It has recently come to light that Mr. Haqqani orchestrated the UN resolution against Pakistan giving the PPPP government the fig leaf to attack Pakistanis and implement the Neocon agenda in a hurry before President Obama takes office in Washington.
Indeed, Abdullah Haroon has committed the crime of treason against Pakistan by telling the UNSC, without any legal evidence or proof, that it should impose UN sanctions for the Mumbai attacks on JuD and Pakistani citizens based in Pakistan. Therefore, Haroon must be booked for treason, kicked out of the Pakistan Mission to the UN and prosecuted in an independent court of law for libelous defamation against a Pakistani organization and Pakistani citizens.
PPP President Asif Ali Zardari appointed Abdullah Haroon, an incompetent politician and a failed diplomat, as the PPP's "Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations" in New York, USA, on 3 September 2008, to stop any journalistic criticism against PPP leaders by the Dawn Media Group (DMG), because Abdullah Haroon is the elder brother of Hameed Haroon, the CEO of DMG; Publisher of the DAWN rag, DWS, Herald, Spider, Aurora, The Star; and producer of the Dawn News TV. The controversial, meritless appointment of Abdullah Haroon is a classical example of the PPP government corruption, nepotism and bribery to the DMG of Karachi, Pakistan.
Now read the following excerpts from the Asia Times Online news report to further understand the PPP's sinister conspiracy against the JuD and the Pakistan Army: "Karachi [Pakistan] - The United Nations Security Council's declaration this week of the Pakistani group Jamat-ud-Dawah [JuD] as a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is [illegally and maliciously] banned as a terrorist organization, marks a major setback for Pakistan's military establishment.
"The UN has [unlawfully and maliciously] subjected Jamat-ud [Dawah] to sanctions as a terrorist group, including an asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo. Jamat claims it is a charity organization separate from the LeT, which has been [illegally, maliciously and fraudulently] linked [without any lawful proof or evidence] to the devastating attack on Mumbai [India] last month [November 2008] in which close to 200 people died.
Husien Haqqani once again exposed himself. For the past decade he has not been defending Pakistanis, Islam or Muslims. he has in fact been one of the foremost critics of Pakistan and Muslims. Over the years Mr. Haqqani's "scholarship" is "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury" signifying nothing. Mr. Haqqani is not rally well educated or accomplished in anything but schmooze and opportunism. A former die hard Jamat e Islami member, then a virulent opponent of the PPP, Mr. Haqqani graduated to become a paid mule of the Neocons. He did not do any original research. Most of his "thoughts' can be found in the scholarship of Dr. Steve Emersen, Dr. Daniel Pipes and Mr. Robert Schwartz. Some of these and others participated in the Islamphobic events held on campuses in 2007.
Mr. Haqqani's narrative is "to blame Muslims and Pakistanis first". He regurgitates the what sells. Right now Islamphobia is a growth industry so he writes and says what his target audience wants to hear. And who is the targeted audience? His audience consists of the Hudson Institute, AIPAC and JINSA from whom he received huge paycheck and speaking fees. Rupee News has listed the actual monies that Mr. Haqqani has received which is public information.
"The Pakistani [PPP] ambassador in Washington, Husain Haqqani, and Pakistan's [PPP] Permanent Representative at the United Nations, [Abdullah] Hussain Haroon, took a pro-active role in soliciting the international community to help Pakistan. They got their message across and the UN aimed at the core of the discord by explicitly naming Jamat-ud [Dawah]. On Thursday, the sidelining of the [Pakistan] military establishment was complete. These developments are significant that the [Pakistani] military establishment, which has for so long dominated the affairs of state in Pakistan, has been outmaneuvered by the political [PPP Terrorist Mafia] Government."
Husain Haqqani, a Pakistani diplomat and adviser to Prime Minister Bhutto is the co-chair of Hudson's Centre on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World. The Washington, D.C.-based Hudson Institute has its own of think-tanks with a diverse mix of Ceoconservatives and Pakistani Neocons. Hudson Institute's CID was established by Hillel Fradkin, a Neocon signatory to the PNACs (Project for New American Century), letter to the President Bush urging war against Iraq. It also equated the Palestinian Authority with Al-Qaeda.
At a Hudson Institute conference in Washington last year, the Muslim scholar Zeyno Baran spoke about how the radical Muslim Brotherhood has established front groups in the US to mask and mainstream its Islamist ideology. Baran said:
Now, when we engage with Islamist organizations, either in conferences or government outreach programs, that is seen as endorsing that group and gives them legitimacy and empowers this sort of Islamism to become much more legitimate in the eyes of, let's say American Muslim groups.
If groups like CAIR or ISNA, Council on American Islamic Relations, CAIR, or the Islamic Society of North America, the two indicted coconspirators in the Holy Land trial case that I'm sure you all know about, and I believe you mentioned it briefly in your introduction, when those groups are invited to events with U.S. government, then most of the American Muslim groups who don't really understand these issue think that they are the legitimate representative organizations and they need to be supporting them. And instead of then having sort of non-Islamist networks being formed, many of the Muslims feel that this sort of the non-Islamist Muslims feel that there's really nowhere for them to go since the government is not reaching out to them, and since through decades of funding, institutional networking, creating of organizations, the Brotherhood and its affiliates have been taking over, or starting to take over the mainstream, that is the answer when some of you say, where are the real moderate Muslims, why aren't they speaking up, and that is partly the reason why they don't speak up because they don't think that there is really any interest or really opportunity for them.
Also on the panel was Islamic scholar Husain Haqqani, who recounted the history of how the Muslim Brotherhood took over mainstream Muslim institutions in the US. I reproduce his remarks below, not only because they are important to keep in mind when many Americans prefer to believe that CAIR, ISNA and the other mainstream Muslim organizations pursue a benign agenda, but also because Dr. Haqqani is now Pakistan's ambassador to the United States.
Pakistan’s New Ambassador: Traitor or Naïve fool? Rupee News has tried to ascertain if Mr. Haqqani is naive, just an opportunists, a pawn in the hands of the "doers and shakers", or part of a diabolical conspiracy to place Manuchrian candidates in positions of power within the Pakistani government.
Remarks by Husain Haqqani:
Let me begin by saying that this morning we all heard about the Muslim Brotherhood's history, but to set the stage for my discussion of the Muslim Brotherhood's politicization of Islam in America, I would like to begin by just a few direct quotes from the work of the Muslim Brotherhood's founder, Hassan al-Banna to explain the world view of the Muslim Brotherhood as the movement sees it.
In one of his writings, Hassan al-Banna claims Muslims should strive for the Muslim individual, Muslim family, Muslim nation, Muslim government and a state that should be able to lead the Islamic governments, should be able to unite the dispersed Muslims, should be able to regain their honor and superiority, should be able to recover their lost lands, their usurped regions and their occupied territories. Then it should be able to raise the flag of Jihad and the call towards Allah until the entire world is benefited by the teachings of Islam. Addressing members of the Muslim Brotherhood, he writes: Always remember that you have two basic objectives: number one, that the Islamic country should be free from all foreign control, for freedom is the natural right of every man which can be denied only by an oppressive dictator; second, although the concept of freedom is very different (just in case anybody is wondering), in this free land, a free Islamic government should be established, which should act according to the Islamic commands and enforce its collective system, declare its right principles as operative and popularize among the people its message which is based on wisdom. As long as the government is not established, all Muslims will be guilty, and for any slackness and carelessness in this connection will have to be accountable before Allah.
Mr. Potato-Chips goes to Washington:-Neocon from Pakistan. The "wannabee goras" see no impact of the historical issues to Pakistani and other Muslims societies, and squarely lay the blame on internal factors which are depicted as "triba", agressive, bent of world domination and have an intense hatred of the West. Mr. Haqqani seems to adhere to the cliche "They hate us because of our freedoms.
Following this, there is the Muslim Brothers' concept of a pledge of allegiance, and here there are six points to which the allegiance is undertaken.
First, that a person who takes the oath of allegiance to the Brotherhood acknowledges that he would build up an Islamic personality, his body should be strong, his character should be firm, his thinking should be mature and balance. Also, he should be capable of earning his living and be resourceful, his belief should be on the right lines and his prayers should be selfless, he should be keen for his progress as an individual, and mindful of his time, all his affairs should be organized and his existence should be beneficial for others to the best possible extent. These are the duties of every Muslim Brother individually.
The second point is that the Brother should establish a Muslim family, where Islamist ideals triumph over loyalty to his family-members. The Brother should be able to make them prepared to be respectful to the Islamic etiquette in their private lives and to follow it. He should give to his sons and his servants the best available training and instruct them in Islamic teachings. This is the duty of a Muslim Brother in relation to his family.
The third point holds that he should work to reform society. He should popularize among people the righteous living, prohibit evil deeds and encourage good ones, exalt virtue and a competitive spirit in performing good deeds. He should induce the people to "color their whole living in the Islamic hue." This is the duty of the Muslim Brotherhood, of every Brother individually, as well as the responsibility of the entire Jama'ah of the Brotherhood.
Fourth, a Muslim Brother should free his country from every foreign, non-Islamic control. He should not allow any other political, spiritual or economic power to step into his country.
The fifth point, is that the Brother should reform the government until the government is, in the true sense of the word, Islamic. Further, the government should be able to perform its duty and responsibility as a servant for the entire Muslim Umma.
The sixth principle states that the Muslim Brotherhood collectively should work to restore the international position of the Muslim Umma. For this purpose it will be necessary free the occupied Muslim lands. It should restore its honor and superiority, promote its civilization and culture anew. A new spirit of oneness and unity should be instilled in the Muslim Umma until the entire Umma is unified, and in this way, the crown and throne of the caliphate of the world may be regained.
The last principle relates to how the strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood has been operationalized in the United States. According to the seventh principle, the Brotherhood should function as a teacher, and guide the whole world.
In sum, the first stage concerns the individual and the family, then the Muslim society, then the Muslim states and governments and finally, the entire world. The Brotherhood should thus spread the message of Islam to every nook and cranny of the world in such a way that the invigorating sight of obedience to Allah may be seen.
Mr. Haqqani refuses to mention a few of the issues. Hasan Al Banna's pan-Arab message was not unique on earth. His message was anti-colonial and anti-Orientalist. His message was echoed by many moderates in the Muslims world and many non-Muslims as well. For example Lawrence of Arabia helped the Arabs gain independence from the Turks on the message of Arab Nationalsism. The Christian secular Baathist party united Egypt, Syria and Iraq under the banner of Arabism.
Mr. Haqqani also fails to mention the fact that the rise of the Ikhwan Ul Muslimeen was at the peak of the cold war. While the Socialist Gamal Abul Nasser was a pawn of the Soviet Union the CIA needed to keep his popular rise to power in check. At the time the CIA helped Banna * *** in gaining popularity so that Egypt would not totally fall into the lap of the USSR.
These outlined principles are the objectives, method and message of the Muslim Brotherhood as defined by its own founder. As Hillel pointed out, the Brotherhood was created in 1928. What has happened since then, especially in the United States and what has been the U.S.'s linkage with the Muslim Brotherhood is the topic of my presentation.
Muslims started arriving in the United States as immigrants. It is true that there was an indigenous Muslim community, especially among African-Americans long before, but immigrant Muslims arrived in significant numbers since the 1950s. The number became more significant after the 1960s. In the 1950s, the people who came here were either students at American institutions of learning, colleges, universities, or students who completed their education and decided to pursue the American dream. So they were not people who came here to Islamize the United States. They happen to be Muslims who came here, and when they came here, certain needs arose.
They needed a mosque to pray in, they needed to find halal food, as they had children and settled down here, they needed education for their children which would emphasize their religious and cultural background, they needed to arrange and organize marriages, burials, and various other things according to Islamic rituals. Then, as some of them discovered the concept of certain economic practices being questioned by some theologians in the Muslim world, they began to worry about how to be able to have banking arrangements that were not entirely interest-based.
Mr. Haqqani uses a string of pearl strategy. He publishes excepts and "partial views" of history. These half-truth bring him profits from some quarters, but impact his capability both as a teacher and a diplomat. He tries to link unrelated events into a web of deceit and lies. He may not realize that my making a buck he actually impacts the lives and livelihood of millions of Muslims in America and beyond. He is not doing America or Pakistan any favors. In fact his nonsense is hurting America's popularity around the world.
A Western Oriental Gentleman (WOG) came to the USA in 2002. His credentials were pretty weak an MA from The University of Karachi. He noticed that there was a huge opportunity in making a deal with Faust and selling Islamphobia to the naive and scared American public. In the grand tradition of "Orientalism", this new FOB (Fresh of the boat) man jumped on the Neocon bandwagon and stabbed the Civil Rights Movement in the heart. Mr. Hussain Haqqani's incorrect, false and incendiary statements caused havoc with the normal functioning of the great American Democracy. Hackles were raised. If a man named Husien said this, it must be true. If a Pakistani said this it must have veracity.
What irked Pakistani Americans most about Mr. Haqqani's writings were his insinuations innuendo and portrayal of false history about Islam in America. His most egregious offense was to cast doubt on the loyalty of Muslims in America. His portrayal of terrorists cells and sleeper cells mirrored the writings of Dr. Emersen, Robert Spencer, David Harowitz, Michelle Milkin and others the worst Islamphobes in the planet. For example Mr. Haqqani's article with the innocuous title "The Politicization of American Islam" is a ticking time bomb for American Muslims. It is exactly these type of writings that have encouraged Michelle Malken to write "The Case for internment", a book that propounds the thesis that the internment of innocent American citizens who happened to be Japanese
However he has more than skeletons in his closet. He is a closet full of skeletons. For the past decade his sordid connections with the Neocons and their think tanks created this tsunami of Islamphobic rhetoric that eventually turned into a crescendo of Anti-Pakistan balderdash
These were their concerns. These concerns were taken advantage of by the Muslim Brotherhood, which had its own agenda in mind, outlined earlier.
Four things happened simultaneously in the 1950s.
First, the Muslim Brotherhood needed cadres. It realized that since their message was global, the cadres should be global as well, and they were looking for talented people. Now where could one find a better talent pool than among Muslims who were receiving higher education in places like the United States? Thus, the first step was for the Brotherhood to recognize that Muslims studying in the States were suited for its aims.
Second, the Muslims who had come to the United States as students or professionals starting out their pursuit of the American dream needed certain services, related to prayer, religious obligations, Sunday school or the Muslim equivalent of a Sunday school for their children. Their needs were recognized, and the Muslim Brotherhood recognized that its need for cadres and the Muslim community's need for services could actually coincide if they made it work that way.
The third thing that happened was that Saudi Arabia had emerged on the global scene, and wanted to gain influence among the world's Muslims. Hermann Eilts, who was director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University and who used to be an Arabist in the State Department and served as ambassador to Egypt and Saudi Arabia among other places, talked about how as early as the late 1940s, Hassan al-Banna and some of his closest associates used to travel to Saudi Arabia, which was not the Saudi Arabia of today. At that time, it was still coming out of the shadows of the early Saudi sort of Wahhabi non-modernist beginnings. And yet, Eilts claims that the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt in particular had ties with the Saudis, and the Saudi deputy finance minister at the time who happened to be from Sudan, was responsible for providing money for the Muslim Brotherhood as part of the influence that coincided with the American agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood. Consequently, all they had to do was persuade the Saudis that the European and American side of things was also significant and worth the investment.
The fourth thing, which set the stage for what we are experiencing today, is the United States entering the Cold War. As it often happens, the U.S. was still trying to find its way in a complex world, and the people who were looking at that world were not necessarily fully aware of its complexity. A binary approach was adopted, designed to contain communism by preventing Muslim countries from emerging and newly independent Muslim countries from becoming friends of the Soviets. Essentially, anyone who could help in this project was deemed a useful partner.
Mr. Haqqani's fantasies put together a maze that is based on total lies. His venom against Muslims in general, Saudis and Pakistanis in particular impresses only his masters. His masters voice is not only totally discredited, the American people have voted against the proponents of these views. America has voted for a new prophet of peace and the Neocons have been voted out of office. Mr. Husain Haqqani has been siting in the lap of the Neocons disparaging Islam and vomiting against Pakistan for the best part of a decade. Now he is rewarded with an Ambassadorial position to represent Pakistan.
As a result, the Saudis were becoming a key ally of the United States, while the Muslim Brotherhood were allies of the Saudis. So in the Cold War context, the Brotherhood was a 'good guy'.
Then, an idea was proposed to find a Muslim Billy Graham. Naturally, somebody who grew up in Wisconsin or Wyoming and brought up a Lutheran or Baptist and has not clue about the intricacies of the theology or the complex ideological divisions within the world of Islam, the person they were going to find was the one who himself wanted to be identified as the Muslim Billy Graham, and was looking for resources to allow him to carry his crusade. Unsurprisingly, one of the people who showed up to fill that role was a man by the name of Said Ramadan, who was married to Wafa al-Banna, the daughter of Hassan al-Banna. Thus, he met with the president of the United States in the Oval Office, as a potential Muslim Billy Graham who was going to mobilize the Muslims of the world against evils such as atheism and communism.
Then, Iraq fell into the Ba'ath rule and later on came under communist influence. This rendered the Cold War paradigm very important, and the intelligence community started paying attention to the Muslim Brotherhood, for it had the potential of being a major sources of influence against the spread of communism.
Said Ramadan, positioning himself very cleverly, started building up the institutional mechanism of the Brotherhood. He traveled to Pakistan and forged an alliance with the Islamists in Pakistan, especially that Jamaat-e-Islami led by Abul A'la Maududi. Ramadan had so much influence in Pakistan that when the World Muslim Congress was first held, Ramadan published one of his first books and got the then prime minister of Pakistan (a Westernized man whom Truman adored) to write the preface of the book. In other words, a secular guy writing the preface of an Islamist book shows that the real issue was for the Muslims to show that they were united with the West against communism. Putting it crudely, the Muslim notion at the time was- if you can give us a few dollars to help fight the commies, so much the better, guns can come later.
Said Ramadan set up the Islamic center in Geneva in 1961, and in 1962 Prince Faisal Abdul Aziz helped create the Muslim World League, also known as Rabita al-Alam al-Islamia, which is now based in Mecca. Looking at the founding fathers of the Muslim World League is helpful to our understanding of radical Islam today. The key places where radical Islam has flourished, are places where people linked to the Rabita came from. A few examples would be: Said Ramadan himself, Egyptian in origin, Abul A'la Maududi, Pakistani, Haj Amin al-Husaini, Palestinian, Sibghatullah Mujadidi of Afghanistan, Mohammed ibn Ibrahim al-Shehr, the Saudi Grand Mufti, and Abdul Rahman Yahya al-Iryani of Yemen. This was the basic formation.
Once the Rabita came into being, it became a major funding source for radical Islamic projects all over the world. One of the first organizational structures to emerge in the United States, considering that the Muslim population was comprised of either young professionals or students, was the Muslim Students Association. Its founder was Berzinji who was a Iraqi Kurd associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. Two other people came up, Ahmad Tutungi and Hishameth Taleb, both of whom were married to Berzinji's sisters, and this kind of family network emerged. Other institutions were then created, like the World Assembly of Muslim Youth. The Muslims Students Association of America became the pivot of an international Islamic federation of student organizations.
