(What makes me think is that the US media instead preferred to push articles about a meeting between Mohammad Atta and an iraque diplomat)

http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1454238160

India helped FBI trace ISI-terrorist links
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 02, 2001

MANOJ JOSHI

THE TIMES OF INDIA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

EW DELHI:
"..While the Pakistani Inter Services Public Relations claimed that former ISI director-general Lt-Gen Mahmud Ahmad sought retirement after being superseded on Monday, the truth is more shocking.

Top sources confirmed here on Tuesday, that the general lost his job because of the "evidence" India produced to show his links to one of the suicide bombers that wrecked the World Trade Centre. The US authorities sought his removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 were wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the instance of Gen Mahumd.

Senior government sources have confirmed that India contributed significantly to establishing the link between the money transfer and the role played by the dismissed ISI chief. While they did not provide details, they said that Indian inputs, including Sheikh’s mobile phone number, helped the FBI in tracing and establishing the link.

A direct link between the ISI and the WTC attack could have enormous repercussions. The US cannot but suspect whether or not there were other senior Pakistani Army commanders who were in the know of things. Evidence of a larger conspiracy could shake US confidence in Pakistan’s ability to participate in the anti-terrorism coalition.

Indian officials say they are vitally interested in the unravelling of the case since it could link the ISI directly to the hijacking of the Indian Airlines Kathmandu-Delhi flight to Kandahar last December. Ahmad Umar Sayeed Sheikh is a British national and a London School of Economics graduate who was arrested by the police in Delhi following a bungled 1994 kidnapping of four westerners, including an American citizen..."

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001298

"..Our Friends the Pakistanis
Yesterday we noted a report from a Pakistani newspaper that Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmad had been fired as head of Islamabad's Inter-Services Security agency after U.S. linked him to a militant allied with terrorists who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in 1999. Now the Times of India says Ahmad is connected to the Sept. 11 attacks:

Top sources confirmed here on Tuesday, that the general lost his job because of the "evidence" India produced to show his links to one of the suicide bombers that wrecked the World Trade Centre. The US authorities sought his removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 were wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the instance of Gen Mahumd.

Senior government sources have confirmed that India contributed significantly to establishing the link between the money transfer and the role played by the dismissed ISI chief. While they did not provide details, they said that Indian inputs, including Sheikh's mobile phone number, helped the FBI in tracing and establishing the link..."

This was their report,"web-translated":
8 octobre 2001

"..Officially, two Generals have just resigned of their own head. It is about the General Mahmood Ahmed, the owner of the ISI, the secret service Pakistani, and of the vice-chief of staff, the General Muzzaffer Usmani. Certain sources affirm that the American FBI let know in Musharraf that the head of the ISI was implied in the attacks from September 11 in New York and Washington. Mahmood Ahmed would have in particular ordered the transfer of 100 000 dollars on the account of Mohammed Atta, one of the terrorists having organized carnage in the United States. An ally more than cumbersome, for the General chair who has just lined up resolutely side of Washington..."

http://www.lefigaro.fr/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=FutureTense/Apps/Xcelerate/View&c=figArticle&cid=FIG5Y01EJSC&live=true&print=true&gCurChannel=ZZZJTGN6J7C

A T H E N S, Greece, Oct. 4
"..Tunisian sources explained that officers of Pakistan's ISI intelligence service recommended the North African students advance after crash courses of six to eight weeks into further military training, including guerrilla warfare and advanced terrorist techniques which were on the original CIA agenda during the days of robust U.S. support for Afghan fighters during the 10 years of Soviet occupation which followed the 1979 invasion.."

"..Many of the graduates found their way to Europe or the United States. Men like Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, from well-to-do or middle-class families, apparently skipped the Pakistani phase of training and directly entered technical courses and flying lessons which prepared them for their ultimate suicide missions.."

"..The holy war trainees came from Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Libya. With all expenses paid, they were flown to Pakistan to enroll in madrasas, or religious schools like ones in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province and in Lahore, near the border of India. The CIA is widely considered to have bankrolled the efforts of the Pakistani intelligence service to train fighters.

A visiting New York Times magazine writer last year found 2,800 students enrolled in one school, ranging in age from 8 to 35. Most came from extremely poor backgrounds and spent their time memorizing the Koran. Subjects like math, computer science, or non-Islamic history were not taught..."

