12/2/8 "India's 911": U.S.Knew; CIA-ISI Network; Militarization U

12/2/8 "India's 911": U.S.Knew; CIA-ISI Network; Militarization Under 'Soft' Cover; Press - PsyOps Combo; Thai Terror OK

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Posted December 3rd, 2008 by liz burbank

"To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason."
Fredrick Douglass

" India's 911", another Hollywood-Bollywood winner - guess who'll get the rights to the final story? Maybe a sequel to the current vile U.S. box-office hit "Slumdog Millionaire". U.S. 'terror experts' instantly fingered Pakistan, specifically citing 'terrorist' groups that are obstacles to the u.s. plans for central Asian restructuring under U.S. 'leadership'. Revolutionaries fighting for national liberation identified as 'terrorists', as mandated by the u.s. global state terrorist war. Media relentlessly solicited Indian comments agreeing India was shamefully unprepared. No reference of course to Five days after the events, media all appear chorus-like to convince us the big crisis facing Obama is 'rising tensions between India and Pakistan, amplified by answers to pointed questions in Mumbai. No mention of fascist Hindu-nationalist terror and slaughter of Muslims and its BJP party efforts to regain state power.

After word got out broadly that the U.S. had known and warned India in October about an impending terror attack by sea on Mumbai, the media twisted this into more expressions of Indian rage at its govt. The inevitable questions why U.S. 'allowed' another 911 to happen to its dear friend India must be on the cutting room floor. But the game turned truly grotesque today as NPR discovered Dharvi, the largest slum in Asia, a city within a city in Mumbia, where over 600, 000 mostly Muslims and immigrants, are crammed in squalid, disease-ridden poverty, only a few toilets, no plumbing, forced to slave for pennies doing dangerous toxic work in chemicals, tanning and recycling -- probably the setting for that obscenely racist glorification of capitalism "Slumdog Millionaire".

From day one the horror was grist for politically motivated, sensational, contradictory speculation and propaganda dominated by the U.S. No evidence, no facts....except the always reliable reports of days-long police interrogations...(see below.) Briefly recapping the propaganda chronology: originally 'Islamic terrorists' targeted westerners, primarily americans, brits and jews.

Initially the NYT didn't mention the jewish center, then media focused so heavily on it that jews seemed the main target. No mention the center is part of a huge international ultra-orthodox organization of zionists, or that Israel is deeply militarily as well as politically active in India. Maybe it was too close to the U.S. and the truth for comfort. Next we were told 'the Islamic terrorists' just shot at random for the sake of terror. Maybe they arrived by boat. Initially some poor local fishermen saw dinghys land and men disembark, wearing backpacks, strip off orange vests revealing khakis and T-shirts, with no sign of arms. Three days later 'fishermen' decked out in western garb, gold jewelry and fancy shades were interviewed describing invaders packing heavy guns. How many wrought all the 'senseless' chaos and destruction? An estimated 40-100 allegedly has shrunk to 10, based on a police 2 day interrogation 'report' of the 'single terrorist survivor'. No word now that they've been declared dead of the unknown numbers we were warned were still among the population. How many victims? That number keeps shrinking -- now from about 200 to less than 175. Who were the highly trained, armed and organized terrorists? How did they come from seemingly out of nowhere suddenly, why, under whose orders, for what geostrategic political purpose? The U.S. won't be explaining this, as you'll see below. One thing we can be sure of is that the 'news' creating public opinion will serve the U.S. imperialist -zionist rulers -- which, the U.S. ruling class is banking everything on -- now have a 'new' friendly face regime to dispose of the matters of empire more successfully.

Regardless of where we stand on the elections, or the new administration, it's time for all of us genuinely committed to justice and peace to act urgently, during, if not before, Obama's inauguration. In our millions we have the power --- not to change the imperialist beast's stripes --- but to severely limit its political freedom to advance its agenda using Mumbai as 'justification'. The direction in which things are being led means millions more deaths, more genocidal crimes against humanity --- Including our own if we remain silently complicit .

U.S. Warned India of Potential Terror Attack on Mumbai
December 02, 2008
Reuters http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,460046,00.html
MUMBAI, India - U.S. intelligence agencies reportedly warned their Indian counterparts in October of a potential attack "from the sea against hotels and business centers in Mumbai," a U.S. official told ABC News. A second government source told the network specific targets, including the Taj hotel, were listed in the U.S. warning to India....

US tells Pakistan to cooperate in India probe:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Pakistan the U.S. expects complete cooperation in investigations into the terrorist rampage in nuclear rival India, saying the "civilized" world must unite against this menace.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_re_as/rice_india

EXCLUSIVE: Signs Of An Attempted 'Soft Coup' In New Delhi
Ahmed Quraishi
http://www.ahmedquraishi.com/latest_col.php?id=78
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1529573111/bclid3347113001...
Exploiting the fears of a traumatized nation and a government caught sleeping at the wheel, a core group of rightwing ideologues within India’s military, intelligence and political elite are trying to overthrow Manmohan Singh’s government. The plan apparently is to help the rise of rightwing elements in power and firmly push India in a confrontation with Pakistan and some other countries in the region.
The objective of this core group is to see India emerge as a superpower closely allied with the United States. They are excited about American plans for India as a regional policeman... the instability in the wake of Mumbai attacks is being exploited to start a war with Pakistan... this will also help U.S. military facing a tough time in Afghanistan...

In the very first hours of the Mumbai attack, the unknown terrorists were able to achieve a singular feat: the targeted murder of Hemant Karkare, the chief antiterrorism officer in the Indian police. The man was responsible for exposing the secret links between the Indian military and Hindu terror groups. His investigation resulted in uncovering the involvement of three Indian military intelligence officers in terrorist acts that were blamed on Muslim groups. At the time of his murder, Karkare was pursuing leads that were supposed to uncover the depth of the nexus between the Indian military and the sudden rise of well armed and well financed Hindu terrorism groups with their wide network of militant training camps across India...

creating the final version
Western sleuths arrive in India
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\11\30\story_30-11-2008_pg1_13
NEW DELHI: Scores of western sleuths are arriving in India to collaborate on the investigations of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, fast becoming a global issue. Sources here said the US, the UK, and Israel were collaborating with India in the investigations and sending experts to interrogate the lone apprehended terrorist, and a team of Afghanistan-based CIA operatives, Foreign Ministry officials from Israel, and intelligence officials from the UK arrive in Mumbai on Monday... An FBI team is also on its way to Mumbai to join the investigation.

from an always believable police interrogation report...
'No regrets... I was told to kill to my last breath'. Captured terrorist's account of Mumbai massacre reveals plan was to kill 5,000
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090546/No-regrets-Captured-terr...
Dec 01 2008
According to the account of Kasav's interrogation, given by police sources, the terrorists were trained over five months in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, then had a month off before the attacks. At some stage, they also received intensive instruction in 'marine assault' operations... During two days of questioning, Kashmiri-born Kasav, who used the alias Ajmal Kasab, told police: 'I have no regrets'. He is said to have told officers the cell was to seek out 'white targets, preferably British and American'....

It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a false flag terrorist attack in which innocent people are murdered in cold blood
http://www.daily.pk/world/asia/8386-it-wouldnt-be-thanksgiving-without-a...
29 November 2008
To make it look good and provide a little cover…It happens on a major holiday. People are busy doing other things besides digging around on the computer. The news they get is most likely from TV. CNN? Yes. Pesky bloggers? No. The targeted site: the Taj Mahal. Think Las Vegas.
The perpetrators are young, and they ask for British and American guests. “They were very young, like boys really, wearing jeans and T-shirts,” he said, adding that he and another hostage managed to escape on the 18th floor. Really. And they targeted Jews. Specifically the Chabad Lubavitch headquarters....Confusion reigns about whether or not the high-value (ie: British, American and Jewish) hostages have been released....
Naturally, Al Qaeda immediately rises to the top of the suspects list. The responsible group has never been heard of before. Somehow these terrorist cells always miraculously escape intelligence and burst onto the scene completely unexpectedly. Which is weird, you know, that they’re so good at avoiding surveillance but yet they suck at the nuts and bolts of carrying out an effective terrorist attack. Hmm. But we know that these terrorists are vicious young Islamic extremists and Muslim militants. What other explanation can there possibly be? – blink blink blink ...
Look up Chabad Lubavitch. The Chabad Lubavitch is a Jewish Supremacist group whose leaders regularly enjoy audiences with world leaders.
Here they are with George W. Bush: And here are some with Michael Chertoff. These rabbis have had their pictures taken with many famous people. Go ahead and look it up. Look up what they stand for. Have you ever heard of them? Do you think they are some obscure, harmless rabbis? Think again. These are powerful people who throw their weight around at the highest levels.
Isn’t it strange that their Indian headquarters would be involved in this terrorist attack? What are the odds of that happening? Why does the Chabad Lubavitch even have Indian headquarters? But can’t you just hear it now? “Oh, gee whiz some nice Jewish scholars were attacked by evil Muslim Islamofacist terrorists in India! What are we gonna do, Louise? And they attacked British and Americans citizens, too! They must hate us for our freedoms, and they’re anti-Semitic to boot! Goodness gracious. What’s this world coming to??” Oh geez yeah.

Here’s background on the Chabad Lubavitch from Michael A. Hoffman II and www.RevisionistHistory.org:
NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE RABNER AND ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ALBIN ADDRESS TALMUDIC LAW SEMINAR
July 17, 200 www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/703108/jewish/Civil-Rights-on-the-Do... [...]

An explanation that actually makes sense:
Modern criminal investigation still rests on... 3 equally important causal factors: Means, Method and Motivation.
Factor analysis - Means, Method and Motivation: Powerful western media organisations reinforce their opinions with repetition, linking assaults like these with former “Islamist attacks” and another “terrorist attack”. Their logic and factor analysis use (1) the weapons used, (2) the similarity of past attacks by “Al Queda” and (3) motivation. But of course they never consider the possibility, based on this same factor analysis, that the architects may be the CIA and/or Mossad.

