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| Two former ISI officers, journalist missing from Kohat |
| 2010-04-06 |
| [Dawn] Two former officials of the premier intelligence agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), and a free lance journalist have gone missing in suspicious circumstances from Kohat. Family sources of the missing ISI officials Col (retired) Imam and Sq Leader (retired) Khalid Khawaja revealed that these officers were assisting the free lance journalist Asad Qureshi who was making a documentary on Taliban and Al-Qaeda. They were on way back to their homes after having a meeting with the Taliban leadership in tribal areas when they were allegedly picked up by unknown people. It is yet not clear who kidnapped them. However, it is pertinent to mention that both the former ISI officers were having close relations with Taliban and Al-Qaeda leadership. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Khalid Khawaja is a citizen of Pakistan and a former Air Force officer and former Officer of the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence agency.[2] Khawaja describes himself as a close associate of Osama bin Laden in the early days of the Afghan resistance against the Soviet Union We don't believe in killing innocent people, but we would certainly like to send you into the Stone Age the same way you have sent us into the Stone Age...a slave normally hates his master ” —Khalid Khawaja, 2005 |
| Posted by: john frum 2010-04-06 08:45 |
| #1 From wiki Brigadier Amir Sultan Tarar, better known as Colonel Imam, is a veteran Pakistan Army and Inter-Services Intelligence officer and former Pakistani Consul General at Herat.[1] He is widely believed to have played a key role in the formation of the Taliban, after having helped train the Afghan Mujahidin on behalf of the United States in the 1980s.[2] Colonel Imam, who is a commando-Guerrilla warfare specialist, has trained Mullah Omar and other Taliban factions. Colonel Imam remained active in Afghanistan's civil war until 2001 U. S. led War on Terrorism, and still supports the Taliban. He is a graduate of Pakistan Military Academy , Kakul ; and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA. He still independently supports the Taliban independance movement in Afghanistan After the Soviet defeat and the collapse of communism, Colonel Imam was invited to the White House by the then President George Bush Sr, and was given a piece of the Berlin Wall with a brass plaque inscribed: "To the one who dealt the first blow." Today, western intelligence agencies believe Imam is among a group of renegade officers from Pakistan's ISI who continued to help the Taliban after Pakistan turned against them following the attacks of September 11, 2001 |
| Posted by: john frum 2010-04-06 08:43 |