Guys something is cooking sadly in a negative way-there are enough tell tales recorded in the past whenever Pak generals were invited to the Zionist white racist house.
During his 10-day visit from September 1–10, few American officials had time for him. Following the 9/11 attacks, everybody wanted to see him from the White House staff to the State Department and the Pentagon. On September 12, General Mahmud and Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi had a meeting with members of the National Security Council. There were other meetings with CIA, Pentagon, and State Department officials.
When I asked him about his meeting with the burly Richard Armitage, the former Navy Seal who was then serving as Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department, General Mahmud said he desperately needed Pakistan’s help. I specifically asked him about media reports about Armitage’s threats against Pakistan (in his interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” program on September 17, 2006, General Pervez Musharraf had said Armitage had threatened to bomb Pakistan “back into the Stone Age”).
General Mahmud rejected such assertions. “Despite his massive bulk and his head cocked up because of his oversized neck, Richard Armitage spoke softly and politely. Reports of his threats against Pakistan are completely untrue.”
Scott Conroy’s
report on the CBS website (September 23, 2006) corroborates General Mahmud’s position. “On Friday [September 22, 2006], US President George W. Bush said that he was taken aback when he heard the claim [about Armitage’s threats to Pakistan], while Mr. Armitage denied he had ever threatened the use of military action against Pakistan if it refused to join the US-led war on terror after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,” Conroy wrote.
According to General Mahmud, American officials were both nervous and confused. They needed help and they turned to Pakistan. The September 12, 2001 phone call from US Secretary of State Colin Powell to Musharraf is well known. As absolute dictator, Musharraf accepted each and every one of the US demands without consulting anyone or asking anything in return. The rest, as they say, is history.
By surrendering to US demands, Musharraf, hitherto shunned by the West, immediately became the most sought after Third-World ruler. Not only American but European leaders also made a beeline to Pakistan seeking its help in what was going to be a devastating war on the Taliban in Afghanistan. Musharraf thought he had hit a jackpot!
An extract from the past interview-
Soon after the Americans launched their war on Afghanistan (October 7, 2001), General Mahmud was relieved of his responsibilities as Director ISI. He resigned from the army and went into retirement. The two generals — Musharraf and Mahmud — were quite close and had worked together for decades. Now they had a falling out over the manner in which Musharraf threw in his lot with the Americans against the Taliban.