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2008-01-27 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2008-01-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Quite a lot of reworking of history here. While the Indian Mutiny started due to British disregrard for Hindu ritual sensitivities, Wahabi jihadists played a major role later in the rebellion.

Subsequent to the Mutiny, British policy toward the Arabs was largely shaped by their impact on Indian muslims. The British supported the Arabs, because they thought it would help avoid a rerun of the Mutiny.

The Wahabists were anti-christian much more than the British were anti-moslem.

Posted by phil_b 2008-01-27 06:29|| 2008-01-27 06:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Philby served as a minister in the government of Al-Saud. He changed his name as Abdullah apparently after embracing Islam but still served the British Intelligence. He was exiled by King Saud in 1955.

Yep, Kim's dad, according to Wikipedia.

Posted by mrp 2008-01-27 09:22|| 2008-01-27 09:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Yep, evil ran in the family.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2008-01-27 10:44|| http://www.cybernations.net]">[http://www.cybernations.net] 2008-01-27 10:44|| Front Page Top

#4 It was Kim Philby who intoxicated the British into supporting Tito instead of Mihailovic. At nthis time it was the Chetniks not the Communists who were the more dangerous enemies of the Germans. It was only after teh cutting of British aid that the Chetniks who were being harrassed from both sides (Communists and Germans) that they ended collaborating. Another factor was that the Communist moved faster that the Chetniks to seize Italian weapons after Italy's surrender. I don't discard they weren't tipped by Philby or one of the guys of his cell (Mc Lean, Burgess).

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-01-27 18:09|| 2008-01-27 18:09|| Front Page Top

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