This isn't Iran. I don't buy that. This is still the ISI, because they know who did it.
Israel received threats of attacks back in 2009? 2010? Pakistan investigated reports from Washington about potential attacks on Israeli targets in India and found nothing substantial. Two years or more has gone by and it serves Pakistan interests to have prescribed instability in the region. India is a convenient target for Pakistan as well.
Wasn't the Prime Minister of Pakistan kicked out recently? What was that?
The Boston Globe has it right. This mischief in the Pakistan Supreme Court goes on all the time. My guess is that the violence in India is somehow fueling the idea that the USA has a real stake in the game there and can't ignore it. My sincere estimation is the USA needs to look at its intelligence from 2009 and 2010 regarding the warning about Israeli targets in India and the perpetrator will probably be discovered.
The U.S. believes a stable, civilian-led democracy in Pakistan is in its interests. But the diffusion of power could make it even more difficult for Washington to prod the country to do its bidding, especially given rampant anti-American sentiment....
The Prime Minister should not be arrested on contempt either. This is politics Pakistani style. It has real consequences and people in office can be charged with all kinds of trumped up charges with penalties as severe as execution. The Bhutto family knows the routine all too well.
I really believe the Supreme Court is covering for a lot of illegal activities of the ISI. By illegal I mean it in the sense that any other country would find it inappropriate for their own intelligence to be in chronic coup of their leadership. The Pakistani Supreme Court needs to be reviewed by outside international agencies that can decide legitimately about any corruption of inappropriate ties of the Pakistani Supreme Court to the ISI and/or political activities of these judges that abuse their power.
The bombings in India of Israeli assets seem like the final deployment of a plot that was interrupted by the USA in 2009 or 2010. When was that? I'll keep looking for it.
But, with the Chinese in the USA, I am confident the Pakistani ISI is feeling insecure. Iran, too. There was a comedy of errors in Bangkok, too. Israel can't be blaming Iran for everything. Evidently, the bombs in Bangkok went off accident. So, much for Iran's expert plots against human beings.
Incidentally, the incident comes a day after the fourth death anniversary of Imad Mughniyah, the deputy leader of Hezbollah who was killed in a car blast in 2008.
Israel received threats of attacks back in 2009? 2010? Pakistan investigated reports from Washington about potential attacks on Israeli targets in India and found nothing substantial. Two years or more has gone by and it serves Pakistan interests to have prescribed instability in the region. India is a convenient target for Pakistan as well.
Wasn't the Prime Minister of Pakistan kicked out recently? What was that?
The Boston Globe has it right. This mischief in the Pakistan Supreme Court goes on all the time. My guess is that the violence in India is somehow fueling the idea that the USA has a real stake in the game there and can't ignore it. My sincere estimation is the USA needs to look at its intelligence from 2009 and 2010 regarding the warning about Israeli targets in India and the perpetrator will probably be discovered.
Court activism sign of power shift in Pakistan (click here)
ISLAMABAD—A newly assertive Supreme Court is taking on the Pakistani government and army in a series of high-profile cases, signaling a power shift in a country vital to U.S. efforts to fight Islamist militants and negotiate peace in Afghanistan....
The jury is still out on the implications.
Some believe the court's actions are part of a necessary, if messy, rebalancing in a country that has long been dominated by the army or seen chaotic periods of rule by corrupt politicians. Others view the court as just another unaccountable institution undermining the elected government.
The U.S. believes a stable, civilian-led democracy in Pakistan is in its interests. But the diffusion of power could make it even more difficult for Washington to prod the country to do its bidding, especially given rampant anti-American sentiment....Picture to Right:
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is surrounded by security personnel as he arrives at Supreme Court for a hearing in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Judges were set to charge Gilani with contempt for defying their orders to reopen an old corruption case against his political ally President Asif Ali Zardari. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
I really believe the Supreme Court is covering for a lot of illegal activities of the ISI. By illegal I mean it in the sense that any other country would find it inappropriate for their own intelligence to be in chronic coup of their leadership. The Pakistani Supreme Court needs to be reviewed by outside international agencies that can decide legitimately about any corruption of inappropriate ties of the Pakistani Supreme Court to the ISI and/or political activities of these judges that abuse their power.
The bombings in India of Israeli assets seem like the final deployment of a plot that was interrupted by the USA in 2009 or 2010. When was that? I'll keep looking for it.
But, with the Chinese in the USA, I am confident the Pakistani ISI is feeling insecure. Iran, too. There was a comedy of errors in Bangkok, too. Israel can't be blaming Iran for everything. Evidently, the bombs in Bangkok went off accident. So, much for Iran's expert plots against human beings.
...In Tuesday's bombing, (click here) an Iranian named Saeid Moradi was in a Bangkok house when a cache of explosives detonated, apparently by accident, taking off a section of the roof.
