I do like a good conspiracy theory. And I have spent the last few nights lurking around several sites like memoryhole.org or cooperativeresearch.org.
Low and behold an interesting twist in the tale of new CIA head, Porter Goss.
On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, in a room on the House side of the Capitol, Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., and Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla. -- the chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, respectively -- met for breakfast. Also at the meeting were Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., and some other members of the House Intelligence Committee.They were meeting with the Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., Maleeha Lodhi, and the director of Pakistani intelligence, Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmed. They were talking about the late-August trip Goss, Graham, and Kyl had made to Pakistan.
Mahmood [different spelling from that used in quote above] is the subject of a number of allegations on the part of theorists. He was sacked on October 7 2001, apparently for being too close to the Taliban.
But theorists believe he was sacked for other reasons. They believe that while head of the ISI Mahmood ordered an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to one Mohammed Atta.
And who makes the wire transfer at Mahmood's direction? Ahmad Umar Sheik, the lead suspect in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
I love it, be it true or not. And by the way I will be blogging the most interesting theories that I find, for my own records, so if you don't like conspiracy theories then please ignore.
Posted by Gavin Sheridan at August 11, 2004 11:21 PM | TrackBackThe CIA had an opening for an assassin. After all of the background checks, interviews, and testing were done there were three finalists - two men and one woman. For the final test, the CIA agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun.
"We must know that you will follow your instructions, no matter what the circumstances. Inside this room you will find your wife sitting in a chair. You have to kill her." The first man said. "You cant be serious. I could never shoot my wife!"The agent replies, "Then you?re not the right man for this job."
The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into the room. All was quiet for about five minutes. Then the agent came out with tears in his eyes. "I tried, but I cant kill my wife." The agent replies, "You dont have what it takes. Take your wife and go home."
Finally, it was the womans turn. Only she was told to kill her husband. She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one shot after another. They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the walls. After a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman. She wiped the sweat from her brow and said, "You guys didnt tell me the gun was loaded with blanks. So I had to beat him to death with the chair."
Posted by: Jokes at October 8, 2004 11:18 PM