The MSA did a remarkable thing from the point of the view of the Muslim Brotherhood: they got funding for a massive translation project of all the major texts of radical Islam, Qutb's books, Maududi's books, Hassan al-Banna's books and articles of others belonging to the network. These texts were translated into 70 languages and made available to every Muslim center or mosque that was emerging. Consider young Muslims who came to the States- engineers studying in Oklahoma or Michigan or elsewhere. These students may want to learn about their faith. Thanks to the MSA, Muslim texts became available in prayer halls, free of charge and translated into every language. Turkish students can read Qaradawi for example in Turkish, Indians in Hindi, Pakistanis in Urdu and so on.
Then, the Muslim Student Association started inviting people from the Muslim world, and among the people who came to the States were Abul A'la Maududi, Abul Hassan Ali Nadwi, Yusuf al-Qaradawi. They all came to deliver lectures, which are of particular interest. While the American government at that time supported what it considered anti-communist crusaders, which they were, the lectures delivered in the US were about the impending clash between Islam and the West. Evidently, the Brothers were preparing for this clash down back in the 1970s. Maududi's writings and speeches in America are very strong on this, Nadwis, Qardawis, it's all about how the Westernized way of life is not going to be the salvation and Islamized - so instead of modernizing the Muslim world, we have to Islamize the modern world. That was the agenda.
Mr. Haqqani's delusions do not end by blaming the charitable organizations like the Rabita. He continues his diatribes against any and all Muslims organization in America and beyond. He sees evil in the eye of any and all Muslims.Mr. Haqqani's statements and article fanned the wave of Islamphobia which ended up affecting the lives, and livelihood of thousands of Muslims. It was because of this sort of Islamphobic drivel that thousands of Pakistanis were packed up in C-130s and sent back to Pakistan. If they were lucky the spent a few nights in the rape and sodomy centers of 3rd world and Eastern European torture centers. If they were unlucky many of these Pizza Delivery people ended up in Gitmo. If they were unlucky they ended up in satellite prison systems in Egypt and Jordan's notorious "mukhabarrat". For these unlucky souls Abu Ghraib would be a picnic. Many of these horror stories are listed in "Civil Rights in Peril" and hundreds of other Human rights and Amnesty International reports.
In a nutshell, this is how it happened:
'60s and '70s massive publication program,
'70s and '80s, the America Project became a major source of fundraising in the Gulf region.
After 1973, the Gulf countries became rich with petroleum dollars.
Then, of course, came the 1980s when Jihad came about in Afghanistan, and that also enabled them to create networks that were designed for raising funds.
These networks include charities of various kinds, so by the 1990s these still seemed relatively benign, as the notion was that they are still "on our side"- while they talk about Western civilization needing to the pulled down, they are still not a threat to us.
Even now, for example like Graham Fuller, who was head of Middle East analysis at the National Intelligence Council, even now he maintains that there is no clash of interest between radical Islam and the United States, and a State Department official said about the Taliban in 1995, "the Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis... there will be pipelines and there will be an emir and there will be no parliament, and lots of Sharia law. I think the United States can live with that." So that was the attitude when the Muslim Brotherhood created the networks that have dominated the U.S.
There are four influences on the Muslim community of this Muslim Brotherhood expansion in the United States.
First was that most of the leading figures in the Muslim community ended up being people from the Muslim Brotherhood or people influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood. They had the money, they had the resources, they had the connections. Consider a small town in Auburn, Alabama that needs a little mosque. Who is going to pay for the mosque? This kind of help came from the Muslim Brotherhood. Many people became disproportionately influence. The Muslim community as a whole is very diverse. It includes people with Sufi background, Shi'as, etc. The emergence of the leadership ended up identifying the Muslim Brotherhood people as the leaders.
Second, the mosques and organizations all ended up, or most of them ended up under Muslim Brotherhood control.
The third impact was that the Muslim agenda ended up being defined by the Muslim Brotherhood, and this was a highly political agenda. Instead of Muslims like me who consider Islam their religious faith, this ended up being people who describe Islam as a political and social ideology, so Islam is ideology and Islam is faith, the distinction became blurred because of the way the organizational structure was created.
And the fourth was the marginalization of traditional Islam within the Muslim community of the United States, the kind of people who want to say their prayers but get on with the business of life, who want to have a relationship with God, but do not want to think of it as a political agenda. That's where the politicization came.
The impact on the American mainstream, and four quick points:
number one, the American media and academia. Since they are looking to understand Islam, they found it more convenient to approach Islam through the Muslim Brotherhood's politicized version. If you look at even Islamic studies in the United States, a lot of scholars look at the people the Brotherhood quotes. You don't here about certain scholars. Only now some people are doing some research on Sufi traditions or non-radical versions of Islam.
It's similar to Christian Evangelicals defining Christianity, not allowing other sects and groups to actually define it. There is pluralism within the Christian tent, big tent. The process is similar here is well. The Muslim Brotherhood's version is now the official one. So if CNN is looking for a spokesman for the Muslims, they are going to go to any of the organizations associated with the Brotherhood to provide speakers. So then you have the others who turn around and say, where are the moderate Muslims? The point is that the moderate Muslims do not control the organizational structures out of which spokesmen are born. They are quiet.
The fourth impact on the American mainstream was that converts to Islam, as Islam started winning converts in the United States, the new converts were more likely to be influenced by radical Islam than by traditional Islam. So whether it's the prison ministry of Muslims, or whether it's the Chaplaincy in the military, et cetera, all of it is influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood sufficiently for Muslim Brotherhood views to be the prism through which Islam is viewed by these new converts to Islam. Now, even critics of radical Islam are affected by the Muslim Brotherhood's notion that there is only one Islam. The plurality of Islam and the pluralism within Islam is totally ignored as a result. Haqqani on Muslim Brotherhood's real agenda: 6:48 AM Tue, Dec 02, 2008 | Rod Dreher
Rupee News has exposed Mr. Haqqani in several articles. Most people will be appalled by his hysterical diatribes against people based on their faith and their national origins. He can get away with it because he has now been anointed by Mr. Zardari as the Pakistani Ambassador to the USA. Mr. Haqqani should have been defending the innocent. He was like Nero watching Rome Burn. Mr. Haqqani was not just a spectator, he was an active participant on the crusade on Muslims in the West.
The portrayal of all DMS (Dead Muslim Scholars) as progenitors of all evil in the world is a growth industry in America. Mr. Haqqanis writings linking DMSs to 911 and future events is exactly what is depicted in Mr. Geert Wilder's balderdash "Fitna". If Fitna is blasphemy, Mr. Haqani's sacrilegious writings also create psychopathic paranoia in the intellectual circles of America. What is worse, Mr. Haqqani'swritings are then quoted as "fact" to create discriminatory laws, illegal surveillance and creates the case to end Habeas Corpus via the "Patriot Act" Laws.
Semantics are extremely important. We strenuously objected to Mr. Haqqani's usage of Quranic words for nafarous purposes. He continues to use the words giving succor to the enemy, but also encouragin appartichiks like Mr. Shaharyar to "monkey say monkey do" follow in his footsteps and use the same blasphemous wordings. Mr. Haqqani should be aware that blasphemy is still an offense in Pakistan and congucating Quranic terms to portray ignoble people is blasphemy. When Pakistani territory is called a "safe haven", instead of a hideout, it creates paranoia in Washington.
INFORMATION PRESS - News Views Media - USA - Chief Editor: Journalist SYED ADEEB ================================================== Haroon-Haqqani Urged UN to Impose Sanctions on Pakistani NGOs: Asia Times
PPP Envoy to UN Abdullah Hussain Haroon Must be Booked for Anti- Pakistan Treason.
(InformPress.com) - PPP envoy to the United Nations (UN) Abdullah Hussain Haroon and PPP envoy to the USA Husain Haqqani cunningly urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to impose UN sanctions on Pakistan's social welfare organization, Jamat-ud-Dawah (JuD), and Pakistani citizens to falsely and maliciously frame, blame and defame them in Civil Terrorism against State Terrorism of the Terrorist Mafia State of India, according to a news report of the Asia Times Online ("Pakistan's military takes a big hit", by Syed Saleem Shahzad, 13 December 2008, Hong Kong, China.)
On 9 December 2008, in his official written statement to the UNSC, Abdullah Hussain Haroon strongly urged the UNSC to impose UN sanctions on JuD and its Pakistani leaders. Haroon wrote:
"I would also like to give you a few glimpses of steps taken today in Pakistan: The [PPP] Government of Pakistan has already initiated investigations on its own pertaining to the allegations of involvement of persons and entities in the Mumbai attacks. After the designation of Jamat-ud-Dawah (JuD) under 1267, the [PPP] Government on receiving communication from the [UN] Security Council shall proscribe the JuD and take other consequential actions, as required, including the freezing of [JuD] assets."
The above statement of Abdullah Haroon proves that Haroon mischievously encouraged the UNSC to impose UN sanctions on JuD and its Pakistani leaders without presenting any legal evidence or proof against the JuD to the UNSC.
Abdullah Haroon also wrote: "A plan is being prepared to ensure effective government supervision as required for various welfare organizations. An intelligence led operation strongly supported by law enforcement agencies is already underway to arrest the individuals alleged to be involved in the Mumbai attacks. No training camps for Lashkar-e-Tayyaba [LeT] or any entity of this nature shall be allowed on the territory of Pakistan. The above measures, which are in process, constitute further proof of Pakistan's determination to take action and not to allow its territory to be used for terrorism. Pakistan Government's ability and capacity to take strong measures requires the understanding and full support of its friends at the United Nations and its Security Council. In addition to our proposal of a Joint Commission and investigations, we have now proposed to India to receive the highest possible level delegation from Pakistan to sort out these affairs."
The above statement of Abdullah Haroon also proves that Haroon told the UNSC, without any lawful proof or evidence, that both the JuD and the LeT are behind the Mumbai attacks of November 2008. On 10 December 2008, after hearing and reading the false and malicious statements of Abdullah Haroon against JuD and LeT, the so-called UN "Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee" imposed the UN sanctions (assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo, etc.) on JuD, LeT, "Al Rashid Trust", "Al-Akhtar Trust International", Muhammad Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Haji Muhammad Ashraf and Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq.
Indeed, Abdullah Haroon has committed the crime of treason against Pakistan by telling the UNSC, without any legal evidence or proof, that it should impose UN sanctions for the Mumbai attacks on JuD and Pakistani citizens based in Pakistan. Therefore, Haroon must be booked for treason, kicked out of the Pakistan Mission to the UN and prosecuted in an independent court of law for libelous defamation against a Pakistani organization and Pakistani citizens.
PPP President Asif Ali Zardari appointed Abdullah Haroon, an incompetent politician and a failed diplomat, as the PPP's "Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations" in New York, USA, on 3 September 2008, to stop any journalistic criticism against PPP leaders by the Dawn Media Group (DMG), because Abdullah Haroon is the elder brother of Hameed Haroon, the CEO of DMG; Publisher of the DAWN rag, DWS, Herald, Spider, Aurora, The Star; and producer of the Dawn News TV. The controversial, meritless appointment of Abdullah Haroon is a classical example of the PPP government corruption, nepotism and bribery to the DMG of Karachi, Pakistan.
Now read the following excerpts from the Asia Times Online news report to further understand the PPP's sinister conspiracy against the JuD and the Pakistan Army: "Karachi [Pakistan] - The United Nations Security Council's declaration this week of the Pakistani group Jamat-ud-Dawah [JuD] as a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is [illegally and maliciously] banned as a terrorist organization, marks a major setback for Pakistan's military establishment.
"The UN has [unlawfully and maliciously] subjected Jamat-ud [Dawah] to sanctions as a terrorist group, including an asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo. Jamat claims it is a charity organization separate from the LeT, which has been [illegally, maliciously and fraudulently] linked [without any lawful proof or evidence] to the devastating attack on Mumbai [India] last month [November 2008] in which close to 200 people died.
"Pakistani [PPP] President Asif Ali Zardari and his diplomatic corps based in Washington and New York had lobbied hard to counter efforts by the Pakistani military establishment to protect its strategic assets, as Islamabad [Zardari-Gillani Ruling Mafia] wants a real clampdown on the LeT and Jamat-ud [Dawah].
"It has got its way.... Within 24 hours of the UN announcement, Pakistan [Zardari-Gillani Terrorist Mafia] carried out raids on Jamat-ud [Dawah] offices throughout the country. [JuD President Professor Muhammad] Saeed and other [JuD] leaders have been placed under [illegal] house arrest, while several Jamat leaders have gone underground.
"The Pakistani media were given directives to label the Mumbai attack a conspiracy hatched by India's Research and Analysis Wing [RAW], Israel's Mossad and the US's Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] to tighten the noose around Pakistan. While the War Criminal] George W. Bush Administration was assured by [Pakistan] Army Chief [General] Ashfaq Parvez Kayani that action would be taken against the LeT, the [PPP Terrorist Mafia] Government was advised by the military to make a distinction between Jamat-ud [Dawah] and the LeT.
"The Pakistani [PPP] ambassador in Washington, Husain Haqqani, and Pakistan's [PPP] Permanent Representative at the United Nations, [Abdullah] Hussain Haroon, took a pro-active role in soliciting the international community to help Pakistan. They got their message across and the UN aimed at the core of the discord by explicitly naming Jamat-ud [Dawah]. On Thursday, the sidelining of the [Pakistan] military establishment was complete. These developments are significant that the [Pakistani] military establishment, which has for so long dominated the affairs of state in Pakistan, has been outmaneuvered by the political [PPP Terrorist Mafia] Government."
\However, out of the 16-paragraphs-long speech of Abdullah Hussain Haroon, titled "Threats to International Peace and Security", only his following words make some sense: "I would request my friends in India to recall that when the Friendship Samjhota Express was burnt down with Muslim passengers killed on their way to Pakistan, fingers were pointed hastily at Pakistan but later it was proved that an Indian Army Colonel [Shrikant Prasad Purohit] was involved. We are all aware that the [Hindu- Occupied] Kashmir situation is the root cause of all problems between India and Pakistan. Would it not be a good time to do away with the root cause by pledging to resolve it with deeds and actions....
December 9, 2008, The Terrorists Want to Destroy Pakistan, Too, By ASIF ALI ZARDARI, Islamabad, Pakistan
THE recent death and destruction in Mumbai, India, brought to my mind the death and destruction in Karachi on Oct. 18, 2007, when terrorists attacked a festive homecoming rally for my wife, Benazir Bhutto. Nearly 150 Pakistanis were killed and more than 450 were injured. The terrorist attacks in Mumbai may be a news story for most of the world. For me it is a painful reality of shared experience. Having seen my wife escape death by a hairbreadth on that day in Karachi, I lost her in a second, unfortunately successful, attempt two months later.
The Mumbai attacks were directed not only at India but also at Pakistan’s new democratic government and the peace process with India that we have initiated. Supporters of authoritarianism in Pakistan and non-state actors with a vested interest in perpetuating conflict do not want change in Pakistan to take root.
To foil the designs of the terrorists, the two great nations of Pakistan and India, born together from the same revolution and mandate in 1947, must continue to move forward with the peace process. Pakistan is shocked at the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. We can identify with India’s pain. I am especially empathetic. I feel this pain every time I look into the eyes of my children.
Pakistan is committed to the pursuit, arrest, trial and punishment of anyone involved in these heinous attacks. But we caution against hasty judgments and inflammatory statements. As was demonstrated in Sunday’s raids, which resulted in the arrest of militants, Pakistan will take action against the non-state actors found within our territory, treating them as criminals, terrorists and murderers. Not only are the terrorists not linked to the government of Pakistan in any way, we are their targets and we continue to be their victims.
India is a mature nation and a stable democracy. Pakistanis appreciate India’s democratic contributions. But as rage fueled by the Mumbai attacks catches on, Indians must pause and take a breath. India and Pakistan — and the rest of the world — must work together to track down the terrorists who caused mayhem in Mumbai, attacked New York, London and Madrid in the past, and destroyed the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad in September. The terrorists who killed my wife are connected by ideology to these enemies of civilization.
These militants did not arise from whole cloth. Pakistan was an ally of the West throughout the cold war. The world worked to exploit religion against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan by empowering the most fanatic extremists as an instrument of destruction of a superpower. The strategy worked, but its legacy was the creation of an extremist militia with its own dynamic.
Pakistan continues to pay the price: the legacy of dictatorship, the fatigue of fanaticism, the dismemberment of civil society and the destruction of our democratic infrastructure. The resulting poverty continues to fuel the extremists and has created a culture of grievance and victimhood.
The challenge of confronting terrorists who have a vast support network is huge; Pakistan’s fledgling democracy needs help from the rest of the world. We are on the frontlines of the war on terrorism. We have 150,000 soldiers fighting Al Qaeda, the Taliban and their extremist allies along the border with Afghanistan — far more troops than NATO has in Afghanistan.
Nearly 2,000 Pakistanis have lost their lives to terrorism in this year alone, including 1,400 civilians and 600 security personnel ranging in rank from ordinary soldier to three-star general. There have been more than 600 terrorism-related incidents in Pakistan this year. The terrorists have been set back by our aggressive war against them in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and the Pashtun-majority areas bordering Afghanistan. Six hundred militants have been killed in recent attacks, hundreds by Pakistani F-16 jet strikes in the last two months.
Terrorism is a regional as well as a global threat, and it needs to be battled collectively. We understand the domestic political considerations in India in the aftermath of Mumbai. Nevertheless, accusations of complicity on Pakistan’s part only complicate the already complex situation.
For India, Pakistan and the United States, the best response to the Mumbai carnage is to coordinate in counteracting the scourge of terrorism. The world must act to strengthen Pakistan’s economy and democracy, help us build civil society and provide us with the law enforcement and counterterrorism capacities that will enable us to fight the terrorists effectively.
Benazir Bhutto once said that democracy is the best revenge against the abuses of dictatorship. In the current environment, reconciliation and rapprochement is the best revenge against the dark forces that are trying to provoke a confrontation between Pakistan and India, and ultimately a clash of civilizations.
India has been testing the Pakistani defenses this past week.
Mumbai: Intoxicated India deaf & blind to internal terror. Unable to introspect, resolve its huge race, caste & religious problems. So let us assume that India, overwhelmed by internal pressure and and external OK decides to send sorties to attack Pakistan.What will happen the day after. There are various options available to India. It can send aircraft to bomb suspected targets in Azad Kashmir or even Southern Punjab. It can shoot missiles on Pakistani territory or it can launch a cross border raid into Pakistan. It can block the Karachi port with the Indian Navy or it can send guerillas into Pakistan. It can also send armed bandits based into Pakistan to bomb or blow up the centers of the Jama ud Dawa etc.
The easiest for the Indian Air Force would be an attack on Azad Kashmir. Indian Sus and Migs could take off from the new Indian Airforce base in Ladakh and before the Pakistani jets could scramble the jets would have crossed the Cease Fire Line. Pakistan at this juncture has several options. As the radars identify the planes, the PAG could try to tangle the IAF in dogfights. A simpler response would be to fire Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs).
NEW YORK, Dec 7: President-elect Barack Obama offered guarded praise for the actions of President Asif Ali Zardari in the aftermath of Mumbai bombings saying “he has sent the right signals”, and expressed hope for establishing “close, effective working relationship”.
In an interview with NBC News for the ‘Meet The Press’ programme on Sunday, Mr Obama was asked about President Zardari’s response to the terrorist attacks in India. He said: “Thus far, President Zardari has sent the right signals. He’s indicated that he recognises this is not just a threat to the United States but is a threat to Pakistan, as well.” Mr Obama also observed: “There was a bombing in Pakistan just yesterday that killed scores of people. And so you’re seeing greater and greater terrorist activity inside Pakistan.”
