Former French Magistrate makes startling allegations in book

[Hari]

Came across a news report

Thu, Nov 5 07:45 PM
Los Angeles, Nov 5 (ANI): Pakistan has no more control on its army and the Inter-Services Intelligence officers, who are aiding militants in the country, according to a French investigative magistrate.

Former investigative magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere, who stepped down from that post in 2007, and now serves as the European Union's envoy to Washington on issues related to the financing of terrorism, in a book points that Pakistan has lost control of its rogue military, the Los Angeles Times reports.French officials in Pakistan were the target? of threats and physical intimidation: A way? of dissuading us from returning," Jean-Louis Bruguiere writes in his new book, "What I Could Not Say".

Bruguiere was an investigative magistrate for three decades, a role that combines the duties of prosecutor and judge and allowed him to cultivate high-level contacts from Algiers to Moscow.

The book details French investigations of extremist activity in Pakistan, including a case in which officials went as far as hiding militants from CIA inspection teams at a training camp run by the Pakistani military, the paper reports.

Military handlers then sent the trainees on terrorist missions to the West, Bruguiere asserts.

He said that the United States made strategic errors in dealing with Pakistan, adding that it might be too late to clear the security forces of those who sympathize with the extremists.

Tracing a history of modern-day terrorism, the book describes the nine-year investigation of the 1989 bombing of a flight from Chad to Paris that killed 170 people, the Los Angeles Times reports

'Pakistan has no more control on its army' - Yahoo! India News

 

[Hari]

Here is the LA times report on this

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-terror-judge4-2009nov04,0,3572513.story

 

[Patriot]

OH!!! I am very afraid..

 

[SQ8]

Yellow journalism..

 

[mjnaushad]

Isn't these are teh news agencies which two years ago said that Pakistan will be divided in 6 months. I am still waiting.

 

[skeptic9]

Pakistan should indeed redefine it's Afghan policy.

 

[RPK]

Famed French judge Bruguiere tells of a troubled Pakistan -- latimes.com

 

[AstanoshKhan]

Who cares about his claims anyway. The job of an Army is to defend the homeland/people and it's interests, and I am very much sure that's exactly Pak Army is doing right now. And BTW, why on earth they have to worry so much about Pakistan and the role played by it's Army? Why aren't they trying to expose other side of the image? A beautiful and loving Pakistan/Pakistanis...

 

[mjnaushad]

Who cares about his claims anyway. The job of an Army is to defend the homeland/people and it's interests, and I am very much sure that's exactly Pak Army is doing right now. And BTW, why on earth they have to worry so much about Pakistan and the role played by it's Army? Why aren't they trying to expose other side of the image? A beautiful and loving Pakistan/Pakistanis...

After SW Operation the image of PA is getting improved so someone has to do the job of keeping a Negative image of PA.Its his job. Who cares what he thinks.

 

[Khajur]

The judge cites his investigation of Willie Brigitte, a Frenchman who was convicted of terrorism charges in 2007.

After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, Al Qaeda militants helped Brigitte go to Pakistan to train with hundreds of Arabs and Westerners and several thousand Pakistanis and Afghans at a mountain complex in Punjab. Affiliated with Al Qaeda, the camp was run jointly by the Lashkar-e-Taiba extremist group and Pakistani security forces, which supplied arms and instructors, the book says.

CIA officers accompanied by Pakistani officials made four inspections of the camp, part of an agreement in which Pakistan had promised to prevent foreign militants from training with Lashkar, Bruguiere writes.

"But, since most of the officers of Lashkar belonged to the army, these inspections were doomed to draw a blank," the book says. "The foreign recruits were alerted on the eve of the arrival of the inspection teams by their instructors, military men informed by their hierarchy.

"The trainees then had to . . . erase any traces of their presence and head to an elevation of more than 13,000 feet while the inspection lasted."

The book says Brigitte testified that his handler was a Pakistani military officer, identified as Sajid, who sent the Frenchman to Australia to join a cell plotting bomb attacks on targets that included a nuclear plant. Alerted by French investigators on Brigitte's trail, Australian police arrested the group in 2003.

Anyone how doubts links of PA/ISI with terror group like LeT and their role in attacks like 26/11 is only deceiving themselves as the whole world is aware of military led pakistans guile and such conduct will hurt pakistan more than india or anyone else evidenced in growing terror incidents seen in pakistan for last few years

 

[Slides]

LOL at the French. Is he the same French judge/author who said 9/11 was inside job or the Sarkozy was involved in the bombing of 11 French engineers in Karachi?

I think the French should concern themselves with their out of control North African population.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Anyone how doubts links of PA/ISI with terror group like LeT and their role in attacks like 26/11 is only deceiving themselves as the whole world is aware of military led pakistans guile and such conduct will hurt pakistan more than india or anyone else evidenced in growing terror incidents seen in pakistan for last few years

This was 2001 - it was after the Parliament attacks that Pakistan started to dissasociate from the LeT, Hafiz Saeed left the organization etc.

So there is no 'deception' in denying any institutional role in the Mumbai attacks, because there is no evidence to support that allegation.

The accusations made in this book need verfication in any case. Perhaps more details will be forthcoming as more of the book is revealed.

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LOL at the French. Is he the same French judge/author who said 9/11 was inside job or the Sarkozy was involved in the bombing of 11 French engineers in Karachi?

I was thinking the same thing ...

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

The book says Brigitte testified that his handler was a Pakistani military officer, identified as Sajid, who sent the Frenchman to Australia to join a cell plotting bomb attacks on targets that included a nuclear plant. Alerted by French investigators on Brigitte's trail, Australian police arrested the group in 2003.

From a institutional standpoint (ISI, PA, GoP) this allegation makes no sense whatsoever - why would the PA/ISI/GoP be interested in bombing targets in Australia?

If this 'Sajid' really was a PA officer, then the only explanation I can think of is the one offered by Bruguiere, "Pakistan has lost control of rogue military and intelligence officers". To that end it was a concern admitted by Musharraf as well, though one could speculate on how deep those concerns were beyond what was admitted publicly.

 

[bandit]

The book says Brigitte testified that his handler was a Pakistani military officer, identified as Sajid, who sent the Frenchman to Australia to join a cell plotting bomb attacks on targets that included a nuclear plant. Alerted by French investigators on Brigitte's trail, Australian police arrested the group in 2003.

Sajid also dispatched militants for missions in Britain and in Virginia, where authorities later convicted Americans who were part of a group known as the "paintball jihadis" and who were fellow trainees of Brigitte, the book says. A French court convicted Brigitte on terrorism charges and sentenced him to nine years in prison.

Bad for Pakistan. Evidences like this prove that terrorism is institutionalized in Pakistans forces and politics. I believe KL bill rightly seeks to impose certain checks on its army as they tend to keep having these rogue elements crop up from time to time. Now that Pakistan has shot itself in the foot by nurrturing these jehadis, its better to let someoone keep a watch over them lest they try these adventures again.

But, since most of the officers of Lashkar belonged to the army, these inspections were doomed to draw a blank,
Not a sure proof that armymen were involved in Mumbai, but this coupled with Kasabs testimony does point the finger of suspicion towards this Rogue army.

 

[Khajur]

LOL at the French. Is he the same French judge/author who said 9/11 was inside job or the Sarkozy was involved in the bombing of 11 French engineers in Karachi?

I think the French should concern themselves with their out of control North African population.

No,he isnt the same man.

Its a french professor named Aymeric Chauprade who wrote a book claiming 9/11 was inside job .