Akhtar Abdul Rahman person
also: Lieutenant General Akhtar Abdul Rahman, General Akhtar, Akhtar, Akhtar Abdur Rahman
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Because of the drug trade, which is, let's face it, by that time, heroin was the third most valuable commodity in the world. So when the drug trade, after the fall of Saigon and Ho Chi Minh and the triumph of the North Vietnamese, what you …
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The action took place in Pakistan. Under John Reagan, the CIA station in Islamabad maintained close contact with the Pakistani government. In particular, its ISI, which is their intelligence service. It was headed by Lieutenant General Akht…
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He's just training terrorists, but he has a daughter. Unmentioned went the reasons the US concern with Pakistan, Zia's nuclear weapon program. Well, that's because we were helping them with it. That was an issue since Carter's day. Zia and …
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The most fundamentalist groups, like Hek Martyrs, also had success in making direct approaches to Muslim countries for added support. Pakistan sustained its role with Peshawar and nearby cities. The ISI Afghan Bureau made allocations among …
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Wilson forged his own links to top Pakistani leaders, including General Zia. He used these to encourage the Pakistanis to demand more than the CIA had authorized them as far as money goes and to demand more weapons and better ones. You get …
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to lead his Central American Task Force. COTOS then had ties to Charlie Wilson, so they got along great. During George Shultz's 1983 Pakistani visit, Zia had Akhtar of the ISI brief the visiting party on the status of operation. Akhtar repo…
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These were the visits of someone who knew what he wanted, not one who wanted to learn the truth of the matter. Brigadier Yusuf first met Casey in the spring of 84 when he and General Akhtar awaited his plane, a midnight black painted C-141 …
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by sending missiles to Pakistan. Through much of this debate, General Zia himself opposed U.S. weapons for the rebels to avoid provoking Moscow. When Brigadier Yusuf told visiting American Afghan activists in 1984 that stingers were needed,…
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The greatest change occurred in August of 88 when a C-130 crashed, carrying General Zia and Akhtar, as well as U.S. Ambassador Arnold Rafale. Pakistani elections then brought to power Bhutto, daughter of the earlier strongman. And by the wa…