“I think this democratically elected government understands that threat, and I hope that in the coming months that we are going to be able to establish the kind of close, effective working relationship that makes both countries safer,” Mr Obama said. Zardari sent right signals after attacks, says ObamaBy Masood Haider
The Pakistani response to this attack has already been thought out.Pakistan would proportionally respond with a little bit of a bonus. So if the Indian IAF bombs or strafes targets in Mirpur, Pakistan would reciprocate with attacks on Halvara Adampur or Jamnagar air bases. The PAF has the capability to bomb the Indian Air Force bases with planes--F-16s, MIGs or JJ-17 Thunders. However a safer response would be with Hataf III and Halatf iV missiles with a few cruise missiles thrown in for good measure. If India escalated the war, Pakistan would also escalate 'till the nuclear threshold would be reached.
He declined to weigh in with any great detail on the aftermath of the bombings in Mumbai.
He said he expected his national security team – including Hillary Clinton whom he’s designated as secretary of state, and Robert Gates who will remain defence chief – to come up with a “comprehensive strategy” for dealing with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the threat of terrorism.
Mr Obama said he still wanted to refocus military strategy on Afghanistan from Iraq. The US should proceed with plans to draw down US forces in Iraq as “quickly as we can to maintain stability in Iraq”. “We have to have more effective military action” in Afghanistan, he said.
That includes adding more US troops, greater coordination with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and more vigorous diplomacy in the region, he said.
On Iran, Obama said the US must “ratchet up tough but direct diplomacy” that will make clear “that their development of nuclear weapons would be unacceptable”.Zardari sent right signals after attacks, says ObamaBy Masood Haider
If the Indian Airforce attacks targets in Azad Kashmir. Assuming that the Indian attack would be successful because the USA and a certain unmentioned Middle Eastern country helped the Indian Airforce, what would be the reality the next day in South Asia.
So what are the options that India can exercise in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attack?
If the politicians are to be believed, there was a lot of sabre rattling at two meetings held by the government on Sunday, November 30 night. While the all-party meet called by the government was a more sedate affair, an earlier meeting organised exclusively for the UPA and its allies, held in Parliament was more telling. A representative of the Samajwadi Party is said to have suggested that this was a good time to "bomb Islamabad!"
Fine. Let's bomb Islamabad, assuming we have the capability to do so and that the frontline aircraft of the Indian Air force are all serviceable, the MiG-21s ready to escort the bombers, and we can launch a full-scale military attack by penetrating the secure skies over Islamabad and then bomb it back to the stone age.
But are we really ready for a war?
Are we ready for the fallout when two nuclear nations go to war? Are we ready for destroying everything that we have built in the last decade and a half? Are we prepared for rolling back our consistent 9 percent growth story and undertake hardships that several generations of Indians have never seen?
All this must be weighed before we take on the job of rattling our sabres. We did that once, post December 13, 2001 attack on Parliament. What did we really achieve from that 11-month old stand off with the Pakistanis? We stood on the border and they stood on the border, eyeball to eyeball, and we finally sent the forces back to the bunkers after that. But not before we had spent something to the tune of Rs 6000 crores (the official figures put it at a much lower figure pegging it a few hundred crores) and lost many precious lives of our soldiers, who stepped on mines not mapped, or tried to clear mines with bare hands while our bureaucrats held back critical mine clearing equipment.
Our air force, sanctioned 39.5 combat squadrons, is down to 30 off squadrons, our armoured corps doesn't have the tanks to roll in, our infantry is horribly tied up in counter-insurgency operations, our soldiers and officers are poorly paid and cheated in pay commission after pay commission, while we talk about "bombing Islamabad."
The Indian attack would halt all Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) and peace making would come to a grinding halt. Pakistani doves like Naji, Haqqani and others would be swept away in the ensuing rage and Pakistani hawks would have the day. There is grave danger that the government of President Asif Zardari may fall. The TTP and others would stop all operations and the war on the Western front would come to a quick end. All forces would be moved to the Eastern front and Pakistan would be unable to provide the support and the supply chain to NATO and the US war in Afghanistan. With all caution thrown to the wind pro-Pakistani elements in Afghanistan would target Indian icons in Afghanistan.
If India attacked Pakistan, the US will be unable to fight the war in Afghanistan.
The United Nations has been given a list of four Pakistani suspects that should be extradited to India or handed over to the UN. This is a grave escalation of the crisis caused by the terror suspects in the Mumbai carnage. The US and India have tried to pass a resolution against Pakistan before. Each time China had threatened to veto it. This time China approved the resolution and decided to abstain from it.
What is amazing about this UN resolution is that the decision on declaring Jama Ud Dawa was taken without any consultation of the Pakistani Embassy or the UN representative at the UN. Was it incompetence on the part of the Pakistani representative at the UN?
WASHINGTON: America is believed to be considering declaring more than four retired officials fo the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), including its former chief Hamid Gul, international terrorists through the UN Security Council, media reports have said.
US State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood told a briefing in Washington Friday that details of the list of names to be submitted to the Security Council would be revealed when the document is sent to the UN. The reports, citing sources, said that the names of Hamid Gul, Lt-Gen Javed Nasir, Major-General Zahirul Islam Abbasi (r), associated with the ISI during the Afghan war with the USSR, and Gen Aslam Beg (r), former Army Chief of Staff, were believed to be on the list.
However, when asked to confirm if the US had sent the names of some Pakistani individuals, Wood said he was not going to comment on names that the administration may or may not submit to the UN for imposing sanctions against them for alleged links to terrorist activities.
Meanwhile, Gul, a harsh critic of the US military presence in Afghanistan and who continues to be a vocal supporter of Jehadi groups, said Pakistani foreign ministry officials had confirmed to him the Washington was trying to put him on the UN list.
Stating that he said he had asked his government for support, he said, "I don't know why America is so much after me." Gul claims the United States wants him on a UN list of people and organisations linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban. ISI is currently under scrutiny because of its past links with Lashkar-e-Tyyiaba, the Kashmir Jihadi organisation that India and US officials suspect supplied the gunmen who killed at least 171 people in a horrifying attack on Mumbai last month.
Gul said he had asked his government for support. "I don't know why America is so much after me," said Gul from his home in the military cantonment area of Rawalpindi.
Lou Fintor, spokesman for the US embassy in Islamabad said he had no information, and added it was government policy not to comment until action had been taken either by the United Nations or the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. Pakistani officials could not be contacted.
Gul says he supports the Afghan resistance to Western forces at a moral and academic level, but no more than that. A regular guest on Pakistani news channels, Gul maintains the Sept 11 attacks in the United States were more likely the work of a neo-con/zionist conspiracy than al Qaeda.
An old ISI colleague of Gul, Khalid Khawaja, said he suspected his was another name the United States aimed to add to the UN list.
Khawaja said he kept up with old Taliban and militant contacts, but denied those ties extended to anything illegal. "I openly say I have links with these people," he said.
The News reported that an unsigned two-page document purported that Gul had recent links to the Taliban and al Qaeda.
Gul was ISI chief during benazir's first government in 1988-1990. In a letter to then president Pervez Musharraf shortly before her death, Benazir named Gul among a short-list of enemies who should be investigated if she was killed. Gul said Bhutto had assured him that she was pressured to put his name in the letter, but she did not say by whom.Ex-Pak servicemen on UN terror list? Hamid Gul, Javed Nasir, Zahirul Islam Abbasi and Aslam Beg among them The Post Monitoring
Beset by huge losses in Sri Lanka, a colossal defeat in Nepal, and reversals in its relationships with Pakistan and China, the Indian government has reasons to rethink its foreign policies. India has been chief sponsor of terror in Sri Lanka. Not only did it start the terror in Sri Lanka, it aided and abetted the terrorists organization LTTE for the the past decade. Thanks to the help of China and Pakistan, the Sri Lankan government has not only reversed the gains made by the LTTE, in 2008 it is on the verge of annihilating the worst terror group on the planet.
BANGALORE - The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is in dire straits. Territory under its control is shrinking by the day and the Sri Lankan armed forces are knocking on the door of its political headquarters, Kilinochchi. Things have never looked this bad for the LTTE. Two years ago it was in control of the entire Northern and Eastern provinces. Then territory began slipping out of its grip in the east. It was driven out of the Eastern province in July 2007. And in the past year-and-a-half, it has been losing ground in Northern province as well, having suffered serious military reverses. If the army wrests control of
Kilinochchi - which it says it will capture soon - the LTTE will be boxed into the jungles of Mullaitivu. On November 15, the LTTE lost Pooneryn, a strip of land in the northwest of the island that runs parallel to the neck of the Jaffna Peninsula. This is a huge loss for the LTTE. With the fall of Pooneryn to the government, it has lost access to the island’s west coast. This means that its access to the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu through the west coast of Sri Lanka has been cut off. It is to Tamil Nadu that injured LTTE fighters are taken and it is from here that the LTTE gets much of its supplies.
With the capture of Pooneryn, the Sri Lankan government finally has full control over its western seaboard. What’s more, for the first time since November 1993 (when Pooneryn fell into the Tigers’ hands) the government controls a land route into the Jaffna Peninsula. Previously, supplies for civilians and the armed forces in the peninsula have been ferried in by air or sea. These can now be taken through the land route that the capture of Pooneryn has opened up. Repair of the road from Pooneryn into the peninsula has already begun.
Two days after the capture of Pooneryn, the Sri Lankan army took another strategic town, Mankulam, on the arterial A9 highway in the Wanni. On November 20, the armed forces overran the LTTE’s first Forward Defense Line at Muhamalai. This is the area separating the government-controlled Jaffna Peninsula from the LTTE-dominated Mullaitivu and Kilinochchci. And then on Monday, Kokavil, a town that has been under LTTE control for the past 28 years, fell to the armed forces.
While the Sri Lankan army has made major gains in recent weeks, its advance towards Kilinochchi has not been easy. Heavy rains have slowed its operations and the LTTE has fought pitched battles against the advancing troops. The loss of Pooneryn and other strategic areas could not have come at a worse time for the LTTE, as these setbacks came in the run-up to Great Heroes Week.
For the past 19 years, the LTTE has been observing Great Heroes Week between November 21 and 27, when it pays homage to its fighters who have fallen on the battlefield. The "martyrs" are glorified, their sacrifices are remembered and their families honored. Then on the last day - Great Heroes Day - the LTTE chief delivers his annual address, where he makes a "policy statement" and highlights the LTTE's achievements over the past year. Sudha Ramachandran is an independent journalist/researcher based in Bangalore.Cornered Tigers look to India
The reversal of the fortunes of the LTTER causes huge problems for the hegemony and the aggressive policies of New Delhi which espouses Akand Bharat or an India extending from Kabul to a mythical land East of Bali called Raj Kilhani. This is very similar to Hitler's Germanic nation and is actually the Nazi dream which has been resurrected by the BJP.
This year Prabhakaran's speech made little reference to achievements. But he indicated clearly that, military reverses notwithstanding, he is not about to throw in the towel. "Whatever challenges confront us, whatever contingencies we encounter, whatever forces stand on our path, we will still continue with our struggle for the freedom of the Tamil people … we will continue with our struggle till alien Sinhala occupation of our land is removed," he declared. Tough talk? Or a picture of what lies ahead? A look at the way the LTTE has conducted itself over the past 25 years, skillfully maneuvering itself out of the tightest of spots would indicate that it will survive the recent military reverses. Its fighters are now engaged in pitched battles and it is likely to put in all its resources to hold Kilinochchi town. And it will continue to bleed the Sri Lankan forces with guerrilla strikes. More suicide attacks can be expected in the coming months.
That the LTTE has not yet given up is evident from the way it has been mobilizing support in Tamil Nadu over the past few months. Parties and Tamil nationalist organizations have been organizing massive rallies and demonstrations across the state to put pressure on the Indian government to end its considerable defense and other cooperation with the Sri Lankan government. With the LTTE cornered in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu, its supporters in Tamil Nadu have been pushing for a ceasefire.
Recently, the Tamil Nadu assembly passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire between the government forces and the LTTE, the return of the armed forces to their original positions and commencement of peace talks. The LTTE strategy is that public and political pressure in Tamil Nadu will push the Dravida Munetra Kazhagam, the party in power in Tamil Nadu, to convince its allies in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition government in Delhi to get Colombo to call for a ceasefire.
This strategy hasn't quite worked out the way the LTTE would like it to. India has not withdrawn its defense cooperation with Colombo, neither has it pressed the latter to call for a ceasefire. The furthest Indian officials have gone is to warn Colombo on avoiding civilian casualties. Besides, India is providing humanitarian support through the government to the hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians who are trapped in the war zone. That Prabhakaran is desperately seeking India's support at this critical juncture is evident from his appeals to the "Indian superpower" in his Great Heroes Day speech. Drawing attention to the "great changes taking place in India" - he was referring to the resurgence of political support for the LTTE in Tamil Nadu - the LTTE chief called on Indian leaders "to raise their voice firmly in favor of the LTTE's struggle for a Tamil Eelam state, and to take appropriate and positive measures to remove the ban which remains an impediment to an amicable relationship between India and our movement."
But Prabhakaran's pleas are likely to fall on deaf ears in Delhi. The Indian government recently extended the ban on the LTTE which officials in Delhi have repeatedly said will remain in force. Prabhakaran and his intelligence chief Pottu Amman are wanted in India for their role in the assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. It is unlikely that, as long as they are around, India will lift the ban on the organization. "Nothing has changed in India's perception of the LTTE as a terrorist organization," an Indian Home Ministry official told Asia Times Online.
In fact, hours before Prabhakaran delivered his Great Heroes Day speech, Mumbai came under attack from terrorists leaving over 215 dead and 300 injured. Indians are angry with the government for having failed to protect them from terrorists. At a time when the UPA government is facing public wrath for failing to act against terrorists, surely the government cannot be seen to be lenient with the LTTE, much less bailing it out of a tight corner by calling for a ceasefire. India has accused "elements in Pakistan" for the attacks and is considering stern measures against Pakistan to express its ire. At such a time, India is highly unlikely to make things easier for the LTTE. Besides, in the aftermath of the audacious attacks in Mumbai the government is considering steps to tighten security, including beefing up the coast guard to prevent terrorists from entering the country, whether to carry out attacks or for treatment of injured cadres.
Cornered in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu, the LTTE is likely to find the going will get tougher in India as well. Sudha Ramachandran is an independent journalist/researcher based in Bangalore.Cornered Tigers look to India
A few events in the past few weeks may have brought about a tectonic shift international relations. Many in the media are happy jumping on Pakistan. However the undercurrents in South Asia show a very different pattern. Cold war alliances are cementing the old relationships and "natural allies" are falling apart. MK Bhadrakumar and other analysts have written some excellent articles analyzing the deep rifts that are developing between the US and India:
...the terrorist-commando attack on Mumbai has provoked an even deeper rethink of international strategy across the region. Kashmir and Pakistan now looks more vital ground for the battle with al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadi terrorism than Afghanistan is today, or is likely to be in the foreseeable future.UK troops needed to save Kabul from Taliban forces: The decision to focus our forces in the south of the country will be reversed and a division-strength unit put under the control of General Petraeus By Robert Fox. FIRST POSTED DECEMBER 8, 2008
1) There can be only one president at a time. A careful analysis of the exact words of Americans who matter will clarify the mist. Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice and President-Elect Barack Obama seem to be at cross-roads. Both are saying different things. Rice is playing the bad cop by trying to calm down New Delhi and coming down hard on Islamabad. Barack Obama is playing the good cop espousing a "regional approach".
Obama calls for joint strategy against terrorism: Washington—President-elect of the United States Barack Obama called for a ‘strategic partnership’ with India, Pakistan and Afghanistan against terror...“So far Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has sent the right signals. He has indicated that he understands this is not just a threat to the United States but a threat to Pakistan,” he said. ... He said Mumbai attacks are hazard, not only for America but for Pakistan too.
Meanwhile US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said no deadline of 48 hours had been given to Pakistan. Pakistan would have to arrest miscreants of Mumbai attacks besides assuring that no follow-on attacks on India would happen, Rice said. Dawn-Pakistan
2) The fast deteriorating condition in Afghanistan have forced British, US and NATO troops to withdraw from the Durand Line and their comfort zones in Helmand etc and try to save Kabul which is inevitably about ready to fall to the anti-insurgency forces. Much to the chagrin of Delhi, the UK, NATO and the US want to bring the insurgents into Kabul in some sort of a coalition government. India remembers well what happened to the Indian Consulates when the last Taliban government came to Kabul. India had to pack its bags and leave.
India has shed its carefully cultivated ambivalence and come out in open, unqualified support of the Russian position on the situation in the Caucasus region. It is a signal victory of the Kremlin to have finally got India on board, as this is a most sensitive issue which occupies the first circle of Russian foreign policy and is, in fact, a leitmotif of Russia's relations with the US in the coming period. The joint declaration stresses, "India supports the important role of the Russian Federation in promoting peace and cooperation in the Caucasian region".
Ironically, New Delhi seems to have decided that if it is Afghan war that causes so much discomfiture for Washington to come out into the open in support of IIndia over the Mumbai strikes, it shall also be Afghanistan on which Indian regional policy shall begin to make a new beginning and careen away for the first time in a long while from US benchmarks and expectations. Asia Times. M K Bhadrakumar, Dec 8,'08
3) The orchestrated terrorism with local Indian involvement (crime, Kashmir and possibly Hindu extremists) have exposed the underbelly of India and shown the world how inefficient its armed forces (Blue water navy, Cost Guard, Rangers, Police etc) are and absurdly incompetent its crack elite Back Cat commandos can be.
India would expect Washington to come down like a ton of bricks on Islamabad to pressure the latter to take seriously the Indian allegation that the terrorist strike in Mumbai was perpetrated by elements in Pakistan with possible links to that country's security establishment. Evidently, Washington is in no position to fulfill the Indian expectations. Its number one priority is the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan's continued cooperation in the war. Washington cannot afford a "distracted" Pakistan, and its main political and diplomatic challenge, therefore, is to get Pakistan to remain "focused" on the war effort in the Afghan-Pakistan tribal areas.
New Delhi senses that as time goes by, it will find this paradigm frustrating. This is not a new paradigm, either. But Delhi's options are limited, though the government is under immense pressure not only to act but also to be seen actively acting. The delicate strategic balance between India and Pakistan virtually forecloses even a "limited" war option for either nuclear power. The only alternative open to India is to reassess its diplomatic options. But on this score, New Delhi needs to do some new thinking. Asia Times. M K Bhadrakumar, Dec 8,'08
4) British forces are withdrawing from Helmund and redeploying to Kabul in an attempt to save the capital from falling into the hands of the insurgents.
The strategic community in New Delhi would realize to their great discomfiture that the entire package of post-Cold War assumptions underlying the US-India strategic partnership just do not add up in the present situation for India to cope with the formidable task of pressuring Pakistan. Their broad assumption that the US would take care of India's "Pakistan problem" while India concentrated on its tryst with destiny as a great power or "balancer" in the international system is turning out to be a grotesque misjudgment by the Indian strategic gurus. So, indeed, their assumptions regarding "absolute security".
Clearly, the two countries have rediscovered the old elan of their friendship. They are reaching out to each other once again in a world that is in transition. Apart from the volatility in the international situation, both India and Russia sense that change is in the air in the United States' global policies, but neither would wager the extent and directions of the change. Both are acutely conscious of the inexorable decline in the US influence in world politics and the urgent need to adjust to the emergent realities of multipolarity.Asia Times. M K Bhadrakumar, Dec 8,'08
5) US and EU intelligence forces were provided evidence of the Indian hand in terror in Pakistan. Friendly governments and China were instrumental in forcing the US to see the irrefutable evidence.
