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I don't know what are you talking about? Is there something like that exist in the world?
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I don't know what are you talking about? Is there something like that exist in the world?
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Thread topic concerns about external negative activities. Law enforcement authorities doing their job to strengthen security so there is no compromise. Nothing special if SCI summons IA routine petitions & work, SC will not compromise if sth about national security issues.Is it clear?
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If you remember Amil Kaansi case,the person who caught him for USA was our own Farooq Laghari.
This is an example that CIA or any agency with cash to splash may not need to send agents for espionage,our top level politicians will do it for them without complaining.
This is an example that CIA or any agency with cash to splash may not need to send agents for espionage,our top level politicians will do it for them without complaining.
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Yes but only those who prefer $ than national interests.
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The CIA and other foreign intelligence agencies have been working in Pakistan for some time now, says political analyst Ahmed Quraishi, and it is no news to the authorities.
Recalling a ten-month old attack on a CIA outstation in Pakistan which involved an agent working for the Jordanian intelligence, Quraishi said the incident became the first indication that: “there are incursions taking place in Pakistan and that the war on terror in the border region of Pakistan is not limited to occasional aerial attacks, CIA-led drone attacks, but that as a matter of fact there is concerted ground activity, not just by the CIA.”
Recently, journalist Bob Woodward wrote a book titled “Obama's Wars,” which explored the CIA’s use of Afghan fighters to hunt Al-Qaeda and the Taliban by infiltrating Pakistani territory, where US troops are not allowed to operate.
The book claims there might be as many as 3,000 Afghan assassins who have been trained and funded by the CIA and are working clandestinely in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“Obama’s Wars” has not yet been released, but has already spurred controversy and heated debates.
However, Quraishi says that, though the book may be a revelation to the public, the fact of foreign intelligence presence in Pakistan has long been known to the country’s authorities.
“This thing has been going on for some time and it would be unfair to say that this activity has been going on without the knowledge of at least some parts of the Pakistani political or military establishment,” Quraishi said. “This would be a shocker, of course, for the Pakistani public opinion, but I am not sure that this would be a big shock to the Pakistani military establishment.”
Besides various terror-incidents in Lahore, Peshawar and Rawalpindi which involved gun battles between the terrorists and the security forces, previous pattern of subversive acts through suicide attacks has also been intensified. In one of the latest incidents, on March 13 some 14 people including three security Personnel were killed when a suicide bomber targeted a security forces’ check post in Mingora.
Notably, in the last five years, Pakistan’s various regions have faced suicide attacks by the militants who entered the country from Afghanistan where tentacles of terrorism exist. In this respect, India has set up secret training centres in Afghanistan where its military personnel in collaboration with RAW have been imparting training to the youngsters. By setting aside the atrocities of the Taliban insurgents, they propagate that Pakistan’s armed forces are killing its own people.
All the terror-incidents indicate that Indian RAW has been waging a secret war against Pakistan through its well-trained insurgents who could conduct attacks in major cities despite Pakistan’s successful military operations against the militants and the death of the renowned militant commanders.
After sponsoring bomb blasts and suicide attacks in the past, a perennial wave of the same in 2009 and this year—particularly in the last 18 months clearly proves that RAW has modified its tactics of subversion in Pakistan. Apart from direct suicide events, now militants, armed with hand grenades and machine guns also come to help the explosive-laden vehicles so as to penetrate the security at the target points. Sometimes, exchange of fire takes place between the saboteurs and the security guards, and sometimes, purpose is to directly kill the security personnel of our country, either through suicide explosion or through hand grenades. A number of terror-events in Pakistan endorse that RAW’s agents have been acting upon guerilla techniques. In this regard, in most of the terror-tragedies, huge quantity of explosives has also been used.
Apart from the previous and latest incidents in Peshawar, Islamabad and Lahore, similar tactics of suicide attacks and exchange of fire occurred in connection with many terrorist incidents as the militants reached their targets with latest weapons.
In this respect, on March 3, 2009, terrorists targeted the bus of Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore and killed 8 persons after a continuous gunfire. Pakistani officials confirmed that “grenades and rocket launchers had been recovered” which were of foreign origin. Afterwards, official inquiry disclosed that RAW was behind that attack.
MTT - Pakistan - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Condemns Lahore BlastBesides on March 30 last year, more than 10 terrorists raided the Manawan Police Training Center in Lahore, leaving at least 12 dead. After eight hours gun battle, Pakistan’s security forces regained the control of the police academy, capturing five terrorists alive. On May 27, more than 30 people were killed in Lahore when an explosive-laden Suzuki van exploded near Rescue 15 building of the police which was completely destroyed. It also damaged the building of the Lahore Capital City Police Office (CCPO) and that of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) which was the main target, but could not be hit due to heavy firing by the security guards on the terrorists who came along with the vehicle, firing at the security guards. Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah had stated on the same day that Indian involvement in “suicide attack in Lahore cannot be ruled out.”
Similar types of terror-tactics were applied by the culprits in relation to the Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar where more than 20 persons had been killed in the suicide blast.
Another guerilla technique of the RAW-trained terrorists is that they camouflage themselves by wearing the uniform of Pakistani security forces so as to deceive the security guards and to get inside the targeted point for conducting their assigned task. In this connection, last year, U.N.’s World Food Program in Islamabad was attacked by a suicide bomber who was wearing an official uniform, evaded tight security and killed five people. Again, the militants who attacked the GHQ on October 10, 2009, were wearing army uniforms.
In fact, in the past 10 months, Pakistan’s security forces have broken the backbone of the suicide bombers by arresting most of their commanders and insurgents, while thwarting a number of suicide missions through pre-arrests. But Indian RAW with technological support of Israel has succeeded in training the new fugitives who are regularly being sent to Pakistan with a view to destablising our country. Now, this fact is known to everyone that Pakistan is the only nuclear country in the Islamic world. Hence, US, Israel and India want to weaken it by creating lawlessness for achieving their secret strategic interests.
Notably, Pakistan’s civil and military high officials have openly been revealing that Indian secret agency, RAW, Israeli Mossad and other foreign agencies are involved in supporting insurgency in the Frontier Province, separatism in Balochistan and subversive acts in Karachi and Lahore.
As regards the external elements, on June 28, NWFP Governor Awais Ghani had disclosed that some world powers were trying to divide Pakistan, adding that if he were not a governor, he would have exposed them. In this context, on April 23, 2009, in the in-camera sitting of the Senate, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik displayed documentary evidence of Indian use of Afghanistan to create unrest in Pakistan.
During the ongoing military operations, some of our high officials repeatedly pointed out that the late Baitullah Mehsud chief of the T.T.P, who was killed in a US drone attack on August 5, last year had been backed by the foreign powers. He was having a number of secrets regarding foreign intelligence agencies. Nevertheless, like Baitullah, his successor, Hakimullah Mehsud was also collective agent of RAW and CIA. While playing a double game like his paymasters, his real aim is to incite the innocent Pakhtoons in order to further weaken Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and the ISPR spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas have repeatedly stated that they have concrete evidence of Indian support to terrorism in Pakistan through Afghanistan.
At present, apart from other volatile regions, military operation has succeeded in South Waziristan, but India with the tactical help of the US has also intensified its strategy to sabotage the same through clandestine tactics applied by its Waziristan-based agents.
It is of particular attention that on October 7, 2009, BBC displayed a documentary movie regarding the eighth anniversary of the US-led NATO invasion of Afghanistan. It stated, “Now this war is being fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and “it will soon spread to Pakistan.”
Nonetheless, Indian RAW has launched a secret war inside Pakistan by inciting the militants through various techniques of propaganda, supported by the subversive acts of guerilla warfare.
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Recalling a ten-month old attack on a CIA outstation in Pakistan which involved an agent working for the Jordanian intelligence, Quraishi said the incident became the first indication that: “there are incursions taking place in Pakistan and that the war on terror in the border region of Pakistan is not limited to occasional aerial attacks, CIA-led drone attacks, but that as a matter of fact there is concerted ground activity, not just by the CIA.”
Recently, journalist Bob Woodward wrote a book titled “Obama's Wars,” which explored the CIA’s use of Afghan fighters to hunt Al-Qaeda and the Taliban by infiltrating Pakistani territory, where US troops are not allowed to operate.
The book claims there might be as many as 3,000 Afghan assassins who have been trained and funded by the CIA and are working clandestinely in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“Obama’s Wars” has not yet been released, but has already spurred controversy and heated debates.
However, Quraishi says that, though the book may be a revelation to the public, the fact of foreign intelligence presence in Pakistan has long been known to the country’s authorities.
