Sibel Edmonds and Daniel Pearl
Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds'
Initial Allegations Of A Bush Administration 911 Cover-Up
Made The Front Page
Of The Independent (UK) In April 2004
Then She Went On The Record As Far As She Dared With More Background
In An Interview With The Baltimore Chronicle
Edmonds Claims She Has Seen FBI
Documents That Reveal Which Publicly Unnamed Countries Were Involved In 911 And Their
Connection To Figures Within The US
But She Is Being Prevented From Naming Names By A Justice Department Gagging Order
Why? Is One Of The Countries Involved Pakistan?
Why Did The 911 Commission Not
Ask FBI Chief Robert Mueller About Pakistan's Lieutenant-General Mahmoud Ahmad (see below) When Mueller Appeared In Public Before
The Panel In April Despite The Fact The FBI Holds Evidence Against Mahmoud For His Alleged
Involvement In 911? Why Is Mahmoud Not Under Arrest?
And Was Daniel Pearl On This 911 Trail Before He Was Murdered In Pakistan In
2002?
Below Is An Account From His Widow
"The Boston Globe reported that [post 911 shoe bomber Richard] Reid had
visited the Karachi home of Sheikh Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, an apparently respected spiritual leader.... After weeks of trying to
track down Gilani through
intermediaries, Danny finally seems to have secured an interview with him. They are to
meet early this evening... [When Danny fails to return] We scan his calendar and emails.
'Chaudrey Bashir Ahmad Shabbir', I read out loud... We study the messages intently, not
yet able to grasp their full significance.... He's the one who was to introduce Danny to
Gilani... Bashir and Danny have obviously been in touch for a while... We Google
'Gilani'.... Gilani founded the group [Jamaat al-Fuqra] in Brooklyn, New York, twenty odd
years ago, and since then, cells of radical Muslims, mostly African-Americans, have spread
across the U.S..... He has brought more than a hundred American disciples to Pakistan for
religious and military training.... Did Danny know all this? Did he know that 'terrorism
specialists suspect that Fuqra is supported - or at least condoned - by influential
Pakistani government officials'? Or that Gilani has been suspected of having ties to the
terrorists who bombed the World Trade Centre in 1993.... Danny has downloaded the January
6 Boston Globe article that prompted his pursuit of Gilani [which says] 'Gilani has sent
young men to wage jihad against Indian rule in Kashmir, against the Russians in Chechnya,
Serbs in Bosnia, and to fight Israelis.'... the article...quoted Khalid Khawaja, a close friend of
Gilani... A former Pakistani intelligence agent and air force officer, Khawaja loves
nothing more than to entertain journalists, especially Americans. He loves to watch their
faces when he tells them he is a friend of Osama bin Laden. Danny and I have interviewed
Khawaja several times, as has Asra..... One day she joined him and as they walked, he
described how he, along with influential Pakistani-American
businessman Mansur Ejaz and former CIA chief James
Woolsey, had tried to hammer out an
agreement that would have averted war between the United States and the Taliban... We first came to Karachi four month's ago:
September 12, 2001. We flew in from
New Delhi.... We had witnessed the [911] attacks almost as they had happened on CNN ... We were here to ask the big questions: Who was
responsible for the attacks? Who financed them? Who protected the terrorists?.... [After Danny doesn't return] we make a large
chart to help us keep the names straight... At the centre of a large piece of white paper,
we write DANNY. Alongside his name, we write 'Sheikh Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani'. We add
Bashir's name, and Siddique's. Then we start going further afield, adding Khalid Khawaja
and Manzur Ejaz, the well-connected
Pakistani-American businessman who suggested Danny contact Khawaja.... I flip through
stacks of his [Danny's] little notebooks... they've been recorded in the short-hand Danny
invented as a journalism student at Standford. I cannot decipher it. In time I'll come to
find that no one can. The FBI will hire some of the world's greatest code breakers to try
to decipher the singular Pearl shorthand. No one will crack it... I am sick of dirty
souls, cops, intelligence agents, and so-called journalists.... Of course, when it
comes to intelligence agencies, lying is the coin of the realm.... And this holds true in
every country, under every regime, whether the agency is Pakistan's ISI, India's RAW,
Russia's FSB, or the CIA.... The pieces suddenly snap together... Bashir, the man
who lured Danny into the trap, is Omar Sheikh... In Danny's ThinkPad, I discover a bit
about Omar Saeed Sheikh. When it was uncovered that Omar had allegedly
funnelled $100,000 to Mohammed Atta,
Danny had his assistant in India pull together and email him more information on Omar...
