Mumbai Attacks 'Were a Ploy to Wreck Obama Plan to Isolate Al Qaeda'

Timesonline.co.uk ^ | Dec 1,2008 | Jeremy Page in Mumbai, Tom Coghlan and Zahid Hussain

[NoLibZone]

Relations between India and Pakistan were on a knife edge last night amid fears that Delhi’s response to the Mumbai attacks could undermine the Pakistani army’s campaign against Islamic militants on the frontier with Afghanistan. Officials and analysts in the region believe that last week’s atrocities were designed to provoke a crisis, or even a war, between the nuclear-armed neighbours, diverting Islamabad’s attention from extremism in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and thus relieving pressure on al-Qaeda, Taleban and other militants based there. One analyst even described the attacks as a “pre-emptive strike” against Barack Obama’s strategy to put Pakistan and Afghanistan at the centre of US foreign policy. The United States and its allies now face a balancing act in supporting India’s efforts to investigate the Mumbai attacks, without jeopardizing Pakistan’s crucial support for the Nato campaign in Afghanistan.

[Polarik]

What bull! As I said after Obama first spouted off about going afterr Al Qaeda, this is a well-orchestrated dance between him and Al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan. You can bet your bottom dollar that, if he were POTUS -- and he never will be -- Al Qaeda is the one terrorist group he would NEVER go after.

Red herrings in the sunset...

[Candor7]

Nice Coupe. But not pimped out quite enough to be the Obama Coupe.

Obama wants to govern BEFORE the inauguration.Why? He's not qualified under Article II of the Constitution.

Makes one sick.

Obama Coupe needs a bomb under it.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Well said. 0bama is already in way over his head.

[an amused spectator]

Hunh?!??!