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Pakistan helped Britain foil airline plot: security official
2006-08-11
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani intelligence agencies helped British authorities foil a plot to carry out mid-air bombings of planes to the United States, a senior Pakistani security official told AFP on Thursday. “The actions that have been taken in London were made possible only with the close cooperation between Pakistani and British intelligence,” the official said on condition of anonymity.
I'd like to believe this is true, I really would, but I need more convincing ...
“Pakistani intelligence cooperated and provided vital information that led to these actions,” the official added. “They conducted an operation here and on the basis of that operation we provided leads to London police about the plan to bomb the airliners,” the official added.

He would not give any details about the operation.
"I will say no more!"
Posted by:Steve White

#8  Oops, please make that Old Patriot.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-08-11 15:17  

#7  Oldspook, are you able to provide any comments or insight on the informal halawah money transfer system commonly used by many Arabs? About the only other modern comparison might be to the Korean pak system.

I regard halawah as being a primary conduit for laundering albeit small scale but numerous contributions to terrorist causes. While it is critical to sever the huge funding provided by the Saudis, halawah represents a gigantic swarm of malarial mosquitoes compared to the Saudi cockroach.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-08-11 15:17  

#6  AP, I agree in theory, but in truth, the best way to stop the entire nonsense is to stop the flow of money. That requires targeting the source first. My list:

Money/enablers:
1. Saudi Arabia } Tie
2. Iran }

Middlemen:
3. Syria
4. Hezbollah/Lebanon
5. Pakistan

Front-line troops:
6. Hezbollah/Hamas
7. NWFP/Taliban
8. Sudan
9. Somalia
10. Indonesia
11. Philippines/MILF-Abu Sayyaf
12. Malaysia
13. Bangladesh

Supporters:
13. Egypt
14. Libya

Whack 'em as listed.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-08-11 15:10  

#5  I would say:

1. Syria
2. NWFP i.e., Wazoo
3. Iran
4. Saudi princes

Taking out the Hizb enablier Syria cuts off Hizb.
NWFP rearranging of the funiture by air and some special ops neutralizes Binny's Boyz and the Taliban. Iran may we made unstable by Syria and the MMs can be taken out with their dinner jacket. And last but not least, Saudi financiers taken out would let the Pak madarassas and other nefarious enterprises die on the vien, which will start neutralizing Pakistan.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2006-08-11 12:22  

#4  I would say:

1 - Iran
2 - Pakistan
3 - Syria

Other proposal ?
Posted by: leroidavid   2006-08-11 05:14  

#3  Pakistan is the hub of Sunni Terrorism funded by Saudi.

Hezbollah is the hub of Shiite terrorism funded by Iran and Syria.

These countries neeed to be targetted next starting with Iran!
Posted by: Cheregum Crelet7867   2006-08-11 05:07  

#2  Right on, gromgoru. Since the Brits have "revealed" (according to news reports I saw last night) they had a agent inside the plot, which struck me as particularly stupid to admit, the Paki claim is rather overstated, to say the least. Who knows how many versions of this operation will be in play next week.
Posted by: flyover   2006-08-11 03:03  

#1  Yea, sure.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-08-11 02:26  

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