacks on
suspected militants in remote camps in Waziristan. Attention has focussed on Jabbar, the British militant who is said to have been killed in
a drone attack last month. He is thought to have been an associate of Kashmiri. According to the report, electronic eavesdroppers had
heard Jabbar, his brother and a group of eight German suspects discuss plans to obtain guns and explosives in phone calls to
Britain and Germany. Their "campfire chatter" was apparently intercepted by GCHQ, the Government listening centre in Cheltenham.
Counter-terrorism officials said Jabbar, who is married and in his late 30s, attended a meeting of militants in May at which he spoke about
setting up an "Islamic Army of Great Britain". Other sources claimed that Jabbar, who had been living with his wife in Pakistan for at
least a year, may have previously attended a mosque in the Manchester area. There is no indication whether he was the militant
who had worked there as a community support officer (NDTV News, 2010).

Date: October 20, 2010
Source: Fox News, Catherine Herridge
Title/Headline: EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda Leader Dined At The Pentagon Just Months After 9/11

brass at the Pentagon within months of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Fox News has learned. Documents exclusively obtained by
Pentagon as part of the military‘s outreach to the Muslim community in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. The incident was
Awlaki speak in Alexandria, Va. The employee "attended this talk and while she arrived late she recalls being impressed by this imam. He
condemned Al Qaeda and the terrorist attacks. During his talk he was 'harassed' by members of the audience and suffered it well,"
reads one document. According to the documents, obtained as part of an ongoing investigation by the specials unit "Fox News Reporting,"
there was a push within the Defense Department to reach out to the Muslim community. "At that period in time, the secretary of the Army
(redacted) was eager to have a presentation from a moderate Muslim." In addition, Awlaki "was considered to be an 'up and coming'
member of the Islamic community. After her vetting, Aulaqi (Awlaki) was invited to and attended a luncheon at the Pentagon in
the secretary of the Army's Office of Government Counsel." Awlaki, a Yemeni-American who was born in Las Cruces, N.M., was
Pentagon. Awlaki is now believed to be hiding in Yemen after he was linked to the alleged Ft. Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan,
who e-mailed Awlaki prior to the attack. Sources told Fox News that Awlaki, who is a former Muslim chaplain at George Washington
University, met with the Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in Yemen and was the middle-man between the
young Nigerian and the bombmaker. Awlaki was also said to inspire would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. Apparently,
none of the FBI's information about Awlaki was shared with the Pentagon. Former Army Secretary Tommy White, who led the Army
in 2001, said he doesn't have any recollection of the luncheon or any contact with Awlaki. "If this was a luncheon at the Office of
Government Counsel, I would not necessarily be there," he said. The Pentagon has offered no explanation of how a man, now on the
CIA kills or capture list, ended up at a special lunch for Muslim outreach. After repeated requests for comment on the vetting process
beginning on October 13th, an Army spokesman insisted Wednesday that the lunch was not an Army event. "The Army has found no
evidence that the Army either sponsored or participated in the event described in this report," spokesman Thomas Collins said.
Collins also noted that the FBI document referred to the ―Office of Government Counsel‖ but should read ―Office of General Counsel.‖
Collins said he believed the event was sponsored by the office of the Secretary of Defense. A spokeswoman there said she would look into
it and get back to Fox News. A former high-ranking FBI agent told Fox News that at the time Awlaki went to lunch at the Pentagon,
there was tremendous "arrogance" about the vetting process at the Pentagon. "They vetted people politically and showed
indifference toward security and intelligence advice of others," the former agent said (Herridge, 2010).

Date: November 27, 2010
Source: Press TV
Title/Headline: US Supports MKO Terrorists: Iran Cmdr.

Abstract: A top commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says the European Union is only providing an excuse for
the US to remove the "Rajavi Cult" from its terror list. Brigadier General Yadollah Javani made the remarks on Saturday after the
European Parliament issued a declaration on Thursday urging the removal of the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) from
Washington's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The European Union removed the MKO from its similar list of terrorist
organizations in 2009. Brigadier General Javani said that despite placing the MKO on its list of terrorist organizations Washington has not
refrained from providing all out-support for the group over the past 30 years. "The group has conducted a terror campaign from the
safe haven provided by the West, the US and the Zionists," he was quoted by Mehr News Agency as saying. "In order to escape from
the glaring inconsistency between the words and actions of the US, Washington needs an excuse and justification such as the request made
by the European Union," he added. The "Rajavi cult", as the MKO came to be known, was founded in Iran in the 1960s, but its top
leadership and members fled the country some twenty years later, after carrying out numerous acts of terror inside the country. In
the 1970s the group targeted American citizens in Iran, killing William C. Cottrell, Colonel Lewis L. Hawkins, Donald G. Smith,
and Colonel Jack Turner in the country. They also masterminded the 1981 bombing of the offices of the Islamic Republic Party, in
which more than 72 senior Iranian officials were killed, including the then Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti. After
fleeing to neighboring Iraq, the terror cell provided security services to Saddam Hussein, fighting on his behalf during the eight-year Iraqi-
imposed war on Iran. In 1991, Maryam Rajavi as then leader of the group's military forces directly ordered the massacre of Kurdish Iraqis
in the north and the Shia population in the south (Press TV, 2010).

