"Gordon Duff: Times Square Bombing Part of CIA False Flag Against Pakistan
CIA “SPY GAMES” WITH TALIBAN CITED AS SOURCE OF “TIME SQUARE FIZZLER”
“SMOKING GUN” SHOWING CIA COMPLICITY OFFERED
By Unattributed Intelligence Sources for Veterans Today
Foreword by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
Veterans Today realized some time ago that Pakistan would be the key to US security. Toward that end, we formed a partnership with Opinion-Maker (www.opinion-maker.org), one of the most influential publications in that country and one that takes courageous stands in a country new to democracy. Jeff Gates and I traveled to Pakistan this spring at the initiation of VT co-editor Raja Mujtaba. While in Pakistan, we were briefed by the highest levels of the military and intelligence communities in what were frank and open exchanges. These exchanges were open to a degree where considerable trust was shared and much of the information given could never be released. Those agreements related to the lives and safety of American and Pakistani soldiers in the field and were based on relationships of honor and trust. Those promises will be kept....
The reader can see truth if it is there or, as so often is the case, see truth but feel overwhelmed and helpless, knowing that America can be duplicitous and that nothing is as it seems. You are going to be told that the CIA is responsible for the Time Square bombing, knows as the “Time Square Fizzler.” Many suspected it, the CIA or the CIA with their constant companions in idiocy, the Israeli Mossad, a name that no official in Pakistan will mention to their paymasters in Washington for fear of offense.No mention of a 65 billion dollar per year drug trade is made either but I strongly suggest that, where appropriate, a texture, a backdrop be constructed that includes mercenary contractors, Mossad and RAW agents and a sea of drug cash. The story itself is simple, a tale of betrayal. Why would the US have an intelligence agency involved in such convoluted plots as seen below? What is the role of Israel or India? How much of what is going on is driven by so many other concerns, not just drugs but religion, jealousy and hate?
What is clear, or should be is that what is done, what has been done did not serve the security of the United States. Another agenda was there. Security services that Americans pay tens, even hundreds of billions of dollars per year to be protected by have, for decades, often answered to a different call, one related to power, criminalism and deceit. Our culture is filled with such stories, none will be unfamiliar.
We can pretend it is just movie. Keep telling yourself this.
And the story opens as follows:
The secret web of betrayal and treachery – The untold story of Khalid Khawaja, Hamid Mir, Mullah Barader and Faisal Shehzad
Any links between the three?? Seems impossible! But not in this high stakes State-sponsored dirty, sinister world of covert ops, double agents, sting operations and assassinations.
Lets start the story:
Americans have been trying to play a sinister game. They had penetrated into the ranks of Afghan Taliban especially into the Popalzai tribe and had cultivated a high level Afghan Taliban leader to be pitched against Mullah Umer. Basically, CIA was creating a “coup” within Taliban. Hold your breath, sit back and prepare yourself to know who this secret “CIA asset” within the Taliban was.. It was Mullah Barader! Yes, the same one captured in Karachi by ISI and US is desperate to have him.
The CIA plan was that Mullah Barader would be brought to Karachi and then ISI would be tipped to arrest him. Then US were to ask the custody of the Afghan leader and Pakistan government would hand over the Afghan Talib leader to US. The result would be catastrophic for Pakistan as all pro-Taliban elements would then condemn ISI and Pakistan as CIA puppets and a serious breach of trust and confidence would appear between Pakistani security establishment and Afghan Mujahideen. This would also humiliate army and ISI in front of the nation. CIA and US administration were extremely upset when ISI refused to hand over Mullah Barader to US, despite the pressure from Zardari mafia. ISI initially did not know the CIA game. They just refused to hand over Barader to US and insisted upon their own interrogation first. Unknowingly, ISI was seriously damaging the US game plan of staging a coup against Mullah Omar as well as against ISI. During the interrogation, the entire game became exposed to the ISI.
The Zardari clan was equally desperate to hand over Barader to US. Here, enters Khalid Khawaja!
Out of his love for Taliban, unknowingly that he is entering to a global game of espionage and betrayal, KK filed a petition into the SC taking a stay order against handing over of Mullah Barader to US. Now US were furious. KK had signed his death warrant and now was marked for death.
