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ISI involved in 26/11, chief Pasha told CIA shortly after attacks: Book

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ISI involved in 26/11, chief Pasha told CIA shortly after attacks: Book


WASHINGTON: Less than a month after the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan's spy agency chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha had admitted before the CIA that the terror strikes had ISI links but claimed it was not an "authorised" operation and carried out by "rogue" elements, according to a new book.

However, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) later received reliable intelligence that the ISI was directly involved in the training for Mumbai, says the book entitled 'Obama's War' written by investigative American journalist Bob Woodward.

According to the book, the then President George W Bush during his meetings with his top aides had said that the terrorist attack on Mumbai was just like 9/11.

"President Bush called his national security team into the Oval Office as Mumbai sorted through the blood and rubble. You guys get planning and do what you have to do to prevent a war between Pakistan and India, Bush told his aides. The last thing we need right now is a war between two nuclear-power states," Woodward says in his book which hit the stands today.

Giving an insight into the thinking and actions of the Bush Administration during and immediately after the Mumbai attacks, Woodward writes that an "upset Bush asked his aides about contingency plans for dealing with Pakistan," given his policy of "zero tolerance" for terrorists and their enablers.

"This is like 9/11, he (Bush) said," Woodward wrote. "The United States military did not have 'war' plans for an invasion of Pakistan. Instead, it had and continues to have one of the most sensitive and secret of all military contingencies, what military officials call a 'retribution' plan in the event of another 9/11-like attack on the US by terrorists based in Pakistan," the book says.

Under this plan, the US would bomb or attack every known al-Qaeda compound or training camp in the US intelligence database. "Some locations might be outdated, but there would be no concern, under the plan, for who might be living there now. The attribution plan called for a brutal punishing attack on at least 150 or more associated camps," Woodward says.

According to Woodward, within 48 hours of the Mumbai attack, the then CIA Director Mike Hayden contacted Pakistan Ambassador to the US, Hussain Haqqani.

"CIA intelligence showed no direct ISI links, Hayden told him. These are former people who are no longer employees of the Pakistani government," he wrote.

"Bush informed the Indians himself. He called Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with whom he had a strong personal relationship. My intelligence shows that the new Pakistani government is not involved, Bush said. It looked like a war had been averted for the moment," Woodward writes.



ISI involved in 26/11, chief Pasha told CIA shortly after attacks: Book - The Times of India
 
Well something is to be added in the book to make it more spicy, as lot of stuff has been already said, so why repeating it again, add some more twist in it, thus the book will sell.

The normal practices that we see, whenever such books are published.
 
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Yeah right...... Good way to sell few more books.....
 
Well something is to be added in the book to make it more spicy, as lot of stuff has been already said, so why repeating it again, add some more twist in it, thus the book will sell.

The normal practices that we see, whenever such books are published.

If these allegation are false, then Mr Pasha or ISI should sue the book..that is the only way to prove one's innocence.
 
Von Hölle;1162759 said:
If these allegation are false, then Mr Pasha or ISI should sue the book..that is the only way to prove one's innocence.
Why dont indian sue Zaid Hamid.....??? or whatever he says is true then...
 
Why dont indian sue Zaid Hamid.....??? or whatever he says is true then...

Did he write a book, that some "named" Indian official told him something.. which was actually false?

Then that particular person has the full responsibility of suing, to clear his name...is that the case.
 
It really makes no difference to us whether any ISI chief publicly admits this or not.....As far as our establishment is concerned we have credible intelligence about the perpetrators.......if such public reports manage to convince the skeptical MP's in parliament to increase the RAW budget and scale of covert operations to deter such happenings ......then its good enough.....

plus further condemnation of the so called rogue ISI elements in the eyes of the American public always comes as an additional bonus..... ..
 
Von Hölle;1162759 said:
If these allegation are false, then Mr Pasha or ISI should sue the book..that is the only way to prove one's innocence.

Let the book come out, or since the news is now out, and more and more news outlets are gonna quote it, we may see a statement from the ISI or the govt as this would definitely be asked from them.
 

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