Means: That the most powerful military machine in the world has the means to arm groups like the one who is carrying out the Mumbai attacks requires no apology or defense.
Method: History is replete with examples of U.S./Israeli use of a surrogate to attack their enemies. William John Fox pointed this out in his exemplary analysis, Deliver Us From Chaos: Ten Political Commandments. In 1953 they used domestic terrorism to overthrow Mohammad Mosaddeq, former Prime Minister of Iran. They used the Afghan Mujahideen to attack Russia in the same year of their resistance. The CIA and the U.S. ambassador secretly engineered the “Rose Revolution” in Georgia in 2003 and “the U.S. encouraged the Israeli-trained Georgian army to invade the disputed enclave of South Ossetia five years later”.

Motivation: The only difference between the factors used by the capitalist media and ours is motivation. Regarding motivation, CNN states “they (Deccan Mujahideen) want to create as much damage and attention to themselves as possible”. CIA/Mossad are masters at destruction, but the last thing they want is bringing attention to themselves. Motivation for the U.S. to take it’s war to Pakistan fits perfectly with these attacks. As a matter of fact, Barack Obama and Joe Biden already declared their intention to take the war to Pakistan and stated with certainty that Obama’s “mettle would be tested” by a major international “incident” in the near future. If the perpetrators want to draw attention to themselves, their method (i.e. killing civilians), simply does not make sense unless one buys the Bush regime’s religion-based simplism that they are simply “evil”. Militant’s fighting for causes such as independence or national sovereignty want least of all, international negative attention or popular hatred. The only thing missing from the corporate media explanation is George W. Bush’s idiotic claim that “the terrorists are jealous of our freedoms”. Using this the corporate media’s methodology, it is entirely reasonable and just as easy to implicate the CIA and Mossad.
To be continued, probably in Pakistan.

India's 9/11. Who was Behind the Mumbai Attacks?
Washington is Fostering Political Divisions between India and Pakistan
By Michel Chossudovsky
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11217
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001HjpYXjc-s1TlRiJz4fdw6q3laxtBxd9Eei-5HXmIfj1RY...
The Mumbai terror attacks were part of a carefully planned and coordinated operation involving several teams of experienced and trained gunmen.The operation has the fingerprints of a paramilitary-intelligence operation. According to a Russian counter terrorist expert, the Mumbai terrorists "used the same tactics that Chechen field militants employed in the Northern Caucasus attacks where entire towns were terrorized, with homes and hospitals seized". (/Russia Today,/ November 27, 2008)....
The media reports point, in chorus, to the involvement of Pakistan's Military Intelligence, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), without mentioning that the ISI invariably operates in close liaison with the CIA. The US media indelibly serves the interests of the US intelligence apparatus....
The ISI is America's Trojan Horse, a de facto proxy of the CIA. Pakistani Intelligence has, since the early 1980s, worked in close iaison with its US and British intelligence counterparts.
Were the ISI to have been involved in a major covert operation directed against India, the CIA would have prior knowledge regarding the precise nature and timing of the operation. The ISI does not act without the consent of its US intelligence counterpart. US intelligence is known to have supported Al Qaeda from the outset of the Soviet Afghan war and throughout the post-Cold War era. (For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, Al Qaeda and the War on Terrorism, Global Research, January 20, 2008) ....

President Asif Ali Zardari had meetings in New York in late September with CIA Director Michael Hayden. (The Australian
, September 29, 2008), Barely a few days later, a new US approved ISI chief Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha was appointed by the Chief of the Army, General Kayani, on behalf of Washington. [...]

oops....'experts' messed up
Is al-Qaida behind the Mumbai terror attacks?
India's security officials believe that the Deccan Mujahideen is actually a front for the veteran extremist Muslim organization Lashkar a-Tayeb (Army of believers). Lashkar a-Tayeb was founded in 1989 by the Pakistani security service... The armed group, which appears on many countries' terror lists, operates in hopes of liberating Kashmir, but has also carried out attacks inside India in the past, including an attack on an Indian military base in May 2002...The group's ideological platform revolves around anti-Western ideas and relies on attacking points of interest and tourist attractions in India as a means of achieving its political goals.... According to Indian officials, the connection between the two organizations surfaced during questioning of terrorists that have been caught following Wednesday's attacks, but no official blame has been cast, and India does not intend to involve Pakistan.
Experts believe that some 50 to 60 militants were involved in carrying out the attacks. Nine of them have been arrested and have undergone questioning so far. Between 15 and 20 terrorists were killed during the attacks.... An analysis of the group's previous operations reveals ties to the global al-Qaida terror group and the followers of Osama bin-Laden in Afghanistan. Abu Zubeida, one of the top al-Qaida militants currently in U.S. custody, was arrested in March 2002 in a joint Pakistani intelligence ? CIA operation, at a Decca Mujahideen safehouse. http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1041684.html

Mumbai terrorists targeted Jews, Israelis
By Ron Kampeas · November 28, 2008
http://jta.org/news/article/2008/11/28/1001245/terorrists-singled-out-je...
...Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, ["a former Mossad spy" http://israelinewsnow.com http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/01/2434841.htm?section=justin] who at a Nov. 28 news conference in Jerusalem confirmed the five Israelis' deaths, said extremist Islamist hatred does not stop at Israel's shores. "In India or elsewhere, there are extremist Islamic forces who don’t accept our existence or the Western way of life," Livni said. "It's a shame that this kind of event must remind part of the Western of the world about this reality. The target is not just Israel but the West."
"We have no doubt that the targets of the terrorists were Jewish and Israeli, as well as American and British," Livni said. Israel and India have shared common security interests in recent years, and India has become a leading buyer of Israeli arms and weapons technologies. Security teams from both nations happened to be meeting in New Delhi on Sept. 11, 2001; they turned on the TV and watched the attacks in the United States, sharing assessments together.
It's a natural fit between the world's most populous democracy and one of its smallest, said Jason Isaacson, the American Jewish Committee's director of international affairs.
"There's been close cooperation and consultation between India and Israel on counterterrorism and security," Isaacson told JTA on Nov. 28 after spending 36 hours in nearly nonstop consultations with AJC's representative in India, Priya Tandon, as well as with senior Indian, Israel and U.S. government officials. "This is a further reminder that all democracies face the threat of Islamic extremism."
Relations were cool during the Cold War, when India's then-ruling Congress Party assiduously pursued non-aligned status. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s, India expanded ties with Israel, upgrading its Tel Aviv consulate to an embassy and developing robust relations with the Jewish state.
A key element to the relationship has been close ties with U.S. Jewish organizations, particularly in the pursuit of a closer relationship with the U.S. defense establishment. For Washington-area Jewish officials, a must-attend event in recent years has been the Indian Embassy's Chanukah party.
One component of that relationship was the establishment of the Chabad center in Mumbai. In a sign of U.S. sensitivity about the relationship, Rabbi Levi Shemtov, the director of American Friends of Lubavitch and Chabad's Washington representative, said he received calls of concern this week from Josh Bolten, the White House chief of staff, and Joe Biden, the vice president-elect.

No to Israel, No to zionism : family courageously reject flag & ceremony
Six bodies of Mumbai Chabad victims arrive in Israel
An Israel Air Force plane carrying the remains of six Israelis and Jews who were killed in the attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai last week landed at Ben Gurion Airport late Monday night.Four of the coffins were wrapped in an Israeli flag while that of Aryeh Leibish Teitelboim and Norma Schwarbird-Rabinovich, a Mexican citizen, were wrapped in the traditional Jewish prayer shawl. Teitelboim's family has rejected Israel's offer to hold an official memorial ceremony for him along with the other Jewish and Israeli fatalities...also said that it does not want Teitelboim's coffin wrapped in an Israeli flag before it is boarded onto the plane in India later Monday, as those of the other Jewish and Israeli victims will be...."The murder victim was educated in the ways of Satmar, which opposes Zionism and do not recognize the State of Israel," one of Teitelboim's relatives told Haaretz. "How can he turn into a symbol of the State of Israel? The family is very concerned about what will happen here at the ceremony. They are angry about the whole matter, it is a very sensitive issue." Teitelboim, who holds an American passport along with many other Satmar followers in Israel, disavowed his Israeli citizenship despite residing in Jerusalem. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1042611.html

After Mumbai attacks, Israel debates protection for global network of Chabad Houses
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-targets1-2008dec...
...Perhaps more disturbing than the attack itself to many Israelis is the prospect that a new terrorist template has been laid out -- with Chabad Houses and other soft Jewish targets --- be they primary or secondary -- for the loose network of global jihad," Shelah wrote in the Israeli newspaper Maariv. It is a possibility that has "staggering ramifications," said Israeli journalist and analyst Ofer Shelah. "What is clear is that Israeli sites, or at least sites that are connected to Israel, have become targets -- be they primary or secondary -- for the loose network of global jihad," Shelah wrote in the Israeli newspaper Maariv. A report in the Times of India on Sunday said the sole surviving gunman had told Indian police the attackers had specifically targeted the Nariman House with the goal of killing Israelis. The report could not be independently confirmed...
Ephraim Halevy, former head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, said the Jewish state is heavily restricted in just what kind of protection it could offer nongovernmental institutions like Chabad when they are in other countries. Realistically, the best Israel can do is coordinate with authorities around the world and make sure the Chabad organization is kept informed of any potential threats or warnings, Halevy said in an interview with Israeli radio. "Israel does not enjoy sweeping global authority for securing its people outside Israel's sovereign control, and this must be well understood," Halevy said. "I would say that any Jew in the world who wants absolute security and safety as a Jew is invited to come live in Israel."