“This thing has been going on for some time and it would be unfair to say that this activity has been going on without the knowledge of at least some parts of the Pakistani political or military establishment,” Quraishi said. “This would be a shocker, of course, for the Pakistani public opinion, but I am not sure that this would be a big shock to the Pakistani military establishment.”
Besides various terror-incidents in Lahore, Peshawar and Rawalpindi which involved gun battles between the terrorists and the security forces, previous pattern of subversive acts through suicide attacks has also been intensified. In one of the latest incidents, on March 13 some 14 people including three security Personnel were killed when a suicide bomber targeted a security forces’ check post in Mingora.
Notably, in the last five years, Pakistan’s various regions have faced suicide attacks by the militants who entered the country from Afghanistan where tentacles of terrorism exist. In this respect, India has set up secret training centres in Afghanistan where its military personnel in collaboration with RAW have been imparting training to the youngsters. By setting aside the atrocities of the Taliban insurgents, they propagate that Pakistan’s armed forces are killing its own people.
All the terror-incidents indicate that Indian RAW has been waging a secret war against Pakistan through its well-trained insurgents who could conduct attacks in major cities despite Pakistan’s successful military operations against the militants and the death of the renowned militant commanders.
After sponsoring bomb blasts and suicide attacks in the past, a perennial wave of the same in 2009 and this year—particularly in the last 18 months clearly proves that RAW has modified its tactics of subversion in Pakistan. Apart from direct suicide events, now militants, armed with hand grenades and machine guns also come to help the explosive-laden vehicles so as to penetrate the security at the target points. Sometimes, exchange of fire takes place between the saboteurs and the security guards, and sometimes, purpose is to directly kill the security personnel of our country, either through suicide explosion or through hand grenades. A number of terror-events in Pakistan endorse that RAW’s agents have been acting upon guerilla techniques. In this regard, in most of the terror-tragedies, huge quantity of explosives has also been used.
Apart from the previous and latest incidents in Peshawar, Islamabad and Lahore, similar tactics of suicide attacks and exchange of fire occurred in connection with many terrorist incidents as the militants reached their targets with latest weapons.
In this respect, on March 3, 2009, terrorists targeted the bus of Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore and killed 8 persons after a continuous gunfire. Pakistani officials confirmed that “grenades and rocket launchers had been recovered” which were of foreign origin. Afterwards, official inquiry disclosed that RAW was behind that attack.
MTT - Pakistan - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Condemns Lahore BlastBesides on March 30 last year, more than 10 terrorists raided the Manawan Police Training Center in Lahore, leaving at least 12 dead. After eight hours gun battle, Pakistan’s security forces regained the control of the police academy, capturing five terrorists alive. On May 27, more than 30 people were killed in Lahore when an explosive-laden Suzuki van exploded near Rescue 15 building of the police which was completely destroyed. It also damaged the building of the Lahore Capital City Police Office (CCPO) and that of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) which was the main target, but could not be hit due to heavy firing by the security guards on the terrorists who came along with the vehicle, firing at the security guards. Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah had stated on the same day that Indian involvement in “suicide attack in Lahore cannot be ruled out.”
Similar types of terror-tactics were applied by the culprits in relation to the Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar where more than 20 persons had been killed in the suicide blast.
Another guerilla technique of the RAW-trained terrorists is that they camouflage themselves by wearing the uniform of Pakistani security forces so as to deceive the security guards and to get inside the targeted point for conducting their assigned task. In this connection, last year, U.N.’s World Food Program in Islamabad was attacked by a suicide bomber who was wearing an official uniform, evaded tight security and killed five people. Again, the militants who attacked the GHQ on October 10, 2009, were wearing army uniforms.
In fact, in the past 10 months, Pakistan’s security forces have broken the backbone of the suicide bombers by arresting most of their commanders and insurgents, while thwarting a number of suicide missions through pre-arrests. But Indian RAW with technological support of Israel has succeeded in training the new fugitives who are regularly being sent to Pakistan with a view to destablising our country. Now, this fact is known to everyone that Pakistan is the only nuclear country in the Islamic world. Hence, US, Israel and India want to weaken it by creating lawlessness for achieving their secret strategic interests.
Notably, Pakistan’s civil and military high officials have openly been revealing that Indian secret agency, RAW, Israeli Mossad and other foreign agencies are involved in supporting insurgency in the Frontier Province, separatism in Balochistan and subversive acts in Karachi and Lahore.
As regards the external elements, on June 28, NWFP Governor Awais Ghani had disclosed that some world powers were trying to divide Pakistan, adding that if he were not a governor, he would have exposed them. In this context, on April 23, 2009, in the in-camera sitting of the Senate, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik displayed documentary evidence of Indian use of Afghanistan to create unrest in Pakistan.
During the ongoing military operations, some of our high officials repeatedly pointed out that the late Baitullah Mehsud chief of the T.T.P, who was killed in a US drone attack on August 5, last year had been backed by the foreign powers. He was having a number of secrets regarding foreign intelligence agencies. Nevertheless, like Baitullah, his successor, Hakimullah Mehsud was also collective agent of RAW and CIA. While playing a double game like his paymasters, his real aim is to incite the innocent Pakhtoons in order to further weaken Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and the ISPR spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas have repeatedly stated that they have concrete evidence of Indian support to terrorism in Pakistan through Afghanistan.
At present, apart from other volatile regions, military operation has succeeded in South Waziristan, but India with the tactical help of the US has also intensified its strategy to sabotage the same through clandestine tactics applied by its Waziristan-based agents.
It is of particular attention that on October 7, 2009, BBC displayed a documentary movie regarding the eighth anniversary of the US-led NATO invasion of Afghanistan. It stated, “Now this war is being fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and “it will soon spread to Pakistan.”
Nonetheless, Indian RAW has launched a secret war inside Pakistan by inciting the militants through various techniques of propaganda, supported by the subversive acts of guerilla warfare.
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Cannot ignore the daal-bhajee back stabbing Indians that are doing terrorism in Pakistan. India is directly responsible for state sponsored acts of terror. If India thinks that they can succeed long term with this strategy they are mistaken 200%. It is going to come back and haunt you.
When ever they investigate a crime, the first thing they look for is a motive. The first Afghan War went on for 10 years and the second one started in 2001, Talibaan never attacked cricketers. Who can have a motive to undermine International Cricket in Pakistan?? Only India..that is why these Afghan thugs working for RAW attacked the Sri Lankan Cricketers.
What motive would Talibaan have to attack Sri Lankans? Only Indians were burning since Pakistan Army assisted the Sri Lankan Army is wiping out the RAW trained and funded LTTE once and for all. Everything has a motive and they all lead to New Delhi. We need to get India on the UN State Sponsored Terror List ASAP.
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Isi is definitely involved with cia and raw as all are working against pakistan, the enemy.
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pakistan isi handed over the afia and all your pakistani brothers to cia, ISI helped cia in afghanistan and they continously doing it now.
They are involved with americans to kill afghans. ISI running the country.
They are involved with americans to kill afghans. ISI running the country.
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ISI is not running Afghanistan becaise it is controlled by ISAF. No one has to kill Afghans because if there is not outsider they start killing each other. USSR left and they were fighting among themselves. I also have question about your flags, you sound more like an Indian.
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As Meir Dagan ends his reign of assassinations and spy rings, Saleh Al-Naami reviews the priorities that will face the next head of Mossad
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was excessive in praising the head of Mossad, Meir Dagan, during a cabinet meeting Sunday. Dagan, who had come to bid farewell to cabinet members at the end of his eight-year tenure, listened as ministers competed in praising his leadership and emphatically applauded Dagan at the end of the meeting. They said his work curtailed, to a large extent, the strategic dangers surrounding Israel.
While the ministers did not bring up any of the many stealth operations carried out by Mossad during Dagan's tenure, it is a long list indeed. In fact, Mossad was able to regain its stature in the eyes of Israeli public opinion and decision-makers in Tel Aviv, by resuming assassinations of the leaders of Palestinian resistance groups and Hizbullah, with successful hits such as the murder of Imad Mughniyeh, the director of Hizbullah's military operations.
Mossad was also key in providing intelligence to the Israeli Air Force to strike a research facility in northeast Syria, which Israel claimed to be a nascent nuclear facility. Meanwhile, many Israelis believe Dagan was behind the "success" in interceding in progress in Iran's nuclear programme by recruiting Iranian agents who gave Iran expired technology. The Iranian authorities have already executed one of these agents.
Mossad is also accredited with using viruses to corrupt computers in the centrifuge for enriching uranium, as well as mysterious bombings in different parts in Iran and assassinations of Iranian scientists involved in Tehran's nuclear programme. Dagan was also successful in laying down a new work ethic for Mossad, reforming and restructuring the agency, and expanding the use of advanced technology in operations. All this made Mossad more popular among other Israeli intelligence agencies, namely the domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet and military intelligence Aman.
