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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

Posted on 11/27/2001 10:07:59 AM PST by 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.


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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
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.

41 posted on 11/27/2001 10:33:38 AM PST by codebreaker
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To: codebreaker
If it smells like BS, looks like BS, then it is BS


42 posted on 11/27/2001 10:34:09 AM PST by NC Conservative
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To: dirtboy
I knew it was a Debka article just by looking at the headline.
43 posted on 11/27/2001 10:36:25 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: codebreaker
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.

44 posted on 11/27/2001 10:37:03 AM PST by Bikers4Bush
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To: codebreaker
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.
45 posted on 11/27/2001 10:37:52 AM PST by Kierkegaard
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To: codebreaker
Well the French salute may be two hands up but the Itallian salute is arms open wide. What a funked up country.
46 posted on 11/27/2001 10:38:17 AM PST by mercy
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To: Trust but Verify; dirtboy; wideawake; MissAmericanPie; mercy
Please see my post #39. (I don't want to believe it either, but......?)
47 posted on 11/27/2001 10:38:27 AM PST by blam
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To: mercy
ooops, wrong thread. Durnburn extra windows. I thought I had those things turned off.
48 posted on 11/27/2001 10:39:37 AM PST by mercy
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To: Travis McGee
They believe in the lockbox also.
49 posted on 11/27/2001 10:45:15 AM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
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To: Bikers4Bush

DEBKAfile's Sources:


50 posted on 11/27/2001 10:45:26 AM PST by ChadGore
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To: codebreaker

51 posted on 11/27/2001 10:45:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: codebreaker
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!
52 posted on 11/27/2001 10:45:43 AM PST by Robert357
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To: codebreaker

53 posted on 11/27/2001 10:47:29 AM PST by Inyokern
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To: blam
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.
54 posted on 11/27/2001 10:47:31 AM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: Born to Conserve
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!

55 posted on 11/27/2001 10:50:20 AM PST by Travis McGee
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To: ChadGore
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.

56 posted on 11/27/2001 10:52:19 AM PST by Bikers4Bush
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To: Cataclysmic Kansan
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.
57 posted on 11/27/2001 10:54:26 AM PST by Semper911
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To: codebreaker
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.
58 posted on 11/27/2001 10:55:17 AM PST by alloysteel
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To: Robert357
I thought the Saudis were back to being friendly again?
59 posted on 11/27/2001 10:59:11 AM PST by codebreaker
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
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.

60 posted on 11/27/2001 10:59:24 AM PST by Dog Gone
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