WASHINGTON -
"..As much as $100,000 was wired in the past year from Pakistan to Mohamed Atta, the suspected leader of the terrorist hijackings, CNN disclosed quoting law enforcement sources.
Sources said the wire transfers from Pakistan were sent to Atta through two banks in Florida. Then, Atta allegedly would obtain money orders -- a few thousand dollars at a time -- to distribute to others involved in the plot in the months before the hijackings.
Atta lived in Florida much of that time. Meanwhile, sources in the Middle East confirmed that Atta and two other men wired more than $15,000 back to the United Arab Emirates just before the attacks..."

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:GSZ10WQRjwA:www.readmirror.com/ asia.htm++Middle+East+confirmed+that+Atta+and+two+other+men+...+military+intelligence+ chief+General+Mahmood+Ahmed+++readmirror&hl=en
(ADMIN: Link edited for technical reasons)

From Hindustan Times:
(Islamabad, October 8)

"...ISI chief Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed and Deputy Army Chief Lt. Gen. Muzaffar Hussain Usmani were superseded, while Lt. Gen. Mohammad Aziz Khan and Lt. Gen. Mohammad Yusuf were sidelined with promotions.

Usmani and Aziz Khan are said to back the idea of jehad, especially in Kashmir.

Mahmood Ahmed who was replaced by Lt. Gen. Eshanul Haq, corps commander of Peshawar, has reportedly sought premature retirement.

Ahmed was reportedly superseded after FBI investigators established credible links between him and Umer Sheikh, one of the three militants released in exchange for passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999. Sources said there were indications that it was on Ahmed's instruction that Sheikh had transferred $100,000 into the account of Mohammed Atta, one of the participants in the September 11 strikes.

Aziz Khan, though promoted to four-star general, was removed from the powerful position of Corps Commander and appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, which is a largely ceremonial position. A hardline Islamist, Aziz Khan, like Usmani, had played a key role in Musharraf's October 1999 military coup..."

http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/091001/detFRO03.asp

http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/misc/janes011001_1_n.shtml

01 October 2001

"..The ISI chief, Lt Gen Mahmood Ahmed, who was visiting Washington when New York and the Pentagon were attacked, agreed to share desperately needed information about the Taliban with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other US security officials. The CIA has well-established links with the ISI, having trained it in the 1980s to ‘run’ Afghan mujahideen (holy Muslim warriors), Islamic fundamentalists from Pakistan as well as Arab volunteers by providing them with arms and logistic support to evict the Soviet occupation of Kabul.

The ISI is presently the ‘eyes and ears’ of the US-led covert action to seize Bin Laden from the Taliban, since hundreds of its agents and their Pathan ‘assets’ continue to operate across Afghanistan. Its influence with the Taliban can be gauged from the inclusion of Gen Ahmed in the Pakistani military and diplomatic delegation to the militia’s religious capital, Kandhar, in southern Afghanistan in an attempt to defuse the looming military crisis. The Pakistani delegation appealed to the Taliban, albeit in vain, to hand over Bin Laden to the US, which holds him responsible for the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Center and Washington in which nearly 7000 people are feared to have died..."

http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/co/11036/1.html
Cover-up Or Complicity of The Bush Administration?

Michel Chossudovsky 04.11.2001
The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence Agency (ISI) in the September 11 Attacks.

"...Pakistan's chief spy Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad "was in the US when the attacks occurred." He arrived in the US on the 4th of September, a full week before the attacks. He had meetings at the State Department "after" the attacks on the WTC. But he also had "a regular visit of consultations" with his US counterparts at the CIA and the Pentagon during the week prior to September 11.

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

On the 9th of September while General Ahmad was in the US, the leader of the Northern Alliance Commander Ahmad Shah Masood was assassinated. The Northern Alliance had informed the Bush Administration that the ISI was allegedly implicated in the assassination:

The Bush Administration consciously took the decision in "the post September 11 consultations" with Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad to directly "cooperate" with Pakistan's military intelligence (ISI) despite it links to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban and its alleged role in the assassination of Commander Masood, which coincidentally occurred two days before the terrorist attacks.

Meanwhile, senior Pentagon and State Department officials had been rushed to Islamabad to put the finishing touches on America's war plans. And on the Sunday prior to the onslaught of the bombing of major cities in Afghanistan (October 7th), Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad was sacked from his position as head of the ISI in what was described as a routine "reshuffling."

