Posted on 06/08/2002 5:08:46 AM PDT by mhking
PTI [ SATURDAY, JUNE 08, 2002 1:47:03 PM ] "In a very informal sense, we have conveyed to the Americans that if they verify the camps are closed, we are going to believe them," a senior Indian intelligence official was quoted as saying by the Los Angeles Times in a report from New Delhi. The paper said the official's comments were "a reflection of the Indian government's frustration over what it saw as Washington's failure to make Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf cooperate completely in the war against terrorism." With the FBI and the CIA agents and US special forces troops already hunting for al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Pakistan, it would be logical to visit training camps that Indian intelligence has identified, the official argued, the daily reported. "For us, this is terrorism. And there can never be half a campaign against terrorism," he said, adding "it must be complete. Only then will it be effective." Another senior intelligence official gave the newspaper detailed descriptions of training camps run by three militant groups. The official dismissed suggestions that the US might provide high-tech monitoring gear to check infiltration saying the mountainous routes were simply too forested and rugged for electronic detectors to work well. "It's not like wildlife photography, where you get everything you want with a few cameras," he was quoted as saying. India seeks US inspection of Pak terror camps: Report
SILICON VALLEY: India has quietly asked the US to inspect suspected terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, a report said here on Saturday.
"In a very informal sense, we have conveyed to the Americans that if they verify the camps are closed, we are going to believe them," a senior Indian intelligence official was quoted as saying by the Los Angeles Times in a report from New Delhi.
In a "very informal sense", I am reminded of the time the Clinton administration used cruise missiles on abandoned al-Quida camps in Afghanstan because that's how good our intelligence was. Something about stuffing a two million dollar cruise missile up a camel's butt and a ten dollar tent.
Of course, Musharraf will have to have truly destroyed them, but the terrorists say that he has, and they're not very happy about it.
I think they're being destroyed because their purpose has ended and the jihadis are ready for mass infiltrations. What's a jihadi without a jihad do? Are these people going to be like citizen soldiers and go back to their farms etc.?
Inja is now calling Pakistan's bluff. If Mush is serious, can he implement a policy of wiping out the Jihadis.
I can relate to their fustration, given Bush's selective application of the "Bush Doctrine".
And we are now faced with a multi-generational poisonous pedagogy. A large portion of their population has been "conditioned". Add to this situation their complete lack of an economic infrastructure and you have what we face, a mass of evil doers about to explode on the world.
Inja is now calling Pakistan's bluff. If Mush is serious, can he implement a policy of wiping out the Jihadis.
Mush is in a real bind, to be sure. If he cracks down on the radicals, they may assasinate him. If not, India will attack. No easy answers here.
The reality is that we were drug into it on September 11.
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