Who benefits from Mumbai terror attacks?
By Binu Mathew, countercurrents.org
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=183720
...Will Mumbai be the same again? Will India be the same again ... talk in the media that the Mumbai terror attack is India's 9/11. The similarities maybe farfetched, but there are so many things that bears stark resemblances to each other. Both attacks are carried out apparently by terrorist organizations. Both New York and Mumbai are commercial and business centers of the respective nations. Although the magnitude of the attacks may look dissimilar, the sheer psychological impact on the populace of both the nation and the world in general is comparable in dimension. 9/11 was an earth shattering event that unleashed a chain of reactions that changed the world irremediably, both inside the USA and around the world. And what about India's 9/11? It's very possible that the chain of reactions that followed the U.S. 9/11 is likely to follow here as well. The leader of the opposition and a prime ministerial candidate of the Hindu right wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called for stringent anti terror laws. A patriot act may not be far behind.
That gives us a clue to who is going to benefit from these terror attacks. The BJP has been calling for new anti-terror laws ever since the Congress led UPA government repealed the much reviled Prevention of Terrorist Atrocities Act (POTA). The UPA repealed the law as there were many complaints, especially from minority communities that it has been used selectively to frame innocents from a particular community. In the aftermath of Mumbai terror attacks, a new terror law is imminent.

One other tragedy of the terrorist attack is that the chief of Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Mumbai, Hemant Karkare, lost his life to terrorist's bullets. He was a brave and upright official who was probing the link between Hindu fascist organizations and terror blasts in several parts of India. The ATS under Karkare had arrested a Hindu Sanyasin and an army Lt. Colonel. Several other retired army personnel and retired Intelligence Bureau officials were also named in the affair. Indian news papers had carried pictures of the Sanyasin sitting with the president of the BJP and the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Prithvi Raj Chauhan. Then came the startling revelation that the International General Secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), had donated money to Abhinav Bharat the organization that masterminded the September 29 Malegaon blast. The investigation was reaching such a stage that more top functionaries of Sangh Parivar (a general denomination for the various Hindu supremacist organizations) were likely to be named. Now, that Karkare is gone, and the nation's attention is turned elsewhere, the enquiry may face a slow death.

Friday, a Hindu colleague (who is a levelheaded moderate man himself) text messaged me saying, 'you people will make us terrorists'. He was suggesting that Muslims and Christians (the minorities in India) will make the majority Hindus terrorists! This is another fall out of India's 9/11. To put it simply, the position of minorities in India, especially Muslims has become more precarious. India will be communally more divided. It will only strengthen the Hindutva forces and their political wing, BJP. India is going to polls next year. These blasts are going to weaken the ruling Congress and strengthen the BJP.

And then the big international picture. The 'War on Terror' has come to India! Even though Indian Muslims had been demonized by the Hindutva forces in India, it had only a local impact. They were not part of the bigger war on Muslims perpetrated by the Israel-Neocon promoted George W. Bush regime. Diplomatically also, India kept a safe distance from the U.S. war on terror fearing the backlash of the strong domestic Muslim population. Now with the Mumbai terror attacks they have come under the radar of the 'War on Terror.' Now that the Obama regime is intending to spread this war into Pakistan and expand its operation in Afghanistan, India could be a willing strategic partner in the region.

And now to the question that is on everybody's mind. Who did this dastardly act? Although, this is not the topic of this article and also it is for the investigation agencies to decide, and as I don't want to engage in wild guesses I can suggest only this much, those forces who destroyed the twin towers in New York might be behind the Mumbai terror attacks too. Whoever benefitted from 9/11 will benefit from the Mumbai terror attack internationally and the Hindutva forces will benefit from it locally.

The Mumbai Drama
Zaid Hamid
"For the past many weeks, the biggest story in India was involvement of Indian Military Intelligence officers in orchestrated acts of terrorism against Muslims to create a Hindu-Muslim riot situation as well as to create a justification for war against Pakistan. Many Indian army officers were caught and Indian Police was forced to work deeper into finding more BJP, Bajrang Dal and RSS terrorists in Indian military and Intelligence setup."
http://www.daily.pk/politics/politicalnews/8352-the-mumbai-drama.html
My friend and colleague Zaid Hamid makes an excellent point here. As a Pakistani, I too find it intriguing that only days ago, for the first time, the reach and influence of indigenous Indian terror groups was being registered for the first time, with the arrest of two serving senior Indian army officers with links to Hindu terror groups involved in major terrorism acts; acts that were blamed on Muslims. And now suddenly we have a spectacular incident, too sophisticated for any foreigner to execute without massive facilitation and support base, where allegedly Muslim terrorists have left behind an ID card and a cell phone with a SIM card originating in a 'neighboring' country.
How convenient. They should have checked better since they could have also found an ISI staff card on one of the dead terrorists. There are close to 100 groups in India, of all shades, fighting the Indian state and people, including Hindu terrorist groups. India should get its own house in order before blaming 'neighbors'. This coming from a country where close to 600 Christians were killed just a couple of months back by Hindu groups, and 2500 Indian Muslims were burned alive in the 21st century's first incident of genocide, in 2002 and where Kashmiri, Dalit, and other minority women are raped everyday as part of Hindu religious oppression. Please read Zaid Hamid's anbalysis below and the attached report that exposes India's extremism. Ahmed Quraishi
For the past many weeks, the biggest story in India was involvement of Indian Military Intelligence officers in orchestrated acts of terrorism against Muslims to create a Hindu-Muslim riot situation as well as to create a justification for war against Pakistan. Many Indian army officers were caught and Indian Police was forced to work deeper into finding more BJP, Bajrang Dal and RSS terrorists in Indian military and Intelligence setup.

This story had created a serious panic in Indian military and their Fascist patrons in Hindu Zionists. Something had to be done to divert the attention of the world and Indian public from acts of terrorism by Hindu Hardliners. .....Then comes the Mumbai Massacre.
Even when the shootings were going on in hotels, Indian media and army were blaming Pakistan for the attacks. The game is clear and sinister. The Indian Intelligence have diverted the global attention towards another issue where they would blame Pakistan for this slaughter and use Barack Obama's doctrine of attacks on Pakistan to encircle Pakistan from both sides. It is such a shame that Pakistani media is not highlighting this issue and is only repeating what Indians want the world to see and believe.
There is no such group in India as Daccan Mujahideen.
In the coming days, Pakistan should prepare for a high risk threat response as Indians would go to any limit to open another front against Pakistan to divert the local and world attention from their internal fascist elements in Hindu Zionists and military intelligence. The enclosed document is a BT policy paper and explains the actual sinister game which Hindu fascists are trying to hide....

Who gains from Mumbai attacks?
Finian Cunningham
THE political reaction to the Mumbai terror attacks have a distinctly choreographed style about them. Within hours of the attacks... Indian officials were alleging that this was an act of Pakistani state-sponsored terrorism. Indian foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee said elements within Pakistan were involved in the well-organised assault, which brought the Mumbai financial district to a halt and was co-ordinated between two hotels, a Jewish centre, a café and the main railway station.
And Indian government officials have been quick to describe the attack as “India’s 9/11”. US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice is due to arrive later this week in a diplomatic show of solidarity between the US and India whose bilateral relations have been growing stronger of late.

Could the Mumbai attacks result in a new war between India and Pakistan? The countries have gone to war three times since their formation in 1948, mainly over the disputed northern territory of Kashmir. Both countries have nuclear arsenals and on several occasions have threatened each other with these weapons. A deterioration in Indian-Pakistani relations has severe implications for the Middle Eastern region.

The Pakistani government has made earnest efforts this week to dispute the allegations that there was any involvement in the Mumbai attacks. Pakistani ambassador to the UN Hasain Haqqani said “the government of Pakistan, the state of Pakistan and even the intelligence services are not directly involved”. Haqqani urged India to work with Pakistan to defeat the terrorism of “non-state groups”. He said it was illogical of India to blame Pakistan for the attacks on the basis that the militants who carried out the assault are understood to be an Islamic group. The 10 militants who carried out the attacks – nine of them killed by Indian security forces – are reported to belong to a little-know group called the Deccan Mujahideen. They are based in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. Indian press reports claim that the group has links to the pro-Pakistani Kashmiri separatist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba. It is widely believed that Lashkar-e-Taiba is funded and trained by Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). This is how India is linking Pakistan to the outrage in Mumbai – albeit without producing any supporting evidence. But how credible is this link?
Several commentators have dismissed the Indian claims as not standing up simply because Pakistan’s ISI is closely controlled by the Pentagon in its “war on terrorism” in Pakistan’s unstable North West Frontier and bordering Afghanistan. Michel Chossudovsky, author of America’s War on Terrorism, says: “The ISI is America's Trojan Horse, a de facto proxy of the CIA. Pakistani intelligence has, since the early 1980s, worked in close liaison with its US and British intelligence counterparts.” He says that the subordination of the ISI to the Pentagon is such that it is implausible that the ISI could operate in isolation.

revealing official policy document
Pakistan-U.S. Relations
Updated January 28, 2005
Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Congressional Research Service
http://www.fas.org/man/crs/IB94041.pdf

Obama may recast India-US relations
G Parthasarathy
http://www.dailypioneer.com/127981/Obama-may-recast-India-US-relations.h...
...As early as November 1999, as a presidential candidate, Mr Bush noted: "The coming century will see democratic India's arrival as a force in the world -- a changing economy in which three of its five wealthiest citizens are software entrepreneurs."As Pakistan was fading away from American radar screens, the terror strikes of 9/11 led to Gen Musharraf being told in no uncertain terms that the US expected Pakistan to provide it with basing, transit and intelligence facilities to wipe out the Taliban and Al Qaeda from Afghanistan. Pakistan was promised, in return, a resumption of military and economic assistance.

During his first years Mr Bush was prevented from doing anything significant for India by his pro-Pakistan Secretary of State Gen Colin Powell, though some moves were made to ease high-tech sanctions against India. Nevertheless, the most significant development of this period was that despite Gen Powell's reservations, Pakistan-based terrorist groups like the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed were declared international terrorist organisations, their assets seized and pressure mounted on Pakistan to rein in these groups. Shortly thereafter, a decision was taken to make frontline American weapon systems, including combat aircraft, available to India. It was also decided to 'decouple' American relations with India and Pakistan.

