پاکستاان لیجر | PAKISTAN LEDGER | پاکستاني کھاتا |Sept. 21, 08 | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی |
The Indian intelligence agencies are playing with fire in Afghanistan and Pakistan. If history is any example, the support of "ultras" (Indian word for ultra extremists) by India will surely backfire. Let us examine some historical lessons:
In the 50s and 60s, the USA wanted to reign in the dictator Batista of Cuba who was getting too big for his britches. The USA built contacts with a young Cuban student who was studying in the USA at the time. The Cuban student was one of his bitterest enemies of Batista. The CIA not only built contacts with him, they on the return to Cuba trained, funded and supported him against Batista. Fidel Castro, the student was very different than the Fidel the revolutionary. He not only turned agaisnt the USA, he brought in a revolution that plagued the entire South American Continent and is a pin for the USA even today. The Bolivar revolution is now carried on by Cuban protege's in Venezuela and other places.
In the 70s and 80s, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (the PLO) claimed to be the sole representatives of the Palestinian People. To deflate the PLO and its more violent cousins the PFLP, and its really violent cousin the PFLP-General Command, the Isreali army under devised a plan. General Sharon was the head of the Israeli Army. He planned to counterbalance the secular PLO with a religious organization. According to advanced Israeli analysis, by creating and supporting a shia organization they could not only reduce the power of the PLO but in doing so it will be able to control all of Lebanon. After all Ben Gurin wanted the Israeli border on the Litani river with Lebanon a vassal state of Isreal--its strategic depth to hold back Syria, Egypt and Iraq. The Israeli establishment supported the Hamas and Hizbullah movements, armed and trained and funded them. The policy worked for a sort period of time--Israel was actually successful in forcing Yasser Arafat out of Lebanon and exiled to Tunisia etc. He was brought back to the West bank incarcerated and eventually poisoned. However in trying to eliminate Arafat, Sharon lost Lebanon to the Hizbullah which has now become Israel's biggest enemy in the world. Much has been written about this in the Israeli press (Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, and Uri Avnery). Uri Avnery calls it the "goyem" (Jewish Frankenstein) when a clay statue of a monster is created, and it eventually comes and bites the hand that fed it and destroys the maker.
In the 80s, the USA accumulated millions of devoted and devout Muslim kids from around the world and used them as cannon fodder in Afghanistan. When the USSR was defeated, and Afghanistan liberated, these extremists turned on the USA and carried on attacks against them.
Today the India RAW is creating its own Frankensteins in Afghanistan. India is not only supporting the Karzai puppet regime in Kabul, it has also infiltrated many of the insurgent groups working in Afghanistan and Pakistan. New Delhi rains them, supplies them with arms and equipment. Bait Mehsud is one bad example of Indian mendacity. India is using the this Mehsud to attack soft targets in Pakistan.
The problem with the Indian strategy is that it has not worked in the past. India tried to build relations in another Afghan puppet--Babrak Karmal. Amid great rejoicing and platitudes he visited New Delhi to usher in a great Indo-Afghan era which would be used to control all of Central Asia and be a counterweight to China. A few weeks after his much heralded visit to New Delhi Mr. Karmal was riding a Soviet tank out of Kabul--never to be heard again. The New Delhi embassy remained closed for several years, and all Indian were sent packing out of Afghanistan. India's Afghan policy was as much a debacle as the Lord Curzon's On to the Oxus policy in yesteryear.
Today's India's policy of supporting the puppet regime in Afghanistan against the popular will in Afghanistan and India's policy or supporting terror groups in Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan will create a huge backlash against new Delhi.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Marriot's mystery Marines with strange steel boxes in Islamabad Pakistan
پاکستاان لیجر | PAKISTAN LEDGER | پاکستاني کھاتا |Sept. 23rd, 08 | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی |
Islamabad Pakistan Marriot: What was the US Marine role?
(http://rupeenews.com/2008/09/21/islamabad-pakistan-marriot-what-was-the-us-marine-role/)
Russian Military Analysts are reporting in the Kremlin today that the massive blast that caused 53 deaths at the Islamabad Marriott hotel in Pakistan was an operation conducted by India's foreign intelligence agency The Research and Analysis Wing [RAW] in an attempt to ‘decapitate’ Pakistan’s entire leadership. India had become ‘alarmed’ by the United States and Pakistan’s ISI plan...
Americans’ presence at Marriott not a secret: US embassy
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
By Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani authorities are trying to solve the riddle of US Marines and their mysterious steel cases, which were shifted to the Marriott Hotel four days before the hotel was reduced to ashes by the worst ever terrorist attack in the history of the federal capital.
