"Details emerge on Pakistan hide-out raid; Militants tied to Mumbai" by Jane Perlez and Salman Masood, New York Times | December 9, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani and US officials confirmed some details yesterday of a Pakistani raid on a camp run by the militant group suspected of carrying out the Mumbai attacks, but reports of arrests of one of the group's leaders were contradictory....
Oh, no, not AGAIN!!!!
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Lashkar-e-Taiba was founded 20 years ago with the help of Pakistan's intelligence agencies as a proxy force to challenge Indian control of part of Muslim-dominated Kashmir.
US intelligence and counterterrorism officials told The New York Times that Pakistan's spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, has continued nurturing the group, even after 9/11, when the Pakistani government pledged to sever its ties with militant groups. While they say there is no hard evidence linking the ISI to the Mumbai attacks, investigators and intelligence officials have pointed to Lashkar as the likely culprit.
Translation: cover story in place! Now to WAR!!!!!!!!!
The Pakistani government has resisted the notion that Pakistani citizens may have been involved in the Mumbai attacks, and it has so far refused to hand over 20 criminal and terrorism suspects long demanded by the Indians. The raid Sunday appeared to be the first step by the Pakistanis that at least tacitly recognized the US and Indian claims.
What would you do if YOU were INNOCENT, huh?
And that is ALL the COVER STORY is: a "notion!"
Counterterrorism specialists familiar with the behavior of the Pakistani security services said there was a need for Pakistan to be seen to be doing something to alleviate pressure from the US and India, as well as to avert the possibility of an Indian military strike.
And they STILL MAY NOT -- or a U.S. ONE!!!
Still, the effectiveness of that action might be less than India or the United States would like, they said. In the past, Pakistan detained militants under pressure from the United States and Britain, and then quietly let them go, said Sajjan Gohel, director of the Asia-Pacific Foundation in London....
All part of the TERRORIST FOOLEYS!!!
Heck, some guys we have killed dozens of times!!!!
Nothing about PAKISTAN'S TORTURE CHAMBERS, huh?