KK (Khalid Khawaja) had been going to North Waziristan and dealing with TTP, trying his best to start a reconciliation process between Pakistan and TTP. He was also aware of the fact that a “Lashkar Jhangvi” faction of TTP was opposed to these attempts at peace talks. These include Ilyas Kashmiri gang commonly called Punjabi Taliban. When KK was returning from talks with Hakim Ullah Mehsud, he was invited by Punjabi Taliban group and taken prisoner along with Col Imam and Asad Qureshi, the journalist.
Initially, TTP was unaware of KK and his party’s being taken prisoner by the Punjabi Taliban. Later, when Hakeem Ullah Mehsud came to know of the drama, he tried to secure the release of the men. But then, enters another treacherous character from Geo TV.
Hamid Mir, makes a call to the Punjabi Taliban and ask them not to release KK and instigates them to assassinate KK as a spy! Hamid Mir, talks to Punjabi Taliban (PT) in detail and this entire conversation is recored by the PT and the tape is taken to HakimUllah Mehsud. The allegations, charges and accusations against KK which were leveled by Hamid Mir were so severe that HakimUllah Mehsud also fell for the trap and allowed the execution of KK after making him read the confessional statement which was exactly what Hamid Mir had dictated to the PT. This tape is now available and is the most direct incriminating evidence against Hamid Mir. It is clear that Hamid Mir was launched by Americans to use his influence on the TTP and PT to get KK assassinated. It was done with precision, except for one blunder – the tape is now with Pakistani secret services.
The American desire is to wage a war in North Waziristan against Haqqani / Afghan Taliban networks. Pakistan army is not willing to do that. Americans tried to use Mullah Barader to create serious mistrust and hatred between Afghan Taliban and Pakistan army. That was failed when Barader was not handed over to US and Khalid Khawaja unknowingly became a major setback for the Americans when he took a court order against Barader’s extradition. Khalid was trapped and Hamid Mir was used to mislead TTP into assassinating KK. But in the end, the US plan of waging a war in North Waziristan fizzles out.
Now a backup plan was required to create reasons to initiate a war into North Waziristan. – Here enter Faisal Shehzad – a false flag operation to implicate Pakistani Taliban and then threaten and force Pakistan to “do more” in North Waziristan! Another Pakistani is arrested in Chile in the US embassy with traces of explosives on his luggage and clothes. More Pakistanis are being arrested and a massive media disinformation war is being launched that all global terrorism is emerging from Pakistani tribal pocket of North Waziristan and ISI/army is either hands and gloves with Taliban or nor willing to do more.
So now, you understand the tone, language and demeanor of Hillary and US media over Faisal Shehzad! Despite the fact that US army Generals have confirmed that Faisal had no links with anyone in FATA.
Pakistan was being setup for a possible geopolitical disaster. Allah protected Pakistan. US and Indians through their assets in Media and in terrorist groups continue to kick dust and deceive the world and Pakistani nation. But now, this time at least, their game is exposed.
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Jigs up, Globe!
"Detainee case questions grow; Friends vouch for 3 men held; investigators mum" by Jonathan Saltzman, Shelley Murphy, and Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | May 15, 2010
With federal investigators continuing to probe the attempted Times Square car bombing under a shroud of secrecy, friends and acquaintances of the three New England men arrested in the case provided a fuller picture of them yesterday.
A roommate of two Pakistani men detained in Greater Boston Thursday said he was stunned by their arrests and unaware of any links between them and the suspect in this month’s attempted attack.
“It was a shock for me; I never heard anything like this before,’’ Sayyed Jehan, 33, said at the Allston-Brighton Islamic Center, a mosque where he and one of the two roommates, Pir Khan, worshiped. “He’s a nice guy. From what I knew of him, there was nothing wrong with him.’’
Khan, a 43-year-old taxi driver who has lived with Jehan in Watertown for eight years, and Aftab Khan, a gas station employee in his 20s who moved in about six months ago, were taken into custody by federal authorities Thursday during a series of early morning raids across the Northeast.
