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While initial reports suggested that Mumbai carnage was a localised attack by militant malcontents in India because of the "Deccan Mujaheddin" decoy that was used to claim responsibility, evidence cited by Indian army & security experts based on phone intercepts, nature of weaponry, mode of entry by sea etc., has quickly focused the attention on Pakistan.



The statement by India's normally cautious & restrained prime minister, Manmohan Singh, that groups based across the border, a thinly-disguised reference to Pakistan, has also galvanized the strategic and security community into examining Islamabad's role in the region that has already been subjected to scrutiny in the past.



Intelligence experts have zeroed in on Pakistan's role in the terrorist activities in Indian Sub-Continent. "There have been reports from credible sources for years that Pakistani intelligence has used terrorist groups to conduct war-by-proxy against traditional rival India. With the latest horrific attacks throughout Mumbai, evidence continues to accumulate that may add new substance to such reports," the website Washington Examiner noted.



What has added potency to the latest charges against Islamabad is the Bush administration's own assessment - leaked to the US media - that Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI was linked to the bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul some weeks back that killed nearly 60 people including a much-admired Indian diplomat and a respected senior defense official.

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This time, the US scrutiny is more intense because American, Israeli & other western nationals appear to have been singled out during the carnage. 100's of Indians have died in dozens of terrorist attacks in India in the past two decades without Washington losing too much sleep over it. In fact, Indian officials have often complained in private that successive US administrations have been incredibly indulgent about Pakistan's brazen involvement in fomenting terror in India, believing it would not touch the US.



Part of the coddling goes back to US patronage of the ISI during the Afghan war. As a result, Washington has done little to bring to book Dawood Ibrahim, a terrorist charged with masterminding the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in 1993 that took 258 lives, although Indian intelligence agencies have identified him as living in Karachi under ISI protection.

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While all major terror attacks in India are typically accompanied by knee-jerk charges from India & shrill denials by Pakistan, analysts point to mounting evidence Pakistan, especially under its military, has done little to combat the scourge of terrorism. Several terrorist and extremist leaders such as Masood Azhar & "Prof" Hafeez Mohammed Saeed, continue to thrive in Pakistan, often under official patronage. Extremists openly preach terrorism in jihadi gatherings overseen by ISI.

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The Pakistani establishment has also dragged its feet on prosecuting Omar Saeed Sheikh, an accused in the Daniel Pearl murder because of his influential connections in the higher echelons of the ISI. Another terrorist Rashid Rauf, also known as the shoe-bomber, was killed last week in a US predator strike, months after he 'escaped' from Pakistani police custody while being escorted for a hearing. Western & Indian intelligence communities believe men like Sheikh and Rauf are protected by the ISI or rogue elements in the ISI.

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The Pakistani military, which controls the ISI, has resisted any attempt to make it subservient to the civilian government because the army uses it both as a fighting arm for its proxy war against India & also to spy on its own civilian government.



Among the several question that security experts are grappling is the motive behind the latest attack & who stands to gain by it. The terrorists have notably not even raised the Kashmir issue for their action to be linked to the separatist cause. Nor did they attempt to extract any specific concession in exchange for hostages, other than to demand the release of "all mujaheddin".

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They seemed intent on causing mayhem & dying in the same suicidal jihadi manner that was evident in the attack on India’s parliament & on the Akshardham temple earlier in this decade. Their victims, besides the scores of people who died, included India’s booming economy and tourism, both of which was the envy of a troubled neighbourhood.

