Mushrraf accepted seven US demands in 24 hours after 9/11 terror attacks

[sabra]

Source: Economic Times

ISLAMABAD: As the US prepared to invade Afghanistan after the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, the then Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf tried to convince the Bush administration to negotiate with the Taliban, but accepted "unconditionally" in 24 hours all seven demands made by the US such as stopping al Qaeda at the border, providing the US with blanket landing rights to conduct operations and territorial and naval access and help in "destroying Osama Bin Laden," after his proposal was 'bluntly' rejected by Washington.

According to the classified documents released by the National Security Archive of the George Washington University, two days after al Qaeda unleashed terror on the US, the demands were to stop al Qaeda at the border, provide the US with blanket landing rights to conduct operations; provide territorial and naval access, provide intelligence; publicly condemn terrorist attacks, cut off recruits and supplies to the Taliban, and break diplomatic relations with the Taliban and help the US destroy Osama Bin Ladin.

"In a 90-minute meeting on September 14, Musharraf said he had studied the points and discussed them in an all-day meeting with his corps commanders and other ranking military officers. He (Musharraf) said he accepted the points without conditions and that his military leadership concurred," the Daily Times quoted the document, as saying.

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he ISI chief told the ambassador that America's strategic objectives of getting Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda would best be accomplished by coercing the Taliban to do it themselves.

However, the US envoy to Pakistan Wendy Chamberlin said that it was too late to enter into dialogues with the Taliban, which controlled Afghanistan at that time.

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Although Pakistan denied that it was a safe haven for anti-American forces, a State Department-issued paper for former vice president Dick Cheney claimed "some Taliban leaders operate with relative impunity in some Pakistani cities, and may still enjoy support from the lower echelons of the ISI".

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[Wilms]

1. Cheney, et. al. had that list of demands at the ready.

Go to my sig line link.

[SnakeEyes]

2. Itz a konspiracy!

9/11 truthers make us look bad. Nobody should bother reading that site after seeing Q1. Anyone that doesn't know the answer, which was reported on and following 9/11, or can't understand why you wouldn't want the president heading back to a major city, of millions where he is visible, that is the target of an attack which may have multiple stages, and in more predictable places when he can conduct business via AF1 (despite the troubles they had that day) and the major military command and control operations facilities elsewhere in the country such as the US Strategic Command Center in Nebraska (which is where he ended up) shouldn't be taken seriously. Many people advised him not to return to DC. Many accounts of that day state the President had the desire to return.

[Wilms]

3. You pull your head ever so slightly out of the sand and that's all you have to say?

"Nobody should bother reading that site after seeing Q1." Wow? You scared? It's the 9/11 Commission's web site. Ya know, the ones who put out the Konspiracy theory the stenographers duly noted.

[SnakeEyes]

4. No it's not the 9/11 commission's site...

It's a group of some 9/11 victims's family members, calling themselves the "Family Steering Committee", that have bought into truther nonsense and want the 9/11 commission to ask their questions.

If you're going to link to that stuff you really should know what you're actually linking too.