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The last item on the Tier I list is the most important even if very badly formulated: intensification of the European sovereign debt crisis that leads to the collapse of the euro, triggering a double-dip U.S. recession and further limiting budgetary resources
Cain't be no 'double-dip' recession -- there has been no real improvement in the US economy since 2008 or so, only shuck-and-jive economic patches. A full-bore credit collapse with multiple big bank failures is increasingly likely. The resulting disruption of everyday life in the US will call into question the legitimacy of its government if US voters ever get a clue that my (I hope) hypothetical crash was both expected and avoidable.
NPR anchor Robert Siegel interviewed Occupy Wall Street's inspirational force, Kalle Lasn of the Canadian group Adbusters, on Tuesday night's All Things Considered and discussed how ripe America was for a socialist revolution. Lasn brought up comparisons to 1968 and the hope for a "full-fledged, full spectrum movement that operates on all levels." Siegel suggested back then, it inspired violent revolutionaries like the Weather Underground. (Well, violence wasn't mentioned.)
Lasn warmed the heart of Bill Ayers by saying America is riper now for revolution than it was in the Sixties:
SIEGEL: You know, I covered things that happened in 1968; some of them done by friends. And one thing that happened after that year was some on what was then called the New Left, misread big protests, crackdowns by police, and thought that the United States was in a revolutionary situation.
LASN: Yeah.
SIEGEL: And so a few provocations would bring the house down.
LASN: Yes. Yes.
SIEGEL: Hence, the Weather Underground and things of that sort. How do you judge the weakness or the stability of the U.S. political and economical system today?
LASN: Well, I don't think it's ever been as unstable or as shaky as it is now. I think that in the last just few years, America suddenly caught in these triple crises. And it's quite obvious to many people in this movement that our leaders, they don't really what the hell they're doing. You know, that they're just in crisis management mode. You know, we're in a world where the climate change tipping points are hovering on the horizon, where our political system is thoroughly corrupt with moneyed interests. And on top of that, we have this financial crisis that could well turn into something much more ugly than even 1929 or the 1930s.
SIEGEL: You don't think - I don't know if you were in the U.S. in 1968, but you don't think...
LASN: I was actually, yeah.
SIEGEL: You don't think the summers of riots in those days, the fear that permeated many American cities, the George Wallace campaign for president, the Vietnam War protests - you don't think that that was a shaky time? You don't think that...
LASN: But it was shaky in a different way. I think that it was shaky because maybe you could be drafted into the Vietnam War or - it was shaky in its own way. But I think that, at the risk of sounding a bit grandiose, I think this human experiment of ours on planet Earth is in deep trouble suddenly on a number of fronts. And the young people look into their futures, see a big black hole and they see leaders that don't even understand. So I think the young people today are scared in a way that they never were back in 1968.
SIEGEL: Mr. Lasn, thank you very much for talking with us.
LASN: Oh, delightful talking to you.
Radical leftists have a "delightful" time talking on our taxpayer-funded radio network. Lasn may have been speaking with braggadocio because he admitted the "occupying the parks phase" was pretty much over.
The interview touched on 1968 because Siegel noted that the OWS movement has made some foreign-policy noises against neoconservatives and "Some people think you're out of bounds identifying who are Jews among prominent neoconservatives." The anchor wondered if the movement should take on foreign policy as well as domestic issues, and Lasn said yes. Siegel also suggested the movement hadn't exactly seen any legislative accomplishments yet, which caused Lasn to insist OWS was more powerful than the Tea Party:
SIEGEL: Let me ask you about what you just mentioned, and something else. On the one hand Occupy Wall Street protesters did urge people to move their money out of banks that were increasing their debit cards fees.
LASN: Yes.
SIEGEL: And instantly, people forced a big bank to back down.
LASN: Yeah.
SIEGEL: A success. On the other hand, when it comes to banks, protesters called commonly for the restoration of the New Deal banking reform law, the Glass-Steagall Act. Something much, much weaker than Glass-Steagall, the Volcker Rule barely survived the Dodd-Frank bill, which was all that a very, very Democratic Congress was able to pass.
