Alex Jones Interviews Former ISI Chief, Fails to Ask About Mahmoud Ahmed

Update: Okay, fair is fair. Apparently Alex did ask the question:



The exchange comes about 3:30 into this clip; I'd have to go back and listen to the show again, but it must have come at the very end of the interview. Note that however, Alex does lie about all the media who have reported this: the New York Times reported this story?

Update II: What happened was that I was listening to the MP3 while taking a bike ride. At 50:00 in, Alex announces to a producer that he wants to skip the network break, that he's only going to keep Gul on for another 3 minutes. As it happened, I was only about a half mile from home at this point, so I listened until the end of my ride. The question comes at 54:00 into the interview, after I had turned off the MP3 on the basis that the interview was over. Still, it's my mistake for not listening all the way to the end, and so I apologize to my readers for the error.

A couple of our commenters listened to it live yesterday, so I thought I'd download the mp3 of the broadcast and check it out for myself. General Hamid Gul (appropriately pronounced "ghoul"), attracted attention by appearing with Fareed Zakaria on CNN over the weekend and saying the magic words, "9-11 was an inside job."

Gul was the head of the Pakistani ISI back in the 1980s. Now, where have we heard about the ISI before? Oh, that's right, in just about every 9-11 nutjob film, we hear the story about how the head of the ISI in 2001, Mahmoud Ahmed, had $100,000 wired to Mohamed Atta shortly before the 9-11 attacks.

But did Alex ask him a single question (see update at top) about this evidence, which was featured in both Loose Change Final Cut and Fabled Enemies? Of course not, because he knew he'd get the same response from General Gul as he gets from us: that the allegation stems from one story in the Times of India, and that source is not exactly unbiased when it comes to Pakistan.

Instead, Alex asked him about his evidence that 9-11 was an inside job, which was the usual stew of "Hani Hanjour could not have made this flying maneuver," and "the US Air Force intercepts hijacked planes in seven minutes." They also went over the "evidence" that the Mumbai attacks was actually pulled off by Indian intelligence (with help from the US and the Israelis).

But Mahmoud Ahmed's name did not come up once (see Update at top). Jones highlights that Gul worked with the CIA in battling the Russians in Afghanistan (I suppose to highlight that Gul's a good guy); somehow he forgets to mention this statement from Gul:

The Muslim world must stand united to confront the U.S. in its so-called War on Terrorism, which is in reality a war against Muslims. Let's destroy America wherever its troops are trapped.

British Denier MP to Stand for Prime Minister

Not that he's got a chance in hell of winning:

The former environment minister Michael Meacher today launched his bid to succeed Tony Blair as leader of the Labour Party under a banner promising "peace, social justice, climate survival".

Mr Meacher insisted it was not a "foregone conclusion" that Gordon Brown would be the next leader, and said he was "fully confident" of receiving the 44 MPs' nominations needed to get on to the ballot paper alongside the Chancellor.

Launching his bid at Westminster, he unveiled a policy platform including complete withdrawal from Iraq and no involvement in any military action against Iran, opposition to Trident and nuclear power, a £7-an-hour minimum wage and measures to reduce the difference in pay between the richest and poorest.

Meacher of course has been probably the most prominent 9-11 Denier in UK politics. He has appeared in several 9-11 kook films, including Terrorstorm and (IIRC) 9-11 Mysteries. He was the MP who planned a parliamentary screening of Loose Change, although in that case he apparently came to his senses.

Here he highlights the Pakistani ISI connection, which Do-Over Dylan is going to feature in Loose Change Final Cut:



He repeats the claim that the wire transfer has been confirmed by the FBI, which is nonsense, based on one unsourced article in the Times of India.

Meacher was apparently a rising star in the Labour Party in England in the early 1980s, until he decided to sue a newspaper for supposedly libeling him, when it claimed that his father became a farm labourer by choice after being an accountant.

Meacher lost the trial, became something of a laughingstock, and worse still, had to pay the newspaper's attorneys' cost, all of which pretty well scotched his ambitions for higher office.