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India-Pakistan
US killed Zia, says Hameed Gul
2005-12-20
Former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen (r) Hamid Gul has held the US responsible for president Gen Ziaul Haq’s death.
I confess. I dunnit.
He told GEO channel on Sunday that clues pointed to the US for being behind the Bahawalpur incident. He also said the discovery of Stinger missiles in Iran had nothing to do with the intended investigation by the US. He also rejected the idea that Stinger missiles were given to Iran. He said there were 248 Stingers that were all destroyed in the Ojri Camp incident.
That's a comfort. An unverified comfort, but still a comfort...
He said the ISI had told Gen Zia to restrict his movements three weeks before the Bahawalpur incident. “The situation was grim. Parliament had been dissolved by the president at the time, which annoyed the Americans,” he added. The general view was, and the ISI had also been getting indications, that Gen Zia had isolated himself, he said. About who stopped an FBI team from coming to Pakistan to investigate the incident, he quoted Robert Oakley as saying that it was George Schultz who stopped the team.
I knew it was Schultz all the time. It's that shifty look of his...
Hamid Gul also admitted that he took the blame for forming the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI). He said he was ready to be brought before a court for his deed. He said he formed the IJI because he wanted to create a balance with the opposition parties, as they were in disarray. He also denied that the ISI had created problems for Benazir Bhutto’s government.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
Hamid Gul said the ISI was not “playing the US game”.
I think we guessed that shortly into Day One...
“In fact, it is playing the Pakistan game,” he said, adding, “However, we are playing the US game at the moment.”
Yeah, well, we never expected them to stay bought...
Posted by:Fred

#7  If it ain't the dreaded Jews, then it's the Americans. Sheesh.

Seriously, what is up with these people anyway?

Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-12-20 22:23  

#6  The 1988 Gilgit massacres were carried out by wahabis and Pashtoons led by bin Laden. The operation was commanded by Musharraf.

Posted by: ed   2005-12-20 09:51  

#5  There's only one group behind everything in Pakiwakiland and that's the ISI.
Posted by: Spot   2005-12-20 09:04  

#4  Supposedly a suppressed inquiry into Zia's death blamed a Shia airman insensed at the massacres committed in the Shia majority Gilgit region of Pakistani earlier in the year.

The Ojri incident involved the American's deciding to audit the Stingers, SA-7s and other weapons given to Pakistan to be passed on to the Afghan Mujahideen, after suspecting that the Iranians had been sold Stingers, but before the audit could take place, an enormous explosion destroyed the munitions depot and killed hundreds of civilians living in the vicinity.
Posted by: Paul Moloney   2005-12-20 01:55  

#3  I'm convinced Zia was killed by a poison gas canister hidden in fruit (mangoes as I recall), and planted by Islamacists. Google Zia poison gas, and you get hundreds of links blaming Mossad, a reliable indicator Muzzies were behind it.

Someone did a really good investigation on this, I'll see if I can find the link.
Posted by: phil_b   2005-12-20 00:49  

#2  Former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen (r) Hamid Gul has held the US responsible for president Gen Ziaul Haq’s death.

comming from a motherbot of homicidal maniacs I recon that's supposed to be a compliment.
Posted by: Red Dog   2005-12-20 00:30  

#1  He also rejected the idea that Stinger missiles were given to Iran.

Likely not given - sold.
Posted by: Pappy   2005-12-20 00:23  

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