Investigators are probing whether Pir and Aftab Khan — along with a third Pakistani man arrested in Maine, Mohammad Shafiq Rahman — had provided money to Faisal Shahzad, the man accused in the car bombing attempt. The three men have not been charged with any crime, but are being held on what authorities said were immigration violations.
Rahman, a 33-year-old computer programmer known as Shafiq to friends, worked for Artist & Craftsman Supply, a company with 15 stores from Portland, Maine, to Los Angeles, owner Larry Adlerstein said in a telephone interview.
The "terrorist" worked for a Jew?
Only a few days ago, Adlerstein said, Rahman surprised him by volunteering that he knew Shahzad, a Pakistani-born former financial analyst from Bridgeport, Conn., through the Pakistani community in that state.
Rahman told his boss he had not seen Shahzad in eight or nine years but was surprised by Shahzad’s arrest in the attempted May 1 bombing, because the suspect was “very meek’’ when he knew him, Adlerstein said.
A perfect patsy to be molded.
A handful of federal agents showed up at Adlerstein’s business in Portland around 9 a.m. Thursday and informed him that Rahman had been arrested. Adlerstein said he was upset because he likes Rahman and considers him a friend....
Not anymore.
US Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters in Washington Thursday that authorities believe there is evidence that the three men taken into custody had provided money to Shahzad. But he said they were trying to determine whether the men knew they were supplying funds for what the Obama administration describes as an act of terrorism aided and directed by the Pakistani Taliban....
PFFFFFFTTT!!!
It is unclear when the three men taken into the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement will appear in federal Immigration Court in Boston. Unlike criminal defendants, people detained for alleged immigration violations face administrative charges, and a veil of secrecy surrounds proceedings....
Another way immigration cases differ from criminal cases concerns the right to legal representation. In criminal cases, defendants have a constitutional right to a lawyer, and the government will appoint one if they cannot afford an attorney. In immigration cases, individuals taken into custody have no constitutional right to a lawyer if they cannot afford one, although some lawyers provide services free. It could not be determined whether the three men detained Thursday have hired lawyers.
Related: Clear the Court: Don't Deport
Clear the Court: Boning Immigrants
So you do get a lawyer but not medical care.
Boston lawyer Norman S. Zalkind, who recently represented a Pakistani imam in Sharon who was convicted in federal court of lying to immigration authorities in a bid to obtain a green card, said the government uses immigration charges to wrest information in terrorism investigations.
Here is what happens if you do not give it up:
What Happens When You Don't Cooperate With The FBI
That explains all the FBI INSTIGATORS at the heart of nearly every plot.
“It’s used as a tool because there are less rights available to the defendants,’’ he said.
For now; you are heading that way fast, Americans.
“These people may be totally innocent of anything other than some immigration violations, but this is a very easy way for [investigators] to get information.’’
Jehan said he has lived with Pir Khan in different apartments in Watertown, most recently the one on Waverley Avenue. He said Khan was a hard-working cab driver who fixed automobiles to make extra money, loved to cook, and avidly followed the
Jehan said Khan used to send money to a brother, Zabor, in Pakistan, but had no details.
“I didn’t know his private business,’’ Jehan said....
Several people attending Friday prayer services at the Allston-Brighton Islamic Center said they knew Pir by his nickname, Babu. They said he is a quiet man who often kept to himself.
“I just don’t believe the charges against him, but we’ll just have to wait,’’ said Rafek Yosafzai, president of the center.
Hassan Mohamed, an imam who preached at the services, told worshippers yesterday: “Islam means peace. Our concern is to do good deeds and to teach good children what to do, what not to do.’’
In Maine, Adlerstein said he was very concerned that Rahman was taken into custody. In the eight months Rahman has worked for him, he did excellent work developing a program that hooked up the business’s computers with those of vendors. He also socialized with co-workers and impressed Adlerstein with how many fish he caught at a retreat for managers on the Maryland shore in October.
“He fit right in,’’ Adlerstein said.
All the while being a secret "terrorist."
A few days ago, Adlerstein happened to mention all the news about the alleged bombing attempt by Shahzad in Times Square and concerns of terrorism.