Nonetheless, there is great disappointment regarding the large number of Mossad espionage cells that were uncovered in the Arab world, most recently the successful discovery by Egyptian intelligence and arrest of a spy who revealed top secret information about the circumstances of the strike against the Syrian nuclear facility at the end of 2006. He provided information about the Syrian officer who passed sensitive information to Mossad about the facility. But the most detrimental development for Mossad has been the fast paced exposure of a large number of spy networks in Lebanon, which Lebanese intelligence was able to uncover in cooperation with Hizbullah. Agents included politicians and senior officers who were spying on behalf of Israel.
Several Israeli espionage experts asserted that this was because of the hasty recruitment process that was introduced by Dagan when he took over Mossad in 2002. Dagan's critics say that until he became boss, the agency followed a slow gradual procedure for recruiting, but he changed this formula and adopted the quicker method used by Shin Bet. Accordingly, Tamir Pardo who was appointed by Netanyahu as Dagan's successor is likely to review the quick recruitment policy to prevent the exposure of more spy networks. Many feel that Pardo will learn the lessons of Dagan's tenure.
Dagan was a big advocate of political assassinations, although the primary role of Mossad is not to kill but rather to gather intelligence for Israeli decision-makers. Dagan's critics argue that his penchant for assassinations contradicted with the organisational structure of Mossad which allocates a relatively small budget for assassination operations. The Kidon Unit in the Operations Department is a comparably small unit, and is tiny compared to parallel units in the military and other intelligence agencies such as the Seyerat Metkal, the Dovidivan, the Yamam and others.
The biggest failure for Mossad was the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai in February 2010. Although the target was eliminated, the operation greatly harmed Israel politically and damaged its relations with many countries. More importantly, it revealed serious shortcomings in its operations, contrary to Mossad's reputation and image, when it came to light that Mossad had used passports that did not belong to Mossad.
Among Pardo's priorities will be to learn from Al-Mabhouh's assassination, and to review such assassinations in light of the agency's key responsibilities. This does not mean that under its new boss Mossad will not carry out assassinations. As a member and leader of the agency's operations unit, Pardo personally participated in many assassinations. But all signs indicate that he will cut down on the number of assassinations in order to prevent damaging relations with the world community, especially friendly countries.
At the same time, these operations follow Mossad priorities as outlined by consecutive Israeli governments. Confronting Iran's nuclear programme is a top priority for Mossad. Since 2006, the Israeli cabinet has given Mossad complete control over thwarting the Iranian nuclear programme, therefore continuing the "successes" of Dagan on this issue will be a priority for Pardo.
Only six hours before Netanyahu announced Pardo's appointment, an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed and another severely injured in two mysterious bombings, which many Zionist commentators saw as a reminder for Pardo that he would have to maintain this record.
But the role of Mossad chief is not only to provide intelligence and carry out operations. The briefs and recommendations he presents to the Israeli cabinet about Iran are also vital. This is especially important because of the sporadic debate inside Israel about Israel's actions towards Iran's nuclear programme. Some champion stealth operations by the Mossad to undermine the programme, while others demand a wide military operation to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities.
Dagan was an advocate of stealth operations, while those close to Pardo say he is more hardline on this issue and could choose the military option. But in the end, no one knows what Pardo will decide once he is in office.
Israelis believe that the Mossad chief has a challenging task ahead of him, namely to closely monitor developments in moderate Arab states whose stability Tel Aviv is unsure about. The agency provides decision-makers with an accurate picture about the future of Arab ruling regimes, especially now that Israel is worried "there are indicators that several of these regimes are unstable." Israelis are concerned about the future of Arab regimes surrounding Palestine, because Israel's strategic environment would change dramatically if there are any sudden upheavals in these states.
At the same time, Mossad is the only intelligence agency in Israel charged with handling jihadist movements around the world and the threat they represent to the Zionist state. This mostly means providing information about the goals of jihadist groups and thwarting their plans to harm Israel. Although operations by these groups against Israel are very limited, Israel is very worried about future developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq out of concern that the Taliban movement succeeds in forcing US forces out of Afghanistan. This would open up the arena for jihadist operations and transform the country into a launching pad for operations against Israeli and Jewish targets.
No doubt, one of the obstacles facing the new Mossad chief is the stability of the regime in Pakistan. Israeli officials openly express their concern that some people in Pakistan could provide jihadist groups with dirty bombs tainted with radioactive material, and some Israelis even believe these movements could acquire tactical nuclear weapons which Pakistan is seeking to manufacture.
Al-Ahram Weekly online : "New foreign intelligence head in Tel Aviv" by Saleh Al-Naami - Le blog de CJPP
coloured text emphasis path or mask on/in which activities are might operative against Pakistan.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was excessive in praising the head of Mossad, Meir Dagan, during a cabinet meeting Sunday. Dagan, who had come to bid farewell to cabinet members at the end of his eight-year tenure, listened as ministers competed in praising his leadership and emphatically applauded Dagan at the end of the meeting. They said his work curtailed, to a large extent, the strategic dangers surrounding Israel.
While the ministers did not bring up any of the many stealth operations carried out by Mossad during Dagan's tenure, it is a long list indeed. In fact, Mossad was able to regain its stature in the eyes of Israeli public opinion and decision-makers in Tel Aviv, by resuming assassinations of the leaders of Palestinian resistance groups and Hizbullah, with successful hits such as the murder of Imad Mughniyeh, the director of Hizbullah's military operations.
Mossad was also key in providing intelligence to the Israeli Air Force to strike a research facility in northeast Syria, which Israel claimed to be a nascent nuclear facility. Meanwhile, many Israelis believe Dagan was behind the "success" in interceding in progress in Iran's nuclear programme by recruiting Iranian agents who gave Iran expired technology. The Iranian authorities have already executed one of these agents.
Mossad is also accredited with using viruses to corrupt computers in the centrifuge for enriching uranium, as well as mysterious bombings in different parts in Iran and assassinations of Iranian scientists involved in Tehran's nuclear programme. Dagan was also successful in laying down a new work ethic for Mossad, reforming and restructuring the agency, and expanding the use of advanced technology in operations. All this made Mossad more popular among other Israeli intelligence agencies, namely the domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet and military intelligence Aman.
Nonetheless, there is great disappointment regarding the large number of Mossad espionage cells that were uncovered in the Arab world, most recently the successful discovery by Egyptian intelligence and arrest of a spy who revealed top secret information about the circumstances of the strike against the Syrian nuclear facility at the end of 2006. He provided information about the Syrian officer who passed sensitive information to Mossad about the facility. But the most detrimental development for Mossad has been the fast paced exposure of a large number of spy networks in Lebanon, which Lebanese intelligence was able to uncover in cooperation with Hizbullah. Agents included politicians and senior officers who were spying on behalf of Israel.
Several Israeli espionage experts asserted that this was because of the hasty recruitment process that was introduced by Dagan when he took over Mossad in 2002. Dagan's critics say that until he became boss, the agency followed a slow gradual procedure for recruiting, but he changed this formula and adopted the quicker method used by Shin Bet. Accordingly, Tamir Pardo who was appointed by Netanyahu as Dagan's successor is likely to review the quick recruitment policy to prevent the exposure of more spy networks. Many feel that Pardo will learn the lessons of Dagan's tenure.
Dagan was a big advocate of political assassinations, although the primary role of Mossad is not to kill but rather to gather intelligence for Israeli decision-makers. Dagan's critics argue that his penchant for assassinations contradicted with the organisational structure of Mossad which allocates a relatively small budget for assassination operations. The Kidon Unit in the Operations Department is a comparably small unit, and is tiny compared to parallel units in the military and other intelligence agencies such as the Seyerat Metkal, the Dovidivan, the Yamam and others.
The biggest failure for Mossad was the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai in February 2010. Although the target was eliminated, the operation greatly harmed Israel politically and damaged its relations with many countries. More importantly, it revealed serious shortcomings in its operations, contrary to Mossad's reputation and image, when it came to light that Mossad had used passports that did not belong to Mossad.
Among Pardo's priorities will be to learn from Al-Mabhouh's assassination, and to review such assassinations in light of the agency's key responsibilities. This does not mean that under its new boss Mossad will not carry out assassinations. As a member and leader of the agency's operations unit, Pardo personally participated in many assassinations. But all signs indicate that he will cut down on the number of assassinations in order to prevent damaging relations with the world community, especially friendly countries.