6) Russia playing businessman needed the Billions of Dollars that India is ready to spend on armaments.
The balancing of Russian-Indian mutual interests evident in the joint declaration brings out these delicate impulses as they touch on many areas. The declaration is devoid of any anti-US rhetoric as such but it is very obvious that the two countries are overhauling their partnership in tune with a "post-American century". India has identified itself with the Russian position on reforming the international economic and financial systems so that it adapts to "new realities" and promotes a "more just world economic order based on the principles of multipolarity, rule of law, equality, mutual respect and common responsibility" the Russian side seems to have urged India to play a more active role and "more constructive participation Asia Times. M K Bhadrakumar, Dec 8,'08
7) A clear brake from the old administration's pedantic thinking the new administration knows that fighting "the good war" in Afghanistan is impossible without Paksitan. Thus it has to deal with Islamabad, even if it means aggravating archnemesis India.
we need a strategic partnership with all the parties in the region, Pakistan, India and the Afghan government to stand up the kind of militant, violent terrorists extremists that have set up base camps and that are operating in ways that threaten the security of everybody in international community.”
8) Barack Obama's emphasis on a regional approach and its insistence on a resolution of the Kashmir issue.
In an interview with NBC News Channel, Obama welcomed President Asif Ali Zardari’s recognition of the challenge and noted that the Pakistani leader has sent the right signals to the world in addressing the menace.
“We cannot continue to look at Afghanistan in isolation, we have to look at it as part of a regional problem that includes Pakistan, includes India, includes Kashmir, includes Iran. “And part of the kind of foreign policy, I want to shape is one in which we have tough diplomacy combined with more effective military operations focused on what is the number one threat against US interests - al-Qaeda and their affiliates - and we are going to go after them in the years to come.”
9) The US recognizes the dangers of the Hindu extremists who are want to come to power and bring repressive laws against all minorities, Christians, Muslim, Buddhists and Dalits. Such a scenario would either cause India to explode like Yugoslavia or implode like the USSR.
"The Mumbai attacks may prove to be a watershed in New Delhi's regional strategies, with China, Iran and Russia assuming new levels of importance. The gravitation towards the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and its possible role in a regional initiative in Afghanistan proves New Delhi has come a long way. Surely, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev returned to Moscow from Delhi last week with a smile on his face." India, Russia regain elan of friendship - M K Bhadrakumar, Dec 8,'08. Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar was a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service. His assignments included the Soviet Union, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Germany, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kuwait and Turkey.
A mutipolar world and the realities of South Asia have made India realize that red is thicker than greenbacks. The Indian establishment always suspicious of the US is predisposed to the Red Bear. This week proved the old axiom that when Delhi sees trouble it runs to Moscow. The Kremlin seeking new allies hasn't totally hugged India but it sure wants the Billions of Dollars New Delhi is about to spend on airplanes. to that end, India has agreed to about $2 Billion more to pay for an archaic Aircraft Career call Admiral Gorshkov. India is desperate for icons and symbols of power.
It has been expected that Gordon Brown would announce a surge of British forces and efforts in Afghanistan in the first two weeks of the new year in line with the increased American firepower demanded by General David Petraeus - as many as 25,000 more US troops are expected to be sent to the region in the next three months. However, a series of developments are likely to bring forward major decisions and announcements.
Petraeus now assesses that the capital, Kabul, has grown highly unstable as Taliban forces cut roads to it from the south and east. The Americans are expected to move in a battalion of up to 1,000 fresh troops to the capital in the next two days.
This weekend militants destroyed 100 Nato supply trucks in Peshawar in northern Pakistan - the third major attack on the major overland supply line to international forces in Afghanistan inside a month. A large amount of the supplies come through the Pakistan port city of Karachi, where transport managers have been targeted and killed.
Military analysts ask whether UK troops should be concentrated on Helmand. One convoy was ambushed south of the Khyber pass and ten of the armoured vehicles of the security contractors seized and driven off by the Taliban for their own use. The Khyber region is now considered virtually under the control of Taliban elements. British military analysts are now questioning whether British forces should be concentrated almost exclusively on Helmand in the south. The major British military effort was concentrated there from 2006 because this was the biggest opium-growing region in the world.
Since then nearly 200 British soldiers have been killed, many more wounded, and thousands of Afghans have died as the British have tried to bring some semblance of law and to encourage development of the economy away from heroin.
But progress has been slow and poppy production has continued to rise - so much so that it appears now to be an embarrassment to the Taliban and warlords whose gangsterism it has funded.
This weekend militants destroyed 100 Nato supply trucks in Peshawar in northern Pakistan – the third such attack inside a month
According to the UN narcotics agency, the Taliban are frantically stockpiling morphine in order to stop the price collapsing entirely. Preliminary estimates of last year's crop suggest that southern Afghanistan produced some 8,800 tons of raw heroin in 2007 - exactly double the world's annual consumption. British military strategists believe it has been unwise to 'lock in' the bulk of UK forces in one area of Afghanistan, just as it was a mistake to keep most British forces in Basra and Amara in Iraq. Britain, they say, should now consider raising its strength in Afghanistan to the size of a small division - around 12,500 forces in all - and place them under Petraeus's strategic command.
But both commanders and diplomats say there is a need to "state a compelling narrative" for what Britain is doing in Afghanistan and why British troops need to be there. They believe that British voters are increasingly sceptical and puzzled about what British forces are doing there at all.
Meanwhile the terrorist-commando attack on Mumbai has provoked an even deeper rethink of international strategy across the region. Kashmir and Pakistan now looks more vital ground for the battle with al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadi terrorism than Afghanistan is today, or is likely to be in the foreseeable future.
The Indian psyche suffers from a deeply entrenched sense of an "inferiority complex". Long ignored in world affairs and way behind in human index from most countries of the world, the Brahmans are losing power internally and externally. UK troops needed to save Kabul from Taliban forces: The decision to focus our forces in the south of the country will be reversed and a division-strength unit put under the control of General Petraeus By Robert Fox. FIRST POSTED DECEMBER 8, 2008
Obama vows partnership with Pakistan, regional strategy to resolve Afghan challenges
WASHINGTON, Dec 7 (APP): President-elect Barack Obama on Sunday vowed to build a “close effective” strategic partnership with Pakistan as a way to curb violent extremism as he underscored that the United States cannot afford to look at Afghanistan in isolation but as part of a “regional problem including Pakistan, India, Kashmir and Iran.”
Asked specifically about his approach to Pakistan in the context of Islamabad’s emphatic calls to end unilateral drone strikes against suspected militant targets on its side of the border, the president-elect said: “What I want to do is to create the kind of effective strategic partnership with Pakistan that allows us, in consort, to assure that terrorists are not setting up safe havens in some of these border regions between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
“So far, President Zardari has sent the right signals. He has indicated he recognizes that this is not just a threat to the United States but it is a threat to Pakistan as well.” At the same time, Obama reminded that Pakistan has also been a victim of terrorism.
“There was a bombing in Pakistan just yesterday (in Peshawar) that killed scores of people. And you are seeing greater and greater terrorist activity inside of Pakistan. “I think this democratically elected government (of Pakistan) understands that threat. I hope that in the coming months that we are going to establish the kind of close effective working relationship that makes both countries safer.” Questioned about India’s right to hit militant targets on the Pakistani soil, Obama said:
“I’m not going to comment on that. What I’m going to restate is a basic principle - number one, if a country is attacked, it has the right to defend itself, I think that is universally acknowledged;
“The second thing is, we need a strategic partnership with all the parties in the region, Pakistan, India and the Afghan government to stand up the kind of militant, violent terrorists extremists that have set up base camps and that are operating in ways that threaten the security of everybody in international community.”
On the possibility of appointment of a high-level U.S. envoy on South Asia under his administration, Obama said : “My first job is to make sure that my core nationals security team - (Secretary of Sate) Hillary Clinton, (National Security Adivserr) James Jones, (Defense Secretary) Bob Gates, (US envoy to UN) Susan Rice - that my intelligence folks, we come up with a comprehensive strategy. “I have enormous confidence in Senator (Hillary) Clinton’s ability to rebuild alliances and to send a strong signal that we are going to do business differently and place an emphasis on diplomacy.” Obama vows partnership with Pakistan, regional strategy to resolve Afghan challenges. The Dawn
For the briefest moment India with huge and unrealistic dreams of superpower status had imagined that India was an escalator to heaven, a security council seat and coupon to run Afghanistan
From the Indian perspective, no doubt, it is an invaluable asset that Moscow has voiced its total "support and solidarity" with New Delhi on the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. The Russian gesture by far exceeds the words of sympathy offered by Washington. Of course, Moscow is not facing Washington's dilemma, which is one of having to carefully balance between New Delhi and Islamabad. Simply put, what the Mumbai attacks have badly exposed is that much as terrorism is a shared concern for the US and India, their priorities at this juncture greatly differ.
...the US remains the single-most important interlocutor for both India and Russia for the foreseeable future. Neither would see their partnership as directed against the US. Even as Medvedev arrived in Delhi, a senior Indian official was making contacts with key advisors to president-elect Barack Obama to brief them on Delhi's perspectives and policies. On its part, Moscow is also in an expectant mood about the Obama presidency, though tempered with cautious optimism.
The balancing of Russian-Indian mutual interests evident in the joint declaration brings out these delicate impulses as they touch on many areas. The declaration is devoid of any anti-US rhetoric as such but it is very obvious that the two countries are overhauling their partnership in tune with a "post-American century". India has identified itself with the Russian position on reforming the international economic and financial systems so that it adapts to "new realities" and promotes a "more just world economic order based on the principles of multipolarity, rule of law, equality, mutual respect and common responsibility" the Russian side seems to have urged India to play a more active role and "more constructive participation and contribution to" the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
It is apparent that India is dissociating from the concerted US policy to keep the SCO out of Afghanistan. Moscow has been vainly striving to carve out a toehold for the SCO as a regional body while Washington has been discouraging Afghan President Hamid Karzai from lending weight to the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group. More than anything else, the fact remains that the Russian initiative on an SCO conference is intended as a challenge to the monopoly that Washington has kept in determining the contours of any Afghan settlement. M K Bhadrakumar, Dec 8,'08. Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar was a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service. His assignments included the Soviet Union, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Germany, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kuwait and Turkey. Asia Times. M K Bhadrakumar, Dec 8,'08
What do the mixed messages from the administration mean to Pakistan. Ms. Condaleeza Rice went tot he former British colonies as if she was the British viceroy during the height of colonialism. Present Obama has sent a more nuanced response to Pakistan and the world. He has done the right thing. He has assured Pakistan that the USA is not the enemy and that he support the territorial integrity and the independence of Pakistan.
Obama calls for joint strategy against terrorism: Washington—President-elect of the United States Barack Obama called for a ‘strategic partnership’ with India, Pakistan and Afghanistan against terror...“So far Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has sent the right signals. He has indicated that he understands this is not just a threat to the United States but a threat to Pakistan,” he said. ... He said Mumbai attacks are hazard, not only for America but for Pakistan too.
Meanwhile US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said no deadline of 48 hours had been given to Pakistan. Pakistan would have to arrest miscreants of Mumbai attacks besides assuring that no follow-on attacks on India would happen, Rice said. Dawn-Pakistan
There can be only one president at a time. A careful analysis of the exact words of Americans who matter will clarify the mist. Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice and President-Elect Barack Obama seem to be at cross-roads. Both are saying different things. Rice is playing the bad cop by trying to calm down New Delhi and coming down hard on Islamabad. Barack Obama is playing the good cop espousing a "regional approach".
WASHINGTON, Dec 7 (APP): President-elect Barack Obama on Sunday vowed to build a “close effective” strategic partnership with Pakistan as a way to curb violent extremism as he underscored that the United States cannot afford to look at Afghanistan in isolation but as part of a “regional problem including Pakistan, India, Kashmir and Iran.”
In an interview with NBC News Channel, Obama welcomed President Asif Ali Zardari’s recognition of the challenge and noted that the Pakistani leader has sent the right signals to the world in addressing the menace.
“We cannot continue to look at Afghanistan in isolation, we have to look at it as part of a regional problem that includes Pakistan, includes India, includes Kashmir, includes Iran. “And part of the kind of foreign policy, I want to shape is one in which we have tough diplomacy combined with more effective military operations focused on what is the number one threat against US interests - al-Qaeda and their affiliates - and we are going to go after them in the years to come.”
Asked specifically about his approach to Pakistan in the context of Islamabad’s emphatic calls to end unilateral drone strikes against suspected militant targets on its side of the border, the president-elect said: “What I want to do is to create the kind of effective strategic partnership with Pakistan that allows us, in consort, to assure that terrorists are not setting up safe havens in some of these border regions between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
“So far, President Zardari has sent the right signals. He has indicated he recognizes that this is not just a threat to the United States but it is a threat to Pakistan as well.” At the same time, Obama reminded that Pakistan has also been a victim of terrorism.
“There was a bombing in Pakistan just yesterday (in Peshawar) that killed scores of people. And you are seeing greater and greater terrorist activity inside of Pakistan. “I think this democratically elected government (of Pakistan) understands that threat. I hope that in the coming months that we are going to establish the kind of close effective working relationship that makes both countries safer.” Questioned about India’s right to hit militant targets on the Pakistani soil, Obama said:
“I’m not going to comment on that. What I’m going to restate is a basic principle - number one, if a country is attacked, it has the right to defend itself, I think that is universally acknowledged;
“The second thing is, we need a strategic partnership with all the parties in the region, Pakistan, India and the Afghan government to stand up the kind of militant, violent terrorists extremists that have set up base camps and that are operating in ways that threaten the security of everybody in international community.”
On the possibility of appointment of a high-level U.S. envoy on South Asia under his administration, Obama said : “My first job is to make sure that my core nationals security team - (Secretary of Sate) Hillary Clinton, (National Security Adivserr) James Jones, (Defense Secretary) Bob Gates, (US envoy to UN) Susan Rice - that my intelligence folks, we come up with a comprehensive strategy. “I have enormous confidence in Senator (Hillary) Clinton’s ability to rebuild alliances and to send a strong signal that we are going to do business differently and place an emphasis on diplomacy.”
Obama vows partnership with Pakistan, regional strategy to resolve Afghan challenges
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan said Tuesday it would not hand over suspects in the Mumbai terror strikes to India and warned that while it wanted peace with its neighbour, it was ready for war if New Delhi decided to attack.
The remarks came as Indian police on Tuesday released the names of nine suspected gunmen killed in the carnage, reiterating that all of them came from Pakistan.
Tensions have been mounting between the nuclear-armed neighbours after India said it was keeping all options open following last month's attacks on its financial capital, where 172 people were killed and more than 300 wounded.
"We do not want to impose war but we are fully prepared in case war is imposed on us," Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said.
"We are not oblivious to our responsibilities to defend our homeland. But it is our desire that there should be no war."
Indian officials say the hardline Lashkar-e-Taiba group, which is based in Pakistan despite being banned by the government, is behind the bloodshed, and Indian media have suggested there could be Indian strikes on militant camps.
Qureshi said he was sending "a very clear message" that his country did not want conflict with India.
"We want friendship, we want peace and we want stability -- but our desire for peace should not be considered Pakistan's weakness."
The minister said India's demands for the extradition of suspects in the Mumbai attacks were out of the question and that Pakistan, which has arrested 16 people since Saturday, would keep them on home soil.
"The arrests are being made for our own investigations. Even if allegations are proved against any suspect, he will not be handed over to India," Qureshi said. "We will proceed against those arrested under Pakistani laws."
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence from Britain and nearly came to a fourth in 2001 after an attack on the Indian parliament that was blamed on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which means Army of the Pious.
US President George W. Bush vowed Tuesday to help Pakistan fight extremists in its remote tribal areas but said he would also "do what is necessary" to blunt any threats from the region.
Under international pressure to act, Pakistan said it had raided a camp on Sunday run by a charity, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, that many believe has close links to Lashkar-e-Taiba, and arrested 15 people.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa is headed by LeT's founder Hafiz Saeed.
Pakistan has also detained LeT's operations director, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, and the head of another Islamic group fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar said Tuesday.
Indian media say the lone surviving attacker named Lakhvi as a key planner behind the Mumbai attacks.
"Lakhvi was picked up yesterday (Monday). Azhar has also been picked up," Mukhtar told India's CNN-IBN channel, referring to Maulana Masood Azhar, head of the Jaish-e-Mohammed rebel group. Security officials had earlier suggested Lakhvi was arrested on Saturday.
Azhar was captured by Indian security forces in Indian Kashmir in 1995 but freed by New Delhi in 1999 in return for the safe release of more than 160 passengers on board a hijacked Indian Airlines plane.
He is reported to be on a list of people India last week asked Pakistan to extradite in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.
In a commentary published Tuesday in the New York Times, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said the arrests were proof that his country was committed to fighting terrorism.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday welcomed the announcement but stopped short of confirming the arrests.
"We are still gathering reports, we are not yet able to confirm a lot of what we are reading about arrests and about action against the camps, but these are serious steps and we are pleased at what appears to be a serious set of steps," she told CBS News Radio.
The LeT has been banned by Pakistan, but India accuses Islamabad of not cracking down on the group, which was established to fight Indian rule in Kashmir and has past links to Pakistani intelligence services and Al-Qaeda.
Meanwhile the Pentagon expressed confidence Tuesday that India and Pakistan's nuclear arsenals remained secure despite mounting tensions.
"We see no reason at this point to have any concern with regards to the security of either countries' arsenal," said Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary.
Pure unadulterated Anti-Semitism is rampant in India today. The BJP, VHP, Mr. Adhvani and Mr. Modi are all Hitler admireres. However the Israeli government has close ties with the govenment of India.
Speaking by phone from Mumbai, Haim Weingarten, the head of the Mumbai ZAKA team, said, "Based on what I saw, [although] I can't identify the type of bullets in the bodies [of the victims], I don't think the terrorists killed all the hostages, to put it gently." Jerusalem Post
it took the MARCOS commandos three chopper trips to be dropped like dead Turkeys on the rooftop of the Chabad House. Hindu Anti-Semitism: Indian Commandos ignore & kill Jews? Deep rooted hatred of Jews in Gujarat & India. Rupee News broke the story of the incompetence of the crack Indian commandos call MARCOS and the Black Cats. We also reported the story of the Indian Commandos first delaying their entrance into the Chabad Center, then killing the Jews and finally covering up their tracks. Now the story is also been corroporated by the Zaka Rescue group that had flown in from Turkey to assist the Jewish hostages.
As a BBC report notes, at least some of the Mumbai attackers were not Indian and certainly not Muslim.Pappu Mishra, a cafe proprietor at the gothic Victorian Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, described "two sprightly young men dressed in black" with AK47s who were "foreign looking, fair skinned."Gaffar Abdul Amir, an Iraqi tourist from Baghdad, saw at least two men who started the firing outside the Leopold Cafe. "They did not look Indian, they looked foreign. One of them, I thought, had blonde hair. The other had a punkish hairstyle. They were neatly dressed," Amir told the BBC. Mumbai Terror Attack: Further Evidence of the Anglo-American-Mossad-RSS Nexus BY AMARESH MISRA
One Police officer who encountered the gunmen as they entered the Jewish Center (Nariman House) said the attackers were white. "I went into the building late last night" he said. "I got a shock because they were white. I was expecting them to look like us. They fired three shots. I fired 10 back". Yogo Sikand and Amaresh Misra
The picture below is very revealing. To the untrained eye, the soldier is showing professionalism by hangin on to the rope. In actuality, the picutre displays total incompetence.