These authorities want to ascertain if it was a routine exercise or part of some special mission that does not have the approval of the Government of Pakistan.
The US embassy insists the activity witnessed was a team of support personnel that often and routinely precede and/or accompany certain US officials. However, the government authorities probing the matter have already got most of the facts ascertained as mentioned in The News story on Sunday.
According to an official source, the authorities were told that mysterious activity of the US Marines took place around 12:00 midnight on 16 September. Already the government has got the information that several rooms on the fourth floor of the Marriott were in permanent use of the US authorities. Three of these rooms were said to be inter-connected and contained some intelligence equipment and other material allegedly used for espionage.
Sadruddin Hashwani, the owner of the Marriott, when approached denied that the Americans had any such presence in the hotel and said that like any such hotel in the world his guests included people of different nationalities. “Why focus on the Americans unnecessarily,” Hashwani wondered. He refuted that the US embassy had permanently hired several rooms in his hotel.
The US embassy spokesperson Lou Fintor, however, when asked if the US embassy had hired several rooms in the Marriott Hotel for years, said in his written reply that the US embassy has been a frequent customer of the Marriott Hotel for many years. On any given day, he said, there were employees of the American embassy and official American visitors staying at the hotel. “There is nothing unusual, secretive or ‘mysterious’ about this,” he said.
When asked if three of these permanently hired rooms were interconnected, Fintor said, “For our frequent visiting delegations, the embassy often rented adjoining rooms — as we often do in other hotels in Pakistan and in the world.”
Responding to unconfirmed reports that the US-rented rooms in the Marriott Hotel were being used by the CIA for espionage purposes, he said, “Unfortunately, far too many things have been ‘said’ that have absolutely no basis in fact. There is no truth whatsoever in allegations that covert activity was taking place on the part of the United States government.”
The spokesman said that these allegations are inaccurate, irresponsible, baseless and completely without any foundation whatsoever.
About the Marines and the steel cases which were reported to have been shifted to the hotel between the night of 16 and 17 September and whether these Marines and the suitcases were in the hotel on the day of the blast or evacuated before, he said, “A team of support personnel often and routinely precede and/or accompany certain US government officials. They often carry communication and office equipment required to support large delegations, such as high-level administration officials and members of the US Congress.”
He added that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would travel with communications equipment. “It is quite possible that some saw this communications equipment moved into the hotel. This equipment would leave with the CJCS. If the equipment was transported in full public view then obviously there was no attempt made to conceal its movement.”
Witnessed by many, including a PPP MNA and his friends, a US embassy’s truckload of steel boxes was unloaded and shifted inside the Marriott Hotel on September 16 midnight only after Mike Mullen, the US Admiral, had met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad and had already left. Both the main gates (the entrance and the exit) of the hotel were closed while no one except the US Marines was either allowed to go near the truck or get the steel boxes unloaded or shift them inside the hotel. These steel boxes were not being passed through the scanners installed at the entrance of the hotel’s lobby, and were reportedly shifted to the fourth and fifth floors of the Marriott.
The US embassy spokesman also confirmed that the Marriott rooms, which were in use of the US officials, had the communication and office equipment, which were transported for use by Admiral Mullen.
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A hotel employee, on condition of not being named, confided that the hotel management had been receiving threats from unknown persons for the last six months to get the US officials vacated from the hotel. However, Mr Hashwani when confronted said that there has been no threat received by the hotel management.
Islamabad Pakistan Marriot: What was the US Marine role?
(http://rupeenews.com/2008/09/21/islamabad-pakistan-marriot-what-was-the-us-marine-role/)
Russian Military Analysts are reporting in the Kremlin today that the massive blast that caused 53 deaths at the Islamabad Marriott hotel in Pakistan was an operation conducted by India's foreign intelligence agency The Research and Analysis Wing [RAW] in an attempt to ‘decapitate’ Pakistan’s entire leadership. India had become ‘alarmed’ by the United States and Pakistan’s ISI plan...
Americans’ presence at Marriott not a secret: US embassy
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
By Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani authorities are trying to solve the riddle of US Marines and their mysterious steel cases, which were shifted to the Marriott Hotel four days before the hotel was reduced to ashes by the worst ever terrorist attack in the history of the federal capital.
These authorities want to ascertain if it was a routine exercise or part of some special mission that does not have the approval of the Government of Pakistan.
The US embassy insists the activity witnessed was a team of support personnel that often and routinely precede and/or accompany certain US officials. However, the government authorities probing the matter have already got most of the facts ascertained as mentioned in The News story on Sunday.