In the days following General Ahmad's dismissal, a report published in the Times of India, revealed the links between Pakistan's Chief spy Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad and the presumed "ring leader" of the WTC attacks Mohamed Atta. The Times of India article was based on an official intelligence report of the Delhi government that had been transmitted through official channels to Washington. Quoting an Indian government source Agence France Press (AFP) confirms in this regard that:

"The evidence we [the Government of India] have supplied to the US is of a much wider range and depth than just one piece of paper linking a rogue general to some misplaced act of terrorism."

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

The Times of India report also sheds light on the nature of General Ahmad's "business activities" in the US during the week prior to September 11, raising the distinct possibility of ISI contacts with Mohamed Atta in the US "prior" to the attacks on the WTC, precisely at the time when General Mahmoud and his delegation were on a so-called "regular visit of consultations" with US officials.

In assessing the alleged links between the terrorists and the ISI, it should be understood that Lt. General Ahmad as head of the ISI was a "US approved appointee". As head of the ISI since 1999, he was in liaison with his US counterparts in the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Pentagon. Also bear in mind that Pakistan's ISI remained throughout the entire post Cold War era until the present, the launch-pad for CIA covert operations in the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Balkans

The existence of an "ISI-Osama-Taliban axis" was a matter of public record. The links between the ISI and agencies of the US government including the CIA are also a matter of public record. The Bush Administration was fully cognizant of Lt. General Ahmad's role. In other words, rather than waging a campaign against international terrorism, the evidence would suggest that it is indirectly abetting international terrorism, using the Pakistani ISI as a "go-between".

The Bush Administration's links with Pakistan's ISI --including its "consultations" with General Ahmad in the week prior to September 11-- raise the issue of "complicity". While Ahmad was talking to US officials at the CIA and the Pentagon, ISI officials were allegedly also in contact with the September 11 terrorists.

In other words, according to the Indian government intelligence report, the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks had links to Pakistan's ISI, which in turn has links to agencies of the US government. What this suggests is that key individuals within the US military-intelligence establishment might have known about the ISI contacts with the September 11 terrorist "ring-leader" Mohamed Atta and failed to act.

Whether this amounts to the outright complicity of the Bush Administration remains to be firmly established.

What is crystal clear, however, is that this war is not a "campaign against international terrorism" as claimed by The Bush Administration. It is a war of conquest with devastating consequences for the future of humanity.

And the American people have been consciously and deliberately misled by their government.

Ultimately the truth must prevail. The falsehoods behind America's war against the people of Afghanistan must be unveiled..."

The above is a Summary. The complete text of this article is at the Centre for Research on Globalisation

See also from Michel Chossudovsky in Telepolis: Osamagate

Copyright, Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), October 2001. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to post this text on non-commercial community internet sites, provided the source and the URL are indicated, the essay remains intact and the copyright note is displayed. To publish this text in printed and/or other forms, including commercial Internet sites and excerpts, contact the Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) at editor@globalresearch.ca, fax 1-514-4256224.

http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?catkey=-2128936835&art_id=1454238160&sType=1)

India helped FBI trace ISI-terrorist links
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 05, 2001

MANOJ JOSHI

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

EW DELHI:
"...While the Pakistani Inter Services Public Relations claimed that former ISI director-general Lt-Gen Mahmud Ahmad sought retirement after being superseded on Monday, the truth is more shocking.

Top sources confirmed here on Tuesday, that the general lost his job because of the "evidence" India produced to show his links to one of the suicide bombers that wrecked the World Trade Centre. The US authorities sought his removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 were wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the instance of Gen Mahumd.

Senior government sources have confirmed that India contributed significantly to establishing the link between the money transfer and the role played by the dismissed ISI chief. While they did not provide details, they said that Indian inputs, including Sheikh’s mobile phone number, helped the FBI in tracing and establishing the link.

A direct link between the ISI and the WTC attack could have enormous repercussions. The US cannot but suspect whether or not there were other senior Pakistani Army commanders who were in the know of things. Evidence of a larger conspiracy could shake US confidence in Pakistan’s ability to participate in the anti-terrorism coalition.

Indian officials say they are vitally interested in the unravelling of the case since it could link the ISI directly to the hijacking of the Indian Airlines Kathmandu-Delhi flight to Kandahar last December. Ahmad Umar Sayeed Sheikh is a British national and a London School of Economics graduate who was arrested by the police in Delhi following a bungled 1994 kidnapping of four westerners, including an American citizen..."

This news about payments of $100.000 (and the coincidence with the War) was almost ignored by the Mainstream Media, maybe because of the ally status of Pakistan.

