Robert Baer

"Also opposed to another conflict in the Gulf is Robert Baer, a former CIA agent who was wrongly accused by the FBI of plotting to murder Saddam. In fact, he had been involved in a plot by Kurds and Iraqi dissidents to unseat the Iraqi dictator [during the Clinton administration] - encouraging an uprising which was brutally crushed by the Iraqi leader. But he is against another war in Iraq, believing it will create massive instability in the region. 'What we're inviting is World War Three. In the Middle East. It's too late to invade Iraq a second time,' he said. "
Robert Baer Interviewed By BBC Panorama On Iraq War - Click Here

"Yousef was captured in Pakistan following the discovery by police in the Philippines in January 1995 of the Manila air plot, which envisioned placing bombs on board a dozen trans-Pacific airliners and setting them off simultaneously. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed—Yousef ’s uncle,then located in Qatar—was a fellow plotter of Yousef ’s in the Manila air plot and had also wired him some money prior to the [1993 World] Trade Center bombing. The U.S. Attorney obtained an indictment against KSM in January 1996, but an official in the government of Qatar probably warned him about it. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed evaded capture (and stayed at large to play a central part in the 9/11 attacks)."
THE 9/11COMMISSION REPORT, JULY 2004 (p.73)

"Bob Baer, a former case officer in the [CIA's] Directorate of Operations, said he provided [subsequently murdered Wall St Journal reporter Daniel] Pearl with unpublished information about Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has since been accused by American officials of being one of the masterminds of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and a top aide to Osama bin Laden. .... According to Baer, he was first informed of Mohammed's role as a key aide to terrorist mastermind bin Laden as early as December 1997 when he met a former police chief from Doha, Qatar, at a dinner in Damascus. In 1997, Baer had left the agency to become a consultant in Beirut. Terrorism was Baer's field and Baer began to meet the ex-Doha police chief from time to time. The ex-Doha police chief, who Baer declined to identify by name, told Baer that during the course of his work he found that there was a bin Laden cell in Qatar, being sheltered by the Qatari government. The two main members of the cell were Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Shawqui Islambuli.....what worried the former police chief was the fact that Mohammed and Islambuli were experts in hijacking commercial planes. The ex-police chief told Baer that Mohammed 'is going to hijack some planes.'.The ex-police chief said his basis for this was evidence developed by police and Qatari intelligence.... Baer sent this information to a friend in the CIA Counter-terrorist Center who forwarded the information to his superiors. Baer heard nothing. 'There was no interest,' he said.... After Pearl's murder [for which Omar Sheikh has been unfairly tried and convicted], Baer said, he took his information about Mohammed to the Justice Department, but again, as with the agency, he never received a call nor did the department express any interest."
UPI Exclusive: Pearl tracked al Qaida
United Press International, 30 September 2002"

"Last Thursday, a senior White House official called Mariane Pearl and Paul Steiger, the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, to report a new, key development in the investigation into the death of Mariane's husband, Journal reporter Daniel Pearl..... Although American officials first denied that [Khalid Sheikh] Mohammed had anything to do with Pearl's killing, this week they confirmed that they now believe he was responsible. But that revelation raises more questions than it answers. The full investigation into Danny's death could well proceed in directions that will make both Pakistan and U.S. investigators uncomfortable..... Until now, Omar Saeed Sheikh, the young Pakistani London School of Economics dropout who was sentenced to death in July 2002 for organizing the Pearl kidnapping, had been identified as the ringleader of a carefully assembled alliance of extremist Muslim militants working in at least four different terrorist cells. Mohammed would link Omar Sheikh more explicitly to the wider and more sinister al-Qaida network. The question, though, is whether this will lead to an even more troubling connection: between al-Qaida and Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, which has been linked to Omar Sheikh. As Mariane says, 'When the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed name first came up, the obvious questions were what was his link to Omar Sheikh and what was his link to ISI? Those are the questions we have to answer now, and there are more. What is the direct link between Omar Sheikh and 9/11? Is Omar Sheikh a main player in 9/11? Should there be more charges against him?....'... the news that Mohammed killed Pearl doesn't explain his motive. What would make al-Qaida target the Wall Street Journal's Asian bureau chief? There are several theories. Robert Baer, a former case officer with the CIA's directorate of operations, believes Pearl had begun to pursue Mohammed as a story for the Journal. Baer says Pearl called him the day after the Sept. 11 attack to talk about possible culprits, and that he told the reporter about Mohammed's role as a key aide to bin Laden going back to 1997. He also told Pearl, Baer says, that the government of Qatar protected Mohammed and would have information about his activities. After Danny's murder, Baer said that an official in the Qatar government told him that Danny had called the Foreign Ministry for information about Mohammed.... the immediate questions that need to be answered are in Pakistan. And getting straight answers from anyone in ISI -- protected by proxies in the press -- will be difficult.... After Danny originally went missing, Mariane and I hunted through the house looking for clues. I found a photo on Danny's computer of us, shortly after we all met up in Pakistan. He had a particularly befuddled look on his face, and had created an appropriate caption for the photo: 'Clueless in Karachi.' It turned out to be an apt description of all of us in Karachi, and of the complicated nature of relationships between Muslim extremists and their political and financial sponsors that Danny stumbled into. That is what must be explored further in order to learn who planned, financed and pulled off the kidnapping and murder of Danny. Even with the apparent admission of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the job is not done."
Asra Nomani, who was living with Daniel Pearl and his wife Mariane at the time of his death
Who really killed Danny Pearl?
Salon.com, 22 October 2003

"Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was investigating the man who allegedly planned the Sept. 11 airplane hijackings and attacks on New York and Washington when he was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan, according to two former Central Intelligence Agency officials. Bob Baer, a former case officer in the agency's Directorate of Operations, said he provided Pearl with unpublished information about Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has since been accused by American officials of being one of the masterminds of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and a top aide to Osama bin Laden. Mohammed is currently the operational chief of al Qaida, other U.S. intelligence officials said. Next to bin Laden, Mohammed is one of the most wanted terrorists in the world. 'I was working with Pearl,' said Baer, who has written a book about his time as a CIA official and has acted as a consultant and source for numerous media outlets. 'We had a joint project. Mohammed was the story he was working on, not Richard Reid.'... Shortly after Pearl's kidnapping and subsequent murder in Karachi, Pakistan last winter, it was reported he was tracing the background of Reid, who was seized on a Boston-bound American Airlines jet from Paris allegedly trying to ignite explosive in his shoes. According to that account, [Pearl] had gone to Karachi to contact a man called Sheik Mubarek Gilani to get information on Reid. Baer said that instead Pearl was onto bigger and more dangerous game. 'I urged him to go to Pakistan to look into Shaikh Mohammed.'.... Pakistani intelligence sources told UPI that Mohammed, the man Pearl was actually trying to track down, also had links to Gilani and his party.... On July 15, an anti-terrorism court in the southern Pakistani city of Hyderabad convicted four men for kidnapping and murdering Pearl. The suspected ringleader, British-born Pakistani Ahmad Omar Saeed Shaikh, better known as Shaikh Omar, was sentenced to death while three others were sent to jail for life. Throughout the trial, Omar maintained that -- although he knew how and by who Pearl had been killed -- he was not himself responsible.... According to Baer, he was first informed of Mohammed's role as a key aide to terrorist mastermind bin Laden as early as December 1997 when he met a former police chief from Doha, Qatar, at a dinner in Damascus. In 1997, Baer had left the agency to become a consultant in Beirut. Terrorism was Baer's field and Baer began to meet the ex-Doha police chief from time to time.... The ex-police chief told Baer that Mohammed 'is going to hijack some planes.' The ex-police chief said his basis for this was evidence developed by police and Qatari intelligence.... Baer sent this information to a friend in the CIA Counter-terrorist Center who forwarded the information to his superiors. Baer heard nothing. 'There was no interest,' he said. Baer said he was frustrated and called Pearl.... Baer said to his annoyance, Pearl did not begin to work on the story. Nothing was done until the day of the Sept. 11 attacks when Pearl called to talk to Baer. Baer said he gave Pearl all the old information he had and new information he had since obtained -- for example, that there are files on Mohammed in the Qatari Embassy in London. Baer said he and Pearl then 'began to work together' -- in other words, Pearl would get info and check it out with Baer and Baer would feed Pearl what he was getting. It was 'a joint project,' said Baer. Baer was giving direction, but Pearl's contacts were not confined to Baer. After Pearl's murder, Baer said, he took his information about Mohammed to the Justice Department, but again, as with the agency, he never received a call nor did the department express any interest."
UPI Exclusive: Pearl tracked al Qaida
United Press International, 30 September 2002

Click here for full UPI report including the original disclosure that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the killer of Pearl not Omar Sheikh

More Media References For Omar Sheikh, Pearl, Lt Gen Ahmed, And KSM saga - Click Here

'The Pakistan connection'
There is evidence of foreign intelligence backing for the 9/11 hijackers. Why is the US government so keen to cover it up?
Michael Meacher
Thursday July 22, 2004
The Guardian - Click Here For Full Article

'Smoking Gun'
9/11 Commission Report One Year On
Key Witnesses Blatantly 'Overlooked'
In Official Cover-Up Of 9/11 Money Trail
www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WAT911OmmissionReport.htm
John O'Neill, John Pistole, Robert Wright, Sibel Edmonds,
Lt General Mahmood, Omar Sheikh, Daniel Pearl, Robert Baer
The Inner Secrets Of 9/11
Are Held By The FBI

Wanted 'Dead Or Alive' Evidence Omitted From The Official 9/11 Report From Watergate To 9/11 The Truth Resides Within The Ranks Of The FBI Including 3 Hours Of Personal Testimony From Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Why Was None Of This Covered In The Official 9/11Report? The Omission Of Key Evidence Is The 'Smoking Gun' Clue Of The 9/11 Report Below Are Some of The People Who Held Crucial Missing Elements Of The 9/11Story But Whose Pivotal Knowledge Was Not Reported By The Official 9/11Commission Even Though Known By Witnesses Within The FBI

John O'Neill - FBI (Dead)	John Pistole - FBI (Alive)	Robert Wright - FBI (Alive)	Sibel Edmonds - FBI (Alive)

Lt General Mahmoud - ISI (Alive)	Omar Sheikh - ISI (Death Sentence)	Daniel Pearl - WSJ (Dead)	Robert Baer - Ex CIA (Alive)
Click Here To Read Details Of Their Missing Evidence