At the same time, these operations follow Mossad priorities as outlined by consecutive Israeli governments. Confronting Iran's nuclear programme is a top priority for Mossad. Since 2006, the Israeli cabinet has given Mossad complete control over thwarting the Iranian nuclear programme, therefore continuing the "successes" of Dagan on this issue will be a priority for Pardo.
Only six hours before Netanyahu announced Pardo's appointment, an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed and another severely injured in two mysterious bombings, which many Zionist commentators saw as a reminder for Pardo that he would have to maintain this record.
But the role of Mossad chief is not only to provide intelligence and carry out operations. The briefs and recommendations he presents to the Israeli cabinet about Iran are also vital. This is especially important because of the sporadic debate inside Israel about Israel's actions towards Iran's nuclear programme. Some champion stealth operations by the Mossad to undermine the programme, while others demand a wide military operation to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities.
Dagan was an advocate of stealth operations, while those close to Pardo say he is more hardline on this issue and could choose the military option. But in the end, no one knows what Pardo will decide once he is in office.
Israelis believe that the Mossad chief has a challenging task ahead of him, namely to closely monitor developments in moderate Arab states whose stability Tel Aviv is unsure about. The agency provides decision-makers with an accurate picture about the future of Arab ruling regimes, especially now that Israel is worried "there are indicators that several of these regimes are unstable." Israelis are concerned about the future of Arab regimes surrounding Palestine, because Israel's strategic environment would change dramatically if there are any sudden upheavals in these states.
At the same time, Mossad is the only intelligence agency in Israel charged with handling jihadist movements around the world and the threat they represent to the Zionist state. This mostly means providing information about the goals of jihadist groups and thwarting their plans to harm Israel. Although operations by these groups against Israel are very limited, Israel is very worried about future developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq out of concern that the Taliban movement succeeds in forcing US forces out of Afghanistan. This would open up the arena for jihadist operations and transform the country into a launching pad for operations against Israeli and Jewish targets.
No doubt, one of the obstacles facing the new Mossad chief is the stability of the regime in Pakistan. Israeli officials openly express their concern that some people in Pakistan could provide jihadist groups with dirty bombs tainted with radioactive material, and some Israelis even believe these movements could acquire tactical nuclear weapons which Pakistan is seeking to manufacture.
Al-Ahram Weekly online : "New foreign intelligence head in Tel Aviv" by Saleh Al-Naami - Le blog de CJPP
coloured text emphasis path or mask on/in which activities are might operative against Pakistan.
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And they are being funded by forces in Afghanistan + RAW Indian Consulates there as well.
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Examples are numerous my dear.
Re judges.. All known terrorists of Lal majsid and Sipah sahabah have walked free from the court. To date not even a single terrorist has been convicted.
Regarding the PMLn comment, the senior party leadership has given a lot of statements and clues about its support. Its law minister attending the outlawed Sipah sahabah rally. The Punjab chief minister Shabaz Sherif requesting Taliban to stop attacking Punjab because the PMLn shares the values and the ideology of Taliban. Its leaders like Saad Rafiq & Kawaja Asif daring Zardari & Musharaf to go to areas what are under army operation and have their throats slit by Taliban for ordering the Pakistan army to kill its own people.
CM Shahbaz wants Taliban to spare Punjab | Pakistan News | Onepakistan.com
Killing shias was just an excuse and a beginning few decades back just to get itself accustomed with mass killing of all Muslims. Please tell me what were the reasons that Sipah Sahabah was banned? If it was not its link to Taliban?
Both Sipah sahabah and Taliban share the same Deobandi faith and have the same ideology. Also Spiah Sahabh and is far more violent subgroup lashker Jhagvi appointed itself to represent Al Qadea in Pakistan and operate on its behalf.
talian/ TTP and Sipah Sahabah are linked just like the mian brothers, nawaz sherif and shabaz sherif are.
By the way, the sipah sahabah activists used to go to Afghanistan during the Taliban rule to get themselves used to with murdering people. During the siege of mazar e Sharif, they gleefully murdered the captured Irani diplomats & hazarah population in the city.
http://afghanistanjusticeproject.org/warcrimesandcrimesagainsthumanity19782001.pdf
You seen to be very sensitive about the word Talibanist. I wont care what ever you or someone would like to call them but I have only word for them.. And it is animals.. They may call themselves sipah sahabah or TTP or AL Qaeda or Taliban. They are one and the same, they all belong to same school of thought,, they share the same taqfiri ideology, they are all ruthless killers of innocent civilians and they all use religion to justify their terrorism.
PMLn is a group of opportunists who want to stay out of the harms way by showing their devotion to Taliban to stay out of the harms way and also benefit from the PPP movements failure in tackling the terrorism issue. If you are still not convinced then I have nothing more to say.
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"They are one and the same, they all belong to same school of thought,, they share the same taqfiri ideology, they are all ruthless killers of innocent civilians and they all use religion to justify their terrorism.
PMLn is a group of opportunists who want to stay out of the harms way by showing their devotion to Taliban to stay out of the harms way and also benefit from the PPP movements failure in tackling the terrorism issue. If you are still not convinced then I have nothing more to say."
Let us get back to the drawing table and analyze the mistakes made by a national institution by in large. The ideology was ever since but after that Afghan war, things got out of control. It is like giving money to the sardars--and giving money includes army and politicians, expecting different results every time i.e. sardars will not turn back or spit venum--Bugti? The royalty he got from---?
Anyways, let us get to the drawing table again and innovate something different.
PMLn is a group of opportunists who want to stay out of the harms way by showing their devotion to Taliban to stay out of the harms way and also benefit from the PPP movements failure in tackling the terrorism issue. If you are still not convinced then I have nothing more to say."
Let us get back to the drawing table and analyze the mistakes made by a national institution by in large. The ideology was ever since but after that Afghan war, things got out of control. It is like giving money to the sardars--and giving money includes army and politicians, expecting different results every time i.e. sardars will not turn back or spit venum--Bugti? The royalty he got from---?
Anyways, let us get to the drawing table again and innovate something different.
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This 10 year old article indirectly & directly related with thread, may be some of you familiar with this and some of you unfamiliar so it was interested for me to past here.
"Now the Taliban will pay a price" vowed President George W. Bush, as American and British fighter planes unleashed missile attacks against major cities in Afghanistan. The US Administration claims that Osama bin Laden is behind the tragic events of the 11th of September. A major war supposedly "against international terrorism" has been launched, yet the evidence amply confirms that agencies of the US government have since the Cold War harbored the "Islamic Militant Network" as part of Washington's foreign policy agenda. In a bitter irony, the US Air Force is targeting the training camps established in the 1980s by the CIA.
The main justification for waging this war has been totally fabricated. The American people have been deliberately and consciously misled by their government into supporting a major military adventure which affects our collective future.
"OSAMAGATE"
by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montréal
Posted at globalresearch.ca 9 October 2001
Confronted with mounting evidence, the US Administration can no longer deny its links to Osama. While the CIA admits that Osama bin Laden was an "intelligence asset" during the Cold War, the relationship is said to "go way back". Most news reports consider that these Osama-CIA links belong to the "bygone era" of the Soviet-Afghan war. They are invariably viewed as "irrelevant" to an understanding of present events. Lost in the barrage of recent history, the role of the CIA in supporting and developing international terrorist organisations during the Cold war and its aftermath is casually ignored or downplayed by the Western media.
Yes, We did support Him, but "He Went Against Us"
A blatant example of media distortion is the so-called "blowback" thesis: "intelligence assets" are said to "have gone against their sponsors"; "what we've created blows back in our face."1 In a twisted logic, the US government and the CIA are portrayed as the ill-fated victims:
The sophisticated methods taught to the Mujahideen, and the thousands of tons of arms supplied to them by the US - and Britain - are now tormenting the West in the phenomenon known as `blowback', whereby a policy strategy rebounds on its own devisers. 2
The US media, nonetheless, concedes that "the Taliban's coming to power [in 1995] is partly the outcome of the U.S. support of the Mujahideen, the radical Islamic group, in the 1980s in the war against the Soviet Union".3 But it also readily dismisses its own factual statements and concludes in chorus, that the CIA had been tricked by a deceitful Osama. It's like "a son going against his father".
The "blowback" thesis is a fabrication. The evidence amply confirms that the CIA never severed its ties to the "Islamic Militant Network". Since the end of the Cold War, these covert intelligence links have not only been maintained, they have in become increasingly sophisticated.
