US considers ISI a terror outfit

US authorities described Pakistans ISI agency as a terrorist organisation and considered it a threat like the al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

US authorities described Pakistans ISI agency as a terrorist organisation and considered it a threat like the al-Qaeda and the Taliban,The Guardian reported. Recommendations to interrogators at Guantanamo Bay rank the ISI among 36 groups on a Threat Indicator Matrix that includes the Egyptian Islamic Jihad; the Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs; the Iranian intelligence services; and the Muslim Brotherhood. Though the document is of 2007,it is unlikely ISI has been removed from current list,the report said. One example of how the US views the ISI is found among reasons given by Guantanamo officials for continued detention of militant Harun Shirzad al-Afghani. His file states he is believed to have attended a meeting in August 2006 at which Pakistani military and intelligence officials joined senior figures in the Taliban,al-Qaeda,Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Hezb-e-Islami group led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

Terrorists watched 9/11 on TV

The day 9/11 happened,the core of al-Qaeda was concentrated in Karachi. The intellectual author of the September 11 attacks watched scenes of the planes crashing into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre beamed live on TV with key al-Qaeda commanders at a safe house in Karachi. Meanwhile,in a nearby hospital,the man accused of masterminding the bombing of USS Cole off Yemen waters was recovering from an tonsillectomy and the alleged organiser of the 2002 Bali bombing was buying lab equipment for a biological weapons programme.

After 9/11,Qaeda planned for long war

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Within a day of the 9/11 attack,much of the al-Qaeda leadership disappeared back to Afghanistan to plan for a long war,The Washington Post reported. The leaks of Guantanamo files say that four days after the attacks,Osama visited a guest house in Afghanistans Kandahar province where he told fighters to defend Afghanistan against infidel invaders.

If Osama captured,n-hellstorm promised

Al-Qaeda terrorists threatened to unleash a nuclear hellstorm on the West if Osama bin Laden is held. A senior al-Qaeda commander has claimed that the terror group has stashed away a nuclear bomb in Europe which will be detonated if Osama is ever caught or assassinated.