Pakistani Security Consultant Calls Mumbai Attacks A “Botched” False Flag

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Pakistani Security Consultant Calls Mumbai Attacks A “Botched” False Flag

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, Dec 3, 2008


A renowned Pakistani strategic defence analyst has described last week’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai as a “botched” false flag operation designed to imitate the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

Zaid Hamid, a security consultant who routinely appears on Pakistani television, told reporters of the News One channel that the attacks were state sponsored by Indian military intelligence and carried out by Hindu zionists aided by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.

Hamid contends that the motive is to shift attention away from India’s domestic terrorists, and to justify Western intervention in Pakistan.

“They look like Hindus. No Pakistani speaks the language they chatted in,” said Hamid , claiming that the attackers wore saffron Hindu Zionist wrist bands.

“The Americans executed the 9/11 attack perfectly.” Hamid continued. “They managed the media very well. The Indians tried to repeat the formula but goofed up. The idiots made a complete mess of it,” he argued.

Video of Hamid’s comments have been uploaded to youtube.

Hamid, who also hosts his own “Brasstacks” show on the News One channel, has long asserted that the U.S. wishes to eliminate Pakistan’s nuclear facilities which are seen as a direct threat to Israel’s sovereignty.

Hamid also told viewers that during the first five minutes of the attack, three Indian counterterrorist officers were killed by authorities in order to halt their investigations of a terror network within India’s security agencies.

One of those men was India’s top antiterrorist officer Hemant Karkare, who was shot three times in the chest as he led his men at the Taj Mahal Palace.

Karkare was on the verge of uncovering the home-grown terror franchise of the Hindu extremists. He had also received death threats just hours before the attacks.

Karkare was investigating a bomb attack that killed at least six people near a mosque in the western city of Malegaon on September 29. In early November his Anti-Terror Squad arrested senior Military Intelligence officer Colonel Srikant Prasad Purohit on suspicion of involvement in the attack which was carried out by Hindu extremists.

Colonel Purohit was also under investigation for the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, which killed 68 people, mostly Pakistanis. Investigations into this will now likely be halted.


Analysts claim that the Mumbai bombings represent a desperate move on behalf of separatists within the Indian establishment who want to shift the country away from independence and into the new world order model.
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  • Tossing some logistical thought into the mix

    http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2008/12/double-cover-beyond-ridiculous.html

    "Despite the apparent confusion and the obvious media spin, the picture that emerged from the early reporting of the Mumbai attacks was a fairly comprehensible one: a picture of a false flag commando raid.

    It was a commando raid, as opposed to a suicide bombing or other forms of terrorist attack; surely that much was clear to everybody. There were multiple commandos and multiple targets, and it was obvious that a great deal of knowledge and skill must have gone into the planning.

    But it was also clearly a false flag attack, as the multiple simultaneous attempts to pin the blame (or take the responsibility) made no sense, singly or in combination. Even as the shooting was going on, the Indian government was saying the attackers (whoever they were) had come from outside the country. A "terrorist group" calling itself the "Deccan Mujahideen" had claimed responsibility, but no terror expert had ever heard of such a group.

    In reality-based situations (of which this is not one!), the analysis of such a horrible crime would begin with the known facts, and it would proceed in a systematic fashion, from the knowns to the unknowns.

    For instance, one might start with the observation that the Mumbai assault was a highly-coordinated commando raid, and then raise the questions: "Who does this sort of thing?" and "Among those who do this sort of thing, who had something to gain by doing this?"

    These are questions we never saw asked, let alone answered, in the mainstream media. It seems quite clear to me, and one of the reasons for the title of this series, that they don't ask these questions because they're afraid of the answers. So instead of intelligent, penetrating, appropriate analysis, we got nonsense.

    To begin with the official account, let's just say the official account of the attacks makes very little sense. Supposedly there were only ten attackers, and supposedly they attacked in 13 locations more or less simultaneously. Nobody in the mainstream seems prepared to ask how something like this could have happened without inside help. Some analysts pointed out that a high degree of local knowledge must have been required for such an attack, but they went on to conclude that therefore the attackers must have been foreigners. It was difficult to imagine a more counter-intuitive conclusion; but not for long.