As strategic analyst Ashley Tellis, who was closely involved with the formulation of the Bush Administration's policies, notes, "US relations with each state (India and Pakistan) would be governed by an objective assessment of the intrinsic value of each country to US interests rather than by fears of how US relations with one would affect relations with the other." Second, "while the US would recognise that India is a country on the way to becoming a major Asian power", it would also recognise Pakistan as "a country in serious crisis" that must be assisted to achieve a "soft landing".

In pursuance of this policy, Mr Bush bluntly told his Pakistani hosts in Islamabad who wanted a nuclear deal similar to that with India: "Pakistan and India are different countries with different histories. So as we move forward, our strategy will take into account these well-known differences." An important change in American policy during the second Bush presidency was that whether it was the ethnic crisis in Sri Lanka, the role of the Maoists in Nepal, or the transition to democracy in Bangladesh, the Americans made it a point to consult closely to ascertain Indian perceptions.

Consultations with India also became a regular feature on developments within Pakistan and Afghanistan as terrorist violence escalated in the latter. Moreover, the last few years have seen a movement forward for cooperation in our space programme. Further, acquisition of major weapons systems for our armed forces from the US has commenced.

With the US now appearing headed for an Obama presidency, can one expect similar progress in India-US relations? Unlike Mr Bush, Mr Obama has not shown any personal interest in relations with India, though the Democratic Party Platform (manifesto) speaks of "deepening and widening our ties with democratic partners like India, in order to create a stable and prosperous Asia". Many from the Clinton camp, who were and remain ardent advocates of continuing nuclear sanctions against India, are today key Obama advisers. Apart from his initial negative role in the Senate on the nuclear deal issue, Mr Obama also has reservations on reprocessing of spent fuel. New Delhi would, therefore, be well-advised not to sign any binding contracts with American companies till such time contentious issues like nuclear fuel reserves and reprocessing of spent fuel are sorted out. The US is still to accord its concurrence to the reprocessing of spent fuel for the Tarapur Nuclear Power Plant. Moreover, New Delhi should be prepared for American moves for early ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and finalisation of a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty.
Mr Obama's advisers are said to favour measures that exclude India from Asian and international cooperative endeavours. They are reportedly advocating the development of a 'US-China-Japan' grid for cooperation in nuclear energy. While China and India are presently 'Outreach Partners' of the G 8, the Obama team reportedly favours granting full membership of the G 8 to China. While it remains to be seen if such measures are eventually adopted, India will have to indulge in some deft diplomacy with partners like France and Russia if an Obama Administration tilts towards China.

PR for 'soft power' U.S. / NGO 'PRO-DEMOCRACY /STRATEGIC NON-VIOLENCE' GANGS
...March 2004 public opinion survey by the Pew Center found that only 6% of Pakistan’s
believe the United States is sincere in its efforts to combat terrorism; half believe that the
United States is seeking to “dominate the world” and nearly two-thirds expressed a favorable
view of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. Most analysts contend that two December
2003 attempts to assassinate President Musharraf were carried out by Islamic militants
angered by Pakistan’s post-September 2001 policy shift. In January 2004 testimony before
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a senior U.S. expert opined that “Pakistan is
probably the most anti-American country in the world right now, ranging from the radical
Islamists on one side to the liberals and Westernized elites on the other side.”
Democratization and Human Rights
Democracy and Governance. There had been hopes that national elections in
October 2002 would reverse Pakistan’s historic trend toward unstable governance and
military interference in democratic institutions. Such hopes have been eroded by ensuing
developments, including President Musharraf’s imposition of major constitutional changes.
An October 2003 report from New York-based Human Rights Watch claimed that four years
of military rule had “led to serious human rights abuses.” In 2004, and for the eleventh
straight year, the nonpartisan Freedom House rated Pakistan as “not free” in the areas of
political rights and civil liberties. While praising Pakistan’s electoral exercises as moves in
the right direction, the United States has expressed concern that seemingly nondemocratic
developments may make the realization of true democracy in Pakistan more elusive. ...

Human Rights Problems. The U.S. State Department Pakistan Country Report on
Human Rights Practices 2003 determined that the Islamabad government’s record on human
rights “remained poor; although there were some improvements in a few areas, serious
problems remained.” Along with concerns about ongoing anti-democratic practices, the
report lists “acute” corruption, extrajudicial killings, lack of judicial independence, political
violence, terrorism, and “extremely poor” prison conditions among the serious problems.

Nuclear or Bioterror Attack on U.S. Likely by 2013, Panel
A commission study being briefed Tuesday by Vice President-elect Joe Biden suggests the Obama administration bolster efforts to counter and prepare for germ warfare by terrorists."Our margin of safety is shrinking, not growing," states the report, obtained by The Associated Press..
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,459927,00.html

"A Second 9/11": Integral Part of US Military Doctrine
by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10767

Keep the Change: The Empire Beat Goes On
Chris Floyd
...But hey, if the Afghan adventure goes up in smoke, there is always another prime target for the Bush-Obama-Gates "War on Terror": the American people. As the Washington Post reports, with astonishing sang-froid, the Terror Warriors plan to deploy 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States, to "help" local authorities with "domestic emergencies." And as many others have noted earlier, the definition of a "domestic emergency" requiring the use of combat troops ag ainst the American people is entirely up to the discretion of our old friend, the Unitary Executive -- soon to be appearing in a brand-new sepia-toned edition, but still packing the same authoritarian punch we've come to know and love so well. Now don't you feel safer already? Aren't you proud to be an American again? Isn't it great to see how things are changing?.... http://www.uruknet.de/?p=49226

NYT Editorial
11/16/08
A Military for a Dangerous New World
As president, Barack Obama will face the most daunting and complicated national security challenges in more than a generation — and he will inherit a military that is critically ill-equipped for the task.Troops and equipment are so overtaxed by President Bush’s disastrous Iraq war that the Pentagon does not have enough of either for the fight in Afghanistan, the war on terror’s front line, let alone to confront the next threats....
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/opinion/16Sun1.html?th=&emc=th&pagewan...

ONE BIG BIPARTISAN KILLER IMPERIALIST GANG
Read: heavy new 'soft' and 'hard' power U.S. aggression for world supremacy, [aka 'leadership'''america's rightful place in the world'] on the way
Obama Unveils His National Security Team
December 1, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama called for “a new dawn of American leadership” as he formally introduced his national security team, led by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton his nominee for secretary of state. “We will strengthen our capacity to defeat our enemies and support our friends,” Mr. Obama said... Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who will become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, “President-elect Obama has chosen a terrific national security team to protect our security and help restore America’s rightful place in the world.”... The foreign relations committee’s leading Republican, Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, described the president-elect’s choices as “excellent”...
When it comes to keeping our nation and our people safe, we are not Republicans and we are not Democrats: we are Americans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/us/politics/02obama.html?8au&emc=au
A Handpicked Team for a Foreign Policy Shift
In the vision of the coming Obama administration, an expanded corps of diplomats and aid workers would be engaged in preventing conflicts and rebuilding failed states around the world... it is unclear whether the financing would be shifted from the Pentagon; Mr. Obama has also committed to increasing the number of American combat troops... Denis McDonough, a senior Obama foreign policy adviser...: “This is not an experiment, but a pragmatic solution to a long-acknowledged problem,” he said. “During the campaign the then-senator invested a lot of time reaching out to retired military and also younger officers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan to draw on lessons learned... Mr. Gates, the former Central Intelligence Agency director and veteran of the cold war, who just months ago said it was “hard to imagine any circumstance” in which he would stay in his post at the Pentagon. Now he will do exactly that. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/us/politics/01policy.html?th&emc=th

Confronting the Terrorist Within
By Chris Hedges
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when viewed from the receiving end, are state-sponsored acts of terrorism. These wars defy every ethical and legal code that seek to determine when a nation can wage war, from Just War Theory to the statutes of international law largely put into place by the United States after World War II. These wars are criminal wars of aggression.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21367.htm

Analysis: Defense Policy Under Obama and Gates
SIZE OF U.S. MILITARY -- TO INCREASE AS PLANNED
By Reuters
Obama backed the Bush administration's program to increase size of U.S. military's stretched ground forces. He restated his commitment to a larger military at Monday's news conference.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21361.htm

OBAMA'S TEAM: LIFE OR DEATH FOR U.S. IMPERIALISM: NEO-CON & LIBERAL, 'HARD' & 'SOFT' POWER ['preemption'] MERGED
U.S. MILITARIZED & DOMINATED ['responsive, effective'] STATES PER BRZEZINSKI - SOROS NEOLIBERAL DOCTRINE
Op-Ed Columnist
Continuity We Can Believe In
By DAVID BROOKS
On Jan. 18, 2006, Condoleezza Rice delivered a policy address at Georgetown University in which she argued that the fundamental threats now come from weak and failed states, not enemy powers.In this new world, she continued, it is impossible to draw neat lines between security, democratization and development efforts. She called for a transformational diplomacy, in which State Department employees would do less negotiating and communiqué-writing. Instead, they’d be out in towns and villages doing broad campaign planning with military colleagues, strengthening local governments and implementing development projects.
Over the past year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has delivered a series of remarkable speeches echoing and advancing Rice’s themes. “In recent years, the lines separating war, peace, diplomacy and development have become more blurred and no longer fit the neat organizational charts of the 20th century,” he said in Washington in July. Gates does not talk about spreading democracy, at least in the short run. He talks about using integrated federal agencies to help locals improve the quality and responsiveness of governments in trouble spots around the world. He has developed a way of talking about security and foreign policy that is now the lingua franca in government and think-tank circles. It owes a lot to the lessons of counterinsurgency and uses phrases like “full spectrum operations” to describe multidisciplinary security and development campaigns....He has called for more spending on the State Department, foreign aid and a revitalized U.S. Information Agency. He’s spawned a flow of think-tank reports on how to marry hard and soft pre-emption...
The Bush administration began to implement these ideas, but in small and symbolic ways. President Bush called for a civilian corps to do nation-building. National Security Presidential Directive 44 laid out a framework so different agencies could coordinate foreign reconstruction and stabilization. The Millennium Challenge Account program [U.S./SOROS NGO umbrella] created a method for measuring effective governance. Actual progress was slow, but the ideas developed during the second Bush term have taken hold....
the actual foreign policy doctrine of the future will be hammered out in a bottom-up process as the U.S. and its allies use their varied tools to build government capacity in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, the Philippines and beyond...
During the campaign, Barack Obama embraced Gates’s language. During his press conference on Monday, he used all the right code words, speaking of integrating and rebalancing the nation’s foreign policy capacities. He nominated Hillary Clinton and James Jones, who have been champions of this approach, and retained Gates. Their cooperation on an integrated strategy might prevent some of the perennial feuding between the Pentagon, Foggy Bottom and the National Security Council.

