Posted on 03/28/2004 1:36:20 PM PST by alnick
Please forgive the vanity, but I've done a search and cannot find any reference to this.
I saw Monsoor Ijaz on FNC an hour or so ago, and he said that he has been asked to testify before the 9/11 commission. He appeared to be anxious to do so.
If this has been posted elsewhere, I'll ask the mod to take this down.
Yep, I'm serious. That was about the 8th public hearing and I would like to know the process by which they decide who will be heard and where they will be heard. I don't think it's simply whomever volunteers.
This is the last article about Ijaz I'll post. If he's an imposter, he's a GOOD one. :-)
November 2, 1999, Tuesday
COMMITTEE: NEAR EASTERN SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS
U.S. SENATOR SAM BROWNBACK (R-KS) HOLDS HEARING ON EXTREMIST MOVEMENTS
WASHINGTON, D.C.
SPEAKERS:
U.S. SENATOR SAM BROWNBACK (R-KS), CHAIRMAN
U.S. SENATOR JOHN ASHCROFT (R-MO)
U.S. SENATOR GORDON H. SMITH (R-OR)
U.S. SENATOR ROD GRAMS (R-MN)
U.S. SENATOR CRAIG THOMAS (R-WY)
U.S. SENATOR PAUL DAVID WELLSTONE (D-MN), RANKING MEMBER
U.S. SENATOR ROBERT G. TORRICELLI (D-NJ)
U.S. SENATOR PAUL S. SARBANES (D-MD)
U.S. SENATOR CHRISTOPHER J. DODD (D-CT)
MICHAEL SHEEHAN, AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE, COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM, U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT
MANSOOR IJAZ, MANAGING PARTNER, CRESCENT EQUITY PARTNERS
MILT BEARDEN, FORMER CHIEF OF STATION FOR SUDAN AND PAKISTAN, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
FREDERICK STARR, CHAIRMAN, CENTRAL ASIA CAUCUS INSTITUTE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
BROWNBACK: Call hearing to order. I'd like to welcome everybody here today to the first of what I hope will be a number of hearings on the problem of extremism and its threat to the United States.
We have two panels today -- excellent panels. On our first panel the Honorable Michael Sheehan, ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism at the Department of State.
Welcome, Ambassador. Delighted to have you here.
On our second panel will be Mr. Mansoor Ijaz, managing partner, Crescent Equity Partners; Mr. Milt Bearden, retired CIA officer and former CIA chief in Sudan and Pakistan; and Dr. S. Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia Caucus Institute at Johns Hopkins University. All three excellent in their knowledge of this very important topic of key current and future importance to the United States.
(snip)
IJAZ: Mr. Chairman, I respectfully submit to you that our policy vacuums cannot continue without serious ramifications for U.S. interests. A multi-dimensional approach is needed to be crafted to replace current policies of blunt instrument sanctions and isolationism, in order to better calibrate -- and that's the key word, to calibrate U.S. responses to terrorist acts.
Now the most important of these multi-dimensional approaches that I would like to talk about are education programs in these affected countries, and intelligence-to-intelligence cooperation. And I'll give you two examples in that process.
The first is the recent military coup in Pakistan. And the second is what I did about two years ago to try and effect a reconciliation between the Sudan and the United States, in which I was able to bring a meaningful counterterrorism offer from the government of the Sudan to the United States, prior to our intelligence community becoming engrossed in this process of trying to figure out whether they were producing chemical weapons or not.
So the question there that has to be asked is, what would have happened? If they had acted on the counterterrorism offer that I brought in April of 1997 -- I hand-carried the letter from Khartoum to Washington -- and gone in there with our FBI's counterterrorism units and had a good look around -- that was the offer. It was an unconditional, open the doors, let's come in and see what's going on, and it was an intelligence-to-intelligence contact that we could have had.(SNIP)
Los Angeles Times
September 12, 2001 Wednesday
Commentary; Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Cold
R. JAMES WOOLSEY
MANSOOR IJAZ
R. James Woolsey, an attorney in Washington, was director of the, Central Intelligence Agency from 1993 to 1995.
Mansoor Ijaz, an American, Muslim of Pakistani origin, negotiated Sudan's counterterrorism offer to, the United States in 1997
Tuesday, war was declared on the United States. The madmen who commandeered four civilian jetliners as their weapons of war do not characterize any part of humanity, and those who programmed them surely will be brought to justice. But at a moment when Americans are justifiably outraged that such acts of inhumanity could take place in our midst, we must hold on to important principles that have bound us together through national tragedies in our history.
(snip)
The urge to strike back, as the Clinton administration did after the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, will be strong. It must be resisted until we can make a careful and considered judgment about the scope and depth of the organizing force behind these and perhaps other attacks on U.S. soil. The U.S. missile strikes on Afghanistan and Sudan in August 1998 are not models to follow: Some missed their targets while others were simply ill-considered and may have in fact inflamed anti-American sentiments.
Determining where the nerve center of Tuesday's coordinated act of terrorism lies will be the most important element of our efforts to bring justice to the victims. The almost inevitable early conclusion will be to solely blame Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden. This would be unwise.
While there can be no question that Bin Laden has been deeply involved in violent terrorist acts against U.S. interests, his role in Tuesday's events, even if important, may well not have been exclusive. A significant probability exists that Bin Laden's organization is a subcontractor and not the mastermind in, among others, Saddam Hussein's anti-American chess game.The planning, coordination and access to information required to carry out the virtually simultaneous attacks in New York and Washington point significantly to the involvement of state sponsorship. The diplomatic cover, intelligence data and financial resources needed to conduct this war against the United States can only be offered by a regime whose track record against U.S. interests is proven, and Iraq comes immediately to mind. Iran's anti-American and anti-Israeli policies, although less likely, could also be responsible.
(snip)
It is the same Hamilton, here's his bio from the Commission's site:
Lee H. Hamilton Vice Chair
Lee Hamilton, vice chair, is president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Prior to becoming director of the Woodrow Wilson Center in 1999, Hamilton served for 34 years in Congress representing Indiana's Ninth District. During his tenure, he served as chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs (now the Committee on International Relations), chaired the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East from the early 1970s until 1993, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. Hamilton also served as chair of the Joint Economic Committee, working to promote long-term economic growth and development. As chairman of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress and a member of the House Standards of Official Conduct Committee, he was a primary draftsman of several House ethics reforms. Since leaving the House, Mr. Hamilton has served as a commissioner on the influential United States Commission on National Security in the 21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission), and was co-chair with former Senator Howard Baker of the Baker-Hamilton Commission to Investigate Certain Security Issues at Los Alamos. He is currently a member of the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council. Mr. Hamilton is a graduate of Depauw University and Indiana University law school, as well as the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and national awards for public service. Before his election to Congress, he practiced law in Chicago and Columbus, Indiana.
Now I wonder how happy Hamilton would be to hear from Ijaz.
And that idiot Clarke was "intimidated" (his words) by the President when he asked him to dig deeper regarding the Iraq connection.
He not only was the intermediary between Sudan and the U.S. But Clark was the man in the Clinton administration Mansoor dealt with and got no where.
No way, he has left to much of a trail of dirt on Clark and Clinton on the TV trail to change his tune now.
You're half right. Clarke is a "lifelong bachelor" if you get my drift.
Is Hamilton not a member of the 9/11 Commission?
...but with his snide comment about Condi not knowing the term al Qaeda, and his transparent vendetta...
Some of the same thoughts here.
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