New undercover initiatives financed by the Golden Crescent drug trade were set in motion in Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Balkans. Pakistan's military and intelligence apparatus (controlled by the CIA) essentially "served as a catalyst for the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of six new Muslim republics in Central Asia." 4
Replicating the Iran Contragate Pattern
Remember Ollie North and the Nicaraguan Contras under the Reagan Administration when weapons financed by the drug trade were channeled to "freedom fighters" in Washington's covert war against the Sandinista government. The same pattern was used in the Balkans to arm and equip the Mujahideen fighting in the ranks of the Bosnian Muslim army against the Armed Forces of the Yugoslav Federation.
Throughout the 1990s, the Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was used by the CIA as a go-between -- to channel weapons and Mujahideen mercenaries to the Bosnian Muslim Army in the civil war in Yugoslavia. According to a report of the London based International Media Corporation:
"Reliable sources report that the United States is now [1994] actively participating in the arming and training of the Muslim forces of Bosnia-Herzegovina in direct contravention of the United Nations accords. US agencies have been providing weapons made in ... China (PRC), North Korea (DPRK) and Iran. The sources indicated that ... Iran, with the knowledge and agreement of the US Government, supplied the Bosnian forces with a large number of multiple rocket launchers and a large quantity of ammunition. These included 107mm and 122mm rockets from the PRC, and VBR-230 multiple rocket launchers ... made in Iran. ... It was [also] reported that 400 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran) arrived in Bosnia with a large supply of arms and ammunition. It was alleged that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had full knowledge of the operation and that the CIA believed that some of the 400 had been detached for future terrorist operations in Western Europe.
During September and October [1994], there has been a stream of "Afghan" Mujahedin ... covertly landed in Ploce, Croatia (South-West of Mostar) from where they have traveled with false papers ... before deploying with the Bosnian Muslim forces in the Kupres, Zenica and Banja Luka areas. These forces have recently [late 1994] experienced a significant degree of military success. They have, according to sources in Sarajevo, been aided by the UNPROFOR Bangladesh battalion, which took over from a French battalion early in September [1994].
The Mujahedin landing at Ploce are reported to have been accompanied by US Special Forces equipped with high-tech communications equipment, ... The sources said that the mission of the US troops was to establish a command, control, communications and intelligence network to coordinate and support Bosnian Muslim offensives -- in concert with Mujahideen and Bosnian Croat forces -- in Kupres, Zenica and Banja Luka. Some offensives have recently been conducted from within the UN-established safe-havens in the Zenica and Banja Luka regions.
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The US Administration has not restricted its involvement to the clandestine contravention of the UN arms embargo on the region ... It [also] committed three high-ranking delegations over the past two years [prior to 1994] in failed attempts to bring the Yugoslav Government into line with US policy. Yugoslavia is the only state in the region to have failed to acquiesce to US pressure.5
"From the Horse's Mouth"
Ironically, the US Administration's undercover military-intelligence operations in Bosnia have been fully documented by the Republican Party. A lengthy Congressional report by the Republican Party Committee (RPC) published in 1997, largely confirms the International Media Corporation report quoted above. The RPC Congressional report accuses the Clinton administration of having "helped turn Bosnia into a militant Islamic base" leading to the recruitment through the so-called "Militant Islamic Network," of thousands of Mujahideen from the Muslim world:
Perhaps most threatening to the SFOR mission - and more importantly, to the safety of the American personnel serving in Bosnia - is the unwillingness of the Clinton Administration to come clean with the Congress and with the American people about its complicity in the delivery of weapons from Iran to the Muslim government in Sarajevo. That policy, personally approved by Bill Clinton in April 1994 at the urging of CIA Director-designate (and then-NSC chief) Anthony Lake and the U.S. ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith, has, according to the Los Angeles Times (citing classified intelligence community sources), "played a central role in the dramatic increase in Iranian influence in Bosnia.
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Along with the weapons, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and VEVAK intelligence operatives entered Bosnia in large numbers, along with thousands of mujahedin ("holy warriors") from across the Muslim world. Also engaged in the effort were several other Muslim countries (including Brunei, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Turkey) and a number of radical Muslim organizations. For example, the role of one Sudan-based "humanitarian organization," called the Third World Relief Agency, has been well documented. The Clinton Administration's "hands-on" involvement with the Islamic network's arms pipeline included inspections of missiles from Iran by U.S. government officials... the Third World Relief Agency (TWRA), a Sudan-based, phoney humanitarian organization ... has been a major link in the arms pipeline to Bosnia. ... TWRA is believed to be connected with such fixtures of the Islamic terror network as Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (the convicted mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) and Osama Bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi émigré believed to bankroll numerous militant groups. [Washington Post, 9/22/96] 6
Complicity of the Clinton Administration
In other words, the Republican Party Committee report confirms unequivocally the complicity of the Clinton Administration with several Islamic fundamentalist organisations including Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda.
The Republicans wanted at the time to undermine the Clinton Administration. However, at a time when the entire country had its eyes riveted on the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Republicans no doubt chose not to trigger an untimely "Iran-Bosniagate" affair, which might have unduly diverted public attention away from the Lewinsky scandal. The Republicans wanted to impeach Bill Clinton "for having lied to the American People" regarding his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the more substantive "foreign policy lies" regarding drug running and covert operations in the Balkans, Democrats and Republicans agreed in unison, no doubt pressured by the Pentagon and the CIA not to "spill the beans".
From Bosnia to Kosovo
The "Bosnian pattern" described in the 1997 Congressional RPC report was replicated in Kosovo. With the complicity of NATO and the US State Department. Mujahideen mercenaries from the Middle East and Central Asia were recruited to fight in the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in 1998-99, largely supporting NATO's war effort.
Confirmed by British military sources, the task of arming and training of the KLA had been entrusted in 1998 to the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Britain's Secret Intelligence Services MI6, together with "former and serving members of 22 SAS [Britain's 22nd Special Air Services Regiment], as well as three British and American private security companies".7
The US DIA approached MI6 to arrange a training programme for the KLA, said a senior British military source. `MI6 then sub-contracted the operation to two British security companies, who in turn approached a number of former members of the (22 SAS) regiment. Lists were then drawn up of weapons and equipment needed by the KLA.' While these covert operations were continuing, serving members of 22 SAS Regiment, mostly from the unit's D Squadron, were first deployed in Kosovo before the beginning of the bombing campaign in March. 8
While British SAS Special Forces in bases in Northern Albania were training the KLA, military instructors from Turkey and Afghanistan financed by the "Islamic jihad" were collaborating in training the KLA in guerilla and diversion tactics.9:
Bin Laden had visited Albania himself. He was one of several fundamentalist groups that had sent units to fight in Kosovo, ... Bin Laden is believed to have established an operation in Albania in 1994 ... Albanian sources say Sali Berisha, who was then president, had links with some groups that later proved to be extreme fundamentalists. 10
Congressional Testimonies on KLA-Osama links
According to Frank Ciluffo of the Globalized Organised Crime Program, in a testimony presented to the House of Representatives Judicial Committee:
What was largely hidden from public view was the fact that the KLA raise part of their funds from the sale of narcotics. Albania and Kosovo lie at the heart of the "Balkan Route" that links the "Golden Crescent" of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the drug markets of Europe. This route is worth an estimated $400 billion a year and handles 80 percent of heroin destined for Europe. 11
According to Ralf Mutschke of Interpol's Criminal Intelligence division also in a testimony to the House Judicial Committee:
The U.S. State Department listed the KLA as a terrorist organization, indicating that it was financing its operations with money from the international heroin trade and loans from Islamic countries and individuals, among them allegedly Usama bin Laden" . Another link to bin Laden is the fact that the brother of a leader in an Egyptian Jihad organization and also a military commander of Usama bin Laden, was leading an elite KLA unit during the Kosovo conflict. 12
Madeleine Albright Covets the KLA
These KLA links to international terrorism and organised crime documented by the US Congress were totally ignored by the Clinton Administration. In fact, in the months preceding the bombing of Yugoslavia, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was busy building a "political legitimacy" for the KLA. The paramilitary army had --from one day to the next-- been elevated to the status of a bona fide "democratic" force in Kosovo. In turn, Madeleine Albright has forced the pace of international diplomacy: the KLA had been spearheaded into playing a central role in the failed "peace negotiations" at Rambouiillet in early 1999.
The Senate and the House tacitly endorse State Terrorism
While the various Congressional reports confirmed that the US government had been working hand in glove with Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, this did not prevent the Clinton and later the Bush Administration from arming and equipping the KLA. The Congressional documents also confirm that members of the Senate and the House knew the relationship of the Administration to international terrorism. To quote the statement of Rep. John Kasich of the House Armed Services Committee: "We connected ourselves [in 1998-99] with the KLA, which was the staging point for bin Laden..." 13
In the wake of the tragic events of September 11, Republicans and Democrats in unison have given their full support to the President to "wage war on Osama".