    Nobody asked: "Who could do this?" or "Who would do this?" Instead they asked: "How did al Qaeda do this?" and "Why did al Qaeda do this?" After a while it became more or less obvious that the Mumbai attacks didn't involve hijacked airplanes crashing into buildings (like al Qaeda in North America) or suicide bombers and car bombs (like al Qaeda in the Middle East). And connecting al Qaeda to these attacks directly became a bit of a problem. So then instead of asking "Who else could have done this?", they began to ask: "How are the perpetrators of this attack connected to al Qaeda?""

    cont'd...
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  • Grace7Grace7 Posts: 53
    I have seen similiar comments on these wrist bands but they represent a sworn allegance to a nationalist group. That's the first time I've seen them called Zionists. There are reports that after the shots at the top cop they walked over someone fired another shot into him then lifted his head to make sure he was dead.

    Although I love conspiracy stories, I'm not saying I buy it.
    But what are those bands???


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  • Grace7 wrote:
    I have seen similiar comments on these wrist bands but they represent a sworn allegance to a nationalist group. That's the first time I've seen them called Zionists. There are reports that after the shots at the top cop they walked over someone fired another shot into him then lifted his head to make sure he was dead.

    Although I love conspiracy stories, I'm not saying I buy it.
    But what are those bands???


    slow down...hurry up
    i don't have a gun
    PEACE

    This guy is the first person i've heard describe them as "Hindu ZIONIST" as well.

    Others concerned have used the terms "militant hindu", "hindu nationalist" and "religious symbols worn by hindus".

    I KNEW someone would be jumping on that specific term, and god knows in combination with me and roland, to paint a moronic picture.

    At least it came from someone with half an inkling of genuine concern.

    Congrats.
    :D
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    AMY GOODMAN: We’re joined right now by a round table of guests. In Chicopee Massachusetts, Vijay Prashad , Chair of South Asian History and Director of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His latest book is called “The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World.” his article on the Mumbai attacks comes out in Counterpunch today. Veteran Pakistani journalist, commentator, author Tariq Ali joins us from the phone from London. His book is called “The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power. His article "The Assault on Mumbai” was published in Counterpunch last week. And we’re joined in the firehouse studio by the New York-based activist Biju Mathew. He is with the Campaign to Stop Funding Hate and the Coalition Against Genocide, a co-founder of the New York Taxi Worker Alliance. His piece appeared in Samarmagazine.org. It’s called “As the Fires Die: The Terror of the Aftermath.”
    Let’s start with Vijay Prashad. Talk about what you understand happened and why this is being called India’s 9/11.

    VIJAY PRASHAD: Good morning Amy. It is very unclear why this happened. I think we would be speculating if we tried to be, you know completely-–without contradictions and without any sort of unease when saying exactly what happened. But why this is called Mumbai’s 9/11 is another question. Right when this was occurring, the relationship between 9/11 and Mumbai began to be made by the media.

    You know its become something of a cliché now. Anytime there is any attack they start to say this is our 9/11. You know whether it is the attack in London or the attack and Indonesia, everybody claims a terrorist attack now as their 9/11. There is something ominous about this. It means the state has to then follow the playbook laid out by the Bush Administration right after it experienced of course its 9/11. Which is to say you then go and start a war against an adversary that you claim did the attack and simultaneously, you begin to create a security apparatus inside your state to restrict the civil liberties of all people who live within that country.

