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.

[codebreaker]

No wonder the Government denying this so heavily, if extremist elements of the Pakistani Goverment are running covert ops and trying to start a war to destablize Pakistan.

Sounds like Rummy isn't taking the bait.

[NC Conservative]

If it smells like BS, looks like BS, then it is BS

[Dog Gone]

I knew it was a Debka article just by looking at the headline.

[Bikers4Bush]

The source that sits on my desk (Magic 8 Ball) says "No".

It's at least as credible as DEBKA and I shook it and asked the same question three times.

[Kierkegaard]

Someone needs to post a tally o' the Taliban, me say, Afghan-i-stan-i-o poppy Debka cocka doody o' .....like umpteen Russian soldiers and Chinese towel heads in Afghanistan and other such garbage "reported" by Debka sources.

[mercy]

Well the French salute may be two hands up but the Itallian salute is arms open wide. What a funked up country.

[blam]

Please see my post #39. (I don't want to believe it either, but......?)

[mercy]

ooops, wrong thread. Durnburn extra windows. I thought I had those things turned off.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

They believe in the lockbox also.

[ChadGore]

DEBKAfile's Sources:

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Robert357]

While DEBKA may not be considered a great source, there was a similar article a few days ago in the India Times about Pakistan removing folks by air from Afghanistan. If this is what is happening, then somebody needs to determine if these folks are being flown back to say Saudi Arabia to protect that country from giving up information about its government supported terrorists related activities. These planes should have been shot down by US jets!

[Inyokern]

[MissAmericanPie]

Ugh, I missed this press briefing. There really is not much telling what goes on behind the scenes or how much we are kept in the dark about. We were told that from the begining, I really don't like that idea much.

[Travis McGee]

That explains it! They are taxiing out through the dreaded Afghani mega tunnel complex, stretching from Tadjikistan to Karachi, 30 feet high and 200 feet wide!

Wait until I tell DEBKA, it will be tomorrow's scoop!

[Bikers4Bush]

You see that's what's wrong with technology.

You can't trust the program version, you can only trust the real thing, that you can shake the bejeezus out of, to give you a straight answer.

[Semper911]

I hear you. These thread titles should be clearly marked with something like "Debka Alert: Potentially Collosial B*llsh*t." As this thread title reads now, it sounds like a fact. And we all know it is far from that.

[alloysteel]

No passenger planes landed or took off from the Kunduz airstrip, it would have impossible to get past the AC-130 gunships or the Special Forces helicopters without being seen and tracked. The story is disinformation. No Pakistan Taliban members left by the means indicated. Now this is not to say that some did not get out, by trekking over mountains and in isolated passes. But there was no airlift.

[codebreaker]

I thought the Saudis were back to being friendly again?

[Dog Gone]

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

Debka never admits that it was wrong, but sometimes they invent cover stories which have the same effect.

If you pressed them, I'm sure Debka would either say that Pakistan evacuated those also, or that they all quietly slipped across the border into Kakadoodustan.