LASN: Yes.
SIEGEL: A lesson from that is, you know, citizen action, consumerism, you can get results. Legislation, you're a pretty far cry from achieving what you want.
LASN: Yeah. No, I think that this movement, unlike the Tea Party movement, I think it has a lot of power because it's asking for fundamental systemic change within the American system. Most of the Occupiers that I know, they all feel that America is in decline and it's got corruption at the heart of Washington, D.C.
And then the financial people on Wall Street are controlling too much of the way the economy works, and that the whole of America somehow degenerated into a kind of a corporate state, rather than being a vibrant bottoms-up democracy. And I think this Occupy movement will try to pull off some rich systemic change in America and worldwide in the global economy.
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Government Socialism is the cause of the worldwide economic difficulities we now experience. Government socialism will be the cause of the worldwide depression next year.
These people are not builders. They are parasites
sucking the life out of those who produce. When they need money, they print more. The EU is a good example. Kick the can. Nothing has been fixed. Just mountains of more debt. This is the great new world order. Trainwreck in progress.
Next they will nationalise everything to feed their causes. That will also fail. Like a drowning person. They will pull as many down with them to stay on top.
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We already are a socialist state you stupid idiot.
I do not know why every country on the planet must be a bankrupt welfare state. I do not know why Americans want to be like Europe even while it bankrupts in front of our eyes.
Why do we send tax money to that stupid NPR anyways? Stupid commies.
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Just arrest and try him, treason's stoll a crime.
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a vibrant bottoms-up democracy That's different from government by consent of the governed. The USA was never intended to be a democracy in the sense Lasn makes, from its very beginnings. Lasn seems to be referring to the Red Guards of the 1960's or the Jacobins of the 1700's. The world has already had far too much of that crap.
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Siegel asked how ripe America was for a socialist revolution? This sounds like wishful thinking on his part. Better be careful what you wish for. Socialist and communist revolutions have been exceedingly violent and destructive and not particularly discriminating in who they called enemies of the state. The press is usually the first to go. And while Siegel might be having a wet dream about a socialist revolution, one can not easily predict in which direction a revolution will go.
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Lest we fergit, 1990's NET + PRE, POST 9-11 + WAR FOR PRO-US-VS-ANTI-US OWG-NWO = Among other, THE US mst must Must MUST M-U-S-T MMMMUUUUSSSSTTT - MUST, MUST, SPELLED M-U-S-S,
D **** YOU, MUST - ADOPT SOCIALISM OR BE DESTROYED!
EX-POTUS BILL CLINTON = "The US must be contrained/controlled".
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I do not know why every country on the planet must be a bankrupt welfare state. I do not know why Americans want to be like Europe even while it bankrupts in front of our eyes.
ATF officials didn't intend to publicly disclose their own role in letting Mexican cartels obtain the weapons, but emails show they discussed using the sales, including sales encouraged by ATF, to justify a new gun regulation called "Demand Letter 3". That would require some U.S. gun shops to report the sale of multiple rifles or "long guns." Demand Letter 3 was so named because it would be the third ATF program demanding gun dealers report tracing information.
On July 14, 2010 after ATF headquarters in Washington D.C. received an update on Fast and Furious, ATF Field Ops Assistant Director Mark Chait emailed Bill Newell, ATF's Phoenix Special Agent in Charge of Fast and Furious:
"Bill - can you see if these guns were all purchased from the same (licensed gun dealer) and at one time. We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun multiple sales. Thanks."
This was the topic when Dan Lundgren (R-CA) summed it up with these words to Holder: You screwed up, you ought to admit you screwed up, but you ought not to use your screw-up as the basis for trying to extend your authority.
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Osama's DEAD, the Taliban are defeated, and theyr "Military" in disarray, I'd say we are winning.
As the old sayung goes,"It ain;t over, tpll it's over".
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Point on Jim.
No one seems to ever want to see the conflict from the other side. Everything is written as though it's all 'going to plan' or that there are no problems facing them, that major failures have never happened or that their abilities have been curtailed.
