Memogate: Zardari Government knew in advance about May 02 OBL Circus: Mansoor Ijaz

• Subscribe to PCF Networked Blog Daily Updates 
• Subscribe to our Twitter / Google / Yahoo Daily Updates

Mansoor Ijaz

Armed with transcripts and records, Mansoor Ijaz said that there was a real threat of a military coup in Pakistan after the Abbottabad raid on May 2, 2011 because Zardari regime knew in advance about the May 02 raid. The threat was based in fact, said Pakistani-origin American businessman Mansoor Ijaz during cross-examination in front of a judicial commission probing the scandal on Thursday. Ijaz was asked to elaborate one of the messages he exchanged with former envoy to the United States of Zionism Husain Haqqani on his BlackBerry. “If you compel me, Sir, I am going to answer on the orders of the commission.”

After Haqqani approached him first, Ijaz said, he used his contacts with intelligence agencies of various countries to obtain documents, including travel records of Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt. General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, minute-by-minute Pakistan Air traffic Control flight monitoring of USZ helicopters which infiltrated Pakistani airspace for the May 2 raid, and a transcript of a call between President Asif Ali Zardari and Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. Convinced that plans for a coup were in motion, Ijaz said he proceeded to send the memo via General James Jones after taking confirmation from Haqqani. The authenticity of the transcript is established by the source, the method of transmission and the content of the transcript, he added.

When asked by the counsel to share the transcript, Ijaz said he would share the document only with the members of the commission in a sealed envelope. “Did Haqqani and his friends threaten you Mansoor?” the counsel asked, to which Ijaz said that Haqqani had once directly intimidated him, while his ‘friends’ have done so too. When asked to name the friend, Ijaz pointed towards Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s threats. He said he had received death threats in Urdu, Arabic and English from anonymous sources by SMS, e-mail and phone calls. These were translated into English by contacts in the USZ Federal Bureau of Investigations, Ijaz said. Pressed to name other threat sources, Ijaz revealed that former USZ officials including Bruce Ridel, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official, scholar Christina Fair had also issued direct threats to him if he didn't stop. “It is my belief that these statements were purported by Husain Haqqani”, Ijaz alleged. The hearing was adjourned at this point until Friday (today).

Propaganda filtered by Enticing Fury

Pakistan Cyber Force

Follow PCF on Facebook

Follow PCF on Twitter