“I said, ‘Shafiq, this must be hard for you, all this negative stuff going on about Pakistan,’ ’’ Adlerstein recalled. “He said, ‘Yes, it is hard.’ And he added as an aside, ‘I know the guy.’ ’’
Rahman told Adlerstein that when he saw him nearly a decade ago, Shahzad was a mild man who held no strong opinions. And then Rahman added, “Maybe that’s the personality type terrorists want to mold,’ ’’ according to Adlerstein.
You GETTING ALL THIS, America?
The federal agents did not tell Adlerstein where Rahman was arrested and simply said they were investigating the computer programmer for allegedly being in the United States illegally, said Adlerstein. They seized at least one computer at the business that Rahman had used, he said.
Nothing about "terrorism?"
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So how much more fertilizer will the Globe pour on this turd?
"Personal troubles fueled Times Sq. suspect’s anger; Shahzad grew more militant after college" by Andrea Elliott, New York Times | May 16, 2010
Big shovelful.
NEW YORK — By some measures, Faisal Shahzad — a Pakistani immigrant who was then 26 — seemed to be thriving in the West.
And he THREW IT ALL AWAY for Times Square ineptness?
He worked as a financial analyst at
The witness has rights.
He owned a gleaming new house in Shelton, Conn. His Pakistani-American wife would soon become pregnant with their first child.
Four years later, Shahzad stands accused of planting a car bomb in Times Square on a balmy spring evening. After his arrest two days later, on May 3, while trying to flee to Dubai, the few details that surfaced about his life echoed a familiar narrative about radicalization in the West: His anger toward his adopted country seemed to have grown in lockstep with his personal struggles. He had lost his home to foreclosure last year, at the same time he was showing signs of a profound, religiously infused sense of alienation.
Yes, I recognize the smell.
But
See?
the roots of Shahzad’s militancy appear to have sprouted long before, according to interviews with his relatives, friends, classmates, neighbors, colleagues, and government officials, as well as e-mail messages written by Shahzad that were obtained by The New York Times.
PFFFFFTTTTT!
That means the GOVERNMENT GAVE THEM to them!
His argument with American foreign policy grew after 9/11, even as he enjoyed America’s financial promise and expansive culture. He balanced these dueling emotions with an agility common among his Pakistani immigrant friends....
In April 2009, the same month Shahzad got his US citizenship, he sent an e-mail message to friends that revealed his militant ideology....
PFFFFFFT!!
But
Again with the but.
precisely what combination of influences — political, religious, and personal — drove Shahzad to violence remains a mystery, even to those close to him....
Readers!?!
As the son of a senior military officer -- Bahar ul-Haq, a retired vice marshal in the Pakistani Air Force.-- Shahzad was swaddled in privilege, tended to by chauffeurs, servants, and armed guards in an insular world made up almost exclusively of military families.
Oh, THIS STINKS, readers!
Shahzad’s household was a blend of strict and liberal; Haq, who spoke British-accented English and drank alcohol socially, was stern with his children and quick to anger, friends and former colleagues recalled. After graduating from high school, Shahzad enrolled in Greenwich University, a business school in Karachi known for drawing affluent underachievers with fancy cars who liked to party.
Oh, like Atta and the other pious "Al-CIA-Duh" hijackers?
Shahzad proved to be a mediocre student.
Yeah, he does seem like an idiot after this stunt.
But
AGAIN with the BUT!
what he lacked in academic prowess he made up for in ambition, friends recalled; he was determined to finish his degree in the United States....
Yeah, if the idiot just works hard enough anything is possible.
While the Pakistani students stuck together, playing cricket and collecting free meals at the campus mosque, Shahzad had a wider circle of friends and a fuller social calendar. He loved women, recalled a former classmate, and “could drink anyone under the table.’’ He showed little interest in Islam.
Oh, THIS COVER STORY is REALLY STARTING to STINK, I'm sorry!
While Shahzad seemed eager to carve out a life in his host country, his anger at America flared early. A friend recalled walking into Shahzad’s apartment a few days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to find him staring at news footage of the planes hitting the towers.
“They had it coming,’’ Shahzad said, according to one friend, a Pakistani-American.
