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| Islamist spies with a licence to kill |
| 2006-08-29 |
| In early May, seven months after an earthquake killed more than 70,000 people and left 3 million homeless, the Pakistani army pushed out almost all remaining foreign relief workers from the still-devastated region of Azad Kashmir, the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir. Then, between May 13 and 16, a series of 38 throat slittings and beheadings occurred in villages of southern Azad Kashmir. The youngest victim was four months old. The army immediately blamed infiltrators from India. But on the morning of May 17, two men said to be armed with Sten guns and daggers accosted girls on their way to school in the village of Sanghola. Alerted by the girls' screams, villagers armed themselves with whatever weapons were at hand and surrounded the school. The two men ran to the nearby forest where they were captured by villagers. The men claimed to be road workers but a body search revealed ID cards of the kind carried by the Pakistan Army's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Villagers identified both as Punjabi by their accents. Around noon, an estimated 100 villagers escorted the two men, on foot, to local police at Rawalakot. At 11:30 pm, six army officers, including a colonel and a brigadier, took the captured men from the police at gunpoint. Whereas most local police are Kashmiri, most army personnel at the ISI headquarters, down the road from Rawalakot, are Punjabi. |
| Posted by:john |
| #6 Good rant, Ptah. I like your thinking (as usual), 'moose. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-08-29 16:10 |
| #5 Why hasn't the lefty-communist media broadcast this good news far and wide ? Don't want the story of the Death Cult killers to get out ? |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-08-29 13:20 |
| #4 People have a natural response when government no longer protects them. Vigilantism. Any ISI personnel found in their area after this should disappear, turn up missing. No signs of a struggle, no corpse, nothing. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-08-29 10:49 |
| #3 American security forces at present teamed with ISI in the hunt for Osama bin Laden Teamed my ass. The ISI is playing the US for fools. They're another state-within-a-state like hezbollah. |
| Posted by: Spot 2006-08-29 08:17 |
#2 Although banned, jihadists were omnipresent at the start of the relief effort, riding in vehicles supplied by the army, brandishing guns and promising relief to those people who understood the earthquake was God's punishment for neglecting a very particular, radical view of Islam. ..and Amen...and something RBees recognized long ago. |
| Posted by: RD 2006-08-29 08:04 |
| #1 The last killing I am aware of occurred on June 10 in Gulpur. I was compelled to cut short my investigation when ISI agents began following me and interrogated my hosts about any interest I might have in the chura ("daggers" - meaning the recent killings) and "camps" (meaning jihadi activities). While no direct evidence links ISI to the killings, many native Kashmiris I talked to and most nationalists (banned from elections as they advocate a Kashmir independent from Pakistan and India) believe ISI is behind the killings. I'm f*cking pissed at the brazen, wilfull cluelessness of this hack. He goes to investigate murders, gets trailed by ISI, he and his sources are threatened, AND he says there's NO PROOF of ISI involvement??? Lemmie give you some advice, f*ckass: use the same g*dd*med standard on these people, and in your own morally vacuous life that you impose on Americans and George W. Bush. And NO, you DO NOT have the moral authority to CHOOSE to use a different standard for different people: THAT PROVES you're a hypocrite with a vicious agenda. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2006-08-29 08:02 |