Thai police say that Moradi, wounded by the explosion, tried to flag down a cab on the street. "He was covered in blood, and the driver refused to take him," said Police General Pansiri Prapawat....
Israel doesn't have any diplomatic missions with Iran and anyone can understand that, but, that also means they have no means of CONFIRMING the involvement of Iran for attacks that may or may not be related to Iran's government!Incidentally, the incident comes a day after the fourth death anniversary of Imad Mughniyah, the deputy leader of Hezbollah who was killed in a car blast in 2008.
Imad Mughniyah is dead (click title to entry - thank you)
Feb 13th, 2008 by MESH
From Andrew Exum
Imad Mughniyah is dead, killed in Damascus by a car bomb at the age of 45. Mughniyah was believed to have been Hezbollah’s chief of military operations, and his assassination marks the first time a major figure in the movement has been killed since secretary-general Abbas Musawi in 1992—an assassination which brought the current secretary-general, Hasan Nasrallah, to power....
Hezbollah (read: Iran) Terror Plot Foiled in Thailand (click here)
...Ha’aretz reports that on December 22, the Israelis gave the Thais information that three members of Hezbollah had entered their country to carry out terrorist attacks. Around the same time, the U.S. also gave the Thais information about the plot that said Western and U.S.-related sites were to be attacked. More specific intelligence was provided on January 8, which determined that this weekend was the launch date. The Israeli paper’s source claims that the plot was supposed to happen around the anniversary of the killing of Imad Mughniyah.
On Thursday, the Thais arrested Atris Hussein at the capital’s airport as he tried to get out of the country, apparently realizing that his gig was up after his bomb ingredients were found. A second suspect is at large. Ha’aretz says that, according to its source, Atris Hussein told his interrogators that the cell was going to attack Israeli tourists in Thailand. Other reports indicate that Hussein is adamant that the bomb ingredients were being moved outside of Thailand and that the country was not the target of any operation....
First Publish: 1/21/2009, 6:38 PM
Authoritiesin Azerbaijan have thwarted a plot by Hizbullah (click here) to bomb the Israeli embassy in Baku, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Watan reported on Monday.
The paper quoted well-informed Russian sources as saying Azerbaijan's security apparatus thwarted Hizbullah's alleged plot which was aimed at avenging the killing of the Shi'ite terror group's military commander Imad Mughniyeh in a car bombing in Damascus, in February 2008.
Hizbullah has accused Israel of involvement in Mughniyeh's killing but Israel has denied the charge.
After Mughniyeh's death, Israeli embassies worldwide went on alert and Israeli authorities advised Jewish institutions across the globe to be vigilant for revenge attacks....
I really believe some of this relates more to Hizbollah/Hezbollah than Iran. Seriously. Didn't they try to bomb the Saudi embassy, too? Fairly recently.
The instinct by so many is to tie Iran to such activities because Hezbollah are primarily Shia. So, of course, all the activities of terrorists have to be affiliated with Iran by ethnic implications. That is not the case. I would think there needs to be solid PROOF of such terror activities directly connected to intentions of Iran's government before anyone can accurately point a finger.
This is not a game and blaming a sovereign country for activities of LONG ESTABLISHED terrorist organizations can have huge implications.
There sincerely needs to be an investigation of the activities of the Pakistani Supreme Court and the chaos it causes within the government and ultimately the impoverishment of the citizens and growth of international criminal networks.
No one ever wants peace because there is so much more money in war.
Four killed, 14 injured in India car bomb explosion (click here)
April 06, 2009, 2:57 pm
The instinct by so many is to tie Iran to such activities because Hezbollah are primarily Shia. So, of course, all the activities of terrorists have to be affiliated with Iran by ethnic implications. That is not the case. I would think there needs to be solid PROOF of such terror activities directly connected to intentions of Iran's government before anyone can accurately point a finger.
This is not a game and blaming a sovereign country for activities of LONG ESTABLISHED terrorist organizations can have huge implications.
There sincerely needs to be an investigation of the activities of the Pakistani Supreme Court and the chaos it causes within the government and ultimately the impoverishment of the citizens and growth of international criminal networks.
No one ever wants peace because there is so much more money in war.
Four killed, 14 injured in India car bomb explosion (click here)
April 06, 2009, 2:57 pm
Four persons were killed and 14 others injured on Monday in a powerful car bomb explosion triggered by suspected ULFA militants at Maligaon in Guwahati. Four persons died on the spot when the bomb planted in a car at a parking area near Maligaon Chariali went off at about 2 pm, official sources said. Nine of the injured were admitted to nearby Sanjivani Hospital, two in the adjacent Northast Frontier Railway Headquarters hospital and the rest were sent to Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, sources said.