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From the article: Curbing the Taliban may happen if and when these tribes manage to reestablish traditional balances of power and restraint among themselves.
As if Afghanistan ever had a balance of power and restraint. It switches from being a wretched hive of scum and villainy at war with itself to being a hotbed of terrorist exports.
A revisionist state called Pakistan is taking all measures possible to immolate itself. The Army finally ran is rival Husain Haqqani to the ground and was helped in this by internecine party politics with everyone mindlessly baying for each other's blood as the only politics they know. The national economy is gradually crumbling, its infrastructure run down and people willing to attack and burn because the state is unable to run itself. On top of it all, the most fatal hubris of a weak state - ghairat or honour - rules the collective mind.
The Pakistan Army is the only popular institution in the country with processions now carrying portraits of General Kayani because he carries in him the promise of a war of honour, in other words, an honourable death, because living without honour is not living at all. On 26 November 2011, the NATO forces attacked a checkpost on the Pak-Afghan border and killed 24 Pak troops. No one knows what happened except Pakistan that says it was a pre-planned attack. Pakistan significantly got its TV cable operators to ban the BBC for showing its two-hour documentary Secret Pakistan whose facts cannot be denied or at least no one outside Pakistan will reject them. Pakistan should pause and reflect on these facts and then understand the November 26 attack in their light.
BBC said on its website: 'Filmed largely in Pakistan and Afghanistan, this documentary explored how a supposed ally stands accused by top CIA officers and Western diplomats of causing the deaths of thousands of coalition soldiers in Afghanistan. It is a charge denied by Pakistan's military establishment, but the documentary makers meet serving Taliban commanders who describe the support they get from Pakistan in terms of weapons, training and a place to hide'.
Pak Army is not willing to look at the non state actors despoiling the country from the inside. It defies the world asking that they be banned and brought to account and feels itself totally blameless for what happened in Mumbai in 2008 while it focuses on what has happened at Salala in 2011. If you kill others or get them killed by your non state actors, they are prone to make the kind of mistake that was made at Salala. But Pakistan welcomes war even though it has never won one and has been defeated again and again fighting India, the last one being the battle of Kargil. General Kayani has familiarly thrown the gauntlet to the US: do it again and see what happens. The world knows that nothing will happen, except that Pakistan, already in dire economic straits, will be crushed.
Nawaz Sharif has gone to the Supreme Court as the one forum where the PPP government can be pulled down as a corollary to defeating the United States. (Get the traitor for joining enemy America!) He wants to get at the root of the Memogate scandal and is sure that the PPP leader Zardari was trying to double-cross the Pak Army which Nawaz Sharif now wants to stand up for. He wants the PPP government gone in short order before its tenure is up.
It appears that the PMLN, with fresh warpaint on its face, the maximalist Supreme Court, intent on getting Zardari to commit hara-kiri in Switzerland, and a revengeful Army aspiring to defeat the US, are on the same page: Suspend efforts to free-trade with India, defeat the US as an obstacle to Pakistan getting its fair share of leverage in Afghanistan, and stop fighting the war against terrorists because it was never Pakistan's war, slyly hoping that the Taliban will be on Pakistan's side in the war against the US.
Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has pledged a crushing retaliation if the US-ISAF forces attacked inside Pakistani territory again, 'regardless of consequences' (sic!). He told his troops, 'Be assured that we will not let the aggressor walk away easily; I have clearly directed that any act of aggression will be responded to with full force, regardless of the cost and consequences'. He wants the troops on the border with Afghanistan to take their own on-the-spot decision against any future NATO attacks without waiting for orders from the GHQ. Now they will fight the US-ISAF forces instead of the Taliban terrorists.
This is a very rash approach to the situation triggered by the November 26 incident, even if it is directed as a morale-booster at the troops and meant to be interpreted differently as strategy for civil society which is obviously not prepared for war on the western front. The Americans are offering regrets even before their formal inquiry into the Salala incident is completed on 21 December. President Obama too has expressed sorrow at the death of Pakistani troops while a formal apology pends till the inquiry reveals NATO's guilt. There are however statements issuing from Washington saying the attack was unintended and that some fire had come from around the Salala checkpost.
