Pakistan Charters Airlifted 3,000 al Qaeda Soldiers out of Konduz

DEBKAfile/World Net Daily-Terrorism Security Newsletter ^ | Tuesday, November 27, 2001 | Indian Army Subcontinent Intelligence Sources

[codebreaker]

DEBKAfile's military sources after checking on this lead with army intelligence sources in the Indian subcontinent, present this explanation of the mystery (of the missing al Qaeda troops not found by U.S. Marines in the plains or mountain hideouts) as the most plausible. Those Anatovs (transport planes) were chartered by the Pakistani ISI- Inter-Service Intelligence to lift the al Qaeda contingents together with a few Taliban units out of Konduz in north Afghanistan to north Pakistan.

And that was not the end of the transfer. It is still going on. Our sources report that al Qaeda and the Taliban allies are streaming out of Kandahar in the south and crossing east into Pakistan. The two forces have thus far grouped 4,000 fighting men on the Pakistani side. According to DEBKAfile's intelligence sources, the United States hurriedly injected Marines to the south on Monday in direct response to the enemy's redeployment. That too is why the first US troop engagement was with a Taliban convoy approaching the Pakastani frontier. For the U.S. Marines' immediate objective is not to join the Northern Alliance offensive for the capture of Mullah Omar's bastion of Kandahar, but to block off the continuing passage of Taliban and al Qaeda units across the highly porous frontier.

[dr gene scott]

DEBKA=BREAKING WIND

[mercy]

Well it's DEBKA so it cannot likely be true. If it is true, the only way we would let it happen is because we have already placed Pakistan as no.2 on the list and need some good excuses.

[MissAmericanPie]

Our guys say they control the air and no one is allowed to fly in or out. Unless the wool is being pulled over our eyes, we would not allow planes to land and take off with the enemy.

[gulfcoast6]

I don't believe this ever happened.

[mercy]

Furthermore this is an excellent illustration as to why I never bother with WND anymore.

[codebreaker]

What about the twelve 40 ton cargo planes flying from Russia into Afghanistan today? (As reported by Pravda.Ru)

[GVnana]

DOD says it ain't happening.

[11th Earl of Mar]

DEDBKA blah, blah, blah

Did they also airlift the 20,000 Chineese and Bush's tactical nuclear weapons?

[dr gene scott]

Why is this in the breaking news sidebar? Its posted under foriegn affairs???

[johniegrad]

[elhombrelibre]

DEBKA makes it up out of whole cloth.

[mercy]

Especialy when the radar is triangulated and coming from ABOVE.

[japaneseghost]

This was discussed on the Sunday talk shows. Some American politician (I forgot who) said that the US is most probably turning a blind eye to Pakistan's repatriating thousands of Paki taliban soldiers.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Is Pakistan's ISI (Inter-Service Intelligence) the bin Laden group or are they connected with the Pak government in any way?

Yes and No. The ISI is the official Pakistan intelligence. They have been supporters of the Taliban. Most people think they know where Bin Laden is most of the time. Apparently they have much more radical leanings/interests than the more-moderate Pakistani president.

My understanding is taht the ISI really spearheaded all the training, etc during the Afghan war and we mostly just supplied the money and hardware. The ISI actually determined where and to whom it would go.

Feel free to correct the above generalizations as you see fit...

[dr gene scott]

Why is this in the breaking news sidebar? Its posted under foriegn affairs???

Thats weird, I checked this out because its in the breaking news sidebar - of course DEBKA trash lands there often...

[codebreaker]

I believe DEBKA said there would be 250,000 troops from Russia in the spring.

[SunStar]

Pakistan and the U.S. Pentagon have already dismissed this story as untrue. Debka is just parroting the Indian source who "broke" the story.

[Born to Conserve]

Ah, you fell for their trickery!
They are not flying the Anatovs -- they're taxiing them though the Taliban tunnel system!

The Taliban is known to have a tunnel system capable of transporting and hiding the American aircraft carriers they've captured.

[blam]

"I guess that DEBKA must believe that Antonov transport planes are now painted in stealthy "invisible paint", and are able to sneak out under the gaze of JSTARS etc."

Not to hasty Travis. If anyone has a transcript of questions asked of and answered by GWB yesterday please post them. I saw him answer a question regarding this situation and was suprised at his answer. He all but admitted something similar to this was occurring and I even went so far yesterday to say on a thread that he had made a boo boo in the way he answered because the pentagon has been denying all this. (With all this 'smoke', there's a fire somewhere.)