Reply #4: I would have put either 100% or 0%

[Kevin Fenton]

... or near as damn it for all of them, so it would be a fairly futile exercise for me, however...

No plane on the Pentagon stills: there appears to be something there, but if it's a 757, I'm a monkey's uncle. Then again, given that the video stills are crude fakes, what difference does it make?

Indian intelligence: Amir Mir (a sort of Pakistani Sy Hersh) writes:
"Omar sent a draft for $100,000 to Mohammad Atta, one of the men who crashed an aircraft into the World Trade Center in New York. The draft, sources say, was sent in the summer of 2000 employing a pseudonym. Atta is thought to have returned $15,600 through the hawala channel just before the attack. The FBI believes that Omar met Atta during one of his visits to Kandahar and knew of the plans for the September 11 strikes. Further investigations revealed that the money transferred into Atta's account was actually provided to Omar by former ISI chief Lieutenant General Mahmood Ahmed. These findings apparently proved to be the proverbial last nail for Mahmood who was subsequently sent home on October 8, 2001 by General Musharraf."
http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/dec/29spec1.htm
Mir is supposed to have added something to the story (I never did find out what) when it first broke. He's also written lots of other 9/11 and terrorism stories, had his car blown up by the ISI, been fired a fair few times from his job and written a book, The True Face of Jehadis, which is well worth a read if you're interested in Pakistani politics.

The Sunday Times is supposed to have confirmed the story from the US end. I can't find that article, but there are plenty of references to it on the net, for example:
"“It would appear that the ISI had its own reasons for holding Sheikh for a week before announcing to the world that he was in custody,” the report says. “One thing it would have wanted to do was to make sure its protégé did not give more away than absolutely necessary about his relationship with Pakistan’s intelligence services.”"

"This “missing week” shed new light on Indian reports last October that Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmed, Director-General of the ISI, had been forced into retirement after FBI investigators uncovered credible links between him and Sheikh in the wake of September 11 attacks."

"According to these reports, the FBI team established that in early September, Ahmed had instructed Sheikh to transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, leader of the hijackers who crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11."

The ISI basically sprung OSS from jail in India, there's no way he wasn't an ISI asset (remember him demanding the US sell fighters to Pakistan?), as well as an Al Qaeda operative. Then again, there's no proof that Ahmed knew exactly what the hijackers were going to do and when.