McClatchy Newspapers' Saeed Shah speaks to Paul Jay about his investigation into Ajmal Amir Qasab, the gunman identified by Indian investigators to be linked to the November 26th Mumbai attacks that lasted three days. Shah travelled to Qasab's alleged village of origin, Faridkot in the Khanewal district of Southern Punjab. Qasab's parents went missing earlier in the week, and several villagers confided in Shah that Ajmal Amir was indeed from Faridkot but had left several years before. In his investigation, Shah finds mullahs have a history of recruiting young, poor, uneducated villagers for their causes to fight in Kashmir, and more recently in Afghanistan.
BioSaeed Shah is a Pakistan-based journalist. He writes for McClatchy Newspapers, The Guardian, and The Independent.
Comments from Registered Members | (Register or log in to make your comment.) | shel_tr 2008-12-26
My point is simply that the knee-jerk anti-US / anti-Israel biases are rife on this site, and must be revealed for what they are. | shel_tr 2008-12-26
DuncanIdaho: (cont'd) This operation involved large groups of people, over long spans of time. The chances for a successful covert operation may have been good, but there was zero chance that its likely perpetrators would go unidentified indefinitely. It would be foolhardy to assume that they WOULDN'T. No Western gov't has an interest in being found to be involved in THAT. But that entirely misses the point: Use your head once in a while. This attack has all the hallmarks of terrorists. There's no viable reason to expect any other. Of course, with time, we have indeed found the that likely perpetrators are Lakshar-e-Taiba. LET is a fundamentalist Islamist terror group. They were congealed by the ISI (Pakistani security). Although they've since been outlawed by Pakistan, it's highly likely that elements within ISI or Pakistani security still sympathize and provide support (financial, logistics, etc.). My point is simply that the knee-jerk anti-US / anti-Israel biases are rife on t | shel_tr 2008-12-26
DuncanIdaho: "Where have you been living". INDEED!! Your anti-US/anti-Israel bias leads you to knee-jerk reactions that are devoid of reason. CIA/Mossad??? That accusation is more than ridiculous, it's heinous. If you really wanted to analyze to determine likely sponsor(s), you'd have realized that this operation bears no resemblance to Israeli operations: It's nothing like the lightning take-out of the Syrian nuclear plant, nor the pinpoint military take-out of Imad Mughnieh (an avowed terrorist). Instead, it bore closer resemblances to an ISI-sponsored terrorist operation: high levels of motivation by the "foot-soldiers", sophisticated training and weapons, co-ordinated planning, logistics (e.g. dhingies launched from large boats) whose very nature suggest that they were sourced from a navy (e.g. what would you say is the complement for a ship or ships that can disembark 20 men in multiple dhingies?), and all this while maintaining remote control of the assets, in real-time. T | DuncanIdaho 2008-12-13
malffp: where have you been living lo these past 40 years??? Almost all so-called "terrorism" is State Sponsored - from Bader Meinhof, the Red Brigades, the PLO, the "Mujahedin" against the Soviets, the KNOWN 648 assassination attempts on Castro...who the hell do you think is behind this stuff, anyway? Some fly-by-night amateurs? Jesus! | malffp 2008-12-10
DuncanIdaho: that is absurd. If I caught myself spouting such utter nonsense I would be forced to question very basic assumptions about my own ideology . . . just a suggestion
Of course it is a poor uneducated young man, who else is so susceptible to fanaticism?!
Besides getting some guns and bombs and shooting up a place isn't rocket science. | DuncanIdaho 2008-12-10
Who benefits from India's "9/11"? Certainly not India or Pakistan, not any so-called "militants" who are sure to be targeted now, big time. US/Obama wants to attack Pakistan and break it up, this serves that purpose. Clearly this is CIA/Mossad op,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11313 | LiberalChiroDoc 2008-12-09
According to Shah, this is a "poor boy" who helped run a snack cart. How can this poor snack boy instigate these attacks without some significant outside training and funding. We can't jump to conclusions yet. India says they have a list of 20 suspects.
If Pakistan does not help out, they have something to hide. |
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