Now things have changed. Pakistan is under new pressure, Bin Laden might be in Pakistan too and old stories have been refreshed.

This could be one of them.

The Indian special intelligence Website Indiareacts.com and Intelligenceonline wrote now, that Mohammad Atta received $100.000 from an Indian Terrorist.

I wonder, if this is the same story, but now with an "indian terrorist".
Maybe of one of the ISI-sponsored Pakistani Terrorist groups?

I read this info of indiareacts now 2 days ago, but it wasn't reflected anywhere else.

Unfortunately Intelligence Online is for Subscribers only.
GZ however will try to find out more about this story.

Here is the beginning:

http://www.indiareacts.com/nati2.asp?recno=518&ctg=
Indian terrorist financed Mohammad Atta
4 January 2001:
"An Indian terrorist arranged $100,000 that was wired to 11-September ....."

NOTE:
"It should be understood that Lt. General Ahmad as head of the ISI was a "US approved appointee". As head of the ISI since 1999, he was in liaison with his US counterparts in the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Pentagon. Also bear in mind that Pakistan's ISI remained throughout the entire post Cold War era until the present, the launch-pad for CIA covert operations in the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Balkans.The links between the ISI and agencies of the US government including the CIA are also a matter of public record. The Bush Administration was fully cognizant of Lt. General Ahmad's role..."

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html
(Michel Chossudovsky Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa,
November 2nd, 2001)

It was reported, too, that Mohammad Atta sent some money back to Mustapha Ahmad Al-Hawsawi
(Mustafa Ahmed), Saudi Arabia.

INFO:
List of Pakistan supported Terrorist, Jihadi groups and their Leaders:

> Al Quaeda : Osama Bin Laden
> Al Badr : Bakht Zamin
> Harkatul Mujahideen : Rehman Khalil
> Hizbul Mujahideen : Syed Salahudin
> Jaish-e-Mohammad : Masood Azhar
> Lashkar-e-Toiba : Hafiz Saeed
> Taliban : Mullah Omar

(Please read also: "911-The other story" (Chronology 1962-2002)
http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=ground_zero2001&msg=630.1 )

"..Who is this Sheikh Umar Saeed mentioned by CNN and known earlier as
Umar Sheikh? The Indians know him as one of the three prisoners sprung
from an Indian jail in return for Indian passengers after the December
1999 hijack of an Air India plane from Nepal. Is he the typical
madrassah student, the type shown by western TV channels on their
footage?

Far from it. Sheikh Umar is the son of a rich Pakistani family
resident in London. The family owns a garments business at Wanstead,
East London. It is known that he studied for nearly four years at
Lahores Aitchison College, where some observers remembered him
as an aggressive lad, before he was expelled for unruly behaviour and
forced to go back to London.

Umar was a popular boy at Forest School, Snaresbrook in East London.
At Forest, one of his class-fellows was Nasser Hussain, the current
captain of English cricket team. According to Times of London ,
George Paynter, his tutor in economics, described him as having
a jolly good brain and who was willing and capable.
He [Umar] had a penchant for arm wrestling in professional
contests, he said.

Umar went on to attend the London School of Economics and was good at
mathematics, played good chess, and was rated by his teachers a
good mind. At this juncture he is said to have gone to Bosnia
as a member of a humanitarian group and come in contact with the
Islamists there.

There he met members of the Mujahidin and when Sheikh returned
to London he had, says one friend, become a different
man. Even his physical appearance had changed. He was much more
heavily built, had grown a beard and espoused a militant Muslim
cause.

Later, Sheikh Umar ended up in one of the Mujahideen camps in
Afghanistan and entered India in 1994 where he was captured by the
Indians.

The Times of London says: ;His [Umar] rapid conversion
from school prefect to terrorist illustrates how young British Muslims
have been recruited in increasing numbers during the past decade to
fight in what they regard as holy wars.

British Intelligence is among international agencies that want to question Sheikh about kidnapping,explosions and murder.
Sheikh was behind the 1994 kidnapping of three
British tourists for a Kashmiri separatist group.
The hostages, Rhys Partridge, Paul Ridout and Myles Croston, recall being befriended by the well-spoken, amiable Sheikh, who offered them the use of his home near Delhi. Gunmen were waiting for them there.

Pakistani papers later reported Indian allegations that Umar had connections with Pakistan intelligence agencies, ISI.
Last year, Umar was alleged to be running an Al-Qaeda office in Lahore.

