Mahmud Ahmed

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Person.png Mahmud Ahmed   History CommonsRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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BornMahmud Ahmed
Peshawar, British Indian Empire
Director-General of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence

Employment.png Inter-Services Intelligence/Director-General

In office
October 1999 - 8 October 2001
Succeeded byEhsan ul Haq

Mahmud Ahmed was known to visit the United States regularly during his time as the head of ISI consulting senior officials in the U.S. administration in the weeks before and after 9/11. In fact, he was with Republican Congressman Porter Goss and Democratic Senator Bob Graham in Washington, discussing Osama bin Laden over breakfast, when the attacks of September 11, 2001 happened.[1] He was immediately called into meetings with American officials where demands of Pakistani cooperation were made and he was told to convey this to the Pakistani government. Joe Biden recalled the meeting: "I met with him to deliver a message, that if he didn't, didn't stop supporting the Taliban we would take him out." [2]

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References

  1. Richard Leiby. A Cloak But No Dagger The Washington Post, 18 May 2002
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RdkPkmA6IU