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   12/02/08

   IbneAdam

   One must ask the question
   "Who is the biggest beneficiary of this entire tragedy?".
   
   Secondly, Indian government and media had so many twists in their (self contradicting) statments that I don't trust any of them.
   
   I am not surprised at killing of Karkare. Just consider the follwoing facts
   
   1. In Samjhota Express (train service between India and Pakistan) incident, where train was set on fire, a large number of people, including 70 Pakistanis, were killed.
   
   2. Indian government and media was quick to blame Pakistan.
   
   3. Mr Karkare, after investigation, revelaed that a SERVING INDIAN ARMY COLONEL, having links with extremist Hindu Party, was involved.
   
   4. Indian court pronounced the colonel guilty.
   
   All this when Indian government and Indian Media had PROVED BEYOND DOUBT that Pakistan was behind the incident.

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      12/02/08

      weblogian

      But the Recent Mumbai is from pakistan and the caught terrorist have have confess about it , so as the US Intel knew about it before hand
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   12/02/08

   amazings

   pls read the article here.
   ibnlive.in.com/news/time-to-put-pak-on-notice-us-security-expert/79492-2.ht...
   It is interview of
   Alexiev is the vice president for research at Center for Security Policy, Washington DC and has directed several research projects for the US Defense Department. His present research focuses on issues related to Islamic extremism and terrorism. In a telephone interview to Network18 from his home in California, he tells Shloka Nath that the time has come to put Pakistan on notice.
   
   I will quote some part of his interview
   "I have spent an extensive amount of time in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. And the one thing I have learnt is that all terrorism is, to some extent, state-sponsored. Let’s be frank. Nearly all terrorist attempts in India can said to have been sponsored by Pakistan. Take Lashkar-e-Toiba, the child of the ISI that continues to be supported by them. You just can’t separate terrorist attacks in India from Jihadi outfits in Pakistan. Many who were banned under the Musharraf regime have simply renamed themselves and continued to operate and be supported by the ISI.
   
   The current Pakistani government knows that the ISI is a state within the state. Look at the number of ISI chiefs who turn out to be zealous Islamists after they retire. The raison d’etre of the Pakistan military depends on India’s image as an enemy. Because, without it, how do you justify spending 40% of the country's income on the military?
   
   And I’m not sure if America has recognized that Pakistan today is not a state with a military but a military with a state. Personally, I thought America’s policy with Musharraf was misguided – Washington thinks Pakistan is a strategic ally. We don't understand that actually we may be losing Afghanistan because of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia’s support for extremists. We know the ISI is behind the bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul. If they can attack the sovereign territory of a neighbor, why would it come as a surprise if they chose to attack India’s business centre? For some reason there is this pervasive belief that if you don't speak of evil it will go away. The fact is, it won’t. And the time has come to put Pakistan on notice.
   
   The other fascinating thing is the Dawood connection - another example of the state sponsoring terrorism. We know Dawood is protected and given refuge and allowed to operate his criminal empire by the ISI and now it looks like he could be one of the guys involved in this. So you have a possible organized crime and terror nexus – who made that possible?
   
   India’s government needs to wake up to what’s happening and what’s coming down the pipe. There are terrorist incidents in India every one or two months, which are really disruptive. How long can you tolerate that?"

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      12/02/08

      IbneAdam

      "The raison d’etre of the Pakistan military depends on India’s image as an enemy. Because, without it, how do you justify spending 40% of the country's income on the military?"
      
      By the very same logic, I can say that US military industry + hawks in political parties/government need SOME enemy to justify spedning HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS every year.
      
      After Vietnam and USSR, they needed a new enemy to FRIGHTEN their own people to continue supporting military spending. They came up with
      CLASH OF CIVILISATION
      that turned into
      ISLAMIC TERRORISM
      and other elements llike
      the WMD's of IRAQ.
      
      Where are Iraq's WMD????
      Have we seen any head rolled in US after such masive intelligence failure?
      
      Sorry, one has to be a real goof to trust these so called Intelligenece Experts.