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2008-11-30 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2008-11-30 08:50|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 <i>But one wonders if a Barack Obama Administration will extend the same
measure of cooperation in addressing terrorism directed against India.
After all, the Bill Clinton Administration did precious little despite
substantial evidence of ISI involvement in the 1993 bomb blasts in
Mumbai.</i>

Apparently the only ones the upcoming 'Clinton 3' administration' is comforting are the markets and the bankers.

Posted by Pappy 2008-11-30 11:29|| 2008-11-30 11:29|| Front Page Top

#2 The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), responsible for external intelligence, has been effectively defanged by successive Prime Ministers having illusions that they will go down in history and get a Nobel Prize for making friends with Pakistan.

One PM, IK Gujral, reportedly handed over a list of RAW assets in Karachi (all soon killed) and disbanded the RAW unit responsible for black operations. This was part of his "Gujral Doctrine" which promised brotherly love to smaller neighbors.

Posted by john frum 2008-11-30 11:56|| 2008-11-30 11:56|| Front Page Top

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