From BCCI to ISI: The Saga of Entrapment Continues (Paperback)

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Musharraf was as much part of the big plan, including the framing of ISI as his associates in the United States. We recommend a study of evidence to prove the conclusions of this book right are coming before us with increasing frequency. 

This book proves that ISI was used in Operation 9/11 and that information was used to threaten and blackmail Pakistan. General Musharraf admitted on September 21, 2006 -- five years after 9/11 and 2 months after publication of this book -- that the US threatened him into submission.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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In this book, the author digs up the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) issue to show how the Bank became a victim of a grand entrapment process by the U.S. government and how that process continues till this day.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Pragmatic Publishings (July 14, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0973368764
• ISBN-13: 978-0973368765
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,013,610 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lunatic Ravings of a Racist Psycho, May 8, 2009

By	Carmi Turchick "tribalypredisposed" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Found this book on the shelves of the local university library. Took it home and attempted to read it. Amazingly poorly written and completely unedited, this book is forced to make huge leaps from paragraph to paragraph because the argument the author is attempting to make is unsupportable.
If one makes the effort to examine his "sources" one finds that many of them are nothing more than websites that no longer even exist (I recognized a few from years ago as having been anti-semitic hate sites, which likely is why they no longer exist). One further finds that the author himself must be a raving racist lunatic when he tells the reader that it is "crucial" for their understanding of 9/11 that they read works by Adolph Hitler, "The World Jew" by Henry Ford, and some racist vomit by Charles Lindbergh.
As the last "journalist" to interview Osama Bin Laden this book from this author makes me pretty sure he was not simply a neutral party when he was allowed access to OBL.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Authentic and credible, October 28, 2006

By	Michael "Michael" (Canada) - See all my reviews

The involvemnet of ISI in operation 9/11 is clearly proved in this work. The beauty of the case lies in the fact that all the 288 refrences to support the argument are from the mainstream media. 288 references for just 160 pages are good enough to show that nothing is hidden. We only need to shift our focus and put two and two togethr to see four. The author's claim that General Musharraf was blackmailed by the US has come true with Musharraf's partial admissions that he was threatened by the U.S. However, that remains a partial fact. The rest we can find in tis book as to how ISI was used as a tool in 9/11 and how the subsequent information was used to force Pakistan into full submission with firing a shot.

5 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Preface of the book, July 20, 2006

By	Analyst "ICSSA.org" (ICSSA.org) - See all my reviews

Preface of the Book

Preface

"There's so much more. God, there's so much more. A lot more."


FBI agent, Robert Wright, who is officially prevented from telling the public about how his supervisors blocked his efforts to investigate al-Qaeda pre-9/11. `Called off the trial?' ABC News, December 19, 2002.

ENTRAPMENT is the illegal and unsavory practice of luring someone into committing a crime, and then prosecuting him for it. Sometimes the entrapped person, organization, or state has no intention or knowledge of the committed crime. The target becomes a victim of a set-up by government agencies, criminal elements, or a collaboration of both, all intent on achieving unstated objectives. Various agencies within the U.S. Government have been using entrapment in diverse ways.

"Frame-ups" in drug "conspiracies" are routine in the United States: there are literally thousands of drug-related conspiracy cases in the United States in which innocent people are implicated and punished. Arnold S. Trebach writes in his book, The Great Drug War: "In many of these cases, the DEA allowed some of its informants to traffic in drugs in exchange for turning in their friends and supplying other information. In too many cases, Gieringer claimed, DEA agents themselves directly engaged in trafficking."1

Trapping innocent people is routine in the United States, and is by no means limited to crimes involving drugs. James Bovard gives numerous examples in his famous book: Lost Rights. Based upon his many years of research he concludes: "During the past fifteen years, law enforcement officials have set up thousands of elaborate schemes to entrap people for `crimes' such as buying plant supplies, asking for a job, or shooting a deer. Dozens of private accountants have become double agents, receiving government kickbacks for betraying their clients to IRS."2

At the highest level, the classic example of entrapment, before Operation 9/11 to frame Osama bin Laden and company, was operation "C-Chase" in 1988, the purpose of which was to frame the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) and force its closure. Operation 9/11 is more complex because during this operation, Pakistan's military intelligence agency (ISI) was entrapped while playing a role in facilitating 9/11.

Frame-ups are not a new idea for U.S. agencies. During the heyday of the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), the FBI routinely used entrapment against members of the civil rights and antiwar movements. In a later, and much publicized, case known as Abscam, the FBI (at the behest of the Justice Department) used agents posing as Arab businessmen to bribe various public officials in return for political favors. Writing in Governing magazine in 1998, Alan Ehrenhalt wrote, "Before the Abscam sting against members of Congress in 1980, the idea of inventing crimes and using them to tempt public officials was virtually unheard of in this country."3

If the FBI and U.S. Justice Department have no problem orchestrating witch hunts against public officials at home, what can we expect of them when it comes to safeguarding the country from the scourge of "international terrorism" from abroad? Especially when the neo-conservatives and religiously motivated officials of the current administration are determined to make invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and beyond their highest priority.