Knowing what America had been up to in the world that is the same thing I dispassionately thought. It was not until later that I realized nothing is as it seems when it comes from the AmeriKan MSM.
The friend said Shahzad believed that Western countries had conspired to mistreat Muslims. “He would just go off,’’ said the friend, adding that he paid little heed to Shahzad’s eruptions, dismissing them as a product of his fierce Pashtun pride.
Don't you love how the truth always gets discredited in the agenda-pushing, war-promoting PoS Globe?
By late 2001, Shahzad seemed focused on his American future. Having graduated from the University of Bridgeport with a bachelor’s degree in computer applications and information systems, he was working as a clerk for Elizabeth Arden in Stamford. The following year, Shahzad began taking night courses at the University of Bridgeport’s business school.
In July 2004, Shahzad bought a gray, two-story house in Shelton, a neighborhood of well-tended flower beds and rambling older homes. He was preparing for marriage. His parents agreed on a suitable match: Huma Mian, a 23-year-old from Denver who had recently graduated with an accounting degree, and whose Pakistani-American father was a prominent oil industry engineer and economist.
On Dec. 25, 2004, they held a lavish wedding in Peshawar, Shahzad’s ancestral turf.
Shahzad’s “bachelor days’’ were behind him, the former classmate recalled. He was ready to settle down.Or not.
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But back to the neighbors:
"Pakistan’s consul general to visit 3 detained men" by Travis Andersen, Globe Staff | May 16, 2010
The Pakistan’s consul general in Boston plans to visit three Pakistani men detained this week in New England — two in Boston and one in Maine — for questioning in connection with the failed Times Square bombing plot.
Barry D. Hoffman said in a phone interview yesterday that a representative from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement told him the agency will arrange the visits, which he is entitled to by law. He said he plans to visit one of the men — Aftab Khan, who was arrested about 6 a.m. Thursday in Watertown — tomorrow at the Suffolk County jail in Boston.
Hoffman said that Khan, a man in his 20s, called his office seeking help after his arrest.
“He doesn’t know what to do, what’s supposed to happen,’’ Hoffman said, adding that he spoke with Khan for about five minutes and did not discuss any legal issues surrounding his case. “He sounded like a very frightened young fellow.’’ Hoffman said Khan told him he had never been in prison before.
Like Kafka!
Federal authorities arrested Khan’s roommate, Pir Khan, 43, Thursday about 7:30 a.m. as he drove his taxi toward a cab stand at an Allston hotel. Maine resident Mohammad Shafiq Rahman, 33, was arrested early Thursday in that state. The men are being held on immigration violations....
We know what that means.
Hoffman said Pir Khan is being held at the Plymouth County House of Correction. He said he does not know where Rahman is being held.... Hoffman said he felt that the raids in Watertown and Brookline, which were led by dozens of federal agents, were excessive, considering the violations the men are facing.
He HAS a POINT there!
And, he said, the afternoon press conference with Governor Deval Patrick and a slew of public safety officials led people to believe the men were “master criminals.’’
“It looked like they were arresting Osama bin Laden,’’ he said, adding that he will have to retract his criticism if authorities learn the men committed a serious crime.
And then they told us we were never under threat of harm, the lying, double-talking PoS.
And arresting ObL would be some FEAT.
Might want to start with this:
No kidding?
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More BS by the Glob:
"Possible ties to murky finance system examined" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | May 15, 2010
WASHINGTON — An informal money-exchange network known as “hawala’’ — a centuries-old system that operates outside conventional banking networks — is at the center of the investigation into three Pakistanis arrested Thursday in Massachusetts and Maine with alleged ties to the suspect in the failed Times Square bomb plot, law enforcement officials said yesterday.
The men, who were detained on immigration charges after several raids across the Northeast, were described by government officials as having funneled money to Pakistani-born Faisal Shahzad, who is in federal custody for trying to set off a car bomb earlier this month. The three men are being investigated for possibly using the hawala system to provide money that Shahzad used to finance the plot, the officials said yesterday.
But they can't audit the Fed?