As Stephen Flanagan of the Center for Strategic and International Studies notes, Obama’s challenge will be to actually implement the change. That would include increasing the size of the State Department, building a civilian corps that can do development in dangerous parts of the world, creating interagency nation-building institutions, helping local reformers build governing capacity in fragile places like Pakistan and the Palestinian territories and exporting American universities while importing more foreign students.
Given the events of the past years, the U.S. is not about to begin another explicit crusade to spread democracy. But decent, effective and responsive government would be a start.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/opinion/02brooks.html?th&emc=th

Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security
Washington Post
The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials...Last Monday, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ordered defense officials to review whether the military, Guard and reserves can respond adequately to domestic disasters. Gates gave commanders 25 days to propose changes and cost estimates. He cited the work of a congressionally chartered commission, which concluded in January that the Guard and reserve forces are not ready and that they lack equipment and training. Bert B. Tussing, director of homeland defense and security issues at the U.S. Army War College's Center for Strategic Leadership, said the new Pentagon approach "breaks the mold" by assigning an active-duty combat brigade to the Northern Command for the first time.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21360.htm

Yes, Netanyahu can work with Obama
Nov. 30, 2008
YULI EDELSTEIN , THE JERUSALEM POST
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1227702377803&pagename=JPost%...
The notion that a Likud victory in February will inevitably lead to friction with Washington is being batted around with increasing frequency. Yet this nasty bit of Kadima election propaganda has no basis in fact. On the contrary, Binyamin Netanyahu's different approach to our Mideast diplomatic and security challenges is likely to get an affable hearing in the new Obama administration.

Neocons Heart Obama
Kurt Nimmo, Infowars
http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=49220&s2=01
Max Boot just adores Barack Obama’s proposed national security team, especially the retention of Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense and General Jim Jones over at the NSC. "I have to admit that I am gobsmacked by these appointments, most of which could just as easily have come from a President McCain," Boot fawns. Max Boot makes well the argument that there is no difference between McCain and Obama, never mind millions of changelings who believe Obama stands for love, peace, and a new road not traveled by the Bushcons. Some of them actually believe Obama will bring the troops home, the poor deluded souls.
So, who is this Max Boot guy and why are his pronouncements on Obama and his nominations significant? Not only is Boot connected to the Project for the New American Century and its warmongering sister group, the American Enterprise Institute, he is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Max Boot is the poster child for the neocon slash neolib crossover, thus demonstrating there is little difference between these two camps, same as there is little difference between McCain and Obama, never mind the convoluted efforts of the corporate media to convince us otherwise during the election...
Naturally, most Obama changelings will support hands down these "humanitarian interventions," which are nothing more than criminal efforts to destroy Muslims and other "vassals" (as the neolib Brzezinski infamously called them) and render their cultures and societies impotent and unable to resist IMF and World Bank loan sharking operations and other bankster crimes against humanity.
Boot calls Susan Rice the "only outright leftist in the bunch," which is hilarious. Rice is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and is like Boot a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She worked at the National Security Council under Clinton. The Brookings Institution is a Rockefeller outfit and receives money from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Boeing, AT&T, Exxon Mobil, the Bank of America Foundation, General Dynamics, and other such leftists.

Max Boot loves Obama and his CFR handpicked crew because they will pick up where the neocons and Republicans left off. It will be a near seamless transition and an uninterrupted continuation of mass murder. Iran may be the next target, but more than likely the next target will be Pakistan, as the latest false flag operation in India has prepared the groundwork for Obama’s promised invasion or at minimum a saturation bombing campaign of Pakistan’s tribal region where the ghost of the former CIA asset Osama bin Laden lives."Only churlish partisans of both the left and the right can be unhappy with the emerging tenor of our nation’s new leadership," Boot writes for Commentary Magazine, the rag once edited by the neocon godfather Norman Podhoretz.
Partisans of the false left-right paradigm have nothing to do with it. Max Boot is simply attempting to deflect criticism of the incoming Obama clan. He really does not need to do this because in the months ahead all criticism of Obama will be strenuously denounced as racism, same as the neocons denounced any criticism of their murderous policies as antisemitism and antiamericanism (apparently the two are intimately connected). Obama may even have his own Civilian National Security Corps to deal with the churls.
Either way, Max Boot and the neocons couldn’t be happier with Obama than a pig wallowing in a certain malodorous substance…

Double Cover [1]: Nothing Can Ever Be The Same
Winter Patriot
The Mumbai terrorist attacks began Wednesday evening and I've been reading... and thinking hard ever since. The most noteworthy feature so far is the prevalence of unsubstantiated assertions... Now that we know the geniuses at the Pentagon conceived and implemented a worldwide program of fomenting terrorism, P20G, nothing can ever be the same... the Pentagon itself will create its own terrorist groups and "death squads." ... to justify U.S. military attacks on the countries where they were operating – attacks which, in the Pentagon's words, would put those nations' "sovereignty at risk." ... for the imposition of U.S. military rule anywhere in the world that American leaders desire.
According to the Department of Defense, it is fighting a war on terror which requires, or allows, it to perpetrate (or con others into perpetrating) acts of "terrorism" which can then be used as pretexts for war against the "terrorist groups" thus "exposed"...
Top-level officials in the Pentagon, the U.S. intelligence services and the Bush administration confirmed to [the New Yorker's Seymour] Hersh [in mid-January 2005] that the plan is going forward, under the direction of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld – just as we noted here in November 2002.
The covert units – including the Pentagon-funded terrorist groups and hit squads – will be operating outside all constraints of law and morality. "We're going to be riding with the bad boys," one insider told Hersh. Another likened it to the Reagan-Bush years: "Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador? We founded them and we financed them. The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want. And we aren't going to tell Congress about it."
This is not a new tactic. It has been used often and very successfully, by Americans both at home and abroad, and by foreign nationals both ancient and modern. But now, in post-9/11 America, it is official policy. http://www.uruknet.de/?p=4917

Into the Dark:
The Pentagon Plan to Provoke Terrorist Attacks “Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)”
Fomenting 'Civil War' in Iraq
by Chris Floyd
November 1, 2002
http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd1101.html
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/

Darkness Visible:
The Pentagon Plan to Foment Terrorism in Operation
From the Moscow Times, Jan. 25, 2005.
http://collectioncf72.blogspot.com/2005/04/darkness-visible-pentagon-pla...
http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/4

OBAMA VOWS UPSURGE OF 'THE GOOD WAR': GENOCIDE MADE-IN-AMERICA DEMOCRACY
VIDEO: VICTIMS OF URANIUM MUNITIONS USED BY THE US FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN
Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD
This documentary is the result of my trips to Afghanistan in 2005 and 2006, exposing the fraud "democracy" and the pain the uranium munitions have brought to Afghan people...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=49183

Military Analysis
Afghan Strategy Poses Stiff Challenge for Obama
WASHINGTON — One of the most difficult challenges President-elect Barack Obama’s national security team faces is Mr. Obama’s vow to send thousands of American troops to help defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan... Declaring Afghanistan to be the central front in the struggle against terrorism, Mr. Obama talked during the campaign of sending at least two more combat brigades to Afghanistan — in effect staking the reputation of his new national security team on the outcome of that war, which appears to be stalemated, at best. Mr. Obama and his aides have yet to outline a strategy for precisely how many reinforcements would be sent and how specifically they would be employed... the Pentagon is already planning to send more than 20,000 additional troops“Afghanistan may be the ‘good war,’ but it is also the harder war,” said David J. Kilcullen, a former officer in the Australian Army who recently left his job as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s senior adviser on counterinsurgency issues... Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has emphasized that Afghan troops, not American or NATO troops, should ultimately shoulder the burden of fighting the war...Experts caution that a troop increase in Afghanistan is unlikely to lead to the sort of turnaround seen in Iraq...
Military officers say that some general lessons can be carried over from the counterinsurgency operations in Iraq, like the paramount importance of protecting the population...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/world/asia/02strategy.html?th&emc=th

U.S. capitalism's only fix, securing global hegemony, requires more war against rivals and resistance to increase basis for capital accumulation and more intensive war against working class and oppressed peoples worldwide for hyper-exploitation.
DEPRESSION COMES OUT OF THE CLOSET
Announcement that the recession began in December '07 Stocks Plunge 9%
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/business/02markets.html?th&emc=th

the agent who broadcast U.S. plan and map to divide up, e.g. eliminate, Pakistan
Pakistanis Deny Any Role in the Attacks on Mumbai
By JANE PERLEZ and SALMAN MASOOD
The Pakistani government insisted Saturday that it had not been involved and pledged to take action against Pakistani-based militants if they were found to be implicated...
civilian leaders, including President Asif Ali Zardari, called for calm on Saturday, Pakistani security officials warned that they were preparing to move troops toward the border if need be. The security officials, speaking at a press briefing in which the ground rules prohibited identifying them by name, said that if the situation worsened, troops stationed in western Pakistan could be moved within 72 hours. “We’re ready for any contingency,” one security official said. The security officials also noted that such a move would be likely to upset the United States, because it would mean resources were being moved away from the fight against Islamic militants in the western areas bordering Afghanistan.