In 1999, Senator Jo Lieberman had stated authoritatively that "Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values." In the hours following the October 7 missile attacks on Afghanistan, the same Jo Lieberman called for punitive air strikes against Iraq: "We're in a war against terrorism... We can't stop with bin Laden and the Taliban." Yet Senator Jo Lieberman, as member of the Armed Services Committee of the Senate had access to all the Congressional documents pertaining to "KLA-Osama" links. In making this statement, he was fully aware that that agencies of the US government as well as NATO were supporting international terrorism.
The War in Macedonia
In the wake of the 1999 war in Yugoslavia, the terrorist activities of the KLA were extended into Southern Serbia and Macedonia. Meanwhile, the KLA --renamed the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC)-- was elevated to United Nations status, implying the granting of "legitimate" sources of funding through United Nations as well as through bilateral channels, including direct US military aid.
And barely two months after the official inauguration of the KPC under UN auspices (September 1999), KPC-KLA commanders - using UN resources and equipment - were already preparing the assaults into Macedonia, as a logical follow-up to their terrorist activities in Kosovo. According to the Skopje daily Dnevnik, the KPC had established a "sixth operation zone" in Southern Serbia and Macedonia:
Sources, who insist on anonymity, claim that the headquarters of the Kosovo protection brigades [i.e. linked to the UN sponsored KPC] have [March 2000] already been formed in Tetovo, Gostivar and Skopje. They are being prepared in Debar and Struga [on the border with Albania] as well, and their members have defined codes. 14
According to the BBC, "Western special forces were still training the guerrillas" meaning that they were assisting the KLA in opening up "a sixth operation zone" in Southern Serbia and Macedonia. 15
"The Islamic Militant Network" and NATO join hands in Macedonia
Among the foreign mercenaries now fighting in Macedonia (October 2001) in the ranks of self-proclaimed National Liberation Army (NLA), are Mujahideen from the Middle East and the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Also within the KLA's proxy force in Macedonia are senior US military advisers from a private mercenary outfit on contract to the Pentagon as well as "soldiers of fortune" from Britain, Holland and Germany. Some of these Western mercenaries had previously fought with the KLA and the Bosnian Muslim Army. 16
Extensively documented by the Macedonian press and statements of the Macedonian authorities, the US government and the "Islamic Militant Network" are working hand in glove in supporting and financing the self-proclaimed National Liberation Army (NLA), involved in the terrorist attacks in Macedonia. The NLA is a proxy of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). In turn the KLA and the UN sponsored Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) are identical institutions with the same commanders and military personnel. KPC Commanders on UN salaries are fighting in the NLA together with the Mujahideen.
In a bitter twist, while supported and financed by Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, the KLA-NLA is also supported by NATO and the United Nations mission to Kosovo (UNMIK). In fact, the "Islamic Militant Network" --also using Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) as the CIA's go-between-- still constitutes an integral part of Washington's covert military-intelligence operations in Macedonia and Southern Serbia.
The KLA-NLA terrorists are funded from US military aid, the United Nations peace-keeping budget as well as by several Islamic organisations including Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda. Drug money is also being used to finance the terrorists with the complicity of the US government. The recruitment of Mujahideen to fight in the ranks of the NLA in Macedonia is implemented through various Islamic groups.
US military advisers mingle with Mujahideen within the same paramilitary force, Western mercenaries from NATO countries fight alongside Mujahideen recruited in the Middle East and Central Asia. And the US media calls this a "blowback" where so-called "intelligence assets" have gone against their sponsors!
But this did not happen during the Cold war! It is happening right now in Macedonia. And it is confirmed by numerous press reports, eyewitness accounts, photographic evidence as well as official statements by the Macedonian Prime Minister, who has accused the Western military alliance of supporting the terrorists. Moreover, the official Macedonian New Agency (MIA) has pointed to the complicity between Washington's envoy Ambassador James Pardew and the NLA terrorists. 17 In other words, the so-called "intelligence assets" are still serving the interests of their US sponsors.
Pardew's background is revealing in this regard. He started his Balkans career in 1993 as a senior intelligence officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff responsible for channeling US aid to the Bosnian Muslim Army. Coronel Pardew had been put in charge of arranging the "air-drops" of supplies to Bosnian forces. At the time, these "air drops" were tagged as "civilian aid". It later transpired --confirmed by the RPC Congressional report-- that the US had violated the arms embargo. And James Pardew played an important role as part of the team of intelligence officials working closely with the Chairman of the National Security Council Anthony Lake.
Pardew was later involved in the Dayton negotiations (1995) on behalf of the US Defence Department. In 1999, prior to the bombing of Yugoslavia, he was appointed "Special Representative for Military Stabilisation and Kosovo Implementation" by President Clinton. One of his tasks was to channel support to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which at the time was also being supported by Osama bin Laden. Pardew was in this regard instrumental in replicating the "Bosnian pattern" in Kosovo and subsequently in Macedonia...
Justification for Waging War
The Bush Administration has stated that it has proof that Osama bin Laden is behind the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. In the words of British Prime Minister Tony Blair: "I have seen absolutely powerful and incontrovertible evidence of his [Osama] link to the events of the 11th of September." 18 What Tony Blair fails to mention is that agencies of the US government including the CIA continue to "harbor" Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda.
A major war supposedly "against international terrorism" has been launched by a government which is harboring international terrorism as part of its foreign policy agenda. In other words, the main justification for waging war has been totally fabricated. The American people have been deliberately and consciously misled by their government into supporting a major military adventure which affects our collective future.
This decision to mislead the American people was taken barely a few hours after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre. Without supporting evidence, Osama had already been tagged as the "prime suspect." Two days later on Thursday the 13th of September --while the FBI investigations had barely commenced-- President Bush pledged to "lead the world to victory". The Administration confirmed its intention to embark on "a sustained military campaign rather than a single dramatic action" directed against Osama bin Laden. 19 In addition to Afghanistan, a number of countries in the Middle East were mentioned as possible targets including Iraq, Iran, Libya and the Sudan. And several prominent US political figures and media pundits have demanded that the air strikes be extended to other countries "which harbour international terrorism." According to intelligence sources, Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda has operations in some 50 to 60 countries providing ample pretext to intervene in several "rogue states" in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Moreover, the entire US Legislature --with only one honest and courageous dissenting voice in the House of Representatives-- has tacitly endorsed the Administration's decision to go war. Members of the House and the Senate have access through the various committees to official confidential reports and intelligence documents which prove beyond doubt that agencies of the US government have ties to international terrorism. They cannot say "we did not know". In fact, most of this evidence is in the public domain.
Under the historical resolution of the US Congress adopted by both the House and the Senate on the 14th of September:
The president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
Whereas there is no evidence that agencies of the US government "aided the terrorist attacks" on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, there is ample and detailed evidence that agencies of the US government as well as NATO, have since the end of the Cold War continued to "harbor such organizations".
Patriotism cannot be based on a falsehood, particularly when it constitutes a pretext for waging war and killing innocent civilians.
Ironically, the text of the Congressional resolution also constitutes a "blowback" against the US sponsors of international terrorism. The resolution does not exclude the conduct of an "Osamagate" inquiry, as well as appropriate actions against agencies and/or individuals of the US government, who may have collaborated with Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda. And the evidence indelibly points directly to the Bush Administration.
CRG -- "OSAMAGATE"
"Now the Taliban will pay a price" vowed President George W. Bush, as American and British fighter planes unleashed missile attacks against major cities in Afghanistan. The US Administration claims that Osama bin Laden is behind the tragic events of the 11th of September. A major war supposedly "against international terrorism" has been launched, yet the evidence amply confirms that agencies of the US government have since the Cold War harbored the "Islamic Militant Network" as part of Washington's foreign policy agenda. In a bitter irony, the US Air Force is targeting the training camps established in the 1980s by the CIA.
The main justification for waging this war has been totally fabricated. The American people have been deliberately and consciously misled by their government into supporting a major military adventure which affects our collective future.
"OSAMAGATE"
by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montréal
Posted at globalresearch.ca 9 October 2001
Confronted with mounting evidence, the US Administration can no longer deny its links to Osama. While the CIA admits that Osama bin Laden was an "intelligence asset" during the Cold War, the relationship is said to "go way back". Most news reports consider that these Osama-CIA links belong to the "bygone era" of the Soviet-Afghan war. They are invariably viewed as "irrelevant" to an understanding of present events. Lost in the barrage of recent history, the role of the CIA in supporting and developing international terrorist organisations during the Cold war and its aftermath is casually ignored or downplayed by the Western media.
