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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (51832)	7/23/2004 8:31:53 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Pak facilitated Osama: 9/11 report CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA The Times of India........ TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2004 12:07:55 PM ] WASHINGTON: Far more than Iraq or Iran, Pakistan played a frontline role in facilitating Osama bin Laden and the events leading up to the world's deadliest terrorist attack, the report of the 9/11 commission has revealed. A detailed reading of the 585-page report shows the inquiry has indicted Pakistan and its intelligence agencies in several places while obliquely criticizing Washington’s feckless handling of what was evidently a rogue terrorist state. US counterterrorism officials recommended tough action against Pakistan, including declaring it a terrorism sponsor state, but they were repeated overruled by State Department mandarins. At the very outset, in tracing the growth and movement of Osama bin Laden, the report says "It is unlikely that bin Laden would have returned to Afghanistan (from Sudan in 1996) had Pakistan disapproved." Even more damnably, the report says "the Pakistani military intelligence service probably had advanced knowledge of his coming, and its officers may have facilitated his travel." It also goes on to say "Pakistani intelligence officers reportedly introduced bin Laden to Taliban leaders in Kandahar...out of hope that he would...make his terrorist camps available for training Kashmir militants." Elsewhere, the 9/11 commission report notes that when National Security Adviser Sandy Berger wanted to send a U-2 surveillance plane to track bin Laden, it was opposed by Richard Clarke who wrote that this would require Pakistan’s approval and ''Pak intelligence is in bed with bin Laden'' and would warn him that the US was getting ready for a bombing campaign. Continued... see link below........... timesofindia.indiatimes.com