The nation is of one mind, a kind of pre-war symptom that Pakistan experienced in 1965 and 1971 when the Army painted the country into a corner through the hubris of isolationism. It is not natural that the entire nation be of uniform thinking in favour of conflict, especially if this conflict is against an immeasurably stronger adversary. If after the anger felt in the GHQ subsides and more realistic decisions are required to be taken, the disappointment among the public will take the shape of an emotional boomerang of self-disgust. We have seen that happen in the Raymond Davis case after the CIA agent was let off on diyat instead of being publicly hanged. If the common man has succumbed to an attack of 'ghairat' and is spoiling for a fight with the US, the state cannot afford to indulge in the bravado of an unequal war.
If the pro-war mind is presuming that the Taliban will fight the NATO-US forces side by side with the Pak Army, putting an end to the problem of law and order in Pakistan, it is sadly deceived. It will in fact be a two-front war, one front being at the back of the Pakistani troops. The Taliban and their master al Qaeda have an agenda that will be fulfilled only by removing our brave Army Chief from his post and then using the Army to take over the country and its nuclear assets. Wisdom demands that we challenge the US realistically rather than rashly, compelling it to make amends for the Salala incident to the benefit of Pakistan.
A consensus of national self-damage can occur even in democracies and it has recently taken place in the US too but in Pakistan one institution of the state dominates all decision-making functions, and those who should be ruling and not allowing this domination are busy in a lethal war of self-diminution.
The fact is that there are two versions of the truth. Unfortunately the American version is what is credited at the international level while the Pakistani version can only hold if the news channels are prevented from puncturing it. Our asymmetric proxy war against India was rejected by the world while the Pakistanis were force-fed with justifiable jihad by non state actors. Its fallout was experienced by Pakistan's neighbours whose fear of what Pakistan may do next has isolated Pakistan in the region too.
Even big states have to do self-correction after reversals. Weaker nations don't have the capacity to do that without being crippled in sectors where they are weak. By creating just one point of view Pakistan may entrench itself in dangerous isolation and may find it difficult to do course-correction to save its already crippled economy from collapsing. Nawaz Sharif may come to power next but the much weakened state with a broad systemic short-circuiting caused by Al Qaeda may not let him govern normally. It will be time then for the PPP to topple a non-governing Nawaz Sharif and return to power.
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On 8 December, with the headline "War Inevitable To Tackle Indian Water Aggression," Pakistan's Urdu-language Nawa-e Waqt, issued such a screed. 'Nawa-e Waqt' translates into 'Nuggets', I think... Nawa-e Waqt bluntly commented on India's Kashmiri water polices and Islamabad's failure up to now to stop New Delhi's efforts to construct hydroelectric dams in Kashmir, "India should be forcibly prevented from constructing these dams. If it fails to constrain itself, we should not hesitate in launching nuclear war because there is no solution except this."
Potential nuclear war over water rights -- such sentiments ought to light up switchboards from New Delhi to Washington.
Needless to say, the fact that both India and Pakistan are nuclear powers is cause for concern.
Nawa-e Waqt is a privately owned, widely read conservative Pakistani Islamic daily with a circulation around 125,000 and is heavily critical of the U.S. and India. To put Nawa-e Waqt's circulation in context, consider that the conservative Washington Times has a current estimated circulation of 50,000.
So, what has the editorial board of the Nawa-e Waqt so excited?
Indian dam building in the disputed area of Kashmir. Compared with much of South Asia, Kashmir has many rivers and relatively few people. Bashir Ahmad, a geologist in Srinagar, Kashmir commented grimly about the Indians' future intentions, "They will switch the Indus off to make Pakistan solely dependent on India. It's going to be a water bomb."
A more dispassionate report by America's Senate last February offered still a similar assessment, noting, "The cumulative effect of (the dam) projects could give India the ability to store enough water to limit the supply to Pakistan at crucial moments in the growing season" before concluding that dams are a source of "significant bilateral tension."