    So 9/11 or branding something as 9/11 has come to have these two aspects. One, go to war against somebody without any kind of full police investigation that is decisively shown us who has done the act. So one, a foreign war, secondly, what you might even consider to be a war against your own population. Where you start to restrict civil liberties far in excess of anything necessary. And of course, always fighting the last terrorist attack. So you build up this enormous apparatus of restrictions which is dealing with the previous attack against population and not trying to forecast the safety of the population into the near future. That is why the media started to talk about Mumbai’s 9/11.
    The third reason is, the media had not really called any of the other attacks in Mumbai, and there have been many since 1992, 9/11, precisely because most of those attacks the have taken place in areas which afflicted the working poor, working-class, and middle-class people. This attack, for the first time, targeted places of the top elite. Very expensive hotels, leading restaurants, and this therefore, brought this kind of assault into the bedrooms, into the restaurant of the elite. And they found then that this is their 9/11. The other attacks were not called 9/11. There were the kind normal conditions of suffering borne by ordinary people in places like Bombay. So for these reasons, the media ratcheted up the rhetoric about this being Mumbai’s 9/11.


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  • If anyone needs to wonder where the next war is coming from...

    Ben Gurion on Pakistan, published in the Jewish Chronicle, 1967:

    "The world Zionist movement should not be neglectful of the dangers of Pakistan to it. And Pakistan now should be its first target, for this ideological State is a threat to our existence. And Pakistan, the whole of it, hates the Jews and loves the Arabs.

    "This lover of the Arabs is more dangerous to us than the Arabs themselves. For that matter, it is most essential for the world Zionism that it should now take immediate steps against Pakistan.

    "Whereas the inhabitants of the Indian peninsula are Hindus whose hearts have been full of hatred towards Muslims, therefore, India is the most important base for us to work therefrom against Pakistan.

    "It is essential that we exploit this base and strike and crush Pakistanis, enemies of Jews and Zionism, by all disguised and secret plans."
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • Grace7Grace7 Posts: 53
    I wasn't very clear earlier. I thought it would be best to say arm bands worn by hindi extremists, working w/ Zionists..or something like that.
    I didn't mean I didn't buy the story. Just the label!!

    Roland that's amazing. How on earth did you find that. I can't imagine you peruse all zionist journals..but I could be wrong!

    peace
  • Grace7 wrote:
    I can't imagine you peruse all zionist journals..

    that visual made me laugh quite hard
    'and I can't imagine why you wouldn't welcome any change, my brother'

    'How a culture can forget its plan of yesterday
    and you swear it's not a trend
    it doesn't matter anyway
    there's no need to talk as friends
    nothing news everyday
    all the kids will eat it up
    if it's packaged properly'
  • Grace7 wrote:
    I wasn't very clear earlier. I thought it would be best to say arm bands worn by hindi extremists, working w/ Zionists..or something like that.
    I didn't mean I didn't buy the story. Just the label!!

    Roland that's amazing. How on earth did you find that. I can't imagine you peruse all zionist journals..but I could be wrong!

    peace

    I frequent forums that put this place to shame in the background and research department so to speak... (with a few noted exceptions).

    It's kinda like an unfair fight most times :D
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • Arrest Provides More Evidence India, Israel, and the U.S. Behind Mumbai Attacks

    Kurt Nimmo
    Infowars
    December 7, 2008

    It is becoming increasingly a hard sell to pin the blame for the Mumbai attacks on Pakistan and thus set the stage for an attack on Pakistan after Barack Obama enters the White House in a few weeks. It now appears Indian intelligence played a large part in the terrorist attacks. On Saturday, the Associated Press reported that a “counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission” was arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen.

    Mukhtar Ahmed is an Indian police operative who provided cell phone SIM cards to Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan terrorist group blamed for the Mumbai attacks.

    The counterinsurgency operative, Mukhtar Ahmed, worked for the police in Indian Kashmir. “The implications of Ahmed’s involvement — that Indian agents may have been in touch with the militants and perhaps supplied the SIM cards used in the attacks — added to the growing list of questions over India’s ill-trained security forces, which are widely blamed for not thwarting the attacks,” reports the Associated Press.

    In other words, Indian intelligence had penetrated Lashkar-e-Taiba and were running a false flag operation through the terrorist group, putatively connected to Pakistan’s ISI.

