Reply #31: Saeed Sheik? Who's that?

[teryang]

They've really buried this story. I've seen one elaborate analysis where Washington morphed Saeed Sheik into "ringleader" Khalid Sheik Mohammed in order to obscure the ISI connection to the 911 conspiracy.

Here's another interesting story that went down a rabbit hole:

The Airlift of Evil by Michael Moran, MSNBC

NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2001 — The United States took the unprecedented step this week of demanding that foreign airlines provide information on passengers boarding planes for America. Yet in the past week, a half dozen or more Pakistani air force cargo planes landed in the Taliban-held city of Kunduz and evacuated to Pakistan hundreds of non-Afghan soldiers who fought alongside the Taliban and even al-Qaida against the United States. What’s wrong with this picture?


Something is up. It certainly appears to any reasonable observer that aircraft of some kind or another were taking off and landing in Kunduz’s final hours in Taliban hands. Among the many questions that grow out of this reality:
Was the passenger manifest on these aircraft limited to Pakistani military and intelligence men, or did it include some of the more prominent zealots Pakistan contributed to the ranks of the Taliban and al-Qaida?
What kind of deal was struck between the United States and Pakistan to allow this?
What safeguards did the United States demand to ensure the evacuated Pakistanis did not include men who will come back to haunt us?
What was done with the civilian volunteers once they arrived home in Pakistan? Where they arrested? Debriefed? Taken to safe houses? Or a state banquet?

Here's another interesting tidbit from Miami Herald web site, Fri., Aug.2, 2002,

Feds reopen probe of Florida arms deal, by Wanda DeMarzo


...On July 22, Mohsen, Malik, Glass and a man named R.G. Abbas -- described as a contact from the Taliban -- arrange to meet at Tribeca Grill in Manhattan.

Abbas was introduced to Glass as an ISI agent -- the official intelligence agency of Pakistan, which has been linked to terrorism.

''At the meeting Abbas said Americans are the enemy and they will have no problem blowing up this entire restaurant because its full of Americans,'' Glass said. 'As we leave the restaurant, Abbas turns and says, `those towers (the World Trade Center) are coming down.' ''

U.S. Intelligence experts checked out Glass' dinner companions and they were found to have real connections, Stoltz said...