Al-Qaida Leaders Were In Pakistan On 9/11: WikiLeaks

By ETHAN Markoff

WORLD NEWS - Yet another sensational report published by whistle blower WikiLeaks, saying some senior al-Qaida leaders were in Pakistan's Karachi city on 9/11 twin towers attack day. The documents were published by Washington Post accessed by WikiLeaks, saying most al-Qaida leaders were returned to Afghanistan within a day from Karachi.

The media report revealed that the prime al-Qaida leaders were in Karachi on September 11, 2001. One leader was admitted at a hospital and treated for tonsillectomy and another was buying lab equipment for a biological weapons program. Other al-Qaida key members were in New York and Washington, enjoying the destruction on television. However, within a day most of the major leaders were back to Afghanistan.

The documents gathered by Washington Post from WikiLeaks speak of a big meeting of al-Qaida’s senior member in early December 2001 in Afghanistan's mountainous Zormat region. It also speaks about the al-Qaida’s chief Osama bin Laden who was seen in Afghanistan's Kandahar province. There in a small guesthouse he instigated militants to “fight against the infidel invaders in the name of Allah.”

For the next three months, Osama and his chief associate Ayman al Zawahiri traveled by car to several areas in Afghanistan and during this time he almost ran out of money and borrowed $7,000 from one of his protectors. He returned the money within a year.

WikiLeaks also documented some geographic locations for bin Laden in his clandestine resident in Pakistan.