How many dams and hydroelectric reports? The Senate report counted 33 hydroelectric projects in the border area, a number that Pakistani analysts nearly double to 60, which according to the state's chief minister, Omar Abdullah, will add an extra 3,000 megawatts to the national power grid by 2019.
Pakistan's vulnerability is underwritten by the fact that, like Egypt it exists around a single great river, although the Indus is nearly twice the Nile's size when it reaches the sea. The Indus provides water to over 80 percent of Pakistan's 54 million acres of irrigated land, via a canal system largely built by the British.
A further potential diplomatic tar-pit is that Afghanistan plans to build 12 dams on the Kabul river with a combined storage capacity of 4.7 million acre-feet, which Pakistan frets will further diminish the Indus water supply, quite aside from the fact that Indian support for these dams will increase India's hydro-influence in the region.
The Kabul River Basin (KRB) is the most important river basin in Afghanistan and contains half the country's urban population, including the city of Kabul. While New Delhi has not directly confirmed its support for the facilities, the proposed hydroelectric projects represent one of India's largest assistance interests, with $1.3 billion invested in infrastructure projects.
So, is there any way out before the missiles fly?
The 1960 Indus Water Treaty (IWT) between India and Pakistan can not only assist in easing tension, but provide a template for developing an Afghan-Pakistani agreement on the Kabul river. The treaty, which has survived three wars, explicitly outlines how both India and Pakistan can use cross-border rivers and deals in particular with the tributaries flowing from Kashmir to form the Indus.
The IWT is considered one of the world's most successful trans-boundary water treaties, as it addresses specific water allocation issues and provides unique design requirements for run-of-the-river dams, which ensure the steady flow of water and guarantee power generation through hydro-electricity. The IWT also provides a mechanism for consultation and arbitration should questions, disagreements, or disputes arise.
All foreign governments interested in avoiding further military conflict in South Asia should impress upon both New Delhi and Islamabad the ongoing value of their 51 year-old water agreement and urge them to resolve their conflicts within its framework.
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B.S. Article
(1) Pakistan cannot win either conventional or nuclear wars with India. It will not obtain water by war.
(2) All India's dams are built under the Indus Water Treaty provisions. This treaty, negotiated by Robert McNamara gives Pakistan four-fifths of the water of the Indus system. India is allowed only run of the river projects. It may not store or divert any of the Indus water. Pakistan gets 80% always.
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From The Hindu no other water-sharing treaty in modern world history matches this level of generosity on the part of the upper-riparian state for the lower-riparian one. In fact, the volume of waters earmarked for Pakistan from India under the Indus Treaty is more than ninety times greater than what the US is required to release for Mexico under the 1944 US-Mexico Water Treaty, which stipulates a guaranteed minimum transboundary delivery of 1.85 billion cubic m of the Colorado River waters yearly. Nehru personally signed the Indus Treaty that apportioned 80.52 per cent of the Indus system waters to Pakistan a munificent allocation by an upstream country unsurpassed in scale in the annals of international water pacts.
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Pak would probably use the excuse that the Indians are "contaminating" the Indus with their Hinduism, and it says in the Korn that all water belongs to Muslims.
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ION PACIFICNEWSCENTER [Guam K-57 NewsRadio] MEKONG RIVER COMMISSION ANNOUNCES CONSTRUCTION OF XAYABURI DAM IN LAOS HAS BEEN POSTPONED, due to alleged need to complete key environ studies.
I say "alleged" because Beijing = China covertly believes the US is unfairly pressuring Laos + other Regional States to delay or halt collusory riverine dam projects wid China.
versus
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PAKISTAN NEEDS INTERNATIONAL DONORS TO ESCAPE C/A [Current Accouts] DEFICIT.
[Dawn] Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... , the terror group blamed for deadly attacks on Shias in Afghanistan this week, has forged ties to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in a murderous campaign to wage sectarian warfare.
Since its inception in 1996 by a religious Death Eater, the faction has claimed to have killed thousands of Shias in bombings and shootings across Pakistain.
It takes its name from Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, the founder of terror group Sipah-e-Sahaba from which leader Riaz Basra broke, and preaches indiscriminate violence against Shias.