1) The chopper should not be used in a situaion where the soldiers can get to the top of the building by other means.
2) The man is literally hanging on to the rope. It is not a controlled descent.
3) Coming down the rope is a complex matter which requires intensive training. This commandos who dropped on the top fo the Chabad House were untrained. Please note the dangling feet of the commandos. They are supposed to be tightly wrapped aound the boot of the commando so that he controls his fall not only with his hands but also wit his feel.
4) After repeatedly watching the video of the commandos dropping on the roof of the Chabad House we saw the India commandos literally drop by force of gravity and were literally hangin on to the ropes without any control.
5) An experienced commando has stop his fall on the rope at any time. These commndos just dropped showing a total lack of training.
This PR exercise was very revealing not only about the state of the Indian nation, but also about the readiness of the Indian armed forces, particularly the commandos who are supposed to the elite.
On Monday, a morgue employee at the JJ hospital who had also seen the bodies told the Post by telephone that the bodies of the Jewish victims had a higher number of gunshot wounds than the bodies of other victims.
"On the Jewish bodies, there were more injuries in numbers, they were firearms injuries," the morgue official said. Jerusalem Post. Dec 3, 2008 0:44 | Updated Dec 3, 2008 1:24 Mumbai doctor finds no signs of torture on Chabad House bodies
Any shot by mistake by commandos? Millions saw a white shirt, perhaps a tallis, waved in a window, hours before the Indian commandos ended their 12-hour assault in this small building, and apparently found all hostages killed. Any professional has to wonder how many of the hostages died at the hands of the brutal terrorists, and if any were mistakenly killed by some of the shooting from outside (we all saw some Indian policemen firing randomly into the building), as happened at Entebee. This will all be covered up. I do hope the Indian public demands a more rapid and more professional response in future acts of terror. Sam - (12/03/2008 22:54)
The embarressed Indian establishment and the already chagrined Israeli government is up in arms (Foreign Ministry furious at Zaka's Mumbai 'meddling' Says public criticism of Indian commandos could have serious diplomatic repercussions). It had wanted to keep the story of the indexterity, undeftness, ineptitude of the Indian commandos under wraps. This was not to be. Now the truth is out. Indian commandos killed the Jews.
Commandos killed Jews, says Israeli rescue group By Jawed Naqvi. NEW DELHI, Dec 2: A private rescue group from Israel has claimed that Indian commandos inadvertently killed some of the hostages in the terror attacks in Mumbai, and the claim has evidently embarrassed both governments, news reports said on Tuesday.
“Based on what I saw, (although) I can’t identify the type of bullets in the bodies (of the victims), I don’t think the terrorists killed all the hostages, to put it gently,” Mr Haim Weingarten, head of the six-member team of Zaka voluntary organisation dealing with rescue and recovery, told The Jerusalem Post.
Press Trust of India said from Jerusalem that the claim had embarrassed the Israeli government, which is worried about its fallout on ties with the Indian government.
According to PTI, Mr Weingarten told the Post from Mumbai that all the six Jewish and Israeli hostages found dead in the Chabad House were killed by either gunshot wounds or shrapnel from grenade blasts, or both, and that he didn’t know who threw or fired the grenades that wounded the hostages. Reports from Jerusalem Post and Pakistani Dawn
Many Israelis feel that it is reprehensible that the India’s Government would not provide any security to the Chabad Center in Mumbai. Was Anti-Jewishness responsible for the lack of security at the Niraman House.
Israeli counterterrorism experts are critical of how Indian security forces handled last week’s terror attacks in Mumbai, especially their raid on the local Chabad center, Nariman House. Haaretz
Above all, the attack is a “huge failure of the Indian defence establishment, surprised in the heart of their financial capital Jerusalem Post
“In hostage situations, the forces are supposed to first assemble at the scene and begin collecting intelligence. In this case, it appears that the forces showed up at the scene and immediately began exchanging fire with the terrorists instead of first taking control of the area,” noted a former official in the Shin Bet’s security unit in The Jerusalem Post.
Shin Bet is Israel’s general internal security agency, while more famous Mossad handles overseas intelligence. Haaretz, another major Israeli newspaper, noted how in the first several hours after the Mumbai incidents, the response of the Indian authorities was “slow, confused and inefficient”. As a result, the first forces sent to the scene were “inexperienced local police officers, who suffered many casualties”.
Onlookers at the Nariman House were allowed to watch from a few feet away, hampering police operations. A night counterattack was nixed, reportedly because it was too dark: The attackers had night-vision goggles, the police didn’t.
Conventional theory suggests that commandos move quickly once there’s indication that hostages are in imminent danger in hopes of getting at least a few out alive. Yet days passed until, in the end, all hostages at the center were killed.
“You can wait, but you use that wait to engage the terrorists and plan,” said Yoram Schweitzer, an international terrorism expert at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies. “Then you engage them quickly, with shock — prepare for a maximum one- to two-minute strike.“LA Times. November 30th, 2008
Although lacking forensic tools to determine the time of death, Mr Weingarten was quoted as saying that his team’s observations led him to believe that “some of the hostages were killed on Wednesday (when gunmen first entered the building), some on Thursday, and some on Friday morning (during the start of the commando raid)”.
Zaka officials believe that in a final act of love, the director of the Chabad House, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, wrapped the body of his wife Rivka in a tallit (prayer shawl) before succumbing to his own wounds during the final hours of the siege, it said.
The volunteers on the scene found the bodies of Israeli grandmother Yocheved Orpaz (62) and Jewish Mexican national Norma Shvarzblat Rabinovich (50) bound to one another with a phone cord.
Meanwhile, the Indian foreign ministry held a briefing “to convey the deepest condolences of the Government of India to those countries whose nationals were killed in the terrorist attack in Mumbai.” Heads of mission from these countries were present in the briefing. “They were also informed of details of the terrorist attack and the investigation so far,” the ministry said.
Possibly following the briefing, the Israeli government slammed the Zaka group for alleging that Indian commandos might have inadvertently killed one or more Jewish hostages during the Nariman House operation, saying the “irresponsible” comments could cause considerable damage to bilateral ties.
“They are causing all kinds of problems,” a senior Israeli foreign ministry official said about the six-member team of the Zaka voluntary group that flew on Thursday “on its own volition” to Mumbai for a rescue operation after the deadly terror strikes.
“They are selling all kinds of stories to journalists looking for stories, and taking credit for things they didn’t do,” the official told The Jerusalem Post. It remains a mystery why India has allowed a clearly unauthorised group from Israel to carry out its self-styled rescue at the site of a mind-boggling crime. Usually such sensitive sites are sealed off to visitors till official investigations are underway. Reports from Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem, Author: HERB KEINON, Date: Dec 2, 2008) and Pakistani Dawn
Both the Isreali government and the Indian government are tight lipped about the fiasco and many talk of a coverup.
"Based on what I saw, (although) I can't identify the type of bullets in the bodies (of the victims), I don't think the terrorists killed all the hostages, to put it gently," Mr Haim Weingarten, head of the six-member team of Zaka voluntary organisation dealing with rescue and recovery, told The Jerusalem Post.
Press Trust of India said from Jerusalem that the claim had embarrassed the Israeli government, which is worried about its fallout on ties with the Indian government.
According to PTI, Mr Weingarten told the Post from Mumbai that all the six Jewish and Israeli hostages found dead in the Chabad House were killed by either gunshot wounds or shrapnel from grenade blasts, or both, and that he didn't know who threw or fired the grenades that wounded the hostages. Indian Commandos killed Jews, says Israeli rescue group
The chopper hovering over a two story building makes great news feed, however it adds no value to the any hostage rescue. The choppers are too noisy and give ample warning to the hostage taking criminals. Security analysts believe that a better approach would have been to try to engage the hostage takers and then storm the small building by stealthily and silently climbing on to the roof of the building. It took the commandos 12 hours to strom the building. Why did it take so long?
Though the hotels are huge, the Jewish center is located in a five-story building, known as Nariman House, which should have made for a far easier recovery operation. When commandos were dropped on the roof Saturday morning by helicopter, the craft made three sorties, removing any element of surprise.
“These are Jews,” Sahni said. “It’s very clear they were not going to be allowed to live by these people. This tiny building should’ve been taken in the first few minutes.”
Onlookers at the Nariman House were allowed to watch from a few feet away, hampering police operations. A night counterattack was nixed, reportedly because it was too dark: The attackers had night-vision goggles, the police didn’t. LA Times. November 30th, 2008. Systemic failure seen in India’s response to attacks, 6:40 PM PST, November 30 2008
This was not global jihad. Its roots are far closer to home. These attacks were born of local and regional hostilities, and it seems likely a part was played by a Mumbai crime boss Monday December 1 2008
A perverse narcissism seized the British media last week, with several papers seemingly desperate to claim the Mumbai terrorists as British citizens. There was no evidence for this beyond a couple of unsourced stories in the Indian press, but it served to confirm the thesis that the whole operation was organised by al-Qaida and thus merely another manifestation of the cultural clash between Islam and its religious competitors.
The Mumbai attacks were not about global jihad. The attacks on foreign tourists at the Taj and the Oberoi, and on the Lubavitch centre, were designed to secure maximum publicity - a strategy that worked splendidly. Yet the roots of this nightmarish event are to be found elsewhere: in the deterioration in relations between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai and India since the late 1980s, and in regional relations between India and Pakistan.
The operational key to the Mumbai attacks, however, is almost certainly held by D-Company, the sprawling and hugely effective organised criminal syndicate that is steered from the Pakistani port city of Karachi by the most powerful figure in Mumbai's fabled underworld, Dawood Ibrahim. It is virtually impossible that Dawood was unaware of the preparation of the attack, given the D-Company's extensive intelligence network (which in several past instances has proved more effective than the Indian state's intelligence capacity).
India's=2 0security services have begun investigating Dawood's possible role in the attack because he controls most of the smuggling routes into India's great commercial centre. In 1993, he put his network at the disposal of the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence service, to let it smuggle in huge amounts of the explosive RDX. As the Mumbai author, Hussain Zaidi, demonstrates in his extraordinary book, Black Friday, the RDX was then used for the terrorist attacks in March 1993, in which 257 people died, still the single highest death toll in any of the atrocities visited upon Mumbai in recent years. Dozens of co-conspirators have been convicted, largely thanks to the evidence of some bombers who became state witnesses, revealing the terrorist plans in minute detail.
Sasool Dock, where a dozen or so of the attackers landed, is one of the port areas under D-Company's control. In the 1993 attacks, Dawood was able to land the RDX at night because he corrupted police officials responsible for monitoring the coast in Mumbai and its environs. If Dawood's role in the recent attacks is confirmed, it is highly likely that officials will again have been paid to turn a blind eye.
Dawood himself has not returned to Mumbai, where he was born and raised, for more than 20 years, since he fled the city for Dubai to escape murder charges. But before he left, he had eliminated several of his major rivals on his way to becoming the biggest criminal boss in the city. The organisation has grown and prospered, tr ading primarily in gold, narcotics and weapons, ever since.
Until 1993, D-Company was a fully secular organisation. Dawood himself is a Muslim but his most trusted lieutenant, Chota Rajan, was a Hindu. In December 1992, however, a series of riots inspired by the rising power of extreme Hindu nationalism left the Muslim community in Bombay (as it was then called) cowed and frightened. Two thirds of the 900 people killed in the riots were Muslims and a number of Dawood's associates were injured or had their property damaged in the events.
Incensed by the anti-Muslim feeling whipped up by the local nationalist party, Shiv Sena, Dawood agreed to assist in the appalling bomb attacks of March 1993 in revenge. The result was a unique twist in the growing power of organised crime in Mumbai - the syndicates lined up behind religious faith. Chota Rajan established his own organisation, and a de facto war broke out between Hindu and Muslim crime groups. "Mumbai's underworld was the most secular part of this city," Rakesh Maria, a deputy police commissioner, told me. "In other spheres we saw communal issues having an impact, but we never for a moment imagined this could affect organised crime."
Dawood's relationship with the ISI in Pakistan became closer when the authorities in Dubai decided his presence in the city was no longer conducive to the public good (nor its relations with India) and in 2003 he moved to Karachi. Most analysts agree that this has increased Dawood's dep endency on his ISI sponsors. Yet, despite an absence of almost a quarter of a century from his home, D-Company still dominates the Mumbai underworld.
The intended political impact of the attacks is to prevent any rapprochement between Islamabad and Delhi, a development that threatens to undermine extremist constituencies in both Pakistan and India. It will unquestionably strengthen the various Hindu nationalist organisations such as the BJP as general elections loom in the country.
As a consequence, along with sorting out its shambolic intelligence and security forces, it must be a priority of the Indian government to prevent any Hindu nationalist backlash against the Muslims of Mumbai. Dawood Ibrahim may believe that his proven links with atrocities are designed to defend the increasingly impoverished and marginalised Muslim communities in Mumbai and India. In fact, he merely places them at even greater risk.
Terrorism is caused by anti-Islamic forces. Truth does not require political or ideological correctness, not even selectively. Muslims supporting anti-Islamism are as much criminals as the global anti-Muslims are.
India Blocks Kashmir Independence, again !
India has been reeling under the weight of resurgent Kashmiri freedom movement. Pro-freedom groups have boycotted the poll calling it as an exercise without any credibility and as a futile exercise to “inform” the world about its “democracy standards” with terror military occupation of Jammu Kashmir. Those Kashmiris who voted in Indian poll underway in JK have made it loud and clear that they seek independence from Indian yoke and they have voted for regaining their sovereignty from India.
Not withstanding the protests and anger of Kashmiris India is bent upon showcasing it poll under terror shield in JK. With the first two phases of the Assembly elections having passed smoothly, the focus of various political parties and anti-poll organizations has now shifted to the frontier district of Kupwara where five assembly segments are scheduled to go to polls on November 30 in the third phase. The constituencies going to polls in the third phase include Karnah, Kupwara, Lolab, Handwara and Langate in district Kupwara. Dozens of people were injured and as many vehicles damaged when agitated people hurled stones at various mainstream leaders at many places in Pulwama district. A day after polling in Ganderbal and Kangan constituencies in Kashmir, the cavalcades of several contesting candidates were attacked by mobs in this south district of Pulwama. Murders and injuries of Kashmiris have taken place in the polls highlighting the vulnerability of defenseless Kashmiris. At least 30 persons were injured in the clashes between protestors and cops while four vehicles suffered damages.
India is keen to show its faulty and fractured democracy to the world terrorized by US-led nations by denying any protests by the people of Kashmir and hopes if the poll is ‘done” in JK, then every thing would be OK. The authorities, as usual, have declared that no security restrictions will be imposed when Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani returns to Kashmir after undergoing surgery in New Delhi. It is being expected that Indian authorities, with a view to removing hurdles in the conduct of poll in JK in Indian ways, might impose undeclared curfew in Srinagar on arrival of Geelani "for maintaining law and order”. The possible hysterical response of Geelani’s arrival for the remaining phases of Indian poll in JK, the Indian strategists hatched plans to strike some where. According to Geelani’s family members doctors have advised him to take maximum rest and avoid any stressful and exerting exercise. However, ailing Geelani said that he thinks it is important to be in JK at this turning point of time when Kashmiris are deciding for their future. The septuagenarian leader whose pace maker was replaced by a team of doctors in New Delhi’s Escorts Hospitalon October 15, has declared his will to resume fighting the freedom cause henceforth.
As the Poll taking more intensive shift with campaign getting more focused on independence, Indian terrorists once again struck in Mumbai, trying, to dilute the freedom move contents of the campaign. But Kashmiris are now able to se though the hidden dramas of India. In order to foil the prospects of the Indo-Pak bilateral talks as well as the Kashmir resolution, Mumbai terrorism has come to the rescue ofIndia. After blaming a Muslim organization in India for the terror attacks, Prime Minister Manmohan slowly pinned blame for the Mumbai attacks on militant groups based in India’s "neighbors", usually an allusion to Pakistan, raising prospects of renewed tension between the nuclear-armed rivals. The idea behind this focused blame is to derail the peace talks underway now and stop the freedom movement of Kashmiris. But will they succeed now?
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India should feel ashamed of the fact, in spite of the military killings, the Kashmiris condemned strongly deadly Mumbai attack, meanwhile their own civil life is tightened under undeclared curfew by India to thwart anti-polls demonstrations. Both sides, pro-independence and pro-Indian parties condemned bloody Mumbai attack. Senior Kashmiri leader, Geelani while condemning the strikes termed it as an "anti-human act". The perpetrators are enemies of humanity; he said and called for a probe in the strikes by international intelligence agencies. In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has strongly condemned the imposition of undeclared curfew by the occupation authorities to thwart anti-polls demonstrations. Farooq deplored that India was not allowing Kashmiris to perform their religious rites. "We can't tolerate interference into our religious affairs. We are even ready to sacrifice our lives for protecting our religious rights," he said. Indiaclaims to be the biggest democratic and secular nation. "However, the infringement into our religious affairs by its agencies has exposed real face of its so-called democracy.
Farooq was scheduled to meet Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi could not fly to New Delhi as he was placed under house arrest. The APHC Chairman compared the prevailing situation in the Kashmir Valley with the Sikh rule. "It was during the Sikh rule that the autocratic rulers didn't allow Kashmiris to offer prayers at Jamia Masjid. The black history has been repeated by the Indian stooges in Kashmir.New Delhi seems to be so frustrated by the pro-freedom marches that it has snatched our religious right to offer prayers," he said. He maintained that imposition of restrictions to foil the anti-election program symbolizes India’s defeat and a democratic victory for Kashmiris, said Kashmiri Media Service.
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Amid reports that the next US administration under Barack Obama might appoint former President Bill Clinton as a mediator on Kashmir, India rejected any third party intervention and asserted that the matter would have to be addressed bilaterally withPakistan.
JK poll by Indian side is taking place along side the Indo-Pakistan “peace move”. Within days of coming to power, President Asif Ali Zardari has become unpopular party for his own faults, but mostly in spite of his best efforts to be popular. India is aware of this too and wants to exploit the situation. While India has all along stuck to its original stand that Kashmir was its integral part, Pakistan, in its bid to engage New Delhi at all costs, diluted its position to the shameful extent. Pakistan has a genuine and legitimate case but it is losing the case because of lack of necessary interest and commitment on the part of our policy and decision makers. There is no doubt that the Kashmir issue has always remained on the agenda of Pakistan-India talks but it is also a fact that there was no progress towards its resolution and the two countries are still poles apart on the issue. India has used the process of talks just as time gaining tactics, Pakistan with drifting postures recently too is to be blamed for the current dismal state of affairs on the Kashmir dispute. In its zest for ‘out-of-the-box’ solutions,Pakistan offered unprecedented concessions in the hope that it would get some reciprocal gesture from India but at the end of the day nothing of the sort happened and instead India is hardening its position and consolidating its hold with the passage of time.
India keeps its relations with Pakistan under terror shadow. Whenever there is a positive move to improve the ties, Indian employs terrorist methods to thwart the move, knowing well that Pakistan is keen to have good neighborly relations withPakistan. Pakistan’s new leader Zardari calling the Kashmiris as “terrorists” has created some confidence in New Delhi about the prospects for a better trade deal fromIslamabad.
