The Mumbai gunmen
last updated on 8th January 2009
“Contemporary jihad is a mercenary tool of Western colonialism, serving a colonial intent with devout slavishness”
Top Russian counter-terrorism expert, Vladimir Klyukin, an Afghan war veteran, opines that the Mumbai attackers were not “ordinary terrorists” and were probably trained by the special operations forces set up in Pakistan by US intelligence prior to the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. In his view, the nature of the Mumbai events suggests the signature of the ‘Green Flag’ special operations forces created by the Americans in Pakistan, just a year before the Soviet withdrawal.
The Russian Interfax news agency reported the former KGB veteran as surmising the involvement of at least 50 terrorists, given the geography and sheer scale of the attacks.
Counter terrorism officials and experts said the scale, sophistication and targets involved in the Mumbai attacks were markedly different from previous terrorist plots in India and suggested the gunmen had received training from outside the country.
U.S. Training Pakistanis To Fight Taliban
Initial investigations also suggested that as many as seven terrorists included mostly British-born Pakistanis, and one does hope that these leads are not covered up. The reports also suggested some gunmen were captured, but later media reports highlighted that only one terrorists was caught alive at the railway station. But sources in Pakistan report the total number of terrorists were approximately 23.
“What is striking about this is a fair amount of planning had to go into this type of attack,” said Roger W. Cressey, a former White House counter terrorism official in the Clinton and Bush administrations. “This is not a seat-of-the-pants operation. This group had to receive some training or support from professionals in the terrorism business.”
A lot of inconsistencies indicate the participation of a mysterious third party, making the terrorists the victims of a classic double-cross. So there is a lot of confusion here that needs to be cleared up.
Cover-up in Mumbai
Certainly the hints about British involvement, openly asserted by the outspoken Lyndon LaRouche, need investigation. It is more than likely that Pakistan was rebuked by its British and American ‘friends’ (read Masters) for agreeing to send the ISI chief to assist in the investigations, and forced to backtrack on a solemn assurance. The teams from Scotland Yard and America, ostensibly coming to assist India in the probe, are more likely trying to ascertain the extent of evidence with India.
Interestingly, General Leonid Ivashov, who was Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces when the Twin Towers tragedy happened on 11 September 2001, insists that there is no such thing as international terrorism and that “the September 11 attacks were the result of a set-up. What we are seeing is a manipulation by the big powers; this terrorism would not exist without them.” Instead of faking a “world war on terror”, the best way to reduce such attacks is through respect for international law and peaceful cooperation among countries and their citizens.
Globalization creates the conditions for the emergence of this terror. It seeks to design a new world geo-strategic map; appropriate the resources of the planet; erase cultural identities; and subjugate States before a global oligarchy. Thus, terrorism, according to Gen. Ivashov, is an instrument of world politics, “a means to install a unipolar world with a sole world headquarters, a pretext to erase national borders and to establish the rule of a new world elite. It is precisely this elite that constitutes the key element of world terrorism, its ideologist and its “godfather”.
Contemporary international terrorism combines the use of terror by State and non-State political structures to attain political objectives through intimidation of people, psychological and social destabilization, elimination of resistance inside power organizations, and the creation of appropriate conditions for the manipulation of the countries’ policies and the behavior of people. Media complicity helps. But terrorism is not possible without the support of political and business circles that wield the funds to finance it – and Pakistan is notoriously bankrupt.
More pertinently, only secret services and their current or retired chiefs have the ability to plan and execute an operation of such complexity and scale. It is secret services that create, finance and control extremist organizations.
Narcotics are strictly prohibited under the tenets of Islamic fundamentalism
The terrorists who brought bloodshed to the streets of Mumbai appear to have been hopped up on coke and LSD. According to an unnamed official who spoke to the paper, traces of both hard drugs were found in the bloodstreams of several of the suicide attackers.
Mubai gunmen were high on LSD and Cocaine
The revelation explains how they were able to sustain their onslaught for over 50 hours, but it also exposes rampant hypocrisy among Al Qaeda’s rank and file.
LSD is a sensory-distorting drug that the US government tested for mind control purposes in the 1950s and 1960s. Researchers concluded that its hallucinatory side effects made it a poor alertness drug for soldiers.
Cocaine, meanwhile, has been popular in western society for over 100 years, with Sigmund Freud himself writing of the drug: “You perceive an increase of self-control and possess more vitality and capacity for work.”
But both powerful narcotics are strictly prohibited under the tenets of fundamental Salafism, the brand of Islam that the majority of fundamental Sunni Muslim extremists follow.
According to Jean-Louis Bruguiere, France’s former chief counterterrorism investigator, this apparent contradiction should come as little surprise given the expediency of radical jihadists.
“Why wouldn’t attackers do something forbidden by their religious practice – to take drugs or anything else – that could help them achieve what they consider the far more important goal of their plot in striking a blow for God?”.
The Desinformations About The Captured Mumbai ‘gunman’ Ajmal Kasab.
The lies about the captured Mumbai Gunman
Who is this? The Indian authorities claim that they have in custody one of the Mumbai gunmen responsible for the November 2008 attacks. This 21 year old ‘gunman’ is Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman, also known as Kasav, Qasab, Kamal, Kasab, Qasab, Qasam, Kasab, Kasar, and Kamaa.
Ajmal Amir seems to be being used to disguise the false-flag nature of the Mumbai Attacks.