Even Mr. Qureshi, at his news conference, suggested that conflict could not be ruled out. “We should hope for the best, plan for the worst,” he said. At the center of the Pakistan’s concern is the suggestion by Indian officials that Lashkar-e-Taiba, which originated in Kashmir, was responsible for the Mumbai attacks. American intelligence and counterterrorism officials have also said there was mounting evidence that the group had been involved.

Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has a track record of attacks against India, has received training and support from Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, according to widespread intelligence reports. The United States has contended that Pakistan has turned a blind eye to Lashkar-e-Taiba training camps in Kashmir, the disputed Himalayan territory over which India and Pakistan have fought two wars. The group, along with Jaish-e-Muhammad, was banned in 2002 by Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who was president at the time, and the links between the ISI and the groups were sharply reduced, according to United States intelligence officials.But members of Lashkar-e-Taiba joined other groups and moved much of their activity from Kashmir to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, where the Taliban and Al Qaeda operate, Pakistani experts on the groups said....
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/world/asia/30pstan.html?th&emc=th

'soft' face of domination and psywar propaganda -- U.S. / Soros /OSI in Pakistan 'regime change'
The Real Musharaf
By Asma Jahangir
10 November, 2007
Washington Post
LAHORE, Pakistan...The Musharraf government has declared martial law to settle scores with lawyers and judges. Hundreds of innocent Pakistanis have been rounded up. Human rights activists, including women and senior citizens, have been beaten by police. Judges have been arrested and lawyers battered in their offices and the streets.
The international community is alarmed at Musharraf's actions, but Pakistanis expected this. The Bush administration had built up the general as moderate and benign, but the true face of this regime has been exposed. A balanced picture of Pakistan had begun to emerge in recent weeks. Thousands turned out to greet Benazir Bhutto upon her return last month; Pakistanis were progressive-minded enough to elect a female political leader years ago. Hundreds of progressive-minded lawyers have rallied for democratic values. I welcome Bhutto's call for the Pakistan People's Party to join the demonstrations.
Pakistan is threatened by Islamist militants, and our civil society suffers the worst of this creeping Talibanization. Woefully, the Musharraf regime is neither inclined to reverse this trend nor capable of doing so. No one has exact solutions, but there is virtual unanimity that Pakistan's political leadership must take charge and that the military must cooperate with an elected civilian government. Musharraf's promises to hold elections by Feb. 15 or to resign from the army are a red herring. He has pledged before to give up his uniform and failed to follow through. Any election held under these circumstances will not be free and will only put the crisis on hold. Furthermore, militarization will kill the spirit of the progressive forces while boosting the terrorists' morale. A transition to democracy is crucial, but unless freedom of the press and the judiciary's independence are restored, any changes will remain toothless. It will be difficult to put Pakistan on the path to democracy, but we must begin now, before it is too late.
Asma Jahangir, Pakistani lawyer, chairs the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and member of the international board of the Open Society Institute.

"It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true."
Henry Kissinger

"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media."
former CIA Director William Colby, 1977 Oct. Rolling Stone interview with Carl Bernstein

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
Joseph Goebbels

all U.S. propaganda all the time...like this is something new in mainstream media...
Press and "Psy Ops" to merge at NATO Afghan HQ
Nov 29, 2008
KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. general commanding NATO forces in Afghanistan has ordered a merger of the office that releases news with "Psy Ops," which deals with propaganda... U.S. General David McKiernan, the commander of 50,000 troops from more than 40 nations in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), ordered the combination of the Public Affairs Office (PAO), Information Operations and Psy Ops (Psychological Operations) from December 1, said a NATO official with detailed knowledge of the move. "This will totally undermine the credibility of the information released to the press and the public," said the official, who declined to be named...
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4AS0ZV20081129

[for more see Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers',Noah Shachtman March 31, 2008 http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/report-recruit.html
Ff_118_milblogs2_fA study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers." This 2006 report for the Joint Special Operations University, "Blogs and Military Information Strategy," . Also see compendium of related info. at "Information Warfare": part 2 of Fear & Terror Factory
http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/69 and http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/90 ]

LeT denies link to Mumbai terrorism
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\11\30\story_30-11-2008_pg1_5
Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LT) denied its involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks even as US media and intelligence speculated about the group’s possible role in the attacks...The New York Times reported on its website there was mounting evidence implicating the Kashmir-based LeT. Citing unnamed intelligence and counterterrorism officials, the newspaper said US intelligence agencies had not so far reached any firm conclusions about the perpetrators of the attacks. However, they said evidence gathered in the past two days pointed to LT or possibly another group based in Kashmir, the Jaish-e-Muhammad, according to the report. A US counterterrorism official told AFP the LT might have been responsible... some of the features of the attacks are consistent with the sorts of things that we have seen from Kashmiri groups in the past,” the official said

Officials and analysts in the region concoct U.S. cover out of thin air
Mumbai attacks ‘were a ploy to wreck Obama plan to isolate al-Qaeda’
The carnage may have been an attempt to put Pakistan and India at each other’s throats and kill US hopes for the region
Officials and analysts in the region [SIC] believe that last week’s atrocities were designed to provoke a crisis, or even a war, between the nuclear-armed neighbours, diverting Islamabad’s attention from extremism in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and thus relieving pressure on al-Qaeda, Taleban and other militants based there. One analyst described the attacks as a “pre-emptive strike” against Barack Obama’s strategy to put Pakistan and Afghanistan at the centre of US foreign policy. The United States and its allies now face a balancing act in supporting India’s efforts to investigate the Mumbai attacks, without jeopardizing Pakistan’s crucial support for the Nato campaign in Afghanistan. Pakistan warns west: we cannot fight al-Qaida if crisis escalates: The U.S. President elect has proposed increasing troop levels in Afghanistan and stepping up the pressure on Pakistan to attack militants on its territory. In exchange, he has suggested appointing an special envoy to help resolve Pakistan’s territorial dispute with India over Kashmir.
Pakistan’s government... has been rallying support in telephone calls to opposition politicians, as well as to officials in China, the United Arab Emirates and the EU.It has also made it clear that if India again masses troops on the border, Pakistani forces would be diverted away from the tribal areas, allowing militants there to focus on Afghanistan.“The next 48 hours are critical in determining how things unfold,” a top Pakistani security official told reporters. “We will not leave a single troop on the western border if we are threatened by India.” His warning, highlighting the international implications of the Mumbai attacks, was clearly designed to encourage the United States and its allies to temper India’s response. Intelligence officials say 100,000 troops will be taken from duties on Afghan border if India begins 'unwanted conflict'... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5263919.ece

SOME PAKISTAN - U.S. HISTORY
excerpts from this comprehensive, meticulously documented report
Political Destabilization in South and Central Asia: The Role of the CIA-ISI Terror Network
by Andrew G. Marshall
Global Research, September 17, 2008
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10242

Introduction
Recent terror attacks in New Delhi on September 13, 2008, raise the questions of who was responsible and for what reason these attacks occurred. Terror attacks in India are not a new phenomenon, however, in their recent past, they can be largely attributed to the actions, finances, training and resources of one organization: The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). These new bombings bare the same relationship with the ISI as has occurred in the past, and so it must be asked: what is the purpose of the ISI both in Central Asia as well as South Asia?
The ISI appears to play the role of a force for the destabilization of Central Asia, India and the Middle East. It acts as a Central Asian base of operations for the CIA and British Intelligence to carry out Anglo-American imperial aims.
India will be the main focus of this report, due to the escalation of organized terror and violence against it in the past few years. As India is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, after China, its northern neighbor which also borders Central Asian countries, its place in the New World Order is yet to be set in stone. Do western, and particularly Anglo-American elites allow India to grow as China, all the while attempting to co-opt their banking system...thus, making them controllable? Or, will India be destabilized and dismantled, as is the plan with the Middle East and Central Asia, in order to redraw borders to suit geopolitical imperial ambitions, creating a network of manageable territories feeding the Metropoles of the New World Order, specifically New York (Wall Street) and London (The City of London)?

The September 13, 2008 New Delhi Bombings: 9/13/08
The Bombings
On September 13, 2008, five blasts ripped through New Delhi within 45 minutes of each other, killing 21 people and injuring roughly 100 more. The Indian Mujahedin claimed responsibility for the bombings, sending emails to major Indian news organizations. In July, bombings took place in the western state of Gujarat, which killed 45 people, and in May in the city of Jaipur, which killed 61 people. The Indian Mujahedin also claimed responsibility for those attacks. This new wave of attacks across Indian cities was intended to "sow panic, inflict civilian casualties and, according to Indian officials, inflame tensions between Hindus and Muslims." National elections approaching in India, giving the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party the opportunity to criticize "the coalition government led by the Congress Party for its inability to prevent bombings like those of Saturday," making it a "major point of vulnerability for the incumbent administration."[1]

What is the Indian Mujahedin?
According to Indian police, the Indian Mujahedin (IM) is "an offshoot of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)."[2] In fact, it is "the hardline faction of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) that broke away in 2005 to protest against the diffidence of the moderate faction about declaring a full-scale war on India."[3] Reports also link the IM with the banned organizations, Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami and Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen.[4]

The Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) has reported ties with the Pakistani ISI, in having had cadres of its members being trained by the ISI to launch terror attacks in India. The ISI is also reported to have maintained contacts with SIMI in relation to their operatives traveling around the Middle East, specifically Saudi Arabia, to engage in fund raising. SIMI’s reorganization was also aided by the ISI, which led to the branching out of the hardline element, the Indian Mujahedin.[5]

Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami also has extensive ties with the ISI, as the group carried out terror attacks in Hyderabad in 2007, "at the instance of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence."[6] Many members of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami were trained at ISI camps in Pakistan, and it "receives patronage and support from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence." Significantly, "the group’s anti-India operations are planned by the ISI, mostly from the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka."[7]

Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen, the third terror network with extensive ties to the Indian Mujahedin, used to be known as the Harkat ul-Ansar. Harkat ul-Ansar was created by then-Pakistani General and future President Musharraf in the early 1990s, and was active in recruiting 200 Pakistanis to be trained by the ISI and sent to fight a jihad in Bosnia, "with the full knowledge and complicity of the British and American intelligence agencies." This group also has links to those individuals associated with financing 9/11, as well as being involved with the London 7/7/ bombings.[8] So all three terrorist groups associated with creating and having links with the Indian Mujahedin (IM) have extensive ties with the Pakistani ISI...