Yes, We did support Him, but "He Went Against Us"
A blatant example of media distortion is the so-called "blowback" thesis: "intelligence assets" are said to "have gone against their sponsors"; "what we've created blows back in our face."1 In a twisted logic, the US government and the CIA are portrayed as the ill-fated victims:
The sophisticated methods taught to the Mujahideen, and the thousands of tons of arms supplied to them by the US - and Britain - are now tormenting the West in the phenomenon known as `blowback', whereby a policy strategy rebounds on its own devisers. 2
The US media, nonetheless, concedes that "the Taliban's coming to power [in 1995] is partly the outcome of the U.S. support of the Mujahideen, the radical Islamic group, in the 1980s in the war against the Soviet Union".3 But it also readily dismisses its own factual statements and concludes in chorus, that the CIA had been tricked by a deceitful Osama. It's like "a son going against his father".
The "blowback" thesis is a fabrication. The evidence amply confirms that the CIA never severed its ties to the "Islamic Militant Network". Since the end of the Cold War, these covert intelligence links have not only been maintained, they have in become increasingly sophisticated.
New undercover initiatives financed by the Golden Crescent drug trade were set in motion in Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Balkans. Pakistan's military and intelligence apparatus (controlled by the CIA) essentially "served as a catalyst for the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of six new Muslim republics in Central Asia." 4
Replicating the Iran Contragate Pattern
Remember Ollie North and the Nicaraguan Contras under the Reagan Administration when weapons financed by the drug trade were channeled to "freedom fighters" in Washington's covert war against the Sandinista government. The same pattern was used in the Balkans to arm and equip the Mujahideen fighting in the ranks of the Bosnian Muslim army against the Armed Forces of the Yugoslav Federation.
Throughout the 1990s, the Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was used by the CIA as a go-between -- to channel weapons and Mujahideen mercenaries to the Bosnian Muslim Army in the civil war in Yugoslavia. According to a report of the London based International Media Corporation:
"Reliable sources report that the United States is now [1994] actively participating in the arming and training of the Muslim forces of Bosnia-Herzegovina in direct contravention of the United Nations accords. US agencies have been providing weapons made in ... China (PRC), North Korea (DPRK) and Iran. The sources indicated that ... Iran, with the knowledge and agreement of the US Government, supplied the Bosnian forces with a large number of multiple rocket launchers and a large quantity of ammunition. These included 107mm and 122mm rockets from the PRC, and VBR-230 multiple rocket launchers ... made in Iran. ... It was [also] reported that 400 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran) arrived in Bosnia with a large supply of arms and ammunition. It was alleged that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had full knowledge of the operation and that the CIA believed that some of the 400 had been detached for future terrorist operations in Western Europe.
During September and October [1994], there has been a stream of "Afghan" Mujahedin ... covertly landed in Ploce, Croatia (South-West of Mostar) from where they have traveled with false papers ... before deploying with the Bosnian Muslim forces in the Kupres, Zenica and Banja Luka areas. These forces have recently [late 1994] experienced a significant degree of military success. They have, according to sources in Sarajevo, been aided by the UNPROFOR Bangladesh battalion, which took over from a French battalion early in September [1994].
The Mujahedin landing at Ploce are reported to have been accompanied by US Special Forces equipped with high-tech communications equipment, ... The sources said that the mission of the US troops was to establish a command, control, communications and intelligence network to coordinate and support Bosnian Muslim offensives -- in concert with Mujahideen and Bosnian Croat forces -- in Kupres, Zenica and Banja Luka. Some offensives have recently been conducted from within the UN-established safe-havens in the Zenica and Banja Luka regions.
(...)
The US Administration has not restricted its involvement to the clandestine contravention of the UN arms embargo on the region ... It [also] committed three high-ranking delegations over the past two years [prior to 1994] in failed attempts to bring the Yugoslav Government into line with US policy. Yugoslavia is the only state in the region to have failed to acquiesce to US pressure.5
"From the Horse's Mouth"
Ironically, the US Administration's undercover military-intelligence operations in Bosnia have been fully documented by the Republican Party. A lengthy Congressional report by the Republican Party Committee (RPC) published in 1997, largely confirms the International Media Corporation report quoted above. The RPC Congressional report accuses the Clinton administration of having "helped turn Bosnia into a militant Islamic base" leading to the recruitment through the so-called "Militant Islamic Network," of thousands of Mujahideen from the Muslim world:
Perhaps most threatening to the SFOR mission - and more importantly, to the safety of the American personnel serving in Bosnia - is the unwillingness of the Clinton Administration to come clean with the Congress and with the American people about its complicity in the delivery of weapons from Iran to the Muslim government in Sarajevo. That policy, personally approved by Bill Clinton in April 1994 at the urging of CIA Director-designate (and then-NSC chief) Anthony Lake and the U.S. ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith, has, according to the Los Angeles Times (citing classified intelligence community sources), "played a central role in the dramatic increase in Iranian influence in Bosnia.
(...)
Along with the weapons, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and VEVAK intelligence operatives entered Bosnia in large numbers, along with thousands of mujahedin ("holy warriors") from across the Muslim world. Also engaged in the effort were several other Muslim countries (including Brunei, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Turkey) and a number of radical Muslim organizations. For example, the role of one Sudan-based "humanitarian organization," called the Third World Relief Agency, has been well documented. The Clinton Administration's "hands-on" involvement with the Islamic network's arms pipeline included inspections of missiles from Iran by U.S. government officials... the Third World Relief Agency (TWRA), a Sudan-based, phoney humanitarian organization ... has been a major link in the arms pipeline to Bosnia. ... TWRA is believed to be connected with such fixtures of the Islamic terror network as Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (the convicted mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) and Osama Bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi émigré believed to bankroll numerous militant groups. [Washington Post, 9/22/96] 6
Complicity of the Clinton Administration
In other words, the Republican Party Committee report confirms unequivocally the complicity of the Clinton Administration with several Islamic fundamentalist organisations including Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda.
The Republicans wanted at the time to undermine the Clinton Administration. However, at a time when the entire country had its eyes riveted on the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Republicans no doubt chose not to trigger an untimely "Iran-Bosniagate" affair, which might have unduly diverted public attention away from the Lewinsky scandal. The Republicans wanted to impeach Bill Clinton "for having lied to the American People" regarding his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the more substantive "foreign policy lies" regarding drug running and covert operations in the Balkans, Democrats and Republicans agreed in unison, no doubt pressured by the Pentagon and the CIA not to "spill the beans".
From Bosnia to Kosovo
The "Bosnian pattern" described in the 1997 Congressional RPC report was replicated in Kosovo. With the complicity of NATO and the US State Department. Mujahideen mercenaries from the Middle East and Central Asia were recruited to fight in the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in 1998-99, largely supporting NATO's war effort.
Confirmed by British military sources, the task of arming and training of the KLA had been entrusted in 1998 to the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Britain's Secret Intelligence Services MI6, together with "former and serving members of 22 SAS [Britain's 22nd Special Air Services Regiment], as well as three British and American private security companies".7
The US DIA approached MI6 to arrange a training programme for the KLA, said a senior British military source. `MI6 then sub-contracted the operation to two British security companies, who in turn approached a number of former members of the (22 SAS) regiment. Lists were then drawn up of weapons and equipment needed by the KLA.' While these covert operations were continuing, serving members of 22 SAS Regiment, mostly from the unit's D Squadron, were first deployed in Kosovo before the beginning of the bombing campaign in March. 8
While British SAS Special Forces in bases in Northern Albania were training the KLA, military instructors from Turkey and Afghanistan financed by the "Islamic jihad" were collaborating in training the KLA in guerilla and diversion tactics.9:
Bin Laden had visited Albania himself. He was one of several fundamentalist groups that had sent units to fight in Kosovo, ... Bin Laden is believed to have established an operation in Albania in 1994 ... Albanian sources say Sali Berisha, who was then president, had links with some groups that later proved to be extreme fundamentalists. 10
Congressional Testimonies on KLA-Osama links
According to Frank Ciluffo of the Globalized Organised Crime Program, in a testimony presented to the House of Representatives Judicial Committee:
What was largely hidden from public view was the fact that the KLA raise part of their funds from the sale of narcotics. Albania and Kosovo lie at the heart of the "Balkan Route" that links the "Golden Crescent" of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the drug markets of Europe. This route is worth an estimated $400 billion a year and handles 80 percent of heroin destined for Europe. 11
According to Ralf Mutschke of Interpol's Criminal Intelligence division also in a testimony to the House Judicial Committee:
The U.S. State Department listed the KLA as a terrorist organization, indicating that it was financing its operations with money from the international heroin trade and loans from Islamic countries and individuals, among them allegedly Usama bin Laden" . Another link to bin Laden is the fact that the brother of a leader in an Egyptian Jihad organization and also a military commander of Usama bin Laden, was leading an elite KLA unit during the Kosovo conflict. 12
Madeleine Albright Covets the KLA
These KLA links to international terrorism and organised crime documented by the US Congress were totally ignored by the Clinton Administration. In fact, in the months preceding the bombing of Yugoslavia, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was busy building a "political legitimacy" for the KLA. The paramilitary army had --from one day to the next-- been elevated to the status of a bona fide "democratic" force in Kosovo. In turn, Madeleine Albright has forced the pace of international diplomacy: the KLA had been spearheaded into playing a central role in the failed "peace negotiations" at Rambouiillet in early 1999.
