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2006-08-29 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john 2006-08-29 07:35|| || Front Page|| [14 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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">Ptah 2006-08-29 08:02|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2006-08-29 08:02|| Front Page Top

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.

American security forces at present teamed with ISI in the hunt for Osama bin Laden have been shocked by the Islamist sentiments of some officers. The former head of ISI, Hamid Gul, has become openly Islamist and anti-American, and continues to enjoy influence in ISI.

Given this Islamist tendency, there is perhaps cause to worry more about America's "great ally" in the war on terror than, say, Iraq.

..and Amen...and something RBees recognized long ago.

Posted by RD 2006-08-29 08:04|| 2006-08-29 08:04|| Front Page Top

#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">Spot 2006-08-29 08:17|| 2006-08-29 08:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-29 10:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-08-29 13:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Good rant, Ptah. I like your thinking (as usual), 'moose.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-29 16:10|| 2006-08-29 16:10|| Front Page Top

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