OK. (But I am *deeply surprised* that you wouldn't remember such recent --- and traumatic --- events):
Summer 2001: ISI Chief Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad transfers $100000 to ... Moreover, she must have been fully aware of the $100000 transfer to Mohammed Atta
www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO206A.html
... payments to Mohammed Atta with the help of saudi arabian credit institutes. ... On May 23rd, 2002 (in the meantime the Atta-ISI-story became worldwide ...
911review.org/Sept11Wiki/Atta-Isi.shtml
... US$100000 from Dubai to one of hijackers Mohammed Atta's two bank accounts in Florida. ... Not surprisingly, the Goss-ISI connection was ignored at his ...
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Porter_Goss
... the then head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), wired $100000 before the 9/11 attacks to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker. ...
www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1266317,00.html
India helped FBI trace ISI-terrorist links ... his removal after confirming the fact that $100000 were wired to wtc hijacker mohammed atta from pakistan by ...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1454238160.cms
etc., etc., etc.
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Wikipedia appears to confirm (per your suggestion) that there remains some, er, un-plumbed areas (deliberate obfuscation?) in the matter of this cash transfer to al Qaeda immediately prior to the 9-11 attacks:
Alleged connection to 9/11
On October 6, 2001, a senior-level U.S. government official told CNN that U.S. investigators had discovered Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (Sheik Syed), using the alias "Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad" had sent about $100,000 from the United Arab Emirates to Mohammed Atta. "Investigators said Atta then distributed the funds to conspirators in Florida in the weeks before the deadliest acts of terrorism on U.S. soil that destroyed the World Trade Center, heavily damaged the Pentagon and left thousands dead. In addition, sources have said Atta sent thousands of dollars -- believed to be excess funds from the operation -- back to Saeed in the United Arab Emirates in the days before September 11. CNN later confirmed this. [1]
The 9/11 Commission's Final Report states that the source of the funds "remains unknown."
More than a month after the money transfer was discovered, the head of ISI, General Mehmood Ahmed resigned from his position. [It was reported that the FBI was investigating the possibility that Gen. Ahmed ordered Saeed Sheikh to send the $100,000 to Atta [2]; there were also claims that Indian intelligence had already produced proof for the Pakistani administration that this was so.[citation needed]
The Wall Street Journal was one of the only Western news organizations to follow up on the story, citing the Times of India: "US authorities sought [Gen. Mehmood Ahmed's] removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 [was] wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the instance of Gen Mehmood."[3] Another Indian newspaper, the Daily Excelsior, quoting FBI sources, reported that the "FBI’s examination of the hard disk of the cellphone company Omar Sheikh had subscribed to led to the discovery of the "link" between him and the deposed chief of the Pakistani ISI, Gen. Mehmood Ahmed. And as the FBI investigators delved deep, sensational reports surfaced with regard to the transfer of 100,000 dollars to Mohammed Atta, one of the kamikaze pilots who flew his Boeing into the World Trade Centre. Gen. Mehmood Ahmed, the FBI investigators found, fully knew about the transfer of money to Atta."[4]
The Pittsburgh Tribune notes that "There are many in Musharraf's government who believe that Saeed Sheikh's power comes not from the ISI, but from his connections with our own CIA."[5]
Sheikh rose to prominence with the 2002 killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who at the time was in Pakistan investigating connnections between the ISI and Islamic militant groups. In Pakistan, Sheikh was sentenced to death for killing Pearl, however his complicity in the execution and the reasons behind it are in dispute.
A Wall Street Journal review of Bernard-Henri Levy's book “Who Killed Daniel Pearl?” notes, “It is a fact that Gen. Mehmood Ahmed, then head of the ISI, wired $100,000 to Mohamed Atta before 9/11 through an intermediary."[6]
[edit] Pearl kidnapping
Sheikh Omar Saeed was arrested by Pakistani police on February 12, 2002, in Lahore, in conjunction with the Pearl kidnapping,[12] He told the Pakistani court, however, that he had surrendered to the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency a week earlier.[13]
en.wikipedia.org
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The Wall Street Journal was one of the few Western news organizations to follow up on the story, citing the Times of India: "US authorities sought [Gen. Mahmud Ahmed's] removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 [was] wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the instance of Gen Mahumd."[6] The best coverage came from The Daily Excelsior, reporting "The FBI’s examination of the hard disk of the cellphone company Omar Sheikh had subscribed to led to the discovery of the "link" between him and the deposed chief of the Pakistani ISI, Gen. Mehmood Ahmed. And as the FBI investigators delved deep, sensational information surfaced with regard to the transfer of 100,000 dollars to Mohammed Atta, one of the Kamikaze pilots who flew his Boeing into the World Trade Centre. Gen. Mehmood Ahmed, the FBI investigators found, fully knew about the transfer of money to Atta."[7]
According to the Washington Post, "on the morning of Sept. 11, [Porter] Goss and [Bob] Graham were having breakfast with a Pakistani general named Mahmud Ahmed -- the soon-to-be-sacked head of Pakistan's intelligence service"[8] On September 12 and 13, Lt. Gen. Mahmood met with United States Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Senator Joseph Biden, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Secretary of State Colin Powell. An agreement on Pakistan's collaboration in the new "war on terror" was negotiated between Mahmood and Armitage.[9][10][11][12] Lt Gen Mehmood Ahmed then lead a six-member delegation to the Afghan city of Kandahar in order to hold crisis talks with the Taliban leadership, supposedly in an attempt to persuade them to hand over Osama bin Laden.[13]
en.wikipedia.org
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Armitage, The ISI and 911 Hijacker Mohammed Atta
It's hard to believe high echelons of the CIA and FBI were not aware of the direct link between the ISI and alleged chief hijacker Mohammed Atta. ...
www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/armitageISIatta.htm
CRG -- Cover-up or Complicity of the Bush Administration? The Role ...
The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence (ISI) in the September 11 ..... Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the instance of Gen. ...
www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html
... CNN says, “Suspected hijacker Mohammed Atta received wire transfers via ... October 7, 2001: ISI Director Replaced at US Urging; Role in Funding 9/11 ...
www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a0summer01mahmoodcalls
Complete 911 Timeline: ISI Director Mahmood Ahmed
Mahmood Ahmed, director of the Pakistani ISI since October 1999 (see October ..... CNN says, “Suspected hijacker Mohammed Atta received wire transfers via ...
cooperativeresearch.org
The head of the ISI during 9/11, Mahmood Ahmed, is reportedly the money man behind Mohammed Atta, the supposed lead hijacker. Mahmood Ahmed was even in ...
www.911truthualbany.org/isi.html
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