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Mahmoud Ahmad
Chief of the Pakistani intelligence service the ISI, Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad ordered that $100,000 be placed into the account of alleged lead September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta.
Atta
Ahmad Umar Sheikh (b. 1936 in Britain) performed the actual wire of the money from Dubai to Atta's Florida bank account, US President George W. Bush personally ordered that Mahmoud not be investigated, because of the obvious implications to the Pakistani government's involvement in the 9/11 attacks. The money originated with the United States government, Mahmoud was suspended on 8 October 2001, and "retired," i.e. dismissed, soon thereafter.
Mahmoud Ahmad

Chief of the Pakistani intelligence service the ISI, Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad ordered that $100,000 be placed into the account of alleged lead September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta.

Ahmad Umar Sheikh (b. 1936 in Britain) performed the actual wire of the money from Dubai to Atta's Florida bank account, US President George W. Bush personally ordered that Mahmoud not be investigated, because of the obvious implications to the Pakistani government's involvement in the 9/11 attacks. The money originated with the United States government, Mahmoud was suspended on 8 October 2001, and "retired," i.e. dismissed, soon thereafter.
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16 July, 2002 Omar Saeed Sheikh was sentenced to death for abducting and murdering US journalist Daniel Pearl, he was born in London, attended the London School of Economics and was a close associate of Maulana Azhar Masood - founder of the banned Jaish e Mohammad (JEM) group, which India blames for an attack on its parliament in December 2001.
Update: August 2009.. He remains in prison in Pakistan, awaiting the outcome of his appeal against the death sentence for the murder of Daniel Pearl.