Now let my war-promoting media make the case:
"Warrants out for 5 Pakistanis in India attacks" by Associated Press | October 8, 2010
NEW DELHI — Interpol notified its members yesterday that India has issued arrest warrants for five Pakistani citizens, including two army officers, for alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, an official said.
India asked Interpol to issue the so-called red corner notices for the five Pakistanis, said R.K. Gaur, a spokesman for India’s Central Bureau of Investigation.
The notices follow an inquiry by India’s National Investigation Agency into the role of David Coleman Headley, an American who pleaded guilty in the United States in March to participating in the planning of the attacks, which killed 166 people.
Wait until you see how the AmeriKan government handled his case.
The five Pakistanis wanted by India are Major Sameer Ali, Major Iqbal, Illyas Kashmiri, Abdur Rehman Hashim, and Sajid Majid, Gaur said.
Iqbal was Headley’s handler who arranged funds and training for him, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. It said Ali was also named by Headley....
In July, G.K. Pillai, Indian home secretary, accused Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency of orchestrating the Mumbai attacks. Pillai said the information, which Pakistan has denied, came from Headley’s interrogation.
Was he tortured?
In May, a court in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, convicted and sentenced to death Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving gunman from the attacks. He has appealed his death sentence in the Mumbai High Court.
See: No Mercy For Mumbai Patsy
Kasab was one of 10 Pakistanis who attacked two luxury hotels, a Jewish center, and a train station in India’s financial capital in November 2008.
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It turns out that U.S. INTELLIGENCE was WARNED -- and DID NOTHING!
"Wives of a Mumbai attack plotter warned US of his terror ties" by Jane Perlez and Eric Schmitt, New York Times | October 17, 2010
NEW YORK — Less than a year before terrorists killed at least 163 people in Mumbai, India, a young Moroccan woman went to American authorities in Pakistan to warn them that she believed her husband, David Headley, was plotting just such an attack.
It was not the first time US law enforcement was warned about Headley, a longtime informer in Pakistan for the US Drug Enforcement Administration whose roots in Pakistan and the United States allowed him to move easily in both worlds.
Once again we have an AmeriKan government INSTIGATOR at the BOTTOM of the "terror" plots!
Two years earlier, in 2005, an American woman who had also been married to the 50-year-old Headley told federal investigators in New York that she believed that he was a member of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, created and sponsored by Pakistan’s intelligence agency.
Hey, look, our CIA created "Al-CIA-Duh," so....
The GOVERNMENT KNEW for YEARS and STILL ALLOWED him to OPERATE?
Meanwhile, they are THROWING TAXI DRIVERS in JAIL for IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS!
Despite those warnings by two of his three wives, Headley roamed far and wide on Lashkar’s behalf between 2002 and 2009, receiving small arms and countersurveillance training, scouting targets for attack, and building a network of connections that extended from Chicago to Pakistan’s lawless frontier.
So WHO WAS his U.S. CASE OFFICER?
Then in 2008, it was his handiwork as chief reconnaissance scout that set the stage for Lashkar’s strike against Mumbai, an assault intended to provoke a conflict between nuclear-armed adversaries Pakistan and India.
It is unclear what US officials did with the warnings they had gotten about Headley — who has pleaded guilty to the crimes and is cooperating with authorities.
No, it IS CLEAR what they did: they IGNORED THEM!
A senior administration official said yesterday, “We took the information, passed it around to the relevant agencies, and what came back was that the FBI had a file on Headley, but it didn’t link him to terrorism.’’
Translation: He was WORKING for U.S. INTELLIGENCE, folks!
Headley’s ability to hide for years in plain sight has rekindled concerns that the Mumbai bombings are another instance of a communications breakdown among the agencies involved in combating terrorism.
Try ANOTHER FALSE FLAG INSIDE JOB!
It also raises the question of whether US officials were reluctant to dig deeper into Headley’s movements because he had been an informant for the DEA.
I actually get SICK of the LAME-ASS EXCUSES and COVER-UPS!
More significantly, it may provide another instance of American reluctance to pursue evidence that officials in Pakistan, its major ally in the war against Al Qaeda, were involved in planning an attack that killed six Americans.
Oh, right! The SAME WAY the NEWSPAPERS are reluctant to look into ISRAELI INVOLVEMENT in 9/11?
The Pakistani government has insisted that its spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, a close partner of the CIA, did not know of the attack.
