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2008-11-28 India-Pakistan

Up to SEVEN gunmen were British and 'came from same area as 7/7 bombers'

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-28 11:53|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 What a horror... and the ironies just abound.
Today, I re-worked an old post of mine, long gone in an unreachable MT archive, posted here.
This truly seems to have been India's 9/11... I guess Obama the Chosen one has his crisis all set out for him, a bit sooner than he expected.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2008-11-28 12:39|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2008-11-28 12:39|| Front Page Top

#2 And how soon are we planning on shutting down GITMO again...........?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-28 12:45|| 2008-11-28 12:45|| Front Page Top

#3 How did the terrorists get so much stuff into the hotel? There are more chapters to this story. Stay tuned.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-11-28 12:54|| 2008-11-28 12:54|| Front Page Top

#4 These peoople are not british but unemployed scum/pakis whose ambition in life is to kill for Allah.We must look at where theit ideology/hate comes from-SAUDI ARABIA!!!!

Posted by Paul2 2008-11-28 13:13|| 2008-11-28 13:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Appears they left cell phones and credit cards behind. Didn't bother going sterile, unless the left behind items were bogus pocket litter, which I doubt. Might be interesting to run credit card account checks and track cell phone numbers called and recieved, etc. Hope none of these lads were political campaign contributors.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-28 13:13|| 2008-11-28 13:13|| Front Page Top

#6 The attacks have all the signs of being directed by Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency, a former head of India's Intelligence Bureau, Arun Bhagat, tells the BBC. He suggests it was a bid to sabotage rapprochement between the two governments

With the help of Le T!!!!

Posted by Paul2 2008-11-28 13:19|| 2008-11-28 13:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Pakistan has no future as a country.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-11-28 13:20|| 2008-11-28 13:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Best regards to the Indian security forces.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-11-28 13:33|| 2008-11-28 13:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Going sterile is a basic action for an operation like this and it was not done. The ISI is really incompetent if they were involved and left a trail like this.

To Be Determined.

Posted by tipover 2008-11-28 14:12|| 2008-11-28 14:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Tell me again why we think Pakland has a future?

Posted by DarthVader 2008-11-28 15:28|| 2008-11-28 15:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Going sterile is a basic action for an operation like this and it was not done. The ISI is really incompetent if they were involved and left a trail like this.

Why?

I mean, what the ISI _wants_ may be different from what you or I want. Yes, going in sterile would be more professional, but when was the last time we sent thirty agents somewhere to kill as many civilians as possible in the process of getting themselves killed?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2008-11-28 16:00|| 2008-11-28 16:00|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm sure there are volumes written in answer to this question - but what is wrong with India, and I mean it in the sense of why are US relations seemingly balanced between India and Pakistan?

I realize the history following the end of the Raj and through the cold war, but what presently argues against extremely close US-Indian relations?

How is that disentangled from the question of Pakistan's ongoing existence as an independent nation?

What am I missing?

Posted by Jeremiah Thaise1218 2008-11-28 16:42|| 2008-11-28 16:42|| Front Page Top

#13 What am I missing?

Afghanistan

As long as the unwinnable Afghan war continues, the USA will be beholden to Pakistan.

Posted by phil_b 2008-11-28 16:53|| 2008-11-28 16:53|| Front Page Top

#14 Phil. Do you remember how Islamist goy emboldened about Afghanistan in Soviet times? Withdraw from Afghanistan and they will eb emboldened ten times more. And they will go grow ten times more.

Also do you remember the unwinnable Iraki war?

Finally why are we tied with Pakistan. In part because there was a time when India flrted with Soviet Union.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-11-28 18:04|| 2008-11-28 18:04|| Front Page Top

#15 I understand the Pak-Afghan nexus, but I guess what I'm asking is that if Pakistan doesn't exist, what issues to we have with Afghanistan that we don't already have?

Can India and Afghanistan agree on a common border?

Posted by Jeremiah Thaise1218 2008-11-28 18:30|| 2008-11-28 18:30|| Front Page Top

#16 There is always the Free Baluchistan option.

Posted by phil_b 2008-11-28 21:24|| 2008-11-28 21:24|| Front Page Top

#17 I think that for the ISI to use British Pakistanis was brilliant. The notion that the Brits would attack India in order to blame Pakistan would actually carry some weight among the Muhammadans and some of the wackier leftists (and Indians!). That kind of nonsense plays very well. I'd guess that the attackers carried in exactly what they were told to carry in.

Posted by James">James 2008-11-28 23:49|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-11-28 23:49|| Front Page Top

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