The specter of "Islamic" terrorism gave U.S. agencies and other actors a perfect excuse to return to the good old days of entrapment operations. In their 2001 book, The COINTELPRO Papers, Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall suggest that, following the merging of the CIA and FBI, we can likely expect more spurious terror scams, entrapment scenarios, and heavy-handed surveillance of political "targets" at home.4 Churchill and Vander's work shows that entrapment and "setting up" are part of the U.S. agencies' daily routine. At the international level, and as recently as the year 2000, the CIA tried to entrap Iran. Code-named operation Merlin, the CIA used a Russian scientist to sell nuclear blueprints--technical designs for a TBA 480 high-voltage block--to Iranian representatives at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).5

After the BCCI incident, the second historical frame-up involved Operation 9/11. The first part of Operation 9/11 was to plan and execute the actual 9/11 attacks, and the second part was to frame Arabs in Afghanistan to pave the way for a war of aggression and occupation of the country. Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) was not only a partner in the crime but also a victim of the entrapment. We do not know whether the ISI was knowingly involved in the set-up of 9/11 or if it unknowingly played a role in the bigger operation without realizing its full scope. What we do know, from information available in the public domain, is that the ISI was, nevertheless, fully involved in the initial set-up phases of Operation 9/11. Washington has already been blackmailing Pakistan as a result. However, Pakistan has yet to face the full consequences of the ISI's collaboration with the CIA.

Other than the authors and promoters of the official conspiracy theory surrounding 9/11, most people have concluded that the 9/11 hijackers did not act of their own volition, nor did the World Trade Centre Towers and World Trade Centre 7 building collapse solely due to the impact of "hijacked" planes and subsequent fires. However, a minority of people still accept the `official' version publicized globally by the media. Considering the life-style of Muslims implicated in the 9/11 attacks, and the fact that they are known to have consumed alcohol at a bar the night before 9/11, it is possible that the hijackers may not even have known that they were going to die the next morning--never mind the assertion that they were preparing to die as martyrs the next day. Even Muslims of the weakest faith would not visit nightclubs and consume alcohol when they knew they would shortly die, let alone those who were presented as Muslim fanatics, willing to sacrifice their lives for Islam with an attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.

The evidence discussed in this book suggests that the `hijackers' were used as tools in a carefully planned intelligence operation. The evidence confirms that the Taliban and Osama bin Laden were closely linked to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI). Amply documented, the ISI, in turn, owes its existence to the CIA:

With CIA backing and massive amounts of U.S. military aid, the ISI developed [since the early 1980s] into a parallel structure wielding enormous power over all aspects of government... The ISI had a staff composed of military and intelligence officers, bureaucrats, undercover agents and informers estimated at 150,000.6

The ISI actively collaborates with the CIA. It continues to perform the role of a `go-between' in numerous intelligence operations on behalf of the CIA. The ISI had, and still has, access to considerable funding from the CIA. According to Selig Harrison, a leading American expert on South Asia with access to CIA officials, distribution of these funds has been left to the discretion of the ISI itself with whom "The CIA still has close links." Harrison spoke to an audience of security experts in London at a conference on "Terrorism and regional security: Managing the challenges of Asia" in the last week of February, just before the Taliban's destruction of the Buddha statues of Bamiyan. As a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1974 to 1996, he had been in close contact with the CIA.7

The ISI directly supported and financed a number of operations and organizations without realizing the seeds of destruction it was sowing for Pakistan. Mossad (the Israeli government's intelligence agency) also became involved in these operations, in order to have access to the structure and operations of the ISI and Pakistan's military. These are the lesser well-known facts.

The growing body of evidence suggests that the ISI was actively involved in part of Operation 9/11, where it was required to use its intelligence assets to frame Osama bin Laden for the planned 9/11 attacks. An elaborate operation was undertaken to develop evidence, linking Arabs to the 9/11 attacks, to pave the way for the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. A transfer of funds to the lead hijacker on the orders of the ISI chief is just one piece of the bigger picture. The FBI had this information--they knew exactly who was transferring funds to whom. Less than two weeks later, Agence France Presse (AFP) confirmed the FBI's findings. According to the AFP report, the money used to finance the 9/11 attacks had allegedly been "wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan, by Ahmad Umar Sheikh, at the instance of [ISI Chief] General Mahmood [Ahmad]."8 Dennis Lormel, director of the FBI's Financial Crimes Unit, has confirmed that Saeed Sheikh transferred $100,000 to Mohammed Atta at the behest of General Mahmood Ahmed, head of the ISI, before the New York attacks.9 According to the AFP (quoting the intelligence source): "The evidence we have supplied to the U.S. is of a much wider range and depth than just one piece of paper linking a rogue general to some misplaced act of terrorism."10

The questions remain: What did the U.S. government do with the information provided by the FBI and other sources with regard to the ISI's involvement in 9/11? Why has there been no meaningful action and investigation? Why are U.S. officials not telling the truth? In a May 16, 2002 press conference on the role of General Mahmood Ahmad, a journalist asked Condoleezza Rice about her awareness of... Read more ›