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alexricardo on
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its like overestimating a third world country's intelligence agency and avoiding the truth which is not exactly as described in this article. Pakistani people hate terrorism more than any other in the whole world because it is affecting them fore mostly. As far as the intelligence agencies go, all such agencies have similar agenda world over.. because RAW is not running bakeries in India and nor is CIA shooting Hollywood Films only. Discussions should be based upon factual analysis and not presumptions like if the Mumbai attacks were well coordinated so they must have been planned by ISI or something.. After all it only proves the inner weakness of the Internal Security Agencies who firstly failed to avoid such havoc in the first place, secondly are shamelessly trying to put this on Pakistan to desperately seek an easy however, shameful get away.
jst on
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i don't agree with u. ever since the cold war US was helping Pak as India was following a socialist path. Even when India liberated Bangladesh from Pakistan US send Navy Ships to attack India. Only after Sovit Union send Nuclear Submarine to help India US backed away. Until the presidency of George Bush Jr. all the consecutive US Govt. was supporting Pakistan. Bush saw the true face of Pakistan. Even now the traditionally Pakistan supporting Democrats have changed there stand. The president elect Obama is all about sending troops to Pakistan. It is a common knowlege that International terrorist Dawood Ibrahim who planned 1993 Mumbai Blasts is hiding in Pakistan. If Pakistan is so innocent why can't they capture him. Also almost every terrorist organisation in Asia is working from Pakistan. Even China has admitted it.

Also your initial statement about "overestimating a third world country's intelligence agency". This statement show that you have no idea about what you are talking. I agre that PAk is a Third world country. But its Intelligence is the first rate. Because during the Soviet-Afgan war US was pumping money into Pakistan for their help. This money was inturn used to expand ISI activities instead of the welfare of Pakistani people. Also the captured terrorist from Trident hotel, during the Mumbai blast has now been confirmed as Abu Ismail hailing from Faridkot, Pakistan. What proof do u need other than this.
mclarendillon on
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I don’t think Pakistan has anything to do with the attacks in the face of already troubled environment contained within its borders. It would be instead an obvious mistake to do it especially at a time once its running after getting financial aid from international orgs. What seems obvious is that western powers have much more interests vested in this whole scenario (cause if a war breaks out between the two countries would boost the arms sales).. Its virtually pointless to prematurely target pakistan because it has become a fashion that wherever the evil al qaida / terror strikes people rather than professionally investigating the matter down to the core, try to save face by hiding behind such arguments such as it must have been done under the supervision of Pakistan..
jst on
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hai in this comment page i have already given a reply which i think is suitable for your response.
danedahl on
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Benezir  Bhutto's Murder and The WHY? of Terrorism in Islam (and Pakistan)

 

I am an American living in Asia. I am not Moslem, but I am a writer and historian. I would like to share some information with you: information concerning Moslem violence and terrorism, and why the United States and its military allies throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East  must continue to be vigilant and present a solid front, so that when appropriate, they can respond to individual acts of violent Islamic terrorism with relentless, overwhelming, and deadly force. 

 

This information may help you understand what is going on not only in India, Pakistan, and China, as well as other parts of Asia, but also the entire Middle East, as well as Africa, Europe, and even the United States.

 

Simply put, Benezir Bhutto was murdered by Islamic militants, because she made it clear she would never participate in an Islamic Jihad against the rest of the non-Moslem world. These same criminals then used their influence and government connections to cover-up their hideous crime, because in the not too distant future, they and their Islamic terrorists brothers hope to involve you and your loved ones, as well as a vast number of other innocent victims in a man-made catastrophe: an organized and violent calamity of biblical proportions that is based on teachings that were deliberately added to the Koran, decades after the faith was founded.

 

Disregarding the social, economic, and political factors that serve as underpinnings for Islamic terrorism, I will address the more fundamental issue: the religious teachings that sanction violence against non-Moslems and AGAINST ALL WOMEN.  Here are seven verses from the Koran.  These scriptures have been translated into modern English.

