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> On the morning of September 11, 2001, Goss and Graham were having breakfast with General Ahmad [head of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)]

Secondary source for the $100k money transfer from the ISI head to Atta:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jul/22/usa.september1...

> Significantly, Sheikh is also the man who, on the instructions of General Mahmoud Ahmed, the then head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), wired $100,000 before the 9/11 attacks to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker. It is extraordinary that neither Ahmed nor Sheikh have been charged and brought to trial on this count. Why not?

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The ISI has also been implicated in giving harbor to Al Qaeda (like with bin Laden) and the Taliban (helping them rebuild and take over Afghanistan again). Between these and near constant state supported terrorism against India, how is it that Pakistan has escaped all accountability and public scrutiny? I would love to learn more about the foreign policy or diplomatic dynamics that may be involved here.

Jesus. How did they get away with genocide?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide

> Task Force 74 was a task force assembled from the Seventh Fleet of the United States Navy that was deployed to the Bay of Bengal by the Nixon administration in December 1971, at the height of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_74

US administration at the time supported Pakistan in that war.

The genocide isn’t even acknowledged:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/genocide-us-cant-reme...

reading that: wtf (never heard about this)

I have also never heard about it and am shocked that I have not given how high the death count is.

Ask Indira.

They exchanged 1971 captives for 1965 captives

Read "Directorate S" by Steve Coll.

Here is the reason https://www.nti.org/learn/countries/pakistan/nuclear/ . Pakistan has nukes making it untouchable and unmentionable. Media doesnt even try to link Pakistan with Taliban and super quick fall of Afghanistan.

Reason they have nukes: Because China more or less gave them to the country, in an utterly irresponsible move in a game of asian geopolitical chess.

And then AQ Khan sold nuke know-how to Iran and North Korea. Play stupid games...

The Dutch gave the nuclear tech to Pakistan. https://www.ft.com/content/be09ba7c-b0d8-45e4-aff8-bf01b4aa5...

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