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'India Wanted To Strike Pakistan'
sky.com ^ | December 7, 2008

Posted on 12/07/2008 11:39:16 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY

The Pakistani High Commissioner in London, Wajid Shamsul Hassan, said he had learned from sources that India was about to launch a military strike to "teach Pakistan a lesson".

Speaking to Sky News, he said: "On the day of the Mumbai attacks, I got some information in London that India was going to act very drastically against Pakistan in retaliation to what happened."

The senior diplomat said had alerted the Pakistani government and President Asif Ali Zardari to the threat.

In turn, Mr Zardari urgently contacted high level British and American officials who intervened to calm the situation.

Mr Hassan said: "The president spoke to people in various places and the next day Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke to Mr Zardari and US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice spoke to Shri Pranab Mukherjee, India's external minister," he said.

"It was probably because of that reason why the tension that was building up was eased a little.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: condi; condirice; india; mohammedanism; pakistan; rice; speaksoftly

1 posted on 12/07/2008 11:39:16 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Ya know? It's the height of the hajj. It's likely that every mohammedan on earth knows someone on hajj or at least someone who knows someone who is on hajj.

If mecca were to suddenly and mysteriously disappear it would send a very clear message to all of islam that their pig-god can't even protect his holiest of holies.

Nor can he protect his slaves worshipers.

Just maybe they'd figure out he's not all they've cracked him up to be.

At a minimum they would have to notice that the rest of the world is a little tired of putting up with their terrorist crap...

2 posted on 12/07/2008 11:51:41 AM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Not likely to see an air attack by India. They're Sukhoi Su-30MKI's would be hard pressed to get past the extensive Paki SAM network and the 44 operational F-16's we sold the Paki's.

Nearly all of which are deployed to the Indian side of Pakistan.

Pakistan has a considerable air defense and without cooperation, India is stalemated for now.

3 posted on 12/07/2008 12:22:38 PM PST by gandalftb (An appeaser feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last......)
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To: gandalftb
"They're Sukhoi Su-30MKI's would be hard pressed to get past the extensive Paki SAM network and the 44 operational F-16's we sold the Paki's."

It all depends on pilot quality. The SU-30 is a hot stick and can cause real problems. The Indians have also upgraded their older MiG with new radar, electronics and missiles. They could use 104 upgraded MiG-21 and 56 MiG-29s to to make the Pakistani spread out their 40 or so F-16s and then punch through with their first team of 80 SU-30s.

Unless Pakistan's pilots are good enough to fight outnumbered 5 to 1 then they can only hope to bloody the Indians before they are driven out of the sky. And the Pakistanis don't get a lot of stick time in their F-16s due to limited budgets.
4 posted on 12/07/2008 12:43:07 PM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: gandalftb
"Not likely to see an air attack by India. They're Sukhoi Su-30MKI's would be hard pressed to get past the extensive Paki SAM network and the 44 operational F-16's we sold the Paki's..."

Before the Indians declare war against Pakistan, they need to teach their police to stop cowering in the corners and shoot at the bad guys (would help if they can hit what they're shooting at too).

It would also help if the Indian "Commandos" could respond to their Government's decision to deploy in less than 10 hours from the decision to "Go" as well.

India would be better off if they enacted a 2nd Amendment to allow the average citizen of India to arm and protect themselves. I can't see that they'd be in any more danger than they are now from these Insane Lunatic Jihadists when they're being "protected" by cowardly Police who hide and refuse to shoot at the bad guys.

5 posted on 12/07/2008 12:48:31 PM PST by Friend_from_the_Frozen_North (If you are, as Rush would say, "A Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance" don't waste my time...)
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To: gandalftb

India has a history of showing no quarter. A case in point is the fate of the British garrison and their families at Cawnpore in 1857. A horrific slaughter.


6 posted on 12/07/2008 12:54:39 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: GonzoGOP
And the Pakistanis don't get a lot of stick time in their F-16s due to limited budgets.

A first-rate pilot in a second-rate plane can generally beat a second-rate pilot in a first-rate plane. And the Su-30 is not trash.

7 posted on 12/07/2008 1:01:10 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (Question O-thority)
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To: null and void

I’d fly the plane, drop the bomb, push the button on this one.
Just do it.
Melt mecca in full hajj.


8 posted on 12/07/2008 1:07:13 PM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: null and void

And what message will it send to Christians and Jews when Muslims detonate a nuclear bomb in Jerusalem in retaliation?


9 posted on 12/07/2008 1:32:16 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wish Condoleeza had asked Mr McJerky: “so, do you need any extra bombs, rockets, things of that nature?”


10 posted on 12/07/2008 1:34:55 PM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
'And what message will it send to Christians and Jews when Muslims detonate a nuclear bomb in Jerusalem in retaliation?"

It won't be Jerusalem since it is just as holy to Islam as to Christians and Jews. New York, London, LA would probably go away though. I agree if you hit Mecca it becomes a war of extermination. No survivors on one side, likely both.
11 posted on 12/07/2008 1:44:44 PM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: GonzoGOP

If India get the credit why would they nuke LA, New York or London (all of which have substantial mohammedan populations)?

If no one takes credit, will the best of islamic ‘science’ be able to trace the warhead to its source? No. The best they’ll be able to do is narrow the suspect list down to any country that has experienced islamic terrorism and has The Bomb. To that they would have to add Iran, which already has a history of launching terrorist attacks in mecca during the hajj.

Beside which, there’s always medina.

And the little detail that the civilized world has at least a 1000 to 1 advantage in nuclear devices over the mohammedan.

You can’t slay the hydra by chopping off appendages, you need to stab it through its black stoney heart.

To do nothing to destroy islam is to ultimately lose or enslave London, NY, LA and every other kafir city on earth.


12 posted on 12/07/2008 3:54:11 PM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Didn’t mean to leave you out of the ‘To:’ list.

Please see post #12


13 posted on 12/07/2008 3:56:31 PM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
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To: null and void
To do nothing to destroy islam is to ultimately lose or enslave London, NY, LA and every other kafir city on earth.

You don't destroy Islam by blowing up a rock. You destroy it by getting its young people to laugh at the old geezers with the funny beards and turn away from them to adopt Western values.

Just take what the Left has done to European Christianity and use that as a model.

14 posted on 12/07/2008 4:41:20 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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