Thursday, January 19, 2006
Plot to kill Mufti unveiled
SRINAGAR: The police investigating a Kashmiri politician's alleged ties to Islamic militants say the man has admitted to taking part in a plot to kill the former chief minister of held Kashmir.
Last week the police arrested Abdul Wahid Dar, a city councillor in Srinagar, the state's summer capital, after intelligence reports indicated that Dar was a supporter of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, said police superintendent Anand Jain said. Dar was once an Islamic militant who turned to politics after spending a few years in jail in the early 1990s.
It is not uncommon for Kashmir militants to be released from jail if the authorities no longer consider them a threat. Since the arrest, Jain said that Dar has admitted that he helped work out the logistics for a number of Lashkar suicide attacks. ap
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\01\19\story_19-1-2006_pg7_11
Comment: The Daily Times prints the well known fact.
This is a theory as good as any other:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1386149.cms War on terror: CIA may have retainers in Pak
Chidanand Rajghatta
[ Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:30:30 amTIMES NEWS NETWORK]
WASHINGTON: More than a week after the US bombing of a Pakistani village killed 13 people, including possibly four Al-Qaida terrorists, it appears that the CIA undertook the mission with help from American loyalists and retainers within the Pakistani intelligence establishment.
While one wing of the establishment led by PM Shaukat Aziz insists that no terrorists were killed in the bombing, various Pakistani officials, including his own ministers, have confirmed terrorist deaths to the media.
It now transpires that the reason for this confusion is that one wing of the Pakistani establishment has no clue about the underhand working of the other.
According to the intelligence grapevine in Washington, the CIA now has its own assets in Pakistani intelligence comprising mostly former ISI operatives who report directly to their American bosses, who don't necessarily trust Islamabad.
In the case of the bombing of Damodala village in Bajaur Agency, it was one such US-sponsored intel group that tipped off the CIA about the presence of terrorists, including possibly Ayman al-Zawahiri, causing Washington to rain Hellfire missiles from Predator drones on the suspect compound.
Here is where it all gets murky. The intel may or may not have been correct, but in either case Pakistan has been left holding the can.
More than 10 days after the incident, there are still no bodies to account for the terrorists named as killed. Whether they were taken away by Al-Qaida, by US-sponsored ISI elements or the original ISI is still unclear