They have assisted the CIA so often -- and then they are surprised they are getting tagged?
State Department officials and the FBI said that they investigated the warnings about Headley, but that they could not confirm any connections between him and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
PFFFFFFFFFTT!!
And DEA officials said they ended their association with him at the end of 2001, at least two months before Headley reportedly received terrorist training.
Whatever, government.
The investigative news organization ProPublica reported the 2005 warning from Headley’s American ex-wife on its website and in yesterday’s issue of The Washington Post. By ProPublica’s account, she told authorities that Headley boasted about working as an American informant while he trained with Lashkar.
He was LOUD ABOUT IT, and yet the government couldn't find any connections?
They are COVERING UP the CONNECTIONS because THEY WERE the CONNECTION!
US authorities also heard from his Moroccan wife that he was involved in a terrorist group that was actively plotting against targets in India.
And yet they swoop down when FBI instigators set-up a bunch of mentally-challenged dupes before a fart poot goes off!
What is WRONG with THIS PICTURE, huh?
Beyond these warnings, interviews illustrate his longstanding connections to American law enforcement and the ISI. Among the findings:
■ An officer of the Pakistani spy agency handed Headley $25,000 in early 2006 to open an office and set up a house in Mumbai to be used as a front during his scouting trips, according to Headley’s testimony to Indian investigators in Chicago in June.
■ The ISI officer who gave Headley the cash had served as the supervisor of Lashkar’s planning, helping to arrange a communications system for the attack, and overseeing a model of the Taj Mahal hotel, so that gunmen could find their way around, according to Headley’s testimony to the Indians.
We call them newspapers here.
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NEW DELHI — An American convicted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks said Pakistan’s main spy agency was deeply involved in planning that strike, monitoring the preparations and providing funding and advice to the attackers, according to an Indian government summary of his interrogation.
The report gives the strongest indication of the involvement of Pakistani authorities in the attack, which killed 166 people, paralyzed India’s business capital, and froze peace efforts between Pakistan and India.
Under questioning by Indian officials, David Headley painted a detailed picture of how intertwined Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, was with the Lashkar-e-Taiba group accused of carrying out the attack, according to the report.
Headley, 50, from Chicago, was born Daood Gilani to a Pakistani father and an American mother. In March, he pleaded guilty in US federal court to laying the groundwork for the Mumbai attack as well as preparing for violence in Denmark.
According to the report, Headley said the Pakistani spy agency provided individual handlers, many of them senior officers, for all the top members of Lashkar-e-Taiba and gave them direction and money to carry out reconnaissance of prospective targets.
This before or after the torture?
The group’s chief military commander, Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi, was close to the director general of the spy agency, Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the report said.
“According to Headley, every big action of LeT is done in close coordination with ISI,’’ the report said, using a common abbreviation for Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Just as the CIA calls the shots for "Al-CIA-Duh."
A senior intelligence official in Pakistan said the allegations in the Indian report were baseless. He spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media on the record.
“These are allegations we’ve heard before,’’ Mark Toner, US State Department spokesman, told reporters in Washington. “We believe the government of Pakistan has pledged its cooperation in bringing the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to justice. And we fully expect that these pledges of cooperation are going to be carried out.’’
“Pakistan itself has been, obviously, greatly touched by extremist violence, and it is also in an existential struggle with these groups. So we believe Pakistan understands the threat and is committed to working cooperatively,’’ Toner said.
Now just make the U.S. double agent disappear from the paper, please.
ISI has long been suspected of links to terror groups. The spy agency is believed to have nurtured Lashkar-e-Taiba to attack Indian security forces in disputed Kashmir.
Kashmir? Haven't read about them in a while.
Related: India Creates Concentration Camp in Kashmir
Yeah, not since then.
Also see: Arundhati Roy Destroys India’s Kashmir Position
Indian Extremists Endangering The Life Of Arundhati Roy Over Kashmir Remarks
Never saw a word in my AmeriKan newspaper.
Could Arundhati have become a 9/11 Truther. too?
It sure would explain the attacks on her.
US officials have accused ISI of working with the Taliban to coordinate attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Related:
"The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban's reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997."
What?
In July, India’s home secretary, G.K. Pillai, caused a ruckus ahead of high-level India-Pakistan talks when he accused the spy agency of orchestrating the Mumbai attacks. Pillai cited Headley as the source of the information.