On the Mumbai terror eve, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, not knowing the hidden terror agenda in India to keep the tensions intact with Pakistan , undertook a four-day visit in India from Nov 26 Wednesday during which the two sides will review the Composite Dialogue and consider more confidence-building measures. After opening the Line of Control for trade last month, the two sides are expected to look at more CBMs like expanding the pilgrim places that can be visited by people of the other country.
The talks were taking place in the backdrop of statement by the Pakistani leadership, including President Zardari who promised not to use nuclear weapons against Indiafirst and talked about reconciliation to build the bilateral ties. New Delhi , keen to get trade with Pakistan in favor of India , feels that the meeting between Manmohan and Zardari in New York in September had marked a change in Islamabad ’s attitude, providing positive impetus to the relations that had witnessed a low after the July 7 attack on Indian embassy in Kabul . Trade has also witnessed a boom, touching a high of USD 2.6 billion dollars officially as compared to about 300 million dollars three years back. Volume of unofficial trade, via a third country, is as high as USD six billion dollars.
Qureshi held talks with his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee on a whole range of issues including terrorism, Kashmir, Siachen, Sir Creek, trade and river water sharing.India , as a routine strategy to make global media to ridicule Pakistan for fun, keeps ‘terrorism” on the agenda indirectly blaming Islamabad for Indian terrorism. The 2007 blast on cross-border Samjhauta Express train in Panipat that had created tension between the two countries was also expected to figure in the talks, with the Pakistani side likely to raise the matter in view of investigators in India reportedly suggesting involvement of some Hindu groups in the attack as against the Pakistan-based elements as suspected earlier. The two sides also discussed the problem of terrorism, with Pakistan saying that it is a "common threat" and should be fought jointly by the two countries.
Qureshi said Kashmir is an "important segment" of the dialogue process between the two countries and pointed out that Foreign Secretaries of the two countries would be discussing it under the fifth round of composite dialogue which has got underway. Pitching for friendly relations with India , Qureshi said "we have spent six decades in hostilities and acrimony. People of the two countries have suffered. We must add a new leaf in the relations". He said the political atmosphere in Pakistan is "very positive" at the moment as most of the parties, including opposition parties are in favor of improving ties with India . "There is a window of opportunity which both countries should avail of and not let pass by".
India had violated the 1960 Indus water treaty that governs the right over ChenabRiver, Mukherjee said adequate water should be available in the river so that it could be given to Pakistan. Qureshi alleged that the flow of water in Chenab River from Indiato Pakistan had decreased substantially because of construction of Baglihar Power Project in Jammu and Kashmir.
Both sides agreed that the issue of inadvertent border crossers should be viewed from a humanitarian dimension and recommended early finalization of a draft agreement regarding inadvertent crossings by the expert group on conventional CBMs, which is due to meet soon, the joint statement said. Noting that a 1974 protocol on visits to religious shrines was due for revision along with lists of religious shrines in both countries, the two sides decided the matter will be discussed under the talks between Culture Secretaries on promotion of friendly exchanges, likely to take place soon. Indo-Pakistan welcomed release of prisoners and fishermen by each other ahead of the talks as a gesture of goodwill. They agreed to exchange by December 31 the names of civil prisoners who had completed their sentences and whose national status has been confirmed to facilitate their release in January next year.
Addressing a joint press conference with Qureshi after their 90-minute talks, Mukherjee said the two sides discussed ways to build on the initiatives taken to improve ties, including launching cross-LoC trade and in-principle agreement to open the Wagah-Attari and Khokhrapar-Munnabao borders for commerce. When referred to reports that the Barack Obama administration could appoint Clinton as a mediator onKashmir, Mukherjee said " Jammu and Kashmir is essentially a bilateral issue which we have agreed to resolve bilaterally from the Simla Agreement to Lahore Declaration".
A joint statement issued at the end of the two-day talks, held as part of the Composite Dialogue started in 2004, said both countries "condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and affirmed their resolve to cooperate with each other to combat the menace of terrorism". Both sides also made progress on efforts to liberalize their cumbersome Visa regime, with India saying that it would provide a draft Visa agreement to Pakistan within four weeks, which would be based on already discussed parameters.
However, the Mumbai terrorism has been cleverly used by India to thwart any further improvement in ties.
III
Some Kashmiri Diaspora members think by appeasing Hindus in India , Kashmir shall have its lost independence back. This is not just innocent but sheer hypocrisy on their part. They have not yet comprehended the issue properly. India has tactfully, more tactfully than this special Kashmiri Diaspora thinks, annexed Jammu Kashmir by cleverly using a Hindu king there. And it tries all tricks and terrorist methods to retain the region under brutal control. As such they would accept appeasement, but would not give back the stolen properly to Kashmiris. There have been a lot of pro-India Kashmiri leaders who have tried all these tricks of appeasing Hindus, but India has shown its foot on the face after creating secret graveyards. Of course the pro-India leaders got some coins form New Delhi for their “services” to India and its terror forces occupying Jammu Kashmir.
With the latest Mumbai blasts it has become pretty clear about Indian state terrorism trends. All evils affecting the Muslims in the sub-continent originate from the Indian intelligence wings, especially the military special RAW that has been waging a hidden war with Muslims in India, Kashmir, Pakistan and Bangladesh. But what has been a hidden agenda for India has become visible now RAW openly revealing its hidden agenda against Muslims. The amount of hatred this democratic and secular organization towards Muslims could be gauged from the regular statements, write-ups and talks by the Hindu leaders in military, intelligence media and bureaucracy. Indian media are keen to link the Mumbai terrorism to Muslims in Pakistan and Kashmirsomehow and defame Islam.
Post-script
There is no doubt that terrorism is caused by anti-Islamic forces, funded chiefly by the US-led Western nations and promoted by their media and USA remains the global terrorist nation of today which is focused on Midestern energy resources and killing Muslims.
Terrorism does help Indian posture on Kashmir . Terrorism helped India deviate from the just demand for solution of the dispute as per UN resolution that envisages plebiscite to ascertain the will of the Kashmiri people and has moved closer to Indian position that it was a bilateral dispute to be settled through bilateral talks. In bilateral talks, Pakistan however always maintains that there can’t be normalization of relations sans resolution of the Kashmir issue but now we are seeking liberal trade and all-embracing cooperation without any progress on Kashmir issue.
Pakistan government has created confusion among Kashmiris recently, it also has to learn, to invest in them and re-earn their respect. The real strength of the government lies in the people and the parliament – both support Kashmir cause. But the present Islamabad Government is seen somehow adopting a policy of total surrender with President Asif Ali Zardari even vaguely equating the freedom struggle of Kashmiris to terrorism. It is because of this kind of attitude that Kashmiris have lost hopes for solution of the problem through talks between Pakistan and India and are now re-organizing their movement. Under these circumstances, one fails to understand what Shah Mehmood Qureshi meant by “fruitful talks” when the Government itself is not clear on how to proceed further. And, the Indian verbal attack on Pakistan for the Mumbai terrorism is incredible and it makes a point in favor of Kashmir freedom fighters.
Not withstanding the international outcry for freeing Jammu Kashmir, India still resists Independence move of the Kashmiris, but, obviously, in its own peril. Many Indians now do feel Kashmir should be let free and Indian leaders should concentrate on welfare of the people at home. Terrorism tactics cannot keep Indian aggression on for too long. The official Indian ideology offers no accommodation except on its terms, still rules out all compromises, and demands an allegiance with any violation of what was declared blasphemous, inviting instantaneous annihilation. Hence it goes ahead with the polls by adding more terror troops in JK.
How much of international milage would India be able to get out the Mumbai terrorism is not important now. India’s options remain fixed at vacating the alien Jammu Kashmir and not to employ any more tricks to silence the defenseless Kashmiris by killing them. India systematically blocks any means that would pave way for Kashmirindependence. The Freedom leaders, however, owe to continue with their struggle until the alien Indian occupation of their Kashmir land is evicted. Victory shall be theirs.
DR.ABDUL RUFF Colachal
Columnist & Independent Researcher in International Affairs, South Asia The only Indian to have gone through the entire India.
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A nation that has enslaved free people is no democracy. "Democracies" like USA and India have zero tolerance to any criticism of their anti-Muslim and other aggressive practices. Anti-Muslimism and anti-Islamism are as dangerous as "terrorism
Indonesia also has expressed interest in the French Dassault Mirage 2000-5 and Rafale fighters, the Chinese Chengdu J-10 and the joint Chinese/Pakistani FC-1 Fierce Dragon/JF-17 Thunder fighter.(http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3823972&c=LAN&s=TOP)
Eight countries express interest in JF-17, Saturday, November 29, 2008 By By Azeem Samar, Karachi
Ministry of Defence Production Secretary Shahid Siddiq Tirmizi informed journalists on Friday that as many as eight countries have shown interest in procuring newly launched JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft that was developed jointly by defence industries of Pakistan and China. The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has been using eight JF-17 fighters to complete trials and technical evaluation of the newly launched jet, he said. He said that once agreements for sale were reached, 800 or even more JF-17 fighters could be produced.
The Secretary Defence Production along with Minister for Defence Production Abdul Qayyum Jatoi, State Minister for Defence Production Sardar Salim Hyder Khan, and Director-General Defence Export Promotion Organisation (DEPO) Maj General Muhammad Farooq were speaking at a press conference at fifth and concluding day of International Defence Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS-2008) here at Karachi Expo Centre.
The official said that through IDEAS, Pakistani defence products were showcased to prospective international buyers, who showed a keen interest in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), air defence systems, tank simulators, and anti-tank guided missiles developed by Pakistan. He said that the negotiations held at IDEAS could lead to more joint ventures of Pakistan for defence production with international defence industries and friendly countries like Turkey, France, and Germany. According to him, various participating delegations, prospective buyers, and exhibitors had reached some 11 broad understandings for defence production and procuring arms and related equipment. Tirmizi said that from 2006 to 2008 Pakistan had exported defence products worth $400 million and this figure is bound to increase after IDEAS-2008.
Minister for Defence Production Qayyum Jatoi responded to a question about Pakistani capability to counter drone attacks by saying that Pakistan has the necessary defence capability but its top priority is to resolve the issue through diplomatic and political means. Regarding the strained bilateral ties between India and Pakistan, especially in the immediate aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, the minister said the government is hopeful that India would not attack Pakistan, but Pakistan was capable of countering the attack in such an eventuality.
Maj. Gen. Farooq, organizer of the event, said that prospective international defence manufacturers had already started showing their interest in participating in the sixth IDEAS scheduled to be held in 2010.
A sleepy village in Pakistan has found itself at the centre of the Mumbai terror plot, leaving locals bewildered.
Faridkot, a settlement in the south of the Punjab province, has been overrun by Pakistani intelligence agents and police for the past three days after it was reported by Indian officials that the lone gunman captured alive in Mumbai came from a place called Faridkot.
Agents from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) were still questioning locals yesterday.
“All the agencies have been here and the (police) special branch,” said village elder Mehboob Khan Daha. “We have become very worried. What’s this all about?”
A dusty backwater, the inhabitants are peasant farmers who own small parcels of land and are poorly educated. Water buffalo and goats roam the dirt tracks of the village.
Men sit around gossiping on traditional woven rope beds, placed out in the open, wearing the usual baggy shalwar kameez pyjama suits, some with turbans. Roughly built small brick homes and little mud huts are dotted around the village, which has a population of about 3,000. It is 34 miles east from the nearest large city, Multan.
“There are no jihadis here,” said Ijaz Ahmed, 41. “I can think of maybe 10 or 20 people here who have even been as far as Multan.”
The Faridkot link is a key plank of India’s accusations against Pakistan. The captured gunman, variously named as Ajmal Amir Kamal, Azam Amir Kasav or Azam Ameer Qasab, is said to come from Faridkot, which is described as being near Multan. He is said to speak fluent English and a clear photograph of him shows a young man in western clothes. Shown a picture of the alleged militant, Daha said: “That’s a smart-looking boy. We don’t have that sort around here.”
In Faridkot, no one appeared to be able to speak much English; most could only converse in a dialect of the provincial language. None of the villagers recognised the face in the photograph.
They said the intelligence agents wanted to know if there was any presence of the radical Deobandi or Al-Hadith religious movements in the village, to which they were told “no”. The agents mentioned five names, villagers said, including Ajmal, Amir, Kamal and Azam, all common names in Pakistan. There were five Ajmals in the village, all present except one who is living in provincial capital Lahore, and none fitted the description of the militant. The Azam in the village is a 75-year-old retired railway worker.
One of the Ajmals, a man who thought he was about 30, has worked in a nearby tea factory for the past 12 years, he said. The police and intelligence agencies have been asking his whereabouts.
“All I ever do is go to work, which is about 3km away. I have never been beyond Kanewal (the closest town),” said Muhammad Ajmal. “I’m uneducated.”
Faridkot lies in a part of Punjab known for extremist activity but the village itself did not show any signs of being a hotbed of militancy. Written on a board at the entrance to the village mosque, it is declared that members of the hardline Tablighi Jamaat “are not permitted”.
Mumbai Terror: Evidence being deliberately ignored! (From Pak Alert)
Strange that none of the media (TV or Print) have picked this up at all. Or have they been deliberately ignoring it?
Have a look at the above picture of one of the terrorists. [Another angle]
Notice the orange thread / band on his right hand.
Tying a red thread or cord around the wrist is a Hindu practice and it is unlikely a Muslim, especially one politicized enough to carry out an attack such as this, would observe it. I think this provides more evidence that this was a false flag operation or at least an attack by a non-Muslim group. For more information about the significance of the red thread see wikipedia and this blog post. [Thanks to Uruk]
Additionally, the terrorists inside the Nariman House Building were reported to have stocked up on supplies on Wednesday evening, buying not just food items but liquor, among other things, from a local store [Source]. Again, it is highly unlikely that a Muslim, let alone a ‘Mujahid’, and especially one politicized enough to carry out such an attack, would consume liquor in normal life, let alone hours before his inevitable ‘martyrdom’.
Don’t let them ignore it. Circulate this to as many people as you can as we strongly believe it wouldn’t have been ignored if the terrorists were carrying a copy of the Qur’an, or a taveez.
Kalava
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kalava (Sanskrit: कलावा) is the sacred Hindu thread. It is worn while performing Hindu rituals like Yajna or Puja. It is tied by a priest on the wrists of all the people attending the prayer ceremony. Kalava is tied on right hand of males and unmarried females, and on left hand of married females. Sometimes it has small yellow parts in between the mostly red string. It sometimes has knots which are tied up while reciting Sanskritmantras to invoke God and is worn to ward off evil from the person who wears this red thread.
Mumbai Terror: Evidence being deliberately ignored!
Strange that none of the media (TV or Print) have picked this up at all. Or have they been deliberately ignoring it?
Have a look at the above picture of one of the terrorists. [Another angle]
Notice the orange thread / band on his right hand.
Tying a red thread or cord around the wrist is a Hindu practice and it is unlikely a Muslim, especially one politicized enough to carry out an attack such as this, would observe it. I think this provides more evidence that this was a false flag operation or at least an attack by a non-Muslim group. For more information about the significance of the red thread see wikipedia and this blog post. [Thanks to Uruk]
Additionally, the terrorists inside the Nariman House Building were reported to have stocked up on supplies on Wednesday evening, buying not just food items but liquor, among other things, from a local store [Source]. Again, it is highly unlikely that a Muslim, let alone a ‘Mujahid’, and especially one politicized enough to carry out such an attack, would consume liquor in normal life, let alone hours before his inevitable ‘martyrdom’.
Don’t let them ignore it. Circulate this to as many people as you can as we strongly believe it wouldn’t have been ignored if the terrorists were carrying a copy of the Qur’an, or a taveez.
Kalava
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kalava (Sanskrit: कलावा) is the sacred Hindu thread. It is worn while performing Hindu rituals like Yajna or Puja. It is tied by a priest on the wrists of all the people attending the prayer ceremony. Kalava is tied on right hand of males and unmarried females, and on left hand of married females. Sometimes it has small yellow parts in between the mostly red string. It sometimes has knots which are tied up while reciting Sanskritmantras to invoke God and is worn to ward off evil from the person who wears this red thread.
Ms. Caldwell’s unmitigated bigoted drivel is biased, it has serious errors in it and is typical of the anti-Pakistan tripe so pervasive these days. It is most disappointing how the Crimson chose to reproduce such a rambling crypto-racist screed. Ms. Caldwell’s Teutonic bloviations are an admixture of discredited Neocon assertions, unsubstantiated, or outright Indian distortion, and pure unadulterated balderdash. All of this has been said before, during the fake hijacking of the Ganga which gave India an excuse to halt flights between East and West Pakistan; when the Samjhota express was blown up (which turned out to the act of the Indian Army’s BJP Hindu extremists), the bombing in Maligaon carried out by Hindu extremists etc etc.
The author’s nauseating fixation upon and paranoid conspiratorial delusions about Pakistanis are a transparent attempt to justify the murderous rampage, carnage and barbarism faced by West Asia. It is an excuse to justify more wars against Muslims. If you demonize them enough, it is easier to kill the innocent.
Where was Ms. Caldwell when 2000 Muslims were massacred in Gujarat India by Hindu extremists only a few months ago?
The twaddle fails to illuminate the confusing deluge of eerily inept and counter-intuitive claptrap masquerading as fact in the clumsily stage-managed "global war on terror" environment. Ms. Caldwell’s selective amnesia fails to consider the fact that more than 4000 Pakistanis have died fighting the so called “war on terror”, and Pakistan has been a US ally since 1947.
Some small points to ponder.
1. Why were the “killers” (who were supposedly staunch Muslims) wearing Hindu wrist bands known as kelva/rakhi?
2. Was the Blue Water Navy busy in sinking thai Trawlers drunk that it could not see two boats landing in Mumbai.
3. Also how did these “Fresh off the boat terrorists” know their way about the Oberoi—enough knowledge to get into the hotel from the kitchen pantry avoiding the front desk security.
4. Could someone explain how these guys knew about the existence of the Chabad House when even the Mumbai neighbors did not know what it was
5. There are more than 100 such questions posted by Indians listed on http;//www.rupeenews.com for those with an inquiring mind.
The bigoted can revel in the bigoted drivel posted here. I don’t see the same level of asperity when the Marriot was bombed by RAW or the hundreds of bombs explode all over Pakistan. Just like week Indian intelligence agencies killed about 40 people in random killings in Karachi. Do Muslims not bleed? Are they not human? Why is it that chagrin is only reserved for Non-Muslims. Pakistanis say “we don’t want your favors or your hate”. Leave Pakistan and Pakistanis alone.
For those of us that have been at Harvard sometime during the last four years, we are well aware of the bigoted ranting of one Ms. Lucy Caldwell. For the record, "Lucy M. Caldwell, '09, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays." Unfortunately, I believe that The Crimson has once again forgotten to include the word "bigoted" in front of "column." Two weeks ago, Ms. Caldwell wrote a horrific article entitled "Misguided Activism", which chided "gay activists" for protesting the Proposition 8 electoral results. Her article, which can be read here, prompted me to send in the following Letter to the Editor. As of today, it has not been published.
