Apr 08, 2004: Pakistan: The Masters of Jihad
	A must read and worth circulating report....... ----------- Welcome to Pakistan: It's Bush country and at the same time it's bin Laden country: a close ally of the United States, but also an incubator for Islamist terrorism. The Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche calls Pakistan "the world's most dangerous country," and CIA advisor Robert Galluci says that it poses "the greatest threat to the future of the United States." Of the 620 suspected terrorists currently in detention at the US base in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, 540 were arrested on Pakistani soil. Former Pakistani chief of intelligence, Hamid Gul, promised Taliban leaders in July 1999 that he would give them "three to four hours of advance warning" prior to each planned American missile attack. "A few of my CIA counterparts, the US military and the Israeli Mossad must have been in the know about the attack on the Twin Towers." Otherwise, he says, why so long before the fighter jets took off? According to the most recent, unconfirmed report, bin Laden was sighted near the Pakistani border village of Arnawai, while crossing into Afghanistan's Kunar Province. Taliban leader Mullah Omar was injured during a US bombing attack. Pakistan: The Masters of Jihad http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/english/0,1518,294114,00.html By: ERICH FOLLATH Translated by Christopher Sultan A poorhouse and a nuclear power, an ally of the United States and an incubator for Islamist violence: Pakistan is a land of contradictions and poses a danger to the world. Washington is backing Musharraf, who indulges radical mullahs but allows the CIA's special forces to hunt for bin Laden. Betrayal, say the American members of congress. And the members of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States are convinced they know who the traitor is. In a report that is currently making waves in Washington, the politicians claim that the former Pakistani chief of intelligence, Hamid Gul, promised Taliban leaders in July 1999 that he would give them "three to four hours of advance warning" prior to each planned American missile attack. These are embarrassing allegations, especially at a time when everyone is talking about the Islamabad-Washington alliance and about Pakistan, the US' most important ally in George W. Bush's war on terrorism. Did the former chief of intelligence really betray Pakistan's American allies? Could it be that he is still doing so today, as Islamabad's elite troops, together with US military advisors, hunt down Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda compatriots in the wild, mountainous region along the border with Afghanistan, all the while encountering an astonishingly well-prepared enemy? ......... ............... ........................ ..............................