The ISI-CIA Islamic Terror Networks
The Mujahideen
The ISI has long established ties with terrorist networks in the region. The ISI was used as a conduit by the CIA in 1979 to finance and arm the Afghan Mujahideen in Afghanistan in the Afghan-Soviet War of 1979 to 1989. The Mujahideen then branched off, with the active financing and support of the ISI, into both Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.[12]
During the 1980s, many "officers from the ISI's Covert Action Division received training in the US and many covert action experts of the CIA were attached to the ISI to guide it in its operations against the Soviet troops by using the Afghan Mujahideen, Islamic fundamentalists of Pakistan and Arab volunteers." Further, the "CIA, through the ISI, promoted the smuggling of heroin into Afghanistan in order to make the Soviet troops heroin addicts Once the Soviet troops were withdrawn in 1988, these heroin smugglers started smuggling the drugs to the West, with the complicity of the ISI."[13]

Al-Qaeda and Yugoslavia
The ISI not only has had close ties to Al-Qaeda, but also to guerillas fighting in the disputed territory of Kashmir between India and Pakistan.[14] The ISI’s connections with Al-Qaeda were so extensive, that even on the night before 9/11, Osama bin Laden was in a hospital in Pakistan protected by Pakistani military and intelligence.[15] The ISI also supported the wars in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia throughout the 1990s, by training and sending militant Islamists into the regions to sow chaos and exacerbate ethnic tensions, leading to the break-up of Yugoslavia. All this was done with the tacit approval, support and complicity of British and American intelligence.[16] The ISI financed its covert terrorist support through the global drug trade, especially important in Afghanistan. The ISI also supported terrorist groups in Chechnya.[17]

The LeT
The Lashkar e Toiba (LeT) terrorist organization also works very closely with the ISI, and they work together in a "coordinated effort" in orchestrating terror attacks in Kashmir.[18] The LeT is "funded, armed and trained by the Inter-Services Intelligence," and is linked up with Al-Qaeda, and is "the most visible manifestation" of Al-Qaeda in India. The LeT "receives considerable financial, material and other forms of assistance from the Pakistan government, routed primarily through the ISI. The ISI is the main source of LeT's funding. Saudi Arabia also provides funds." The LeT also played a part in the ISI organized "Bosnian campaign against the Serbs," directed above the ISI by the CIA and British intelligence.[19]

The ISI and 9/11
The ISI may also have played a roll in 9/11 itself... its General was in Washington in the lead up to and during the 9/11 attacks, meeting with top intelligence, State Department and Congressional officials, including CIA Director George Tenet, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Senator Bob Graham, Representative Porter Goss, who would go on to become CIA director, and Joseph Biden, who is now Barack Obama’s running mate. The ISI’s General, while meeting with all these top US officials in foreign affairs and intelligence, also happened to be the money man behind 9/11, having wired $100,000 to the lead 9/11 hijacker, Mohammed Atta.[20]...

Covert War Against Iran
It was revealed by the London Telegraph in 2007 that the US, through the CIA, was funding and arming terrorist organizations to "sow chaos" inside Iran.[23] ABC News reported just over a month later that the terrorist group was a Pakistani militant group named Jundullah, which is based in the Baluchistan region of Pakistan, just across the border from Iran[24] Jundullah also has very close ties with Al-Qaeda.[25] US funds this Al-Qaeda-linked group, the funding is indirect, as it travels through Pakistan’s ISI.[26]
So clearly, the ISI has some troubling connections to Al-Qaeda, various other Islamic extremist groups, and British and American intelligence. Where the ISI is operational, so too, are Anglo-American ambitions....

The 2008 Indian Embassy Bombing in Kabul: 7/7/08
On July 7, 2008, the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan was bombed, killing 58 people and wounding 141. Two days after, it was reported that, "The Afghanistan government and Indian Intelligence Agencies have confirmed that some elements within the ISI in collaboration with the Taliban/Al Qaeda planned and executed the attack on the Indian embassy." Further, "the ISI Station Head in Kabul, is collaborating with the Taliban to destabilise India's strategic presence in Afghanistan."[38] The day after the attack, the Afghan Interior Ministry said that, "[it] was carried out in co-ordination and consultation with an active intelligence service in the region," and as the Financial Times reported, "Western diplomats in Islamabad warned that the Kabul bombing was likely to increase the distrust between Pakistan and Afghanistan and undermine Pakistan's relations with India, despite recent signs that a peace process between Islamabad and New Delhi was making some headway."[39]...

Conclusion
Ultimately, the benefactors of the Indian Embassy bombing in Kabul and other bombings, such as the recent New Delhi bombing in India, is not Pakistan, but the Anglo-Americans. Pakistan ultimately will collapse as a result of these actions being taken. 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. This connection between American and British intelligence and the ISI is also corroborated by their continued cooperation in the covert opium trade in Afghanistan, whose profits are funneled into the banks of Wall Street and the City of London.[53]

The goal in Pakistan is not to maintain stability, just as this is not the goal throughout the region of the Middle East and Central Asia. Recent events in Pakistan, such as the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, which has been linked to the ISI, should be viewed in the context as an active Anglo-American strategy of breaking up Pakistan, which will spread chaos through the region.[54]

Pakistan’s position as a strategic focal point cannot be underestimated. It borders India, Afghanistan, China and Iran. 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.[55]... It is not merely the Middle East that is the target, but Central Asia, specifically for its geographical relationship to the rising giants such as India and China. This also follows in line with Anglo-American strategies in destabilizing the Central European region, specifically the former Yugoslavia,[58] and more recently, Georgia, largely in an effort to target Russia.[59]...
Endnotes [...]
Andrew G. Marshall is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

The Pakistan connection
There is evidence of foreign intelligence backing for the 9/11 hijackers. Why is the US government so keen to cover it up?
Michael Meacher
guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 22 2004 00.01 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jul/22/usa.september11/print
Omar Sheikh, a British-born Islamist militant, is waiting to be hanged in Pakistan for a murder he almost certainly didn't commit - of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. Both the US government and Pearl's wife have since acknowledged that Sheikh was not responsible. Yet the Pakistani government is refusing to try other suspects newly implicated in Pearl's kidnap and murder for fear the evidence they produce in court might acquit Sheikh and reveal too much.Significantly, Sheikh is also the man who, on the instructions of General Mahmoud Ahmed, the then head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), wired $100,000 before the 9/11 attacks to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker. It is extraordinary that neither Ahmed nor Sheikh have been charged and brought to trial on this count. Why not?

Ahmed, the paymaster for the hijackers, was actually in Washington on 9/11, and had a series of pre-9/11 top-level meetings in the White House, the Pentagon, the national security council, and with George Tenet, then head of the CIA, and Marc Grossman, the under-secretary of state for political affairs. When Ahmed was exposed by the Wall Street Journal as having sent the money to the hijackers, he was forced to "retire" by President Pervez Musharraf. Why hasn't the US demanded that he be questioned and tried in court?

Another person who must know a great deal about what led up to 9/11 is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, allegedly arrested in Rawalpindi on March 1 2003. A joint Senate-House intelligence select committee inquiry in July 2003 stated: "KSM appears to be one of Bin Laden's most trusted lieutenants and was active in recruiting people to travel outside Afghanistan, including to the US, on behalf of Bin Laden." According to the report, the clear implication was that they would be engaged in planning terrorist-related activities. The report was sent from the CIA to the FBI, but neither agency apparently recognised the significance of a Bin Laden lieutenant sending terrorists to the US and asking them to establish contacts with colleagues already there. Yet the New York Times has since noted that "American officials said that KSM, once al-Qaida's top operational commander, personally executed Daniel Pearl ... but he was unlikely to be accused of the crime in an American criminal court because of the risk of divulging classified information". Indeed, he may never be brought to trial.

A fourth witness is Sibel Edmonds. She is a 33-year-old Turkish-American former FBI translator of intelligence, fluent in Farsi, the language spoken mainly in Iran and Afghanistan, who had top-secret security clearance. She tried to blow the whistle on the cover-up of intelligence that names some of the culprits who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks, but is now under two gagging orders that forbid her from testifying in court or mentioning the names of the people or the countries involved. She has been quoted as saying: "My translations of the 9/11 intercepts included [terrorist] money laundering, detailed and date-specific information ... if they were to do real investigations, we would see several significant high-level criminal prosecutions in this country [the US] ... and believe me, they will do everything to cover this up".

Furthermore, the trial in the US of Zacharias Moussaoui (allegedly the 20th hijacker) is in danger of collapse apparently because of "the CIA's reluctance to allow key lieutenants of Osama bin Laden to testify at the trial". Two of the alleged conspirators have already been set free in Germany for the same reason.

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digest insertion:

Moussaoui Received Classified Documents:
Washington Post Staff Writer
September 27, 2002
http://foi.missouri.edu/secretcourts/moussaoui.html

U.S. Gave Classified Secrets to Terror Suspect
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/27/national/27TERR.html?ex=1034180732&ei=...

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The FBI, illegally, continues to refuse the to release of their agent Robert Wright's 500-page manuscript Fatal Betrayals of the Intelligence Mission, and has even refused to turn the manuscript over to Senator Shelby, vice-chairman of the joint intelligence committee charged with investigating America's 9/11 intelligence failures. And the US government still refuses to declassify 28 secret pages of a recent report on 9/11.

It has been rumoured that Pearl was especially interested in any role played by the US in training or backing the ISI. Daniel Ellsberg, the former US defence department whistleblower who has accompanied Edmonds in court, has stated: "It seems to me quite plausible that Pakistan was quite involved in this ... To say Pakistan is, to me, to say CIA because ... it's hard to say that the ISI knew something that the CIA had no knowledge of." Ahmed's close relations with the CIA would seem to confirm this. For years the CIA used the ISI as a conduit to pump billions of dollars into militant Islamist groups in Afghanistan, before and after the Soviet invasion of 1979.