A suicide kaboom tore through a crowd of worshippers in Kabul on Tuesday as they marked the holy day of Ashura, killing 55 people, as a second blast in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif left four more dead.
There has been no confirmation of a purported claim from Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) splinter al-Alami, but Kabul blamed the group for Tuesday's massacre, unprecedented in targeting such an important religious holiday in Afghanistan.
LeJ is not thought to have struck in Afghanistan before.
"We will pursue this issue with Pakistain and its government very seriously," said Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... , threatening to ratchet up tensions with Islamabad which are already frayed over accusations of sponsoring violence.
Afghan officials say the motive was to inflame a 10-year Taliban insurgency and drastically increase violence by importing Pakistain and Iraq-style sectarian conflict as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... combat troops prepare to leave by the end of 2014.
A substantial rise in sectarian unrest could also draw arch US foe Iran deeper into Afghanistan, threatening to whip up proxy wars.
The Taliban denied involvement, but in a cauldron of violence where religious terror groups are interlinked and have overlapping allegiances, experts say it would have been impossible for the LIJ killers to have acted alone.
As with Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other terror groups the world over, LeJ was born from the ashes of the 1980s Afghan war against the Soviet Union.
The group's leaders were veterans of that conflict and its ranks populated by graduates of madrassas packed off to terror training camps in the mountains on the Afghan-Pak border.
It developed close ties to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, which ruled in Kabul from 1996 until the 2001 US-led invasion.
Pakistain formally banned the group in 2001 and there have been numerous crackdowns with arrests and killings of known Jhangvi operatives over the last 20 years.
Islamabad has asked Afghanistan to provide proof that Jhangvi forces of Evil were responsible for Tuesday's attack, but it is understood that Afghan officials do not have any hard evidence.
One official said the bomber was a Pak from Kurram, part of Pakistain's tribal region with Afghanistan, and a specific flashpoint for sectarian unrest.
But as long as doubts persist over the al-Alami claim, it remains unclear how exactly the group could have carried out the attack.
"The question is, how credible is the claim? Some Taliban groups can do the same as they share school of thought with LeJ," said Pak-based security analyst Hasan Askari.
Militancy expert Rahimullah Yusufzai also doubted the claim, saying that the splinter group's capacity is very limited even in Pakistain, which has seen a recent decline in attacks linked to its own bloody Taliban insurgency.
"There is one possibility that this group may have support of Al-Qaeda, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain or some of the rogue elements inside Afghanistan," Yusufzai.
Jhangvi's founder Basra has been dead for a number of years. Reports differ on whether he was killed in an kaboom or a shootout with security forces.
A senior Pak security official said LeJ and other Death Eater groups are "hand in glove with the Taliban".
"But they cannot carry out such an attack on their own. This would have surely been a Taliban-connected operation," he told AFP.
"Al-Alami are basically the Punjabi Taliban, who were involved in the attack on (army) GHQ (general headquarters) two years ago," he added.
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Right now the optimal operation against Iran is to both attack nuclear targets, but even more importantly, to unnerve the population.
Fear that this will turn them in the favor of their government is overstated. They need to have an increasing, and downright painful fear of war at the street level.
As I have suggested before, likewise their nuclear hopes and dreams have to be darkened, to turn them against nuclear anything. And this can now only happen with a major and terrible nuclear accident that kills thousands. Hopefully IRGC or military, or in a region that strongly supports the regime.
The alternative, rapidly approaching, is a conventional war that kills hundreds of thousands, and can possibly devastate the region.
These are not pleasant alternatives, but they have become the only alternatives, because of the endless procrastination and bloviating by those who should have acted earlier.
There are times when the cowboy way, dealing with problems as soon as they come to light, is the right way. If you are diagnosed with cancer, procrastination never helps, even if it involves a hundred dull committee meetings and position papers.
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Militancy expert Rahimullah Yusufzai also doubted the claim, saying that the splinter group's capacity is very limited even in Pakistain, which has seen a recent decline in attacks linked to its own bloody Taliban insurgency.
