this guy Mansoor Ijaz/ what does anon know?
>I don't recall hearing about him but stumbled across on WL today…interesting range and cross-section of events with this cat.
It was the perfect afternoon to be on his yacht. Mansoor Ijaz, a global hedge fund manager with a home-office view of the French Riviera, says he planned to sail the Mediterranean on that sunny day in early May — but then his BlackBerry beeped.
“Are you in London?” the incoming message read. “I am here for just 36 hours. Can we meet . . . ?”
Thus began a weird diplomatic intrigue that led last week to the downfall of Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s suave ambassador to Washington, and is still making waves in Islamabad. Ijaz, 50, a Pakistani American who grew up in rural Virginia, is at the center of the squall, a place the self-described “citizen diplomat” has landed before.
Rather than sailing, Ijaz says, he immediately phoned Haqqani, who’d sent the message, and spent the next several hours working back-channel Washington contacts at the ambassador’s request. He and Haqqani, who have known each other for years, exchanged messages using what Ijaz says were coded phrases — including “the three stooges” and “a sledgehammer with a golden handle.”
"“the three stooges” and “a sledgehammer with a golden handle.”"
https:// wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32741
https:// www.thedailybeast.com/pakistans-isi-spy-agency-s-wing-and-terrorism
https:// tribune.com.pk/story/294898/dg-isi-pasha-has-forensically-tested-memo-evidence-mansoor-ijaz/
https:// www.thedailybeast.com/pakistans-isi-spy-agency-s-wing-and-terrorism
https:// www.geo.tv/latest/40738-president-zardari-approved-obl-raid-mansoor-ijaz
https:// www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/12/memogate-scandal-pakistan-isi-haqqani (2012)
http:// www.foxnews.com/story/2004/08/31/fox-follow-up-mansoor-ijaz.html (2004)
https:// www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2012/0125/Who-is-Mansoor-Ijaz-The-US-businessman-behind-Pakistan-s-Memo-gate (2012)
https:// www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mansoor-ijaz-the-man-who-stirred-up-pakistans-memogate-storm/2011/11/29/gIQAsUtPIO_story.html?utm_term=.307fbb0ebdae