With CIA backing, the ISI has developed, since the early 1980s, into a parallel structure, a state within a state, with staff and informers estimated by some at 150,000. It wields enormous power over all aspects of government. The case of Ahmed confirms that parts of the ISI directly supported and financed al-Qaida, and it has long been established that the ISI has acted as go-between in intelligence operations on behalf of the CIA.

Senator Bob Graham, chairman of the Senate select committee on intelligence, has said: "I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted, not just in financing ... by a sovereign foreign government." In that context, Horst Ehmke, former coordinator of the West German secret services, observed: "Terrorists could not have carried out such an operation with four hijacked planes without the support of a secret service." That might give meaning to the reaction on 9/11 of Richard Clarke, the White House counter-terrorism chief, when he saw the passenger lists later on the day itself: "I was stunned ... that there were al-Qaida operatives on board using names that the FBI knew were al-Qaida." It was just that, as Dale Watson, head of counter-terrorism at the FBI told him, the "CIA forgot to tell us about them".
Michael Meacher is Labour MP for Oldham West and Royton. He was environment minister 1997-2003 massonm@parliament.uk

how NYT state propagandists told the story...

October 29, 2001
A NATION CHALLENGED: THE SPIES; Pakistani Intelligence Had Ties To Al Qaeda, U.S. Officials Say
By JAMES RISEN AND JUDITH MILLER
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E3D61630F93AA15753C1A...
The intelligence service of Pakistan, a crucial American ally in the war on terrorism, has had an indirect but longstanding relationship with Al Qaeda, turning a blind eye for years to the growing ties between Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, according to American officials.
The intelligence service even used Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan to train covert operatives for use in a war of terror against India, the Americans say.
The intelligence service, known as Inter-Services Intelligence, or I.S.I., also maintained direct links to guerrillas fighting in the disputed territory of Kashmir on Pakistan's border with India, the officials said....

The Kashmiri fighters, labeled a terrorist group by the State Department, are part of Pakistan's continuing efforts to put pressure on India in the Kashmir conflict. The I.S.I.'s reliance on Mr. bin Laden's camps for training came to light in August 1998, when the United States launched a cruise missile attack against Al Qaeda terrorist camps near Khost, Afghanistan, in response to the bombings of two American Embassies in East Africa. The casualties included several members of a Kashmiri militant group supported by Pakistan who were believed to be training in the Qaeda camps, American officials said.

Since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, the Pakistani government, led by Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has turned against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in favor of the United States. One element in that shift was General Musharraf's decision to oust the chief of the intelligence service, Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed, who may have been reluctant to join an American-led coalition against the Taliban government that his organization helped bring to power.

Still, American officials said the depth of support within elements of the I.S.I. for a war on the Taliban and Al Qaeda remained uncertain, and a former chief of the agency has become one of the most vocal critics of American policy in Pakistan. The former director general, Hameed Gul, complained in an interview with a Pakistani newspaper that the Bush administration was demanding that the agency be placed at the disposal of the Americans, as if it were a mercenary force. ''The I.S.I. is a national intelligence agency, whose potential and ouput should not be shared or rented out to other countries,'' Mr. Gul said.

American officials acknowledged that recent American policies toward Pakistan had fueled such attitudes. In the 1990's the Central Intelligence Agency failed to maintain the close ties it had developed with the I.S.I. in the American agency's covert action program to support the Afghan rebels fighting the Soviet army of occupation in the 1980's. The close personal relationships that had developed between C.I.A. and I.S.I. officials -- General Gul among them -- during the war against the Soviets withered away. ''After the Soviets were forced out of Afghanistan,'' said Shamshad Ahmad, Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations and a former foreign secretary, ''you left us in the lurch with all the problems stemming from the war: an influx of refugees, the drug and gun running, a Kalashnikov culture.''

In recent years, in fact, American officials said, the United States offered few incentives to the Pakistanis to end their relationship with the Taliban. Washington gave other issues, including continuing concerns about Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and its human rights record, much greater emphasis than the fight against terrorism. Those priorities were illustrated by the apathetic reaction within the United States government to a secret memorandum by the State Department's chief of counterterrorism in 1999 that called for a new approach to containing Mr. bin Laden. Written in the the wake of the bombings of two embassies in East Africa in 1998, the memorandum from Michael A. Sheehan, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, urged the Clinton administration to step up efforts to persuade Afghanistan and its neighbors to cut off financing to Mr. bin Laden and end the sanctuary and support being offered to Al Qaeda. Mr. Sheehan's memo outlined a series of actions the United States could take toward Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen to persuade them to help isolate Al Qaeda.
The document called Pakistan the key, and it suggested that the administration make terrorism the central issue in relations between Washington and Islamabad. The document also urged the administration to find ways to work with the countries to curb terrorist money laundering, and it recommended that the United States go public if any of the governments failed to cooperate. Mr. Sheehan's plan ''landed with a resounding thud,'' one former official recalled. ''He couldn't get anyone interested.'' As the threat from Al Qaeda and Mr. bin Laden grew and the United States began to press Pakistan harder to break its ties to the Taliban, the Pakistanis feigned cooperation but did little, current and former American officials say.

One former official said the C.I.A. ''fell for'' what amounted to a stalling tactic aimed at fending off political pressure. The C.I.A. equipped and financed a special commando unit that Pakistan had offered to create to capture Mr. bin Laden. ''But this was going nowhere,'' the former official said. ''The I.S.I. never intended to go after bin Laden. We got completely snookered.'' The C.I.A. declined to comment on its relationship with the Pakistani agency, saying it did not discuss its ties with foreign intelligence services. But a former senior Clinton administration official disagreed with the idea that the United States had had unrelaistic expectations about the commando proposal. ''There were some concerns about the penetration of the I.S.I., and a lot of uncertainty about whether it would work,'' the official said. ''But all of us, including the intelligence community, thought it was worth doing. What was there to lose?''

What is most remarkable about the tensions that have grown in recent years between the United States and Pakistan's security service is that it was one of the C.I.A.'s closest allies just over a decade ago. In the 1980's, when the C.I.A. mounted the largest covert action program in its history to support Afghan rebels against the Soviets, the Pakistani agency served as the critical link between the C.I.A. and the rebels at the front lines. While the C.I.A. supplied money and weapons, it was the I.S.I. that moved them into Afghanistan. The Americans relied almost entirely on the Pakistani service to allocate the weapons to the rebel leaders, and the senior C.I.A. officials involved developed close relations with their counterparts.
But when the Soviet Army finally pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, the C.I.A. ended its support for the Afghan rebels, the agency's relationship with the Pakistani agency was neglected and Washington began to complain more openly about the Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. By the early 1990's, officials of the Pakistani agency became resentful over the change in American policy. In 1990, just one year after the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan, Congress imposed sanctions on Pakistan for its nuclear program.
Faced with turmoil in post-Soviet Afghanistan -- which the United States had no interest in addressing in the early 1990's -- Pakistan moved in to support the Pashtun ethnic group in southern Afghanistan as it created the Taliban movement. With Pakistani support, the Taliban gradually took control of most of the country. By 1996, Mr. bin Laden, who had been in Afghanistan in the 1980's, helping to pay for Arab fighters to battle the Soviets, returned and quickly forged a close alliance with the Taliban.

American officials do not believe that the I.S.I. was ever directly involved with Mr. bin Laden and Al Qaeda in terrorist activites against the United States. But the Pakistani agency used Afghan terrorist training camps for its Kashmiri operations, and the Pakistani leadership failed to act as it watched the the relationship between Al Qaeda and the Taliban grow ever closer.

The I.S.I. did cooperate with the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. on several counterterrorism operations in the 1990's. Most notably, the Pakistanis were instrumental in the capture in Islamabad in 1995 of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, and the arrest in Pakistan in 1997 of Mir Aimal Kansi, who killed two C.I.A. employees on a shooting rampage outside C.I.A. headquarters in 1993. American officials now believe that the Pakistanis were finally starting to become alarmed in the last year or two by the extent to which the Taliban had been co-opted by Mr. bin Laden. Still, the I.S.I. did little to extricate itself from its relationship with the Taliban -- until Sept. 11. ''I think the Pakistanis realized as time went on that they had made a bad deal,'' one State Department official said. ''But they couldn't find an easy way out of it.''

GOOD 'DEMOCRATIC' TERRORISTS:
NO U.S. CONDEMNATION OR ACTION AGAINST ARMED, VIOLENT TERRORISTS OR LACK OF GOVT. SECURITY
NPR interviewed Brian Joseph with U.S. NED, co-sponsor with 'pro-democracy' of Soros NGOs in Sotheast Asia, to make the case for PAD/ Peoples Alliance for Democracy -- with no rude questions like how did they hold the country hostage for months without state interference
President GW Bush arriving in Thailand today on his 8 day visit to Asia.
http://www.waydownhere.com/2008/08/06/president-bush-thailand/

Thai Protesters to End Airport Blockades
BANGKOK — [People’s Alliance for Democracy] Antigovernment protesters declared an end on Tuesday to their debilitating weeklong blockade of Bangkok’s airports after Thailand’s high court disbanded the ruling party for electoral fraud and brought down the government... largely drawn from the elite and middle-class establishment, have been protesting for three years against leadership they judged to retain loyalty to Thaksin Shinawatra... Mr. Thaksin, whose six years of rule were clouded by accusations of corruption, drew his strength by empowering the rural poor, a divisive bid in a country with one of the world’s deepest divides between rich and poor. The ruling has added momentum to the protest movement’s hopes to dilute the hinterland’s rising electoral power... the protesters occupied the prime minister’s office for more than three months calling for the ouster of the government — said they would end all their blockades by Wednesday morning... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/world/asia/03thai.html?th&emc=th

A PAD spokesman said that the PAD will not leave Bangkok airports until the entire cabinet has left office.
http://www.waydownhere.com/2008/12/02/thailands-constitutional-court-dis...

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