    Indian police in the Kashmir city of Srinagar told Calcutta police that Ahmed is “our man and it’s now up to them how to facilitate his release,” said one senior officer speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the information. Other police officials in Kashmir supported his account, reports the Associated Press.

    Indian intelligence staging false flag terror attacks and blaming them on Muslims is nothing new. On November 23, Andrew Buncombe, writing for the Independent, reported: “India is in something of a state of shock after learning from official sources that its first Hindu terror cell may have carried out a series of deadly bombings that were initially blamed on militant Muslims.” In addition to bombing attacks in the Muslim town of Malegaon in the western state of Maharashtra in September, the Hindu terror cells are allegedly responsible for last year’s bombing of a cross-border train en route to Pakistan, which killed 68 people, according to Buncombe.

    It should be noted that the head of the Maharastrian Anti-Terrorist Squad making the allegations about Hindu false flag terrorism, Hemant Karkare, was assassinated as he led his team into the Hotel Taj Kahal during the Mumbai attacks. “Killed in the line of duty, Hemant Karare was targeted as the man who was an immense problem for the BJP [the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party] because his forthright investigation revealed Hindutva terrorism and he was not about to stop. Clearly this invalidated the BJP campaign rhetoric against Muslim terrorism, but the BJP will still use the emotional fervor of Hindutva to win against the Congress party,” writes Allen Heart for OpEdNews.

    An exposé carried in a national daily published in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh alleges that Indian intelligence supported extremist Hindutvadis in their murderous Malegaon campaign with the cooperation of Israel’s Mossad. “The newspaper writes that relations between Mossad and CIA are world known,” notes the Pak Alert Press blog. “The national daily… has exposed that the officials of the national intelligence agencies have categorically stated that American secret service agency, CIA together with Israel’s secret organization Mossad, has carried out several secret operation all over Asia,” Pak Alert Press reports, translating from the original Urdu.

    Indian intelligence, however, is no minor player and its foreign policy objectives currently parallel those of the CIA and Mossad in regard to covert destabilization in South Asia and elsewhere. “RAW [the Research and Analysis Wing, the Indian version of the CIA] , ever since its creation, has always been a vital, though unobtrusive, actor in Indian policy-making apparatus,” writes Isha Khan.

    Since its creation in 1968, RAW has been “given a virtual carte blanche to conduct destabilization operations in neighboring countries inimical to India to seriously undertook restructuring of its organization accordingly. RAW was given a list of seven countries (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Pakistan and Maldives) whom India considered its principal regional protagonists. It very soon systematically and brilliantly crafted covert operations in all these countries to coerce, destabilize and subvert them in consonance with the foreign policy objectives of the Indian Government.”

    Specifically, RAW “considers Sindh as Pakistan’s soft under-belly. It has, therefore, made it the prime target for sabotage and subversion. RAW has enrolled and extensive network of agents and anti-government elements, and is convinced that with a little push restless Sindh will revolt. Taking fullest advantage of the agitation in Sindh in 1983 and the ethnic riots, which have continued till today, RAW has deeply penetrated and cultivated dissidents and secessionists, thereby creating hard-liners unlikely to allow peace to return to Sindh.” Sindh includes Urdu-speaking Muslim refugees who migrated to Pakistan from India upon independence.

    It now appears obvious that India’s RAW with the help of the CIA and Israel’s Mossad created the current situation and have set-up Pakistan’s ISI to take the blame for the Mumbai attacks. Senator McCain, flanked by senators Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham, told Ejaz Haider, a senior editor with the Daily Times group, that it could be a “matter of days” before India carried out surgical air strikes if Pakistan did not act on the evidence provided to it on elements linked to the attacks, according to the Daily Star. “If the terrorists succeed in confounding relations between these two great countries, they will achieve their aim. We cannot let that happen,” McCain declared.

    A conflict between the two nuclear armed nations may very well be the “international crisis, a generated crisis” Joe Biden mentioned in October that will “test” president Barack Obama.