The other person sprung from an India jail was Masood Azhar
[Jaish-e-Mohammad] , an
original Harkatul Ansar man who had accompanied Osama bin Laden to
exile in Sudan in 1992 and had fought on the side of Somalia
warlord, Aidid, at Osama behest. Twenty-four Pakistani troops,
representing the United Nations force in Somalia, died in an ambush
planned by Aidid..."

Many new questions:

Why do we here lately again about a connection from ISI to Mohammad Atta?
Who was the pakistani guy who sent Richard Reid ("The shoebomber") an email back?
Is the speculation true, that some important material witness about 911 has been killed in the attack on indian government last December?
Who is behind the latest attack on a US Center in India?
Why did the CIA allow a flight of some Al-Quaeada members last year?

If this is all connected to the ISI, than maybe this would explain, which kind of deal the ISI had with the CIA: Business and a poker about Kashmir and no military involvement of India, when the retaliation against the Taliban starts.

This is what some officials in India think:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134394405_india23.html

India ties deadly attack on U.S. cultural center to terrorism of Sept. 11

NEW DELHI —
Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 12:00 a.m. Pacific

"..Linking its own fight against extremists to the U.S. "war on terrorism," India charged yesterday that gunmen who attacked a U.S. cultural center in Calcutta belong to a kidnapping ring that local police suspect used ransom payments to help bankroll the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S.

Indian officials also said the people behind yesterday's assault, which killed five Indian police guards, could have links to Pakistan's military intelligence and two Pakistan-based groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir.

No U.S. citizens were killed or injured in the attack near the U.S. Information Service building in Calcutta.

Pakistan's government dismissed the Indian allegation as "baseless." Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has won strong international praise for a crackdown on Islamic extremists, but India insists that the Pakistani general, who took power in a bloodless 1999 coup, hasn't done enough to stop cross-border terrorism.

The alleged connection between kidnappers in Calcutta and the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history may be difficult to prove. The man who claimed the link, accused kidnapping ringleader Asif Raza Khan, was shot dead by police Dec 7.

FBI Director Robert Mueller, in New Delhi to meet Indian leaders and discuss cooperation in counter-terrorism, said it was too early to lay blame.

A Dubai-based man identified as Farhan, also known as Aftab Malik, called to claim responsibility for the attack, Indian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Nirupama Rao told reporters in New Delhi.

"This person, Farhan, is believed to be in close touch with some Pakistani agencies and could have tie-ups with Harkat-ul Jehad-e-Islami and Harkat-e-Mujahedeen," Rao said.

The two groups are among several battling Indian troops in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, and, India's government charges, are responsible for terrorist attacks elsewhere in India.

Until a year ago, Harkat-e-Mujahedeen was headed by Fazlur Rehman Khalil, whose signature appeared on Osama bin Laden's February 1998 fatwa, or religious edict, calling for attacks on U.S. and other Western interests.

Indian Home Minister L.K. Advani, a powerful hard-liner in Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's Cabinet, also accused Pakistan's military spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, of involvement in the Calcutta attack.

He said that the "information till now indicates that a group which kidnapped a Calcutta businessman some time back and was able to extract ransom from him" was behind yesterday's attack.

He was referring to Calcutta shoe tycoon Partha Roy Burman, 35, who was abducted last summer and held captive near India's border with Bangladesh.

The kidnappers freed Burman after 15 days for a reported ransom worth about $830,000. Indian police suspect some of the money eventually reached Mohammed Atta, the Egyptian-born leader of the terrorists who flew planes into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11..."

But another interesting update found out by guerrillanews, which confirms again the visit of former ISI Lt. Ahmad, which was not only on September 11th in Washington, but actually arrived already one week earlier:

Pakistan's chief spy Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad "was in the U.S. when the attacks occurred." 2. According to The New York Times, "he happened to be here on a regular visit of consultations." 3

Not a word was mentioned regarding the nature of his "business" in the U.S. in the week prior to the terrorist attacks. According to Newsweek, he was "on a visit to Washington at the time of the attack, and, like most other visitors, is still stuck there," unable to return home because of the freeze on international airline travel 4

General Ahmad had in fact arrived in the U.S. on the 4th of September, a full week before the attacks. 5 Bear in mind that the purpose of his meeting at the State Department on the 13th was only made public "after" the September 11 terrorist attacks, when the Bush Administration took the decision to formally seek the "cooperation" of Pakistan in its "campaign against international terrorism."

(much more at http://www.guerrillanews.com/intelligence/doc198.html )