Pakistan's ISI fights lawsuit linking it to Mumbai attacks

Pakistan’s embattled ISI intelligence service has retained U.S. lawyers to block a lawsuit alleging that its current and former directors helped one of the world’s most dangerous terrorist groups conduct the Nov. 2008 attack in Mumbai, India, killing 164 people, including six Americans.

The lawsuit, filed late last year in U.S. federal court in New York by American family members of the victims and one survivor of Mumbai, is based in large part on evidence developed by the FBI linking the ISI to the operatives of the Lashkar e Taiba terror group who are charged with conducting the operation.

The lawsuit charges that the ISI provided “critical planning, material support, control and coordination” of the Mumbai attacks under the leadership of its director general, Ahmed Shuja Pasha, and his predecessor, Nadeem Taj. This allegedly included providing funding to David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani American who has pleaded guilty in federal court to conducting surveillance for the Mumbai attacks under the direction of an ISI case officer, whom he identified only as “Major Iqbal.”

But U.S. lawyers for the ISI are now moving to quash the lawsuit, arguing that if the case proceeds, it “will fuel violence and extremism” that will threaten the Pakistani government and pour “gasoline on the fire” of relations between Pakistan and India.

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Smoke pours out of the Taj hotel in Mumbai on Nov. 27, 2008, during a three-day siege in which Indian security forces battled terrorists holed up in the landmark building.

Wonderful! Who’s representing the Paki’s? Former Bush Admin. folks. Anything for a buck. That’s the motto of the Washington Law firms. They would have represented Hitler at Nuremburg if he had gotten out of WWII alive.

Thanks sukhoi-30mki.

Pakistan's embattled ISI intelligence service has retained U.S. lawyers to block a lawsuit alleging that its current and former directors helped one of the world's most dangerous terrorist groups conduct the Nov. 2008 attack in Mumbai, India, killing 164 people, including six Americans... [the case is] based in large part on evidence developed by the FBI linking the ISI to the operatives of the Lashkar e Taiba terror group who are charged with conducting the operation... under the leadership of its director general, Ahmed Shuja Pasha, and his predecessor, Nadeem Taj... an ISI case officer... identified only as "Major Iqbal." But U.S. lawyers for the ISI are now moving to quash the lawsuit, arguing that if the case proceeds, it "will fuel violence and extremism" that will threaten the Pakistani government and pour "gasoline on the fire" of relations between Pakistan and India.

yeah, *unlike* the attacks themselves, right? The lSI and its lawyers need to be pushed into a live wood chipper.

.... “will fuel violence and extremism” that will threaten the Pakistani government ....

And we don't want to upset the peace and stability that exists in Pakistan right? Mumbai attack victims be damned.

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