Date: November 30, 2010
Source: The Independent
Title/Headline: Yossi Melman: Mossad, MI6, The CIA And The Case Of The Assassinated Scientist

deal with the world's concerns about Iran's nuclear programme; the mysterious assassination in Tehran of a top Iranian nuclear
scientist and the wounding of another, and the appointment of Tamir Pardo as the new head of Mossad, Israel's foreign espionage
agency. The attack on the two scientists, one of them mentioned as a top nuclear scientist working with Iran's Ministry of Defence, was
part of these efforts. No organisation claimed responsibility but it is obvious, not just because of accusations by Iranian officials and Iran's
media, that Israel was behind it. Most experts who follow Middle East politics and Mossad history would agree. It is at least the fourth
attempt to assassinate Iranian scientists linked with the country's nuclear programme in four years. There were probably other
attempts which did not hit the headlines. The attribution to Mossad is not because of the use of motorcycles, though in the past Mossad has
been involved in similar operations. The best known one was in 1995 in Valletta, Malta, when a Mossad hit-team liquidated Dr Fathi
Shkaki, the leader of the Islamic Jihad. It has more to do with the policy of Mossad to deal a blow to Iran's nuclear programme. On
top of assassinating nuclear scientists to terrorise others and force some to quit, it is believed that Mossad was also behind
penetrating Iranian purchasing networks and selling them flawed equipment of its nuclear enrichment centrifuges and most
recently by planting a virus which has damaged the nuclear computers at Natanz. Yet despite these daring ploys, it is obvious to
Israeli decision-makers as well as to western leaders that if a country is determined enough to develop nuclear weapons nothing would stop
it. But there's a link between them. They are part of the endless efforts by the Israeli intelligence community, together with its
goal of having its first nuclear bomb (The Independent, 2010).

Date: November 29, 2010
Source: Press TV
Title/Headline: 'West Resorts To Terrorism Against Iran'

Abstract: Following the terrorist attack on two Iranian lecturers, a Tehran university professor says the West is resorting to state
terrorism to stop Iran's nuclear program. Unknown terrorists detonated bombs in the vehicles of Dr. Majid Shahriari and Professor
Fereydoun Abbasi in separate locations on Monday morning between 7-8 a.m. local time. Shahriari was martyred immediately, but
professor Abbasi and his wife sustained injuries and were transferred to hospital. Both men were professors at Shahid Beheshti University
in Tehran. "Those atomic physics professors were very active in Iran's peaceful nuclear energy [program]… during the past 7-8
year… the United States and the Zionist regime [of Israel] have been trying different methods to stop Iran's peaceful nuclear
program," Dr. Foad Izadi said in an interview with Press TV on Monday. "Sanctions, threats of military attacks and different types of
pressures have been exerted." Izadi pointed to the murder of an Iranian physics professor a few months ago and said now the US and
Israel are resorting to one of the tactics that both are familiar with -- state terrorism. On July 12, Iranian nuclear physics scientist Dr.
Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was killed in a remote-controlled bomb attack in the Iranian capital of Tehran. Iranian security officials
believe that the equipment and bomb system used in the attack were related to a number of foreign intelligence agencies,
particularly the Israeli Mossad. Izadi called the UN resolution 1747 in which Abbasi's name was cited as a "nuclear scientist" a
―hit list‖ and said the people on the list were being assassinated. "These assassinations will not have any effect, except that they will
encourage the people in Iran to continue this path and make sure they can stand up to these aggressive governments," Izadi
concluded (Press TV, 2010).

Conclusion: It is now clear that the War of Terror is a complete FRAUD. Anyone still believing that some Arab guys in caves brought
down the Twin Towers or detonated the nuke at the Super Bowl is either in denial, borderline retarded, or under such mind-control and
brainwashing that they are unable to distinguish between fact and fiction.