According to an official source, the authorities were told that mysterious activity of the US Marines took place around 12:00 midnight on 16 September. Already the government has got the information that several rooms on the fourth floor of the Marriott were in permanent use of the US authorities. Three of these rooms were said to be inter-connected and contained some intelligence equipment and other material allegedly used for espionage.
Sadruddin Hashwani, the owner of the Marriott, when approached denied that the Americans had any such presence in the hotel and said that like any such hotel in the world his guests included people of different nationalities. “Why focus on the Americans unnecessarily,” Hashwani wondered. He refuted that the US embassy had permanently hired several rooms in his hotel.
The US embassy spokesperson Lou Fintor, however, when asked if the US embassy had hired several rooms in the Marriott Hotel for years, said in his written reply that the US embassy has been a frequent customer of the Marriott Hotel for many years. On any given day, he said, there were employees of the American embassy and official American visitors staying at the hotel. “There is nothing unusual, secretive or ‘mysterious’ about this,” he said.
When asked if three of these permanently hired rooms were interconnected, Fintor said, “For our frequent visiting delegations, the embassy often rented adjoining rooms — as we often do in other hotels in Pakistan and in the world.”
Responding to unconfirmed reports that the US-rented rooms in the Marriott Hotel were being used by the CIA for espionage purposes, he said, “Unfortunately, far too many things have been ‘said’ that have absolutely no basis in fact. There is no truth whatsoever in allegations that covert activity was taking place on the part of the United States government.”
The spokesman said that these allegations are inaccurate, irresponsible, baseless and completely without any foundation whatsoever.
About the Marines and the steel cases which were reported to have been shifted to the hotel between the night of 16 and 17 September and whether these Marines and the suitcases were in the hotel on the day of the blast or evacuated before, he said, “A team of support personnel often and routinely precede and/or accompany certain US government officials. They often carry communication and office equipment required to support large delegations, such as high-level administration officials and members of the US Congress.”
He added that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would travel with communications equipment. “It is quite possible that some saw this communications equipment moved into the hotel. This equipment would leave with the CJCS. If the equipment was transported in full public view then obviously there was no attempt made to conceal its movement.”
Witnessed by many, including a PPP MNA and his friends, a US embassy’s truckload of steel boxes was unloaded and shifted inside the Marriott Hotel on September 16 midnight only after Mike Mullen, the US Admiral, had met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad and had already left. Both the main gates (the entrance and the exit) of the hotel were closed while no one except the US Marines was either allowed to go near the truck or get the steel boxes unloaded or shift them inside the hotel. These steel boxes were not being passed through the scanners installed at the entrance of the hotel’s lobby, and were reportedly shifted to the fourth and fifth floors of the Marriott.
The US embassy spokesman also confirmed that the Marriott rooms, which were in use of the US officials, had the communication and office equipment, which were transported for use by Admiral Mullen.
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A hotel employee, on condition of not being named, confided that the hotel management had been receiving threats from unknown persons for the last six months to get the US officials vacated from the hotel. However, Mr Hashwani when confronted said that there has been no threat received by the hotel management.
terror group with moniker of Fidayeen an Indian proxy
پاکستاان لیجر | PAKISTAN LEDGER | پاکستاني کھاتا |Sept. 23rd, 08 | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی |
Fidayeen-e-Islam’ claims Islamabad bombing
DUBAI: A shadowy group, calling itself ‘Fidayeen-e-Islam’ has claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing of Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel in a telephone call to Al-Arabiya television, the channel said on Monday. The Dubai-based station’s correspondent in Islamabad said he received a text message on his mobile phone showing a telephone number, which he called and then heard a recording in which the group admitted launching Saturday’s attack. Meanwhile, a United States counterterrorism official said al Qaeda or an affiliate group remain prime suspects in the Marriott Hotel bombing, despite a responsibility claim by a little-known group. “The investigation is ongoing, and we can’t corroborate this group’s claim.” agencies
Fidayeen-e-Islam’ claims Islamabad bombing
DUBAI: A shadowy group, calling itself ‘Fidayeen-e-Islam’ has claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing of Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel in a telephone call to Al-Arabiya television, the channel said on Monday. The Dubai-based station’s correspondent in Islamabad said he received a text message on his mobile phone showing a telephone number, which he called and then heard a recording in which the group admitted launching Saturday’s attack. Meanwhile, a United States counterterrorism official said al Qaeda or an affiliate group remain prime suspects in the Marriott Hotel bombing, despite a responsibility claim by a little-known group. “The investigation is ongoing, and we can’t corroborate this group’s claim.” agencies
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