But
There is THAT WORD AGAIN!
finding out where any such funds originated could prove exceedingly difficult, according to government officials and specialists in terrorist financing, who say that by its very nature hawala leaves few clues. The source of the transfer is often anonymous....
PFFFFFFFFTTT!!!
Hawala, which originates from the Arabic word for change or transform, is a practice that predates modern banking systems and has been around for centuries.
Related: The World's Best Banking System
Another reason the usurious, Zionist Jew bankers despise Muslims.
There are believed to be thousands of hawala brokers operating in the United States, and they are not necessarily operating outside US laws if they register with the US Department of Treasury. Many don’t, however, operating more like black-market, cash-based versions of
Relying on an informal network of brokers who use designated couriers, the networks are used to transfer money in relatively small amounts in and out of developing nations where modern financial systems are scarce, such as in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Transactions often can be completed within 24 hours and at a lower cost than a traditional wire transfer or bank draft that could take as long as a week and require official paperwork.
Hawaladars, as the brokers are known, often operate out of cash-intensive businesses such as restaurants, convenience stores, or gas stations, the officials said.
I will be scrutinizing everyone when I visit these places from now on.
Federal agents on Thursday searched a Brookline gas station where one of the three men was employed and an apartment in Watertown where two of them lived. They also conducted raids in New York and New Jersey. Officials said they are interested in searching for possible evidence of the financial transactions. Authorities have said that the owner of the gas station, Elias Audy, has not been implicated in any wrongdoing....
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence estimates that, worldwide, tens of billions of dollars change hands through hawala each year. But most hawala transactions are for legitimate purposes, officials say. For example, a Boston cab driver who wants to send a portion of his earnings home to his family in a remote village in Pakistan would contact a businessman in the local community who acts as a hawala broker. The broker is given the money along with a small handling fee and the address or cellphone number of his relative.
Then the hawaladar contacts one of his counterparts, usually by phone, near where the recipient lives and requests that the equivalent amount in the local currency be delivered the next day, according to specialists. The Pakistani broker at the point of origin will later settle the debt, leaving no identifying records of the customers on either end of the transaction.
“There is no paper trail,’’ said Rachel Ehrenfeld, the author of “Funding Evil’’ and director of the Economic Warfare Institute at the American Center for Democracy in New York.
People in Afghanistan and Pakistan are among the most prolific users of the hawala system to transfer money within the region or across the world, according to US officials. A new report by the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs estimates that only 3 percent of Afghanistan’s banking is done through the official banking system....
Who would want to go through an "official" looter?
The State Bank of Pakistan requires hawaladars to register as official foreign exchange dealers; most do not. And the illegal operators, according to the State Department, are most active in the cities of Karachi, which is known to be a center of terrorist activity, as well as Peshawar, near the border with Afghanistan....
Really?
I thought it was Washington, London, and Tel Aviv.
Special Agency James Casey, who formerly ran the Eurasia Section of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, says that despite the lack of records there are still ways to prosecute hawala brokers if they can be identified with the help of fellow members of the community....
Casey, who now runs the FBI’s Jacksonville, Fla., field office, said some transaction records may exist. “Many keep extensive documentation because the settling of accounts often takes place well into the future,’’ he said. “What investigators need to look for are unconventional records or ones kept in a language other than English.’’
At the same time, hawaladars often use food stamps, lottery tickets, and phone cards as alternate currency, possibly other clues for investigators, he said.
Still,
Sigh.
frequently even the hawala broker doesn’t know who originally requested the money transfer....
Watch for the CHARGES to be DROPPED at SOME POINT in the FUTURE!
This is the table-setting for such actions, readers.
--more--"Of course, the event has already reached mythic proportions in the Amurkn public's mind. Add this to 9/11 and the Christmas Day Bomber.
Now we have the Times Square bomber.
And now the agenda-pushing, PoS paper is trying to put out the fire they started?
PFFFFFFT!!
"Pakistani-Americans here fear they will be singled out; Tensions high with N.Y., local arrests" by David Abel, Globe Staff | May 15, 2010
Muneeza Nasrullah knows the fear of being a Muslim in the United States, having lived through the recriminations after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
With the arrests of Pakistanis following this month’s failed car bomb in New York City, the Pakistani-American woman worries that her community will be singled out. She says her niece has been ostracized for wearing a hijab and her nephew has been told that his middle initial, T, stands for terrorist....
