{"id":575,"date":"2004-07-25T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2004-07-25T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=575"},"modified":"2004-07-25T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2004-07-25T17:22:30","slug":"why-the-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Why the cover up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>buermann of <a href=\"http:\/\/flagrancy.net\/\">Flagrancy to Reason<\/a> points to this July 22 <i>Guardian Unlimited<\/i> report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/usa\/story\/0,12271,1266520,00.html\">which states<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Omar Sheikh, a British-born Islamist militant, is waiting to be hanged in Pakistan for a murder he almost certainly didn&#8217;t commit &#8211; of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. Both the US government and Pearl&#8217;s wife have since acknowledged that Sheikh was not responsible. Yet the Pakistani government is refusing to try other suspects newly implicated in Pearl&#8217;s kidnap and murder for fear the evidence they produce in court might acquit Sheikh and reveal too much. <\/p>\n<p>Significantly, Sheikh is also the man who, on the instructions of General Mahmoud Ahmed, the then head of Pakistan&#8217;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?<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed, the paymaster for the hijackers, was actually in Washington on 9\/11, and had a series of pre-9\/11 top-level meetings in the White House, the Pentagon, the national security council, and with George Tenet, then head of the CIA, and Marc Grossman, the under-secretary of state for political affairs. When Ahmed was exposed by the Wall Street Journal as having sent the money to the hijackers, he was forced to &#8220;retire&#8221; by President Pervez Musharraf. Why hasn&#8217;t the US demanded that he be questioned and tried in court?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Omar Sheikh and Mahmoud Ahmed are names that don&#8217;t appear once in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/pdf\/911finalreport.pdf\">9\/11 final report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I have the spelling wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>buermann of Flagrancy to Reason points to this July 22 Guardian Unlimited report which states: Omar Sheikh, a British-born Islamist militant, is waiting to be hanged in Pakistan for a murder he almost certainly didn&#8217;t commit &#8211; of the Wall &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=575\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-9h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}