The Senate and the House tacitly endorse State Terrorism
While the various Congressional reports confirmed that the US government had been working hand in glove with Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, this did not prevent the Clinton and later the Bush Administration from arming and equipping the KLA. The Congressional documents also confirm that members of the Senate and the House knew the relationship of the Administration to international terrorism. To quote the statement of Rep. John Kasich of the House Armed Services Committee: "We connected ourselves [in 1998-99] with the KLA, which was the staging point for bin Laden..." 13
In the wake of the tragic events of September 11, Republicans and Democrats in unison have given their full support to the President to "wage war on Osama".
In 1999, Senator Jo Lieberman had stated authoritatively that "Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values." In the hours following the October 7 missile attacks on Afghanistan, the same Jo Lieberman called for punitive air strikes against Iraq: "We're in a war against terrorism... We can't stop with bin Laden and the Taliban." Yet Senator Jo Lieberman, as member of the Armed Services Committee of the Senate had access to all the Congressional documents pertaining to "KLA-Osama" links. In making this statement, he was fully aware that that agencies of the US government as well as NATO were supporting international terrorism.
The War in Macedonia
In the wake of the 1999 war in Yugoslavia, the terrorist activities of the KLA were extended into Southern Serbia and Macedonia. Meanwhile, the KLA --renamed the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC)-- was elevated to United Nations status, implying the granting of "legitimate" sources of funding through United Nations as well as through bilateral channels, including direct US military aid.
And barely two months after the official inauguration of the KPC under UN auspices (September 1999), KPC-KLA commanders - using UN resources and equipment - were already preparing the assaults into Macedonia, as a logical follow-up to their terrorist activities in Kosovo. According to the Skopje daily Dnevnik, the KPC had established a "sixth operation zone" in Southern Serbia and Macedonia:
Sources, who insist on anonymity, claim that the headquarters of the Kosovo protection brigades [i.e. linked to the UN sponsored KPC] have [March 2000] already been formed in Tetovo, Gostivar and Skopje. They are being prepared in Debar and Struga [on the border with Albania] as well, and their members have defined codes. 14
According to the BBC, "Western special forces were still training the guerrillas" meaning that they were assisting the KLA in opening up "a sixth operation zone" in Southern Serbia and Macedonia. 15
"The Islamic Militant Network" and NATO join hands in Macedonia
Among the foreign mercenaries now fighting in Macedonia (October 2001) in the ranks of self-proclaimed National Liberation Army (NLA), are Mujahideen from the Middle East and the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Also within the KLA's proxy force in Macedonia are senior US military advisers from a private mercenary outfit on contract to the Pentagon as well as "soldiers of fortune" from Britain, Holland and Germany. Some of these Western mercenaries had previously fought with the KLA and the Bosnian Muslim Army. 16
Extensively documented by the Macedonian press and statements of the Macedonian authorities, the US government and the "Islamic Militant Network" are working hand in glove in supporting and financing the self-proclaimed National Liberation Army (NLA), involved in the terrorist attacks in Macedonia. The NLA is a proxy of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). In turn the KLA and the UN sponsored Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) are identical institutions with the same commanders and military personnel. KPC Commanders on UN salaries are fighting in the NLA together with the Mujahideen.
In a bitter twist, while supported and financed by Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, the KLA-NLA is also supported by NATO and the United Nations mission to Kosovo (UNMIK). In fact, the "Islamic Militant Network" --also using Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) as the CIA's go-between-- still constitutes an integral part of Washington's covert military-intelligence operations in Macedonia and Southern Serbia.
The KLA-NLA terrorists are funded from US military aid, the United Nations peace-keeping budget as well as by several Islamic organisations including Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda. Drug money is also being used to finance the terrorists with the complicity of the US government. The recruitment of Mujahideen to fight in the ranks of the NLA in Macedonia is implemented through various Islamic groups.
US military advisers mingle with Mujahideen within the same paramilitary force, Western mercenaries from NATO countries fight alongside Mujahideen recruited in the Middle East and Central Asia. And the US media calls this a "blowback" where so-called "intelligence assets" have gone against their sponsors!
But this did not happen during the Cold war! It is happening right now in Macedonia. And it is confirmed by numerous press reports, eyewitness accounts, photographic evidence as well as official statements by the Macedonian Prime Minister, who has accused the Western military alliance of supporting the terrorists. Moreover, the official Macedonian New Agency (MIA) has pointed to the complicity between Washington's envoy Ambassador James Pardew and the NLA terrorists. 17 In other words, the so-called "intelligence assets" are still serving the interests of their US sponsors.
Pardew's background is revealing in this regard. He started his Balkans career in 1993 as a senior intelligence officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff responsible for channeling US aid to the Bosnian Muslim Army. Coronel Pardew had been put in charge of arranging the "air-drops" of supplies to Bosnian forces. At the time, these "air drops" were tagged as "civilian aid". It later transpired --confirmed by the RPC Congressional report-- that the US had violated the arms embargo. And James Pardew played an important role as part of the team of intelligence officials working closely with the Chairman of the National Security Council Anthony Lake.
Pardew was later involved in the Dayton negotiations (1995) on behalf of the US Defence Department. In 1999, prior to the bombing of Yugoslavia, he was appointed "Special Representative for Military Stabilisation and Kosovo Implementation" by President Clinton. One of his tasks was to channel support to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which at the time was also being supported by Osama bin Laden. Pardew was in this regard instrumental in replicating the "Bosnian pattern" in Kosovo and subsequently in Macedonia...
Justification for Waging War
The Bush Administration has stated that it has proof that Osama bin Laden is behind the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. In the words of British Prime Minister Tony Blair: "I have seen absolutely powerful and incontrovertible evidence of his [Osama] link to the events of the 11th of September." 18 What Tony Blair fails to mention is that agencies of the US government including the CIA continue to "harbor" Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda.
A major war supposedly "against international terrorism" has been launched by a government which is harboring international terrorism as part of its foreign policy agenda. In other words, the main justification for waging war has been totally fabricated. The American people have been deliberately and consciously misled by their government into supporting a major military adventure which affects our collective future.
This decision to mislead the American people was taken barely a few hours after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre. Without supporting evidence, Osama had already been tagged as the "prime suspect." Two days later on Thursday the 13th of September --while the FBI investigations had barely commenced-- President Bush pledged to "lead the world to victory". The Administration confirmed its intention to embark on "a sustained military campaign rather than a single dramatic action" directed against Osama bin Laden. 19 In addition to Afghanistan, a number of countries in the Middle East were mentioned as possible targets including Iraq, Iran, Libya and the Sudan. And several prominent US political figures and media pundits have demanded that the air strikes be extended to other countries "which harbour international terrorism." According to intelligence sources, Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda has operations in some 50 to 60 countries providing ample pretext to intervene in several "rogue states" in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Moreover, the entire US Legislature --with only one honest and courageous dissenting voice in the House of Representatives-- has tacitly endorsed the Administration's decision to go war. Members of the House and the Senate have access through the various committees to official confidential reports and intelligence documents which prove beyond doubt that agencies of the US government have ties to international terrorism. They cannot say "we did not know". In fact, most of this evidence is in the public domain.
Under the historical resolution of the US Congress adopted by both the House and the Senate on the 14th of September:
The president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
Whereas there is no evidence that agencies of the US government "aided the terrorist attacks" on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, there is ample and detailed evidence that agencies of the US government as well as NATO, have since the end of the Cold War continued to "harbor such organizations".
Patriotism cannot be based on a falsehood, particularly when it constitutes a pretext for waging war and killing innocent civilians.
Ironically, the text of the Congressional resolution also constitutes a "blowback" against the US sponsors of international terrorism. The resolution does not exclude the conduct of an "Osamagate" inquiry, as well as appropriate actions against agencies and/or individuals of the US government, who may have collaborated with Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda. And the evidence indelibly points directly to the Bush Administration.
CRG -- "OSAMAGATE"
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