I am disappointed to read Lucy M. Caldwell’s poorly-researched and poorly-reasoned column from Wednesday, November 19, 2008. Ms. Caldwell makes the allegation that “gay Americans are not being denied rights” and that “the push for same-sex marriage is a rally for additional rights.” Perhaps Ms. Caldwell should be reminded that the same argument was once used to justify state bans on interracial marriage. The reasoning was that African-Americans were not being denied rights because African-Americans could not marry Caucasians, just as Caucasians could not marry African-Americans. Thus, the argument claimed, there was no discrimination based upon race. The United States Supreme Court rejected this (clearly racist) logic in 1967 and ruled that state bans on interracial marriage violated the federal Constitution in Loving v. Virginia, even despite the fact that the general public overwhelmingly opposed interracial marriage, as evidenced by a Gallup poll in 1968 which found that 73% of respondents disapproved of marriage between “whites” and “non-whites.” I seriously doubt that Ms. Caldwell would suggest that such a foundational case in the civil rights movement was actually caused by “unchecked judicial activism.” When the general population or the legislature votes to eliminate the rights of a protected class, it is the responsibility of the courts to intervene and uphold the principle of Equal Protection under the law. The “popular democratic processes” Ms. Caldwell lauds should never be used to enshrine abject discrimination into a constitution, whether state or federal. Even the “much-beloved” Barack Obama, who publicly expressed his opposition to Proposition 8, agrees with that.
And yet, despite her inane rantings, once again Ms. Caldwell is back. This time, she writes about "Lessons from Mumbai."
In the article, she claims: "Islam has come to possess more extremist members than any other modern religion." Yes, you read it right, Islam has more extremists than any other modern religion. Wait until you read what she cites to prove it.
You ready?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
She begins her final paragraph with the following conclusion: "If there existed any doubts that radical Islam poses one of the biggest threats to our time, let the horrifying news from Mumbai erase those. This is a threat far greater than the damage wrought by a dissatisfactory Bush administration or by domestic disagreements."
Perhaps, however, Ms. Caldwell should open a newspaper. If you calculated "biggest threat" based upon number of deaths, then I believe "heart disease" still ranks by far and away as the "biggest threat to our time." Perhaps Ms. Caldwell should follow the liberals in advocating for improved health care rather than retaliatory attacks against entire religions because of a few crazy people. And while I do not know whether Ms. Caldwell is religious, I am sure that there are a few crazy and dangerous people in whatever religion she might be. Perhaps she should be taking a stand to control them, but alas, I have been unable to locate said Crimson editorial to date. Nor do I think I need to respond to her Bush administration claim other than to say that the damage wrought by a "dissatisfactory Bush administration" is not limited to "domestic disagreements", but rather includes the tens or maybe even hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian lives lost in Iraq due to our misguided American invasion. Yes Ms. Caldwell, President Bush just may be the "biggest threat to our time." What do you have to say to that?
In short, Ms. Caldwell should probably abstain from writing her columns. When she is not insulting the LGBTQ community or Muslims, she often can be seen claiming that poor people are dumb. Sadly, I wish I could say that The Crimson should have higher standards for publication. Instead, it appears they don't know how to use a dictionary! (See this article, in which they write: "There is no question that this will diminish our quality of life and dim students’ prospects in the near future. But that is what a recession does. We cannot expect others to pay the penultimate price without shouldering part of the weight ourselves." Someone should kindly inform the Crimson staff that "penultimate" means "second to last".) For shame.
Pakistanis are used to the "Do More Mantra". It is nothing new. The amount of anti-Bush feelings in Pakistan are at fever pitch. Several thousand students marched through the streets of capital Islamabad reminiscent of the Iran "Marg Bar Amereeka" processions prior to the Iranian revolution.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought Wednesday to refocus India and Pakistan on a common fight against terrorism and away from their mutual suspicions of one another, but neither country seemed willing to go along.
Rice made an emergency condolence visit to India a week after a coordinated terror assault on Western or financial targets in the Indian commercial capital of Mumbai. The attackers targeted symbols of the city's wealth, tourist appeal and Western outlook. Six Americans were among the 171 people who died.
Rice spent the day urging cooperation between the nuclear rivals, but the rhetoric in both countries only grew hotter. The U.S. wants broader sharing of intelligence and a commitment by Pakistan to root out terror groups that have found a comfortable perch in the Muslim country.
"I informed Dr. Rice that there is no doubt that the terrorist attacks in Mumbai were perpetrated by individuals who came from Pakistan and whose controllers are in Pakistan," Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said.
Have the Lame Duck Secretary of State Rice's banal bilious blathering been ignored. Ms. Rice's discussion of the Mumbai bobmings was tepid and she politely declined to endorse the odiously conflated half-baked harebrained doctrinal tripe of the Indian Foreign Minister Mr. Mukherjee. The Congress government officials are trying to sound tough and out do the BJP in blaming Pakistan for the attacks.
The Congress leaders have no choice. If they blame the internal terrorists for the bombing, then they fear a blow from the BJP and related Hinduist parties in India--which will then claim that The Congress Party has failed to provide security to India and Indians.
That left Rice to say Pakistan bears a "special responsibility" to help get to the bottom of the attacks while awkwardly declining to finger Pakistani militants outright.
Mukherjee said the view that the Mumbai attacks were based in Pakistan is broadly shared around the world, putting Rice on the spot. She said she would not prejudge an investigation into the attacks.
While Rice was assuring India of U.S. help in fighting terrorism the top U.S. military officer was next door in Pakistan for closed-door talks.
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was meeting civilian and military officials of both India and Pakistan during the trip, a senior defense official said Wednesday on condition of anonymity.
The official declined to give details and spoke privately because the meetings were still under way, saying only "It's all about a cooperative approach to regional security."
Pakistan's president Asif Zardari indicated on Wednesday he would not hand over 20 suspects wanted by India and said they would be tried in Pakistan if there were evidence of wrongdoing.
Zardari's new civilian administration would likely face a fierce backlash from Muslim groups and nationalists if it simply handed over the suspects to Pakistan's old foe, India.
Thousands of Indians — many calling for war with Pakistan — gathered in Mumbai for a vigil to mark one week since the beginning of the deadly rampage.
More than 2,000 students marched through Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, on Wednesday, shouting anti-US and anti-Indian slogans.
The Bush administration has had varying success in reframing its relationship with both countries, which have fought three wars with one another.
In Pakistan's case, a new civilian government has replaced a military government that was a strong ally of President George W. Bush in fighting terrorism. In India, a troubled nuclear cooperation deal finally came through this fall and both nations have said it signaled a fresh start after years of lingering Cold war distance. Rice demands Pakistan help in probe of attacks by ANNE GEARAN – 56 minutes ago
The Pakistani response to the Indian “Cold Start Strategy” or limited strikes against Pakistan will be swift and punishing retribution. If any analyst thinks that “Cold start” will remain cold he or she is delusional and needs to be committed. India is the USA and Pakistan is not Afghanistan. If India does cross the border and sends aircraft to bomb any Pakistani territory, Islamabad will retaliate in a measured and limited manner. Any Indian bombing will be matched by an equal and opposite number of attacks on India. This will continue and if India wants to escalate, Pakistan will escalate too. Pakistan also reserves the right to use tactical and real Nuclear weapons. Tactical nuclear weapons have low radition affects while actual nuclear weapons cause colossal damage.However there is another scenario possible.
Pakistan has just had a regime change. The new government is of secular political parties eager to please both America and India. It is intensely despised for not standing up to the US and to India to protect Pakistan’s interests. The attack on Marriot Hotel was carried out by RAW but the government did not make the information public. India has denied Pakistan its rights on water of Rivers Sutlej, Ravi, Chenab and Jhelum but the Zardari regime has not even made a protest. If Pakistan is bombed more aggressively by the USA as suggested in the STRATFOR analysis, the people are not going to wait for the next elections to get rid of the Zardari regime. Armed cadres that exist in every province of Pakistan will take the law into their hands. A revolution is likely to fill the vacuum that emerges from Pakistan becoming a ‘failed state’. Those who hope that Pakistan would break up would be disappointed. Neither Afghanistan nor Iraq broke up despite the wishes of the occupiers. The unity among the people in Pakistan is much stronger than those two countries. If the armed forces and the Banking System survived the revolution, Pakistan will emerge stronger and united. And Revolutions recognise no borders. It is India that may break up because the atrophy of the society in that country is much more advanced. Can India take that risk? The ‘Immediate’ Fights the’ Ultimate’ in South –Central Asia By Usman Khalid
THE US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, will arrive in New Delhi tomorrow to discuss the Mumbai terrorist attacks amid turmoil at the top of the Indian Government and deep tension between the nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan.
The Government in New Delhi has been reshaped in the wake of the devastating strike on Mumbai, dubbed India's September 11. The man responsible for counter-terrorism in India as home minister, Shivraj Patil, resigned on Sunday and was replaced by the former finance minister Palaniappan Chidambaram.
Mr Patil's 4½-year tenure as one of India's most powerful ministers was tarnished by 20 big terrorist strikes. The Mumbai attack, which killed more than 170 people, including two Australians, was the sixth deadly assault on a big Indian city since May.
There is anger in India after revelations that the terrorists entered Mumbai by water, despite several intelligence reports that the city was vulnerable to attack from the sea. There was also specific intelligence advice that the luxury hotels attacked last week were at risk.
India's top security official, the National Security Adviser, M.K. Narayanan, also offered to resign but was turned down.
A spokesman for the US President, George Bush, said he was sending Dr Rice to New Delhi as "a further demonstration of the United States' commitment to stand in solidarity with the people of India as we all work together to hold these extremists accountable".Agence France-Presse. Matt Wade in Mumbai December 2, 2008
3. India has made its continued occupation of Muslim majority state of Jammu and Kashmir a matter of honour and prestige. Sikh majority Punjab and the federal state of the seven sisters of Assam (some of them with Christian majority) are next in the queue to become sovereign independent states. USA and India have raised hopes in these independence movements by supporting self-determination in Baluchistan and Pashtunistan. The situation having been unfrozen, all these freedom movements would achieve legitimate and popular objectives once the regular armed forces of both countries falter and fail as is very likely in consequence of Indo-US efforts. The Pashtun being in the vanguard of the Islamic Movement, and the secession of Baluchistan being supported by three out of fifty tribes of Baluchistan, it seems very unlikely that the US plans against Pakistan would succeed. However, it is more likely that older and more popular independence movement in India might succeed. Destabilisation resulting from Indo-US plans against Pakistan would produce results much more surprising than in Iraq or Afghanistan. Can India take that risk? The ‘Immediate’ Fights the’ Ultimate’ in South –Central Asia By Usman Khalid
Last night she called on Pakistan to show "absolute" co-operation and "total transparency" with India in the investigation of who was behind the attack.
"I don't want to jump to any conclusions myself on this, but I do think that this is the time for a complete, absolute, total transparency and co-operation and that is what we expect," she said.
India's Deputy Home Minister, Shakeel Ahmad, said yesterday it had been "very clearly established" that all the Mumbai attackers were from Pakistan.
But the Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, warned that rogue militants had the power to provoke war in the region and appealed to India not to punish Pakistan for the attack.
"Events in Mumbai tell us that there are ongoing efforts to carry out copycat attacks by militants," he told the Financial Times.
"We must all stand together to fight this menace."
Islamabad has denied any involvement in the attack but New Delhi has demanded that it not "permit the use of its territory for terrorism against India".
A Pakistani security official told local journalists at the weekend that Islamabad would move tens of thousands of its forces away from its border with Afghanistan to the Indian border if tensions continued to rise.
India's new Home Minister, Mr Chidambaram, is expected to oversee an overhaul of the counter-terrorism apparatus, with the possible creation of a federal agency of investigation.
The deputy chief minister of Maharashtra and the state's home minister, R.R. Patil, resigned yesterday after calling the attack on Mumbai a "small" incident.
The state's Chief Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, also announced last night that he had offered to step down. with Agence France-Presse. Matt Wade in Mumbai December 2, 2008
Sikand & Misra on Mossad, White blonde terrorists:
The ‘Immediate’ Fights the’ Ultimate’ in South –Central Asia By Usman Khalid
It has been repeatedly asserted by the ‘old guard’, who helped Barack Obama get elected as the President of the US, that his ‘mettle would be tested’ early in his Presidency by an ‘event’ in South Asia. That event has occurred - in Mumbai on November 26. The reaction of the USA and of India, as predicted in STRATFOR Summary (below), has precipitated. The ball is in Pakistan’s Court.
If the Nov. 26 attacks in Mumbai were carried out by Islamist militants as it appears, the Indian government will have little choice, politically speaking, but to blame them on Pakistan. That will in turn spark a crisis between the two nuclear rivals that will draw the United States into the fray.
At this point the situation on the ground in Mumbai remains unclear following the militant attacks of Nov. 26. But in order to understand the geopolitical significance of what is going on, it is necessary to begin looking beyond this event at what will follow. Though the situation is still in motion, the likely consequences of the attack are less murky.
Given this, the Indian government has two choices. First, it can simply say that the perpetrators are a domestic group. In that case, it will be held accountable for a failure of enormous proportions in security and law enforcement. It will be charged with being unable to protect the public. On the other hand, it can link the attack to an outside power: Pakistan. In that case it can hold a nation-state responsible for the attack, and can use the crisis atmosphere to strengthen the government’s internal position by invoking nationalism. Politically this is a much preferable outcome for the Indian government, and so it is the most likely course of action. This is not to say that there are no outside powers involved — simply that, regardless of the ground truth, the Indian government will claim there were.
That, in turn, will plunge India and Pakistan into the worst crisis they have had since 2002. If the Pakistanis are understood to be responsible for the attack, then the Indians must hold them responsible, and that means they will have to take action in retaliation — otherwise, the Indian government’s domestic credibility will plunge. The shape of the crisis, then, will consist of demands that the Pakistanis take immediate steps to suppress Islamist radicals across the board, but particularly in Kashmir. New Delhi will demand that this action be immediate and public. This demand will come parallel to U.S. demands for the same actions, and threats by incoming U.S. President Barack Obama to force greater cooperation from Pakistan.
If that happens, Pakistan will find itself in a nutcracker. On the one side, the Indians will be threatening action — deliberately vague but menacing — along with the Americans. This will be even more intense if it turns out, as currently seems likely, that Americans and Europeans were being held hostage (or worse) in the two hotels that were attacked. If the attacks are traced to Pakistan, American demands will escalate well in advance of inauguration day.
In the current iteration, the demands will be even more intense. The Indians and Americans will have a joint interest in forcing the Pakistani government to act decisively and immediately. The Pakistani government has warned that such pressure could destabilize Pakistan. The Indians will not be in a position to moderate their position, and the Americans will see the situation as an opportunity to extract major concessions. Thus the crisis will directly intersect U.S. and NATO operations in Afghanistan.
It is not clear the degree to which the Pakistani government can control the situation. But the Indians will have no choice but to be assertive, and the United States will move along the same line. Whether it is the current government in India that reacts, or one that succeeds doesn’t matter. Either way, India is under enormous pressure to respond. Therefore, the events point to a serious crisis not simply between Pakistan and India, but within Pakistan as well, with the government caught between foreign powers and domestic realities. Given the circumstances, massive destabilization is possible — never a good thing with a nuclear power.
This is thinking far ahead of the curve, and is based on an assumption of the truth of something we don’t know for certain yet, which is that the attackers were Muslims and that the Pakistanis will not be able to demonstrate categorically that they weren’t involved. Since we suspect they were Muslims, and since we doubt the Pakistanis can be categorical and convincing enough to thwart Indian demands, we suspect that we will be deep into a crisis within the next few days, very shortly after the situation on the ground clarifies itself.
The date 26th of November (11/26) may well turn out to be a watershed in the history of South and Central Asia because it marks a turning point in the clandestine war on Pakistan waged by India, America and Afghanistan. This war began with the invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001. Seven years later, the occupation forces are far from being in control. But it has taken that long for the people of Pakistan to realise that America has been in control all these years. The thousands of servicemen and civilians killed were hit either by American missiles or by ‘suicide bombers’ recruited by the Afghan Intelligence, operationally under the control of India’s RAW, and paid for by the CIA.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, the clandestine operations against Pakistan are not so clandestine any more. The military strategy as well as the overall strategy is being changed. The military strategy is to reinforce the troops in Afghanistan (on the pattern of the ‘surge’ in Iraq), intensify operations on both side of Afghan-Pakistan border, declare victory and withdraw the bulk of the troops from Afghanistan leaving India in charge. India has sent about 15,000 combat troops to Afghanistan but it is dragging its feet on sending more. Among the several objectives that the USA want to achieve from 11/26 is to get India involved in a war on Pakistan’s soil. India has reasons to hesitate.
1. India has been engaged in three types of internal wars ever since it came into existence in 1947: 1) a caste war, 2) a class war, 3) a war on members of minority faiths – Muslims, Christians and the Sikhs. All these wars have become hotter after the rise of the BJP and 9/11. It is not because of any ideological or physical link; it is because of the aggressiveness of the Hindutva ideology and the audacity of 9/11. India had been able to use low castes in pogroms against the poor people of minority faiths. Not any more. The poor classes, the lower castes, and minority faiths now realise that their enemy is the same. The residents and occupants of the posh houses and hotels on the marine drive of south Mumbai represents the enemy. Many in India mourned but many more were secretly pleased. The Indian state is run by the upper class upper castes but not every soldier, policeman or civil servant is from the upper crust. India was frozen into inaction not merely by the audacity of the attack but also by doubts who it could trust? Despite clear evidence that every one of the attackers was Indian, the Government chose to blame Pakistan hoping that the people of India will unite in hate for Pakistan. But India is more petrified than vengeful. The ruling castes/class always feared but hoped that would never happen. More important, India’s foreign friends understand it even less. Strategic blunders are not just possible but are very likely.
2. Pakistan has just had a regime change. The new government is of secular political parties eager to please both America and India. It is intensely despised for not standing up to the US and to India to protect Pakistan’s interests. The attack on Marriot Hotel was carried out by RAW but the government did not make the information public. India has denied Pakistan its rights on water of Rivers Sutlej, Ravi, Chenab and Jhelum but the Zardari regime has not even made a protest. If Pakistan is bombed more aggressively by the USA as suggested in the STRATFOR analysis, the people are not going to wait for the next elections to get rid of the Zardari regime. Armed cadres that exist in every province of Pakistan will take the law into their hands. A revolution is likely to fill the vacuum that emerges from Pakistan becoming a ‘failed state’. Those who hope that Pakistan would break up would be disappointed. Neither Afghanistan nor Iraq broke up despite the wishes of the occupiers. The unity among the people in Pakistan is much stronger than those two countries. If the armed forces and the Banking System survived the revolution, Pakistan will emerge stronger and united. And Revolutions recognise no borders. It is India that may break up because the atrophy of the society in that country is much more advanced.