There is doubt, therefore, that Ajmal Amir did the shooting that he is supposed to have done.
At what point may Ajmal Amir have been recruited by people from some group, such as Lashkar-e Taiba, who work for the CIA or Mossad or RAW or ISI or MI6?
Mumbai attackers more tech savvy than the police
By MUNEEZA NAQVI and MIN LEE, – Sun Dec 14, 10:53 am ET
MUMBAI, India – When the attackers arrived on the shores of Mumbai last month, they had studied satellite images of the city, were carrying handheld GPS sets and were communicating with their handlers via the Internet and satellite phone.
To prepare for their Nov. 26 assault, militants examined the layout and landscape of the city using images from Google Earth. The gunmen also studied detailed photographs of their targets on laptop computers.
When the assailants traveled by boat from Karachi, Pakistan, to Mumbai they used four GPS systems to navigate. The sets could also be used as walkie-talkies.
The attackers were equipped with a satellite phone and nine cell phones. Throughout the attack, they called their handlers in Pakistan, who had eschewed conventional phones for voice-over-Internet telephone services. Those services route phone calls over the Internet, making it far harder to trace them. For example, a person might have a New York City telephone number, but calls made to that number are routed over the Internet, allowing a client to answer from anywhere there is online access.
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a Pakistani accused of plotting the attacks, spoke from two Internet phone numbers to six different Indian mobile numbers. The Internet numbers were paid by wire transfer by someone using fake ID.
The strongest — and most chilling — evidence that the gunmen were not acting alone came from the phone transcripts:
“Keep your phone switched on,” a handler said in the midst of the siege, “so that we can hear the gunfire.”
The attacks against iconic Mumbai targets were covered nonstop by news channels around the world. The handlers used the TV reports to guide the gunmen, the dossier says, including warning when commandos roped down to the Jewish center from helicopters.
The attackers used several different mobile phones, including those belonging to the hostages. Shortly after the siege began, Indian authorities say they began intercepting calls from inside the hotel. They were also able to pick up calls carried over the Internet, which the handlers used to route some calls, according to the dossier.
The handlers told a team of gunmen who had seized a Jewish center to shoot hostages if necessary.
“If you are still threatened, then don’t saddle yourself with the burden of the hostages. Immediately kill them,” he said.
Six Jewish foreigners, including a rabbi and his wife, were killed inside the Jewish center.
Later in the night, nearly 24 hours after the attacks began, the handlers urged the gunmen to “be strong in the name of Allah“
“Brother, you have to fight. This is a matter of prestige of Islam,” the handler said. “You may feel tired or sleepy, but the commandos of Islam have left everything behind, their mothers, their fathers.”
The siege lasted nearly three days, far longer than security experts said it should have, and, apparently, far longer than the terrorists expected as well. The handlers told the gunmen on Nov. 27 that “the operation has to be concluded tomorrow morning.” But it was 36 more hours before it finished.
“We made a big mistake,“ one of the gunman says into the phone in the early hours of the siege.
“What big mistake?” – “When we were getting into the boat … another boat came. Everyone jumped quickly. In this confusion, the satellite phone of Ismail got left behind.”
The investigation shows the gunmen entered Mumbai, which sits on the Arabian sea, by a rubber dinghy.
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actualized on November 15, 2009
Pakistani Army ran Muslim extremist training camps, says anti-terrorist expert
London Times | Nov 14, 2009, by Charles Bremner in Paris
The Pakistani Army ran training camps for a Muslim extremist group, at least until recently, with the acceptance of the US Central Intelligence Agency, according to France’s foremost anti-terrorist expert.
Jean-Louis Bruguière, who retired in 2007 after 15 years as chief investigating judge for counter-terrorism, reached this conclusion after interrogating a French militant who had been trained by Lashkar-e-Taiba and arrested in Australia in 2003.
In a book in his counter-terrorism years, Mr Bruguière says that Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was set up to fight India over disputed Kashmir territory, had become part of the international Islamic network of al-Qaeda.
Willy Brigitte, the suspect, told Mr Bruguière, that the Pakistani military were running the Lashkar-e-Taiba training camp where he spent 2½ months in 2001-02. Along with two Britons and two Americans, Brigitte was driven in a 4×4 through army roadblocks to the high-altitude camp where more than 2,000 men were being trained by Pakistani regular army officers, he said.
“The links between the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Pakistani Army are more than close. Brigitte observed this twice,” Mr Bruguière said. “When the camp was resupplied, all the materiel was dropped off by Pakistani army helicopters. And there were regular inspections by the Pakistani Army and the CIA.”
The US agency carried out spot checks to ensure that Pakistan was sticking to an agreement not to train any foreigners at the militant organisation, the judge said. “After 9/11, the Americans put pressure on the Pakistani Government to put more effective controls on the activities of the Islamic organizations linked to al-Qaeda,” he said.
Mr Brigitte, originally from the French West Indies, and other foreign personnel were moved out to another camp when the CIA was due to visit, Mr Bruguière said.
The judge said that it was possible that the Americans had been turning a blind eye to the organisation’s training of foreign operatives.
It was not clear whether the Pakistani armed forces and ISI intelligence service were “playing the same game” as the Pakistani Government over Islamic terrorism, said the judge, whose book is titled: Some Things that I Wasn’t Able to Say.
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