According to the report on the interrogation, which was marked secret and obtained by the Associated Press late Monday, Headley said the spy agency was having problems with militant groups in Pakistan, because fighters based in Kashmir were beginning to join Taliban groups fighting along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
That means it was given to them.
Launching a huge attack on India would prevent further defections from these groups by raising their morale and would move the “theater of violence’’ from Pakistan to India, the report said.
In Chicago where he is being held, Headley spoke to Indian investigators for 34 hours in June about the planning behind the 60-hour siege by 10 Pakistani militants on two luxury hotels, a Jewish center, and a busy train station.
Headley described for Indian officials a Lashkar-e-Taiba organization that was filled with former Pakistani Army officers and veterans from the conflicts with India over Kashmir, the report said.
At one Lashkar camp, Headley was trained by a Pakistani Army instructor, he said, according to the report.
Why should we -- or anyone -- believe a known liar?
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Smells more and more like a s*** stream of war-promoting propaganda.
And when you do look up, Pakistanis?
"Reform effort by Pakistan is hailed" by Associated Press | October 16, 2010
BRUSSELS — Meanwhile, suspected US unmanned aircraft launched two missiles at a vehicle in the Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border yesterday, killing three people, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
A militant attack on an Army checkpoint killed five Pakistani soldiers, other officials said.
In an early morning attack in South Waziristan yesterday, five Pakistani soldiers were killed when militants sprayed an army checkpoint with gunfire, two other intelligence officials said.
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And Washington can NOT make it ANY CLEARER:
"Gunmen kill 16 in Pakistan market; Karachi plagued by violence linked to political parties" by Zarar Khan, Associated Press | October 20, 2010
ISLAMABAD — The United States and Pakistan will try in high-level talks this week to smooth tensions over American military incursions across the border from Afghanistan and allegations that Islamabad is not doing enough to target Taliban militants.
Washington has signaled its patience is running thin with Pakistan’s reluctance to fight insurgents, a stance that has not changed despite billions in American aid.
I thought we got rid of George Bush.
“We have been pressing Pakistan to take more aggressive action inside its borders to deal with a threat that is of concern to us, a concern to the region, and a threat to Pakistan itself,’’ P.J. Crowley, US State Department spokesman, said Monday. “But clearly, this is an ongoing threat and more needs to be done.’’
The Obama administration has tried to enlist greater Pakistani cooperation by stressing it is not just interested in counterterrorism but is willing to provide long-term aid to strengthen the country’s economy and improve the living standards of its largely poor population.
You could do that anyway so why the extortion and blackmail?
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Maybe a bribe will work:
"$2b in military aid set for Pakistan; Clinton details plan during talks in Washington" by Matthew Lee, Associated Press | October 23, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration laid out a five-year, $2 billion military aid package for Pakistan yesterday as it pressed the Islamabad government to intensify its fight against extremists there and in neighboring Afghanistan.
I'm glad you are not running deficits or bankrupt, American taxpayers. I'm glad jobs are plentiful and homes are not under record foreclosures, etc.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the plan during the latest round of US-Pakistani strategic dialogue. The administration will ask Congress for $2 billion for Pakistan to purchase US-made arms, ammunition, and accessories from 2012 to 2016, Clinton said.
Oh it is ALL ABOUT WAR PROFITEERING!
The aid comes even as the administration is withholding assistance to certain individual Pakistani military units suspected of human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings and torture.
As if the U.S. had any credibility on the issues.
And, it comes amid ongoing concerns that Pakistan is not fully committed to fighting extremists along its border with Afghanistan.
And OUR PATIENCE is RUNNING THIN!
The new aid replaces a similar but less valuable package that began in 2005 and expired on Oct. 1. It will complement $7.5 billion in civilian assistance the administration has already committed to Pakistan over five years, some of which has been diverted to help the country deal with devastating floods.
Yeah, right, the floods: The Final Cost of the Pakistan Floods
$10 billion ought to just about cover it.
The United States hopes the announcement, made by Clinton with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at her side, will reassure Pakistan of the long-term US commitment to Pakistan’s military needs. The money also should help Pakistan bolster its efforts to go after Taliban and Al Qaeda affiliates on its territory.
Clinton sought to downplay US worries about Pakistan’s commitment to the war on terrorism. She recognized the sacrifices of its soldiers and said that “the United States has no stronger partner when it comes to counterterrorism efforts against the extremists who threaten us both than Pakistan.’’
Someone BLINK, did they?