    In August, 2007, Obama said “the United States must be willing to strike al Qaeda targets inside Pakistan,” a comment that has led more than a few commentators to conclude that the U.S. will attack Pakistan in the coming months. It now appears the false flag Mumbai attacks, described as India’s “9/11,” will serve as a pretext to get the ball rolling on “surgical strikes” against Pakistan.
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  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    In August, 2007, Obama said “the United States must be willing to strike al Qaeda targets inside Pakistan,” a comment that has led more than a few commentators to conclude that the U.S. will attack Pakistan in the coming months. It now appears the false flag Mumbai attacks, described as India’s “9/11,” will serve as a pretext to get the ball rolling on “surgical strikes” against Pakistan.

    That's right....and the propaganda is now flying out of the Indian and American governments right now.

    The real kicker is that India and America say that they have all this 'proof' and the Pakistanis are asking 'can we see it?' and for some reason they are not being showed anything! haha!
  • Yes we can!

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    Change baby change.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
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  • NoKNoK Posts: 824
    I posted this in another thread.. you would think it'll be used to further their agenda with Pakistan

    http://forums.pearljam.com/showpost.php?p=6047160&postcount=5
  • Kann wrote:

    Meaning what?

    Countries can have both real disputes and false flag terror. They are not mutually exclusive possibilities.

    What are you saying?
    :confused:
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  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    For Kashmir...One man one Vote. Let them decide.

    The Indians do not want that,
  • MrBrian wrote:
    That's right....and the propaganda is now flying out of the Indian and American governments right now.

    The real kicker is that India and America say that they have all this 'proof' and the Pakistanis are asking 'can we see it?' and for some reason they are not being showed anything! haha!


    kind of like when we said we had all this proof about Osama and Afghanistan said 'sure, just show us the proof and we'll do whatever you want' and we said fucki it, let's invade instead?
    'and I can't imagine why you wouldn't welcome any change, my brother'

    'How a culture can forget its plan of yesterday
    and you swear it's not a trend
    it doesn't matter anyway
    there's no need to talk as friends
    nothing news everyday
    all the kids will eat it up
    if it's packaged properly'
  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    kind of like when we said we had all this proof about Osama and Afghanistan said 'sure, just show us the proof and we'll do whatever you want' and we said fucki it, let's invade instead?

    Yes, something like that.

    Note, I'm glad you remember that! I'm sure most people dont,
  • MrBrian wrote:
    Yes, something like that.

    Note, I'm glad you remember that! I'm sure most people dont,


    it's hard for lot's of people who just rely on the netowrk nigthly news or some aggressive op/ed show and all these distractions of celebrities sordid lives and animal attacks

    'yesterdays headlines
    blown by the wind
    yesterdays people end up
    scatterbrained
    any fool can easy dig a hole
    I only wish I could fall in'


    or my sig
    'and I can't imagine why you wouldn't welcome any change, my brother'

    'How a culture can forget its plan of yesterday
    and you swear it's not a trend
    it doesn't matter anyway
    there's no need to talk as friends
    nothing news everyday
    all the kids will eat it up
    if it's packaged properly'
  • KannKann Posts: 1,146
    Meaning what?

    Countries can have both real disputes and false flag terror. They are not mutually exclusive possibilities.

    What are you saying?
    :confused:
    I'm just saying that we don't know it all yet, but there are rational facts behind a real terrorist act rather than false flag. Before even reading anything on these attacks I knew one side would pin this on the muslims while the other would pin this on the US. Before the investigation even got somewhere.
  • Former ISI Chief: Mumbai And 9/11 Both “Inside Jobs”

    Paul Joseph Watson
    Prison Planet.com
    Monday, December 8, 2008

    General Hamid Gul, the former head of the Pakistani ISI, told CNN yesterday that both the Mumbai attacks and 9/11 were “inside jobs,” much to the chagrin of host and CFR luminary Fareed Zakaria, who told viewers that Gul’s opinions were “absolutely wrong and thoroughly discredited”.