 

 …murder, crucify, or cut off the hands and feet of non-Moslems…Chapter 5 Verse 33 - The Koran

…create terror in the hearts of non-Moslems …cut off their heads…Chapter 8 Verse 12 - The Koran  

…and fight non-Moslems until Allah’s religion is the only one…Chapter 8 Verse 39 - The Koran   

…of all the loot you plunder from non-Moslems, 20% belongs to Allah and to Mohammed. Chapter 8 Verse 41- The Koran (Author’s note: Loot included kidnapped female sex-slaves.)                                                   

…Take as many as four wives from the women you are sexually attracted to … Chapter 4 Verse 3 - The Koran

…God has made men superior to women… Virtuous women are obedient. If a woman becomes disobedient, beat her.  Chapter 4 Verse 34 - The Koran

…When it comes to marriage, Allah makes it legal for you to take as wives, women whom your right hand possesses. Chapter 33 Verse 50 - The Koran (Author’s note: This verse talks about the “loot” non-Moslems call… kidnapped female sex-slaves.)

 

Most people in the western world have never heard of these astonishing scriptures, but they are in the Koran … along with a relatively short list of others, just like them. This is important because not all Moslems are the same; there are two very different types. Militant Moslems view these verses as commandments from their god – a primitive desert god, from an ancient land of heat, sand and scorpions.  Militant Moslems think these teachings apply to life in the Twenty-first Century and they try to use them, regardless of the suffering and mayhem they create, whereas moderate Moslems ignore such verses because they were uttered a long time ago, when the Arabian peninsula, from whence Islam came, was a wild and savage place. 

 

Historians tell us these terrorist teachings are part of a cluster of ferocious beliefs that were deliberately added to one specific part of the formerly peaceful and tolerant Koran.  These startling changes were made, decades after Islam was first founded in the Arabian city of Mecca.  By the time of these changes, the original (and real) prophet of Islam was dead. Thereafter the religious headquarters was uprooted and moved to the city of Medina.  Islam mutated; under new leadership it turned cruel and predatory.

 

In fact, historians also tell us Islam didn’t simply fall from the sky as a full-blown religion, but rather evolved from a persecuted sect of Jewish-Christians. The first Moslems in the city of Mecca were actually part of a larger group of Jesus’ followers called the Ebionites.

 

Ebionites were peace-loving disciples of Christ, who shared their wealth with fellow believers, and taught that a man should marry only one wife.

 

In fact, women were much more independent in the Ebionite Jewish-Christian days of Islam.  They were more influential too. I say this because my research has determined that the first prophet of Islam may have been someone other than Mohammed: I believe the first prophet was a very special Arabian princess named  Khadija the Pure.  Khadija was Mohammed’s first and only wife for twenty-four years. Khadija was fifteen years older than Mohammed.  She was considered to be fabulously wealthy, and she was Mohammed’s employer, before she became his wife. 

 

Mohammed on the other hand, before he became Khadija’s employee, was an impoverished youth who had been raised as an orphan. Ultimately Mohammed worked his way up to a position as Khadija’s business manager. With time, Khadija grew fond of Mohammed. She even married him.  However, Khadija was a liberated woman.  In fact, Khadija was the one who  initiated the marriage proposal to Mohammed! And after their wedding,  she never allowed Mohammed to take other wives, or have other women in her house.

 

Throughout her lifetime, even though Khadija had already converted to Christianity, Mohammed’s first and only wife for twenty-four years remained an important Arabian princess in the ruling family that controlled worship in the Kabba Temple, with it’s pantheon of more than three hundred pagan gods and goddesses. Clearly, in the early days of Islam, Khadija was a person of great influence in Arabian society: and clearly Mohammed, her husband… was not. www.TheMoslemInstitute.com

 

After Khadija’s untimely death from a terrible illness, Islam was hijacked by a cartel of corrupt men, headed by Mohammed himself. The faith was abruptly relocated to the city of Medina and new beliefs were added to the Koran; at the same time, old beliefs were deleted or relegated to unimportance, and the religion was changed beyond recognition. In the end, Islam abandoned many of its Ebionite Jewish-Christian teachings. Women suffered the most: they became the focus of repression, scorn, and violence.

 

Today, although moderate Moslems are loath to admit these ideas, and many of them are terrified to voice criticism of their militant Islamic brothers, because of fear that violence will come to them and their families, the fact remains that these added teachings are not the original beliefs of Islam; they are amendments: They are the terrorist teachings of Islam.

