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| Gunmen had elite training ‘from Pakistan’ |
| 2008-12-07 |
| THE 10 terrorist commandos who shot dead more than 160 people in Mumbai last month were among 500 trained to elite standards by Pakistan army and navy instructors, according to an Indian intelligence report seen by The Sunday Times. Details were leaked as Indian officials accused Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) of directly supporting the attack. They claimed to have the names of the gunmen's ISI trainers and handlers and to have intercepted internet phone calls between them. Last week Condoleezza Rice, the American secretary of state, and Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, flew to Pakistan to intensify pressure on President Asif Ali Zardari and General Ashfaq Kayani, his army chief of staff, to appease Indian anger and stop tension between Delhi and Islamabad from escalating into war. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #9 India is not part of ECHELON. |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-12-07 15:13 |
| #8 They've taken the UK seat as the UK is more Muslim than India. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-12-07 14:22 |
| #7 [Indian officials] claimed to have the names of the gunmen's ISI trainers and handlers and to have intercepted internet phone calls between them. It sounds to me like the NSA is sharing info with India. Does anyone know whether India is offically a part of the Echelon agreement? |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2008-12-07 14:22 |
| #6 The Indian Home Ministry's NSG commandos reported that the fiyadeen terrorists were not up to their standards, far less the Indian Navy MARCOS who first fought them at the Oberoi hotel. The first MARCOS units were trained by the SEALs and the British. But note that the US resumed training of Pakistan's SSG commandos last year. The SSG are based at Mangla dam. Guess where these terrorists were trained ... Mangla. They were then sent to the Pakistan's Navy commando school in Karachi. So US military aid has been misused by Pakistan to produce a unit of fiyadeen tasked with assaulting major cities. |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-12-07 13:13 |
| #5 Ok, time to ARCLIGHT Islamabad, followed up with napalm and cluster munitions. That speaks with "words" that the Pakistani ISI can understand. Do it again in 48 hours, and repeat as necessary until Pakistan as a nation either surrenders or is totally destroyed. There are NO ROGUE ELEMENTS in the ISI. Everything is controlled, and the ISI is the controller. The sooner Pakiwakiland becomes a smoldering desert, the sooner this crap will stop, whether against the US, Afghanistan, or India. When you have a fire ant infestation, you don't kill individual worker-ants. You destroy the hive. The same principle applies to islamists, who are more like fire ants than cockroaches. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-12-07 12:47 |
| #4 Trained "to level of SEALs" - uh, don't think so. "Elite" by regional standards, sure. SEALs would've probably still been fighting it out with local authorities a week later, if their performance in Afghanistan is any indication. Note the pitch-perfect mirror image b.s. spewed by this guy Khawaj. He takes the idiotic western apologist/defeatist premise - you must surrender to barbarism and extortion, otherwise it will only get worse if you resist - and offers it as "strategic analysis". The incredible/nauseating thing: this sort of idiocy has a wide following in the national security bureuacracies aside from DOD, and surely is familiar territory to a huge % of appointees of The One. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2008-12-07 12:08 |
| #3 Well, not an official-based report, but Indian police are going door to door in some (if not all) provinces of Muslim homes insuring that those in residence there are registered. Those not registered are being returned to their proper registered homes and are being closely scrutinized/interrogated. |
| Posted by: Hammerhead 2008-12-07 10:57 |
| #2 So, where are the other 490? |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-12-07 10:31 |
| #1 Community annuitants, why do they hate us? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-12-07 08:09 |