    “When you look at the full spectrum of possibilities, who could have done it, then one knows that Samjhauta Express was a similar case, in which Pakistan ISI was accused. But it turned out that it was the militant Hindus themselves who had killed 68 passengers in that train, and that it was an inside job,” said Gul.

    “Now Colonel Srikant Purohit, who is a serving army officer, he has been caught in this particular case. And the whole thing has turned around.”

    “So, obviously, there is an inside job.”

    The revelation that Mukhtar Ahmed, a “counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission” working for Indian authorities was arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the Mumbai gunmen, allied with the numerous intelligence warnings proving that the method, arrival and targets of attack were all known well in advance, proves Gul right in his assertion that the terrorists could not have achieved such carnage without help from people on the inside.

    Asked by Zakaria, “What is your hunch as to who did - who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks?,” Gul responded, “Well, I have been on record, and I said it is the Zionists or the neocons. They have done it. It was an inside job.”

    “And they wanted to go on the world conquerors. They were looking upon it as an opportunity window, when the Muslim world was lying prostrate. Russia was nowhere in sight. China was still not an economic giant that is has turned out to be.”

    “And they thought that this was a good time to go and fill those strategic areas, which are still lying without any American presence. And, of course, to control the energy tap of the world.”

    “Presently, it is the Middle East, and in future it is going to be Central Asia,” added Gul.

    Gul told Zakaria that the evidence for 9/11 being planned by Osama Bin Laden and executed by Al-Qaeda has not emerged and that the events are still “shrouded in mystery”.

    “A lot of people have a lot of misgivings about that. And it’s not only me. I think a lot of people in America would be thinking the same way. There are scientists, there are scholars, who have written articles on it,” added Gul, calling for President elect Barack Obama to set up a new commission to investigate the attacks.

    Gul said the attacks were planned inside America by people with a dangerous agenda who have “turned the world upside-down”.

    Returning from a commercial break, Zakaria, editor of Newsweek, Council on Foreign Relations kingpin and also a Trilateral Commission board member, told his viewers, “Some of General Gul’s views are simply false. There is a mountain of evidence about 9/11 that refutes his assertions,” but Zakaria failed to cite any of it.

    Zakaria was then joined by counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen who said that the Mumbai attacks bore all the hallmarks of a “clandestine operation or a covert operation style activity,” but when pressed he refused to directly implicate Pakistan in the attack.
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  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    when you look at these things - i think the most important question to ask is who benefits most from these events?
  • Grace7Grace7 Posts: 53
    I can't imagine I missed this live!!! I love this man!!!
    Fareed's show is soo status quo and he had GUL on??!!

    Everytime I need a good laugh I shall return to this post!!!

    xoxoxo
  • OutOfBreathOutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
    Strictly speaking, a former chief of the ISI, Pakistan's secret services, is a questionable source for allegations laid on Indian authorities, given the animosity between the two nations. My gut instinct is to assume agendas and bad blood, when Pakistani (former) officials lash out at India, and when Indian officials lash out at Pakistan. Neither is likely to tell the truth of the other, and both will be prone to believe the worst of the other.

    As for who did the bombings, I dont know and can't tell. But this play from a former head of ISI can just as easily be a cover-up attempt on the part of the pakistanis (or just an opportune moment to throw some shit), as much as he is a "truth witness" to what really goes on.

    And for someone who's wary of total conspiracies, I find the trust in intelligence people to be somewhat strange. These are the people that are undoubtedly 100% paid and trained to lie about anything, and are involved in most shadowy business that goes on. In a position to know things, certainly. But also in a position to lie with gusto, and say whatever further the interests of themselves and their superiors. I'm just saying I'm very sceptical to these people and the truth of what they say, as you never know when they are playing you, or when they actually are telling the truth. Furthermore, their beliefs may be just as unfounded as "regular" people's. (For instance, I suspect that many CIA-people believed that Saddam was inches away from nuclear and had WMDs stuffed away everywhere)

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