Qureshi said Pakistan appreciated the assistance, but he expressed annoyance at the lingering doubts.
He said nearly 30,000 Pakistani civilians have died in terrorist attacks and nearly 7,000 soldiers and police have been killed fighting a foe “that offers no quarter, obeys no law, and holds nothing sacred.’’
Nonetheless, he said, there are still comments “even in this capital, about Pakistan’s heart being not really in this fight.’’
“We do not know what greater evidence to offer than the blood of our people,’’ he said....
And they sure are serving up bowls of that stuff to Washington.
Yesterday’s announcement followed news that the administration has been withholding assistance to a handful of Pakistani military units accused of human rights abuses under 1997 legislation. Clinton said those units would not be eligible for the new aid.
“We will continue to ensure that all assistance [will] comply with US laws and regulations,’’ she said.
We won't, but you must -- unless you are Israel!
Then you can do whatever you damn please (including murder an American on the high seas) and the checks keep on coming.
“We take all allegations of human rights abuses seriously and we discuss them with the government of Pakistan and we follow the law and we work with our partners in Pakistan to deal with any issues that come to our attention.’’
Is she serious or just drunk?
Qureshi said the Pakistani government is aware of the situation and steps were being taken to correct it.
“I can assure there will be zero tolerance against human right violations,’’ he said. “If there is action required, the government of Pakistan will take action.’’
Why are ALL GOVERNMENTS such SHIT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This week’s talks in Washington — the third round of the US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue — came as the countries tried to ease tensions over American military incursions across the border from Afghanistan and allegations that Islamabad is not doing enough to target Taliban militants.
Related: Back to the Pakistan Border
Everything is fine now.
During the last round in Islamabad in July, Clinton announced more than $500 million in aid for a variety of projects, including renovating hospitals, improving water distribution, and upgrading hydroelectric dams.
After we smashed them with missiles.
The United States had to re-examine its plans after the meeting, however, after Pakistan was hit by the worst floods in the country’s history.
Yeah, it is amazing how quickly that coverage dried up.
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And if the bribe doesn't work?
Related: Conflict in Karachi
That's another way in, AmeriKa!
Cui bono?
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — It’s a land of daunting mountains, crisscrossed with rugged paths. Tucked in the valleys, families live a subsistence existence in mud houses secluded behind 10-foot-high walls, cooking over open fires and sleeping under the sky. Dirt poor, uneducated, they know the outside world only through information that comes from a crackling radio.
Has to be better than an AmeriKan newspaper!
The wilds of North Waziristan, on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, have become a crossroads for terrorism.
Roads that end in Tel Aviv, Washington, and London!
The United States is pushing Pakistan to mount an offensive there before the year is out, but Pakistan is saying it won’t be rushed.
So the INVASION and OCCUPATION is NEXT YEAR?
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, has branded North Waziristan the “epicenter of terrorism,’’ and President Obama has said controlling it is key to winning the Afghan war.
Thus if we FAIL -- as we already have -- we can BLAME PAKISTAN!
In mosques, mullahs tell worshipers that it is their religious duty to fight the US-led forces just over the mountains in Afghanistan.
Villagers open up their homes to would-be fighters and suicide bombers heading across the border to kill coalition troops — or heading the other direction, into Pakistan’s heartland to carry out attacks that have shaken the fragile US-allied government in Islamabad.
Related: Pashtun Hospitality
What is amazing about that is they would also protect you and me, dear readers.
The threat is also exported far abroad. Among the thousands of militants holed up in the territory are scores with European or US passports, believed to be planning attacks in Europe and North America....
PFFFFFFFFFFFTTT!!!!
Pakistan is also coping with violence in other parts of the country. In central Pakistan yesterday, a bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded at the gate of a famous Sufi shrine in the town of Pakpattan during morning prayers, killing at least five people, officials said.
Sorry, but the world SEES THROUGH the SECTARIAN FALSE FLAGS now.
The blast at the Farid Shakar Ganj shrine in Punjab Province was the latest in a string of attacks targeting Sufi sites in Pakistan. Islamist militants often target Sufis, whose mystical practices clash with their hard-line interpretation of Islam.
Just wondering if you are as sick and tired of the repetitive war propaganda as I am.
The dead from yesterday’s blast included at least one woman, said Maher Aslam Hayat, a senior government official in Pakpattan. At least 13 other people were wounded in the explosion, he said. The bombing significantly damaged nearly a dozen shops on either side of the street outside the shrine.