Nasrullah’s family is one of an estimated 5,000 Pakistani-American families in New England, whose ranks include leading professionals and academics and who fear their hard-won community standing is at risk....
Nasrullah, a real estate agent from Grafton, worries whether she will have trouble traveling to Pakistan, adding that her husband is routinely pulled out of line and interrogated when they fly.
Aaaah, freedom, huh?
She also worries whether the donations she makes to her mosque could come back to haunt her one day.
That I would be worried about.
“I just hope innocent people don’t get swept up in this,’’ she said. “It keeps you on edge, because you don’t know if it could be you next.’’
Yup.
Muslim immigrants from the region of modern Pakistan began moving to the United States more than a century ago, most to work on farms and in the mining industries in the west.
Immigration surged after 1965 when the United States abolished per-country quotas for a new system that encouraged the immigration of people with higher skills.
The beginnings of our jobs and immigration crises, Americans.
By 2005, there were about 210,000 Pakistanis living in the United States, at least 25 percent in the New York metropolitan area, according to US Census data.
Including children born to Pakistani parents and those who come here for college, the total population is about 500,000 people of Pakistani descent, according to Pakistan’s embassy in Washington.
The US Census Bureau found Pakistanis earned about $6,000 more per household than the overall population and were better educated; about 31 percent of Pakistani Americans age 25 or older have college degrees, nearly twice the percentage for the general population.
But they are terrorists.
“There’s no question that Pakistanis have made a major contribution to this country,’’ said Barry D. Hoffman, consul general of Pakistan in New England. “There isn’t a major teaching hospital in this city that doesn’t have Pakistani doctors on the staff, and they work at the most important high tech companies in the region.’’
Treated by a terrorist?
Remember those inept British doctors and their car bombs?
Nadeem H. Kiani, a press attaché at Pakistan’s embassy in Washington, said Pakistanis are increasingly assimilated into the general population, but some find themselves being cast as “other’’ in recent years, as Americans have battled Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and the tribal lands of Pakistan and now face attacks at home.
Thanks, lying, war-promoting, agenda-pushing, Muslim-hating AmeriKn MSM!
Kiani cited a graphic making the rounds on the Internet, featuring a South Asian man sitting on a New York subway, with a caption reading: “If You See Something, Say Something. Even if You’re Pretty Sure He’s Just a Pakistani.’’
Yeah, I SAW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT ALREADY, MSM!
Related: Amid N.Y. inquiry, Muslims try to counter stereotypes
Don't worry; the Globe's editorial page will set things right:
"While unsettling, local arrests show steady response to terror
THURSDAY’S RAIDS in Watertown, Brookline, and around the country were understandably unsettling — a reminder of the ever-present threat of terrorism. But they are as much a reason for comfort as concern: The Justice Department is moving with all due speed to unravel the networks behind the attempted bombing of New York’s Times Square, and is exercising appropriate caution in refusing to prejudge the guilt of the two men who were taken into custody in the Boston area....
They are going to be released or deported.
The arrests stunned several communities — from Watertown to Brookline, where two gas stations owned by a well-respected Lebanese immigrant were raided by the FBI....
The reactions are reasonable, from fears of terrorism to fears of a wider conspiracy to fears of unjustified arrests. But
That word again.
nothing about these raids should shake the confidence of the people of Boston and New England. As Governor Patrick and local FBI officials have maintained, there is no evidence of a threat to the immediate area. Likewise, the care taken by Holder and the FBI should mitigate any concerns of local immigrant groups fearing overreach by authorities.
Yup, EVERYTHING is JUST FINE!
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, says the Globe!
In general, law enforcement agencies have performed well in the Shahzad case, and people here, in New York, and everywhere across the country are safer because of it.
Oh, so this WAS all a PIECE of AGENDA-PUSHING S***, huh?
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Related: Busted in Brookline
I would do more, readers; however, I just do not have the time right now.
Update: Breaking News: Al Qaeda Bus Bomber Found in New Hampshire