 

In the near future, militant Moslems hope to unleash a Jihad: a Moslem holy war upon the non-Moslem world; not only the United States and Western Europe, but also throughout parts of Asia, including India and maybe even China, and Japan. Because the terrorist teachings of Islam sanction treaty breaking, deception, and war, as well as looting, murder, kidnapping, terrorism, and human slavery (including sexual slavery), so long as these crimes are directed against non-Moslems, there is no limit to the things these fanatics can do.  But the scariest part: Militant Moslems will do everything… in the name of their primitive desert god.

 

Once victory is attained in this violent holy war, these fanatics believe Allah will bless them with harems of kidnapped sex slaves taken from destroyed cities and nations, as well as enormous fortunes of loot plundered from the non-Moslem world.  They believe this because of the terrorist teachings that were added to the Koran.  These terrorist teachings even say ransoms paid to Moslem terrorists, to redeem stolen property (like hijacked oil tankers and cargo ships) as well as kidnapped men, women, and children, are part of the Islamic loot these vicious criminals are entitled to receive. 

 

These same terrorist teachings even allow Moslem men to force their kidnapped female sex slaves to marry them in Moslem wedding ceremonies, and bear children for them: whether the women want to or not. Terrorist Moslem teachings mandate only two requirements:  The women must come from Christian or Jewish backgrounds, and secondly, if the unfortunate women resist, these same terrorist teachings say the Moslem husbands must beat them, and imprison them in their own homes.

 

If the Moslem fanatics die while committing these crimes against humanity,  as an eternal reward for their cruel deeds Islamic extremists believe their fierce desert god will admit them to paradise and bless them with luxurious palaces filled with riches and populated by seventy-two virgin brides, who are exquisitely beautiful, yet modest enough to struggle to control their unbridled lust to have sexual intercourse with a dead Moslem terrorist.

 

With these stinging indictments against terrorist Islamic doctrines entered into the record, it is important to remember that the majority of Moslems are moderate, decent people who love God and practice acts of charity and kindness to their neighbors, both Moslem and non-Moslem. Such moderate Moslems recognize these violent teachings as obsolete and out of place in the Twenty-first Century. In the author’s opinion, in spite of enormous cultural and ideological differences that exist between the non-Moslem world and the followers of Islam, it is with this moderate Moslem majority that any long-term resolution to the Islamic terrorism issue will ultimately be negotiated. 

 

However, given the massive population increases taking place in the Moslem world, at a time when poverty, chaos, criminality, and religious fanaticism are burgeoning, the numbers of Moslems worldwide who declare themselves militant is increasing; the influence their growing networks of terror cells exert on Islamic governments throughout the world has reached crisis levels. Because of the terrorist teachings of Islam, modern civilization faces a nightmarish future; the attacks on Mumbai, India, the World Trade Center in New York, and the subway bombings in Spain and London are simply previews of things to come.  In this ferocious Jihad, nuclear and biological weapons are almost certain to come into play.

 

To paraphrase Winston Churchill: The road before us will be long and dangerous and terrifying; the United States and Europe and Asia must be resolute… and take courage. We must work together to neutralize militant Islamic movements… and if necessary… wage war against the governments that sustain them. At the same time, the non-Moslem world must also nurture moderate Islamic states and establish strong alliances with them. The very survival of our civilization depends on it.

 

Are you are interested in learning more about an array of Islamic topics including: 

1. Who are The Seventy-two Virgins of Islam and how did they become part of militant Moslem dogma?

2. What role did the Ebionites and Khadija the Pure play, in founding the original (peaceful) religion of Islam?

3.  What role does militant Islam play in modern human slavery?

 

Visit The Moslem Institute website:        www.TheMoslemInstitute.com

 

Regards,

Dane Dahl

Author and Historian

 

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I would like to know about militant Islam's role in modern human slavery

 
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