Posted on 05/23/2005 7:23:42 PM PDT by voletti
A Pakistani detainee in Guantanamo Bay has exposed Islamabad's official sponsorship of terrorism in depositions before a US tribunal.
The unnamed prisoner, accused of being a member of the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, has referred to the fighting in Kashmir and said it was backed by Pakistan, the US' frontline ally in the war on terrorism.
"If you consider this organization a terrorist organization, then you should consider the Pakistan government a terrorist country," he says in a deposition obtained by the Associated Press wire service under a Freedom of Information lawsuit.
The excerpt comes from nearly 2,000 pages of documents representing some 558 tribunals held in Guantanamo Bay, according to AP.
The detainee's testimony implicating Islamabad is important because Lashkar is one of several Pakistani organisations designated by the US State Department as Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTOs) and its sponsors are subject to action under the UN Security Council Resolution No.1373 against terrorism.
Although the intelligence community in India and the US believe organisations such as Lashkar and Jaish-e-Mohammed were officially sponsored by Pakistan, Islamabad has maintained a degree of deniability. Islamabad's policy in the regard is common knowledge in Pakistan and has frequently been reported in the Pakistani media.
AP's effort has also brought to light other confusions and contradictions in the US war on terror, revealed through the Gitmo depositions.
Among the detainees in Guantanamo Bay identified in the AP report are an Afghan chicken farmer accused of being a Taliban, a goatherd who was captured near a mined area when he was looking for his goats, and a Saudi fruit merchant visiting Pakistan.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
God bless your soul for posting this article. Unfortuntely on FR, you will not get a single post condeming the Pakistanies...they are are trusted allies you know!
They are serving a purpose as of right now. We'll see. They should never try to find out if we would choose India or themselves.
Ping....
I do hope the documents they are printing are of closed cases?
File under breaking news (Sarcasm off)
Vise man have dum quote reddy at any moment.
-Stunned Zhu
I could have said that Pakistan is the nexus of evil in the world - e.g., BCCI, heroin dealing, terrorist financing, nuke proliferation, etc. - but I thought that might be too harsh.
Combine the worst of India (for all its failings, a country still to be admired) and the most lunatic, whackjob rantings of Islam, and you have the criminal insane asylum of Pakistan.
The Times of India says an unnamed prisoner at Guantanamo says......
LOL!
:-0
I was just being a smart ass with that comment! (How does one do a fortune-cookie comment?) But yes, most people do not have the stamina to face the whole gamut of info implicating the Pakistani Gumint.
Cheers!
Have you heard of Russel Peters...download his comedy act from the internet. He's an Indian who's on the comdedy circut in the US and Canada. Funny as hell...makes fun of Indians, Chinese, and Americans...very non-PC!
Here is one link for the source...
Here is an amazing clip about how chinese and indians will never be able to work together!
http://www.bittorrent.ca/Russellpeters/files/Russell%20Peters%20-%20brown_guy.WMV
Noted.
Yes mate, we have that (45 min thing) and other stuff on college LAN! Hilarious!
Loved that "click in the name" thing... :D
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