Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq person
also: General Zia, Zia, General Mohammed Zia, Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani leader, General Mohammed Zia Haq, President Zia, General Mohammed Zia al-Haq
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Claims (10)
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq headed
Pakistan host_asserted
“General Zia, who was in charge in Pakistan.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 20:31
Benazir Bhutto succeeded
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 57:07
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrew
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto book_quoted
“The man who overthrew Boutros was a guy by the name of General Mohammed Zia Haq. He carried on that effort, and in April 1979, when President Zia refused to halt work on the Islamic bomb, Jimmy Carter cut off all economic aid to Pakistan. J…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 25:27
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“Turki al-Fasal, plus the leader of Pakistan, military strongman, General Mohammed Zia. The CIA's project cannot proceed if these men softened their commitment. The Saudis continued matching U.S. contributions to the rebels, and General Zia …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 51:47
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq appointed
Faisal Haq host_asserted
“was extremely close to the General Mohammed Zia al-Haq, who seized power in 1977. Abadi and Zia also met frequently with Faisal Haq, the man whom Zia appointed as military governor of the Northwest Frontier Province, which was basically whe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs Oil and War Part 4 @ 46:05
William Casey funded
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq documented
“Turki al-Fasal, plus the leader of Pakistan, military strongman, General Mohammed Zia. The CIA's project cannot proceed if these men softened their commitment. The Saudis continued matching U.S. contributions to the rebels, and General Zia …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 51:47
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq covered_up
Agha Hasan Abedi host_asserted
“and also contributed to the immunity that Abedi had inside of Pakistan, was murdered in his aircraft being blown up in August of the next year.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 20:58
CIA overthrew
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq host_asserted
“So they killed him off and an elected, quote unquote elected, Harvard educated Benazir Boutro was basically given the nod. The new American ambassador, Robert Oakley, was sent since they had to assassinate the former guy. How'd you like to …”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 52:49
CIA covered_up
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq host_asserted
“He was also the son of the former prime minister. Another suspect was, of course, someone from the Soviet Union, which nobody believes. Everyone that was in theater believed that that plane exploding was the CIA getting rid of all of the pe…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 51:20
CIA assassinated
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq speculative
“So within 12 months of each other, the two people that was basically covering for BCCI, both in the United States and Pakistan, are eliminated. And who's got the ability to do that? The CIA.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 20:58
Mentions (38)
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The only issue is whether it's a result of high level corruption or if it's designed to hide illegal government activities. Well, that's not or. So William Casey had something to do with the immunity BCCI enjoyed. Casey died in 1987. Genera…
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and also contributed to the immunity that Abedi had inside of Pakistan, was murdered in his aircraft being blown up in August of the next year. So within 12 months of each other, the two people that was basically covering for BCCI, both in …
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Had investigators from Agency X looked at BCCI in 84 or 85, they would have discovered the bank's relationship with the CIA. A bet he had by then came to be an ally in William Casey's crusade against the quote unquote evil empire. When Sena…
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was extremely close to the General Mohammed Zia al-Haq, who seized power in 1977. Abadi and Zia also met frequently with Faisal Haq, the man whom Zia appointed as military governor of the Northwest Frontier Province, which was basically whe…
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who provided safe passage for the Mujahideen to bring their opium to market. Like Abedi, Faisal Haq became known as a CIA asset. He also was listed with Interpol by 1982 as a narcotic trafficker. Drugs may have been at the heart of this rel…
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who was heavily engaged in the drug trafficking and moving heroin money through the BCCI bank. DEA headquarters in Washington told reporters they knew nothing about any of this. But a highly placed U.S. official explained to Time correspond…
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to back the ISI clients in Afghanistan, basically meaning the Northern Alliance. I told Brzezinski, you screwed up in Vietnam and Korea. You better get this one right. In a book called Drugs in South Asia, Hawk speculates further that Fragi…
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use drug money to meet the Soviet challenge. So basically it goes on and it makes very clear that the Soviet Union prior to the invasion, the ISI had been put in contact with the CIA and heck martyr and that the ISI protégés were part of th…
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The man who overthrew Boutros was a guy by the name of General Mohammed Zia Haq. He carried on that effort, and in April 1979, when President Zia refused to halt work on the Islamic bomb, Jimmy Carter cut off all economic aid to Pakistan. J…
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bargain in order to win Zia's approval for using Pakistan as a base of operations for the Mujahideen. So it's almost as if when Carter cut them off, did they stage the Afghan false flag for the Soviet Union as a reason to turn back on the f…
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further improved following the 1980 election of Reagan and his former correspondent, Bush Sr. With the covert U.S. war in Afghanistan, the Pakistani dictator gained significant advantage and used it.…