Pretty powerful bomb for a motorbike.
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And look, up in the sky....
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suspected US drones fired missiles at a house and a vehicle in a militant-infested area of northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border yesterday, killing seven people, intelligence officials said.
The strikes, which occurred nearly 12 hours apart in Pakistan’s North Waziristan area, appeared to be the latest attacks in an intensifying campaign by the United States to use unmanned aircraft in Pakistan to wage war against militants who regularly target foreign troops in Afghanistan.
Yup, if you won't let us in we will turn your nation to rubble.
There have been at least 19 suspected US missile strikes in Pakistan this month, many of them in North Waziristan. There were 21 such attacks in September, nearly double the previous monthly record.
That is NOT the CHANGE I wanted to SEE, Obama!
Related: Obama's Airstrike Scalpel
He's a reckless surgeon then!
The first strike occurred at about 3:30 a.m., when a drone fired a missile at a house in the Spin Wam area, killing three people, said the intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to members of the media.
When people were sleeping?
The second attack took place around 2:45 p.m., when a drone fired a missile at a vehicle in the Datta Khel area, killing four suspected foreign militants, the officials said. Two were Arab and two were Western, the officials said.
So "officials" say.
No additional information about the suspected militants was provided.
But many drone strikes in recent months have targeted fighters linked to the Haqqani network, which military officials have declared the most dangerous militant group in Afghanistan.
Related:
"Haqqani.... credited with introducing suicide bombing to the region.... cultivated as a "unilateral" asset of the CIA and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work.... He may have had a role in expediting the escape of Osama Bin Laden.... In July 2008, CIA officials confronted Pakistan officials with evidence of ties between Inter-Services Intelligence and Haqqani. Haqqani has been accused of involvement in the 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul.... The Haqqani Network is based in Pakistan and is believed to have links to Al Qaeda."
Sick of the CORPORATE MEDIA CHARADE yet?
The United States refuses to publicly acknowledge that it carries out drone attacks in Pakistan, but officials have said privately that the covert CIA-run program has killed several high-level Taliban and Al Qaeda commanders.
Along with HUNDREDS of INNOCENT CIVILIANS!
Pakistani officials often publicly criticize the strikes as a violation of the country’s sovereignty, but the government is widely believed to provide intelligence information for the attacks and allow drones to take off from a base inside Pakistan.
That is why the GOVERNMENT is HATED!
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And the Pakistan government reaction?
"Pakistan unmoved by US pressure" by Associated Press | October 25, 2010
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s foreign minister said yesterday that his country will deal with a key Taliban sanctuary along the Afghan border on its timetable despite increasing US pressure to move swiftly to help turn the war in Afghanistan around.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi spoke after returning from Washington for the latest round of high-level strategic talks with the Obama administration. His comments indicated a new $2 billion military aid package offered by the United States did little to change Pakistan’s strategic calculus.
“We have our own priorities. We have our own sense of timing,’’ said Qureshi when asked about US pressure to launch an offensive against Taliban militants in the North Waziristan tribal area who regularly attack foreign troops in Afghanistan.
The United States believes an operation in North Waziristan is key to success in the Afghan war because the area serves as the main base for the Haqqani network, a militant group that military officials have said poses the greatest threat to troops in Afghanistan.
You can't swing a dead cat around n AmeriKan newspaper without hitting a Haqqani network.
Pakistan has resisted taking action.
Thus they get impatience and the epicenter of terrorism charge.
Analysts say the country is reluctant to target militants with whom it has historical ties and who could be useful allies in Afghanistan once foreign troops withdraw....
Like "Al-CIA-Duh" against the Soviets?
What was CUT from my PRINTED PAPER:
The Haqqani network is led by Jalaluddin Haqqani and his son Siraj. The elder Haqqani was closely allied with Pakistan during the war against the Soviets in the 1990s.
I could see why they would want to cut that.
Why would they want you to know the Haqqani network is a U.S-created, "Al-CIA-Duh" outfit?
That, and the fact that the corporate media shill GOT the DECADE WRONG!
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And look who is coming to fix things:
"Obama schedules stop in Pakistan in 2011
WASHINGTON — The White House says President Obama will travel to Pakistan next year in his first visit to the country since taking office.The White House made the announcement yesterday after Obama convened a monthly national security meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan where security cooperation with the key US ally was discussed.
I'm sure Pakistan is all abuzz.
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