while Omar may have been our original target [in our search for Danny], in truth he's just
one in a massively complicated chain... ultimately he is a tool. But whose? It's become clear that Omar doesn't know where
Danny is. That's never been his role. He was the lure; others are the captors.... who is overseeing it all? Who pulls the strings?... I am amazed to find how much is
circulating out there about Omar and his apparent links to both Al Qaeda and the ISI.... In October, the FBI were looking for a link between
Omar Saeed Sheikh and the then director of the ISI, Lieutenant General Mahmood Ahmed. They
wanted to know who instructed Omar to wire the $100,000 to Mohammed Atta. I read that
Ahmed had been dismissed as head of the ISI by President Musharraf on October 7, 2001. So it appeared Omar may have associated with the
head of ISI and Al Qaeda. He surrendered to another former ISI officer who held him in
custody for a week until just one day before Musharraf met with President Bush....
Questions bounce back and forth in my brain like a Ping-Pong ball gone wild. The
distinctions between good and bad, government organisations and terrorist organisations,
are not simply fading: they seem to be faces of the same coin. Did Musharraf know Omar was
in custody? Could he not know? The CIA (God only knows what their position is here) didn't
know?....[Later] I try to ask Musharraf about ISI and Omar's disappearance in the week of
February. Instead, he steers the discussion towards [other subjects].... Omar Sheikh and
his three accomplices are being tried in the antiterrorism court in Pakistan...The Wall St
Journal, which hates the idea of me going back to Pakistan, is pressuring me not to
testify. I am frustrated because they won't send a representative from the newspaper, and
I feel one of us should be there. I want Danny represented in court. I end up talking to a
lawyer for the Journal who tells me, 'This is your case, not ours'... [Later] we developed
a clearer understanding of the cells involved in [Danny's] kidnapping and death. We
already knew about the first cell, that of Omar Saeed Sheikh and his three accomplices...
Eventually there were four convictions. Adil, Suleiman, and Fahad were found guilty and
sentenced to life in jail. Omar Saeed Sheikh: death by hanging.....
Memon was the person who authorities believe brought 'the three Arabs' who, we came to
learn, comprised the third cell - the
cell which did the actual killing....
One of the arrested Pakistanis from cell number two has claimed that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the third-highest ranking
member of Al Qaeda, was not only one of the Arabic speakers but was the actual executioner
[of Danny]. Mohammed was arrested on
March 1, 2003, in Rawalpindi, and as of this writing is...'a guest' of the CIA, being held
at an undisclosed location..."
'A Mighty Heart' by Mariane Pearl, widow of Daniel
Virago
Press, 2003
Who Are James
Woolsey And Mansur Ejaz? - Click Here
Some Key
Unanswered Questions
* Why is Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed not being tried for the murder of Daniel Pearl?
* Why has Omar Sheikh, a British citizen, been sentenced to be hanged for a murder
Pearl's widow
thinks he did not commit?
* Why has the British Foreign Office welcomed Sheikh's conviction
when even the BBC
has reported that he
has not had a fair trial?
* Why is Omar Sheikh not being tried for his alleged role in 911 before he is
executed?
* Why is the US not demanding the arrest and trial of Lt General Mahmood Ahmed?
* Why is the role of Sheikh and Mahmood in 911 being covered up, and why was
Mahmood meeting with Bush administration officials in Washington immediately before, during, and after 911?
* Why did the CIA
not show any interest in a pre-911 tip off from a one of its own former leading agents
that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was planning to hijack planes (below)?
* Why did the Justice Department not show any interest when the same source
informed them that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was Pearl's killer, not Omar Sheikh (below)?
* Why is the Justice Department gagging Sibel Edmonds?
Fore More
Information In Relation To The Above Questions See
"The Omar Sheikh
Files"
Click Here
"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
(Mirrored copy - click here)
"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 ....
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, Reid 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.' Another
former 30-year veteran of CIA confirmed Baer's account. He asked that his name not be
used, but he endorsed Baer: 'I'm surprised Baer is on the record, but he really knows his
stuff on this.' Baer said that he believes it was
Mohammed who had Pearl killed. 'I have heard from (intelligence) people who follow this
closely that it was people close to Mohammad that killed him, if it wasn't Mohammed
himself,' he said....The
director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, Josef
Bodansky, told UPI emphatically, 'Mohammed was Pearl's killer. An Algerian actually did
the job, but Mohammed gave the order for the killing. There's no question about it,' he
said. Bodansky said Mohammed also has ties to Pakistan's
Inter-Service Intelligence agency, which he said had
acted to shield him in the past. 'Mohammed was running operations right in Karachi,' said
Bodansky."
UPI Exclusive: Pearl tracked al Qaida
United
Press International, 30 September 2002
(Mirrored copy - click here)
Click here
for full UPI report including disclosure that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the killer of
Pearl not Omar Sheikh |
