Reply #7: Actually... [View All]

it wasn't just a few days before. Here's an entry I made the other day and haven't posted anywhere yet:

Summer 2000: "Saeed Sheikh Frequently Calls the ISI Director"
In 2002, French author Bernard-Henri Levy is presented evidence by government officials in New Delhi, India, that Saeed Shiekh makes repeated calls to ISI Director Mahmood Ahmed during the summer of 2000. Later, Levy gets unofficial confirmation from sources in Washington regarding these calls that the information he was given in India is correct. He notes that someone in the United Arab Emirates using a variety of aliases sends Mohamed Atta slightly over $100,000 between June and September of this year, and the timing of these phone calls and the money transfers may have been the source of news reports that Mahmood Ahmed ordered Saeed Sheikh to send $100,000 to Mohamed Atta. However, he also notes that there is evidence of Sheikh sending Atta $100,000 in August 2001, so the reports could refer to that, or both $100,000 transfers could involve Mahmood Ahmed, Saeed Sheikh, and Mohamed Atta. (Who Killed Daniel Pearl? by Bernard-Henri Levy, pp. 320-324)

I should point out that people mistakenly think of US culpability and ISI/al-Qaeda culpability in 9/11 as mutually exclusive ideas. There could very well be multiple participants. I'm reminded of a book about Watergate which I forget the title of, but it made a good argument that Nixon used the Iranian secret service, Savak, for some of his dirtiest dirty tricks in the US. He got more plausible deniablity, and Savak in return was allowed to kill anti-Shah figures in the US, and killed about 300 during the Nixon administration.

Who knows what kinds of intrigues and deals go on behind the scenes?