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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:30 PM
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9/11 Commissioners Bribed to Omit Pakistan, Says Pakistani Weekly
Telegraph of India
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060313/asp/nation/story_5962372.asp

Pakistan weekly spills 9/11 beans
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

New Delhi, March 12: The Pakistan foreign office had paid tens of thousands of dollars to lobbyists in the US to get anti-Pakistan references dropped from the 9/11 inquiry commission report, The Friday Times has claimed.

The Pakistani weekly said its story is based on disclosures made by foreign service officials to the Public Accounts Committee at a secret meeting in Islamabad on Tuesday. It claimed that some of the commission members were also bribed to prevent them from including damaging information about Pakistan.

The magazine said the PAC grilled officials in the presence of foreign secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan and special secretary Sher Afghan on the money paid to lobbyists.

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The above is a pick-up of the story from the Indian press. The original was published in "The Friday Times" of Pakistan, written by one Ahmed Rauf. Google pegs the link as follows:
http://www.thefridaytimes.com/main31.shtml
Unfortunately, you can't go there without a subscription. I don't suppose anyone here subscribes?

This is what Google lists:

"Welcome to The Friday Times" Did Pakistan influence the 9/11 Commission Report? Ahmed Rauf. According to an FO official, "dramatic changes" were made in the final draft of the 9/11 ... www.thefridaytimes.com/main31.shtml - 38k

As though the Able Danger revelations had not already shown that the 9/11 Commission was a pure, naked fraud - which will ultimately be proven as a criminal fraud, perpetrated on the American people and the people of the world.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 06:35 PM
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1. gee, I wonder what else was omitted
hmmmmm?
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 08:16 PM
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2. kick
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