3. India has made its continued occupation of Muslim majority state of Jammu and Kashmir a matter of honour and prestige. Sikh majority Punjab and the federal state of the seven sisters of Assam (some of them with Christian majority) are next in the queue to become sovereign independent states. USA and India have raised hopes in these independence movements by supporting self-determination in Baluchistan and Pashtunistan. The situation having been unfrozen, all these freedom movements would achieve legitimate and popular objectives once the regular armed forces of both countries falter and fail as is very likely in consequence of Indo-US efforts. The Pashtun being in the vanguard of the Islamic Movement, and the secession of Baluchistan being supported by three out of fifty tribes of Baluchistan, it seems very unlikely that the US plans against Pakistan would succeed. However, it is more likely that older and more popular independence movement in India might succeed. Destabilisation resulting from Indo-US plans against Pakistan would produce results much more surprising than in Iraq or Afghanistan. Can India take that risk? The ‘Immediate’ Fights the’ Ultimate’ in South –Central Asia By Usman Khalid
The Immediate would largely conform to the STRATFOR analysis. But the Ultimate is much more interesting. If India does not reinforce its garrison in Afghanistan, America would lose interest in what India has to offer. The USA would undertake a ‘surge’ and everybody including Pakistan want it to succeed because that is a part of its ‘exit strategy’. After USA scales down its forces in Afghanistan, India will be chased out if it did not leave even earlier than the US. Pakistan will be bombed much more by the Americans as well as the ‘resistance’ in consequence of 11/26. The rest is very uncertain because the narrative would not be written by any ‘state’ but by the ‘resistance’. I mean ‘resistance’ in Pakistan that has the ruling parties – the PPP, the ANP, and the MQM – in its sights. ++
It is 4AM in India right now. I am in Mumbai reporting from the ground. I have not slept a wink. Mumbai is under attack. People and forces who killed Mahatama Gandhi, who demolished the Babari Mosque have triumphed. More than 16 groups of terrorists have taken over Taj, Oberai and several hotels. Hundreds of people are dead. For the first time no one is blaming Muslim organizations.
The Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare and other officers of the ATS have been killed. These were the same people who were investigating the Malegaon Blasts--in which Praggya Singh, an army officer and several other noted personalities of the BJP-RSS-Bajrang Dal-VHP were arrested. Karkare was the man to arrest them. Karkare was receiving threats from several quarters. LK Advani, the BJP chief and several other prominent leaders of the so-called Hindu terrorism squad were gun ning for his head. And the first casualty in the terrorist attack was Karkare! He is dead--gone--the firing by terrorists began from Nariman House--which is the only building in Mumbai inhabited by Jews. Some Hindu Gujaratis of the Nariman area spoke live on several TV channels--they openly said that the firing by terrorists began from Nariman house. And that for two years suspicious activities were going on in this house. But no one took notice.
Our worst fears have come true. It is clear that Mossad is involved in the whole affair. An entire city has been attacked by Mossad and probably units of mercenaries. It is not possible for one single organization to plan and execute such a sophisticated operation. It is clear that this operation was backed by communal forces from within the Indian State. The Home Minister Shivraj Patil should resign. The RSS-BJP-VHP-Bajrang Dal should be banned. Advani and others ought to be arrested. Today is a day of shame for all Indians and all Hindus. Muslims and secular Hindus have been proven right. RSS type forces and Israel are all involved in not only destabilizing but finishing India. India should immediately snap all relations with Israel. We owe this much to Karkare and the brave ATS men who had shown the courage to arrest Praggya Singh, Raj Kumar Purohit, the army officer and several others.
A photograph published in Urdu Times, Mumbai, clearly shows that Mossad and ex-Mossad men came to India and met Sadhus and other pro-Hindutva elements recently. A conspiracy was clearly hatched.
This is a moment of reckoning especially for Hindus of India. The kille rs of Gandhi have struck again. If we are true Sanatanis and true Hindus and true nationalists and true patriots we have to see this act as a clear attack by anti-national deshdrohi forces. Praggya Singh, Advani and the entire brand is anti-national. They ought to be shot. Any Hindu siding with them is hereafter warned of serious consequences.
This is a question of nationalism. If no one else, the Indian army will not take this lying down. Communal, anti-national forces have attacked the very foundation of the Indian constitution and the nation. We will fight a civil war if need be against the pro-Hindutva, communal forces and their Israeli backers. Amerish Misra
“This isn’t India’s 9/11. This is India’s Oklahoma City,” said Ms Fair, referring to an April 1995 domestic attack in the US that killed 168 people.”It is almost unimaginable that this could have been done entirely by outside militants without Indian involvement; implications are very dangerous,” she told Dawn.
“There are a lot of “very, very angry Muslims in India. The economic disparities are startling,” she said. “This is a major domestic political challenge for India.” Ms Fair said it was not possible to deny what happened during anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat in 2002.”You have Islamist militants in India and you have a militarised Hindu right;
Pakistani think tanks are not working full time on the Indian threats. They already have the plans to respond to Indian limited strikes. The Pakistani establishment was pleasantly surprised by the overtures made by the militants in FATA and Waziristan. All of the sudden the clouds are clearing in Pakistan’s Northwest. In the mind of the people of Pakistan, the picture is crystal clear. The war on the Western front is America’s war. Pakistan’s National Assembly has already made it clear that it does not want war with its own people. Is Delhi preventing the 4th Battle of Panipat or instigating it?.
Mumbai Terror Attack: Further Evidence of the Anglo-American-Mossad-RSS NexusBY AMARESH MISRA
Now who has the last laugh? That is the question; I only have pity for those who cannot see reality and who were so glib to buy into what the media and political troubleshooters were saying about the Mumbai Blasts. Consider this:
As a BBC report notes, at least some of the Mumbai attackers were not Indian and certainly not Muslim.Pappu Mishra, a cafe proprietor at the gothic Victorian Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, described "two sprightly young men dressed in black" with AK47s who were "foreign looking, fair skinned."Gaffar Abdul Amir, an Iraqi tourist from Baghdad, saw at least two men who started the firing outside the Leopold Cafe. "They did not look Indian, they looked foreign. One of them, I thought, had blonde hair. The other had a punkish hairstyle. They were neatly dressed," Amir told the BBC.
According to Andrew G. Marshall, the ISI "has long been referred to as Pakistan's 'secret government' or 'shadow state.' It's long-standing ties and reliance upon American and British intelligence have not let up, therefore actions taken by the ISI should be viewed in the context of being a Central Asian outpost of Anglo-American covert intelligence operations."The presence of "foreign looking, fair skinned" commandos who calmly gunned down dozens of people after drinking a few beers indicates that the Mumbai attacks were likely the work of the Anglo-American covert intelligence operatives, not indigenous Indian Muslims or for that matter Arab al-Qaeda terrorists. The attacks prepare the ground for the break-up of Pakistan and the furtherance of destabilizing terrorism in the Middle East and Asia. The Mumbai attacks had little to do with India or the relationship between Muslim Pakistanis and Hindu Indians."Pakistan's position as a strategic focal point cannot be underestimated. It borders India, Afghanistan, China and Iran," concludes Marshall. "Destabilizing and ultimately breaking Pakistan up into several countries or regions will naturally spread chaos and destabilization into neighboring countries. This is also true of Iraq on the other side of Iran, as the Anglo-American have undertaken, primarily through Iraq, a strategy of balkanizing the entire Middle East in a new imperial project." (See Marshall's Divide and Conquer: The Anglo-American Imperial Project.)
Now I ask specifically: WHO HAS EGG ON THE FACE? MY DETRACTORS OR ME?
Andrew Marshall is a respected author; he is clearly saying here that terrorists looked like Anglo-American covert operatives and that the entire Mumbai operation was an attempt by Anglo-American forces to destabilize India and push it further into the Israel-US orbit. Marshall also says that Americans are keen to dismember Pakistan--it is clear that in this project, America needs India as a firm ally--it cannot afford Indo-Pak friendship at least on a long-term basis. The Mumbai attack thus was multi-layered--and one of the reasons could be to warn India that the Anglo-American elite has the power to penetrate India, with the help of its own people. Clearly, the attackers would not have come from the sea route without some kind of a connivance of Gujarat and Maharashtra Governments with the terrorists, and the connivance of RSS type Hindutva elements as I will prove later in the piece.
This afore-mentioned report appeared on the BBC, a news agency which pro-west, Muslim-haters and all NRIs love to see. NOW I ASK THESE PEOPLE: why are you adopting double standards? Now a BBC report is incovenient because it militates against your idea of what happened in Mumbai?
Even the Indian Government is aware of this reality. That is why it is not issuing statements in a hurry and that is why the kind of Islamo-phobia seen earlier after Bomb Blasts is not being seen now. second report is more shocking--some news channels captured it but then it went off air:
One Police officer who encountered the gunmen as they entered the Jewish Center (Nariman House) said the attackers were white. "I went into the building late last night" he said. "I got a shock because they were white. I was expecting them to look like us. They fired three shots. I fired 10 back".
The Nariman House affair brings the Mossad angle to the fore. Two of the `hostages' killed in the Narimam House were identified as Rabbi Gabreil Holtzberg and his wife Rivka. They ran the center as spokespersons of the Chabad Lubavitch movement.
Now the Chabad movement is one of the many sects within Israel and Judaism. But of late it has come under the Zionist influence. Now what is Zionism? A brief digression would suffice: Zionism is the political ideology of racist Jews, just like Hindutva is the political ideology of a section of `race conscious' Hindus. Just as a majority of Sanatani Hindus have opposed Hindutva, a majority of Jews oppose Zionism and its fascist-anti-religious tone.
In opposition to the teachings of Judaism, the orthodox Jew religion, Zionists want to dominate the world; they see the `Jewish race' as the most important, almost divine, race in the world. Zionists are opposed to democracy and even the concept of naitonhood. Zionists believe in creating murder and mayhem as a matter of policy.
In America, Zionists have entered into an alliance with the American elites--the White-Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) forces--which rule America. The reasons for this alliance lie in the way the Zionist agenda matches with that of the American corporate and WASP elite and is beyind the scope of this article.
People who do not understand Zionism will never be able to understand what happened in Mumbai.
Back to members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement killed at Nariman House--people have asked how come the Rabbi and his wife were killed if Mossad is involved in the Mumbai terror attack?
The answer to this is being forwarded by Jewish anti-Zionist websites. They also detail the sectarian history of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement:
The attack on Mumbai spotlights the ultra-orthodox (haredi) Chabad-Lubavitch community and its international outreach network. When Chabad outreach (keruv) started in the 1950s, it seemed rather intellectually dishonest because the organization used nostalgia for a never-existent Jewish past as a hook to enmesh secular or secularized Jews in ultra-orthodox (haredi) practice as hozrim bitshuvah (returnees, sometimes improperly called baalei tshuvah), but on the whole the activity was mostly harmless in contrast with current Chabad activities, which long ago crossed the border into dangerous territory.
As the Lubavitcher organization has become larger and wealthier -- partially because mobilization for keruv has brought large contributions, members have shown a propensity for corruption.
Yet, the Lubavitchers have worked closely with Jewish racists like Lawrence Summers and Alan Dershowitz in the ongoing attempt to control discourse on American campuses. The wealthy Russian Lubavitcher hozer bitshuvah Lev Leviev openly supports Zionist terrorism and settlement building in the Palestinan occupied territories. Possibly because of Leviev Chabad-Lubavitch has openly become involved in Putin's struggles with Russian Jewish oligarchs.
Still, there is an even more sinister aspect to the Lubavitcher organization.
Because Lubavitcher outreach offices are located in some of the most important political, corporate and university centers throughout the world, the Lubavitchers have put together a network that is incomparable for corporate and international espionage as well as for the secret exchange of information. Because Chabad Houses could potentially act as safe houses, where there would be no record of a person's stay.
Most people do not take the Lubavitchers seriously, but I have visited Chabad houses and encountered senior Israeli government or military officials (and probably intelligence agents). One can easily imagine that Neocon intelligentsia trying to develop a relationship with Hindutva (हिन्दुत्व) intelligentsia or politicians might have used the Chabad Nariman House as a meeting place.
Here a Jew is saying that he has visited Chabad houses and that he has seen covert operations going on and the involvement of senior Government and military officials of Israel. This Jew writer is also talking openly about a Neo-Con-Chabad-Hindutva tie-up!
The Jew writer mentions the Mossad involvement in Chabad Houses:
Because the Lubavitchers provide an unconditional welcome to all Jews in the hope of bringing them closer to the Lubavitcher way of life, the Lubavitchers have been open to potential subversion by Israeli intelligence organizations. Mossad and Shin Bet found it quite easy to penetrate the haredi community during the Yossele Affair. Jewish politics has often involved infiltration and subversion of one political group by another. The David Project Israel Advocacy organization has used its educational programs as a means to infiltrate more mainstream Jewish communal organizations with radical Islamophobes and Jabotinskian Zionists.
To Zionize haredi groups that practice outreach, the Israeli government need only give encouragement to Zionistically indoctrinated Hebrew-speaking young people to participate in outreach programs, and in a few years the targeted haredi community is thoroughly enmeshed in Zionist thinking while Israeli intelligence organizations have a new crop of saya`nim in place ready to serve in Zionist covert operations.
hat is a sayanim? Go to the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayanim and it states that "Sayanim (Hebrew: "helpers") is a term used to describe Jews living outside Israel who volunteer to provide assistance to the Mossad.[1] This assistance includes facilitating medical care, money, logistics, and even overt intelligence gathering, yet sayanim are only paid for their expenses. No official number is known, but estimates put the number of sayanim in the thousands. The existence of this large body of volunteers is one reason why the Mossad operates with fewer case officers than fellow intelligence agencies"
Now back to the link http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2008/12/chabad-lubavitch-dangerous-game.html from which I was quoting the Jewish writer originally. He says that the Lubavitcher shluchim (outreach emissaries) Gavriel Noach and Rivka Holtzberg fit the `sayanim' profile to a "T" -- especially Rivkah.
So the two people killed in Nariman House fit the Sayanim, that is Jews outside Israel who volunteer to provide assistance to Mossad, profile!
NOW WHAT OTHER PROOF DO YOU WANT?
The Jewish writer of the afore-mentioned link himself asks the question: WOULD MOSSAD HAVE KILLED THE RABBI AND HIS WIFE IN NARIMAN HOUSE?
Zionists have always used dead Jews to build sympathy for Zionist goals and as cover for Zionist crimes against humanity.
Ben-Gurion explicitly stated that he would sacrifice German Jewish children for the sake of Zionism while the Zionist leadership probably learned the benefit of sacrificing Zionist operatives from the 1946 Kielce Pogrom. In this incident (Jewish) Soviet and Zionist agents probably worked together to make sure that surviving Polish Jews chose emigration to Palestine over a return to Poland.
ecause the Kielce Zionist recruiters were killed during the pogrom, the events leading up to the pogrom was rendered forever unobtainable.
Some reports of the Mumbai attack indicate that the Holtzbergs rented space to the attack planners over the past few months and thereby helped make the operation far more effective.
An opportunity to interrogate the Holtzbergs would have helped investigators immensely.
AGAIN WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?
Another piece of massive evidence: In a telephone interview with CBC News from outside the Center (Nariman House), freelance journalists Arun Asthana said that there are reports that some of the militants had stayed at a guest house there (Nariman House) for upto 15 days before the attack. "They had a huge mass of ammunition, arms and food there", Asthana said.
Now other reports have also confirmed that a huge mass of food was ordered by the residents of the Nariman House. This food was enough for 30-40 people for several days. Why was this amount of food ordered? Also why was Nariman House not assaulted till the very last? A Gujarati Hindu resident of Mumbai came onto TV on CNN-IBN to say at around 3.30 AM or so, that for two months suspicious activities wree going in Nariman House. A lot of foreigners were seen coming in and going out. This matter was reported to the Police. But no one took action.
The CNN-IBN did not repeat the news; then it was only when the common people of Mumbai threatened to storm the Nariman House the NSG commandos were moved in--why this delay in assaulting Nariman House when only two terrorists were holed in there?
This is sheer official complicity and nothing else--AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE WHOLE NARIMAN HOUSE AFFAIR IS A MUST.
Then it was reported that " somehow surprising to learn that the terrorists in Cama hospital in Mumbai were fluently speaking Marathi. The terrorists who are said to have fired in Cama hospital talked to an employee clad in civil dress in Marathi, reports a Marathi daily'Maharashtra Times'.
The newspaper said the terrorists who targeted ATS chief Hemant Karkare, police commissioner Ashok Kamte and encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar were speaking Marathi fluently.
The newspaper claims the terrorists having fired at two watchmen in uniform asked the other beside them on gunpoint in Marathi, 'You are here an employee?' The employee caught the legs of the terrorist and said, 'I am not working here. My wife has suffered from heart attack and I have come here to admit her.' The terrorist asked him again in Marathi, 'You are speaking true or false?' The employee answered, 'No, by God I am speaking true.'
On this the terrorist let him go.
NOW WHAT DO WE MAKE OF THAT? Another report says that traditional Jews of Mumbai who have migrated to Israel speak fluent Marathi and are known to have been recruited by Mossad!
The death of Hemant Karkare remains a mystery. All official versions are contradictory: some say he was killed near CST, some that he died near Cama hospital, some near Metro cinema, and some that he was killed while in a Police jeep. Also, where did the bullet hit him? Some say on the neck and some near the heart. Karkare was shown on TV wearing a bullet proof vest--he could not have been shot in neck in that case, unless there was a sniper waiting for him.
Also if he was shot near heart, then when did he take out his vest? No one has even bothered to answer this question. Also, another facet is coming to light: that Karkare was killed near Cama--but Kaamte and Salaskar in the Metro shootout!
Intelligent people--what do you have to say now? It is becoming obvious that...
1. Several terrorists might have been white
2. Were they International mercanaries? If yes, then from which country? Who collected them? It is well known that Mossad and CIA have several mercenary organizations, including so-called Jihadi ones on their list. They create Jihad and manipulate Muslims disaffected by the Islamophobia in the world. Some of them might have been used in the Mumbai attack. But why were they carrying American, British, Mauritian and Malaysian passports?
3. Who were the Marathi speaking Karkare killers? The lane next to the Cama Hospital is a deserted one--it goes straight to the backyard of the Mumbai CID Headquarters. Anonymous sources in the Police have revealed that Karkare was taken there, by a joint team of anti-Karkare, pro-Hindutva Mumbai Police officers, and Chota Rajan men. Now Karkare was opposed to Chota Rajan. Salaskar was anti-Pradeep Sharma, another Mumbai senior Police officer now in jail, for working as Rajan's shooter. So the Marathi speaking terrorists could either have been Jews with some connection to Mumbai--or hired killers of the Hindutva brigade or men of Chota Rajan.
4. It seems that several things went on simultaneously--the Mahrashtra Chief Minister Vilas Rao Deshmukh was in Kerala when the Mumbai attack began at 9.30 PM on 26th November. Then by 11PM Deshmukh had informed the Home Minister Shivraj Patil--the latter has started proceedings to send the NSG Commandos. So Deshmukh knew about what was happening by 11PM--then why was there no Mumbai Police on various locations between 9.30 and 1am, the time when Karkare arrived? The Mumbai ATS is a separate organization. it does not lead the Mumbai Police. So the 40,000 strong Mumbai Police was absent from the scene of action between 11pm to 1am and then Karkare arrived and he was killed along with his men!
Isn't there something fishy here? Obviously the Mumbai Police was kept deliberately away between 11pm and 1am, the time period when terrorists were killing people merrily. Then Karkare must have been told--and he went there expecting Mumbai police personals to be there--but there were none or only a few! And he was killed! Amaresh Mishra, the author of this article, can be contacted on misra.amaresh@gmail.com
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Reviving Hinduism in Budhdist lands: The Hindu extremists use the Safron Swastika flag instead of the tri-colored flag of India. (see Hindu unity dot org) 
Indonesia also has expressed interest in the French Dassault Mirage 2000-5 and Rafale fighters, the Chinese Chengdu J-10 and the joint Chinese/Pakistani FC-1 Fierce Dragon/JF-17 Thunder fighter.(http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3823972&c=LAN&s=TOP) 
Strange that none of the media (TV or Print) have picked this up at all. Or have they been deliberately ignoring it? 