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In the winning large economic and military aid packages for his country, he extracted a promise from the Reagan-Bush administration that there would be no U.S. interference in Pakistan's internal affairs. That meant no complaints when Zia b…
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So it's in U.S. natural interest to have another nuclear country as an Islamic country. In 1980, Congressman Charlie Wilson, the former Ed Wilson associate, was acting in concert with the CIA, repeatedly blocking congressional efforts to ha…
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research and creation. Wilson went so far as to tell Zia, Mr. President, as far as I'm concerned, you can make all the bombs you want, unquote. Zia privately assured the congressman that Pakistan's nuclear weapon program was for peaceful re…
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Harbor, Afghanistan, refugees, blah, blah, blah. The Iranians did nothing that the CIA could establish that resembled anything like what was going on in Pakistan at that time. Zia continued to deceive the U.S. about his nuclear weapons ambi…
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In the end of 1980, he flatly told the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Vernon Walters, who, by the way, is CIA too, that Pakistan was not building a bomb, which they knew they were because they were providing the equipment for it. When the sen…
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American Abram tank as part of a group led by President Zia. The Abrams demonstration was not successful. The tank missed its target 10 out of 10 times. After lunch, Zia prayed to Mecca and then boarded his plane called Pakistan 1. It happe…
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Tatar Abdur Rahman, who was head of their intelligence, who had worked exclusively with the CIA and knew all of the CIA's secrets in Pakistan. He was the second most powerful man in Pakistan, other than Zia. Zia and Rahman basically ran eve…
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The plane exploded in midair. Everyone aboard died. The main suspect in arranging the disaster was, of course, blamed on Boutros, which B-H-U-T-T-O, which was a family member of the former prime minister that was overthrown when Zia was ins…
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In 1989, an article by Edward J. Epstein offered a disturbing argument that the U.S. was not unhappy to see Zia go and had no great interest in finding out who was responsible. The plane crash took place not long after the Soviet withdrawal…
▶ 52:19
was going to use it. The U.S. felt that they had less and less control over Zia since he had actually achieved the nuclear program. Imagine that. So, in other words, he had to go. And they had to get someone in that they could control. So i…
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Turki al-Fasal, plus the leader of Pakistan, military strongman, General Mohammed Zia. The CIA's project cannot proceed if these men softened their commitment. The Saudis continued matching U.S. contributions to the rebels, and General Zia …
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With that eight, well, not exactly because he did exactly what all these other people do. He was giving them old trash and keeping a lot of the new weaponry. Chuck Hogan accompanied Bill Casey on every Near East trip during his time in char…
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to strike back. They're not in Pakistan. When Casey visited Zia at home, the Pakistani put a map on his coffee table and superimposed it with a triangle template to represent the Soviet thrust. Zia broke off only to play with his daughter w…
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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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to be cleared with General Zia of Pakistan, the Saudis, and others. Chuck Cogan recalls an adrenaline rush when William Casey took over from Stan Turner. But to some degree, escalation had to be incremental simply because the foundations ne…
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and from the State Department, not to mention Kogan's Near East area, the beefed up project went nowhere. This means this seems possible only if William Casey did not back it. Only after Casey and Zia meeting that featured a new map overlay…
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Again, in late 1982, when the Pakistani leader again lectured Casey on his view of Russian objectives. The Gates memoir leaves the impression that Zia had to convince Casey. I'm sure it does. In addition, Gates quotes Casey as saying that Z…
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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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of ISI. But by 1983, they were being eclipsed as Wilson got more friendly with Zia. Budget levels on the covert program were affected by the lobbying. Reagan administration permitted itself to be moved even further. Reagan doubled what Cart…
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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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Langley's experts advised ISI on the weight of the explosives needed, which essentially was to create a truck bomb. A truck bomb? The ISI tried several times to carry out the mission, but couldn't do it. Meanwhile, the CIA's relationship wi…
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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 victory camp scored major points in late 84 when the Senate passed a resolution in favor of greatly improving the equipment of the Mujahideen. In March 85, President Reagan approved a national security directive that made it official po…
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to relent. Casey apparently felt that he had erred in agreeing to Pillsbury's participation, but he blamed the station chief. After the Pickney's stock at headquarters went into freefall, at his meeting with the Senators, General Zia now sa…
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Nudged by Zia, within a month, Reagan approved an immediate shipment of 100 of them. While the joint staff, Pentagon and State Department opposition melted away. Brigadier Yusuf began to organize and train the rebels to use them. In October…
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General Zia again emphasized giving the rebels Stinger missiles. Finally, the log jam was broken. At a breakfast in early December, McMahon told Fred Eichel that the CIA would ship as many of the missiles as the Pentagon could provide. When…
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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…