US Attacks Pakistan: Pakistan Forces to be Alert

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US Attacks Pakistan: Pakistan Forces to be Alert

Submitted by Aurangzeb on May 7, 2011 – 2:49 pm




By Raja G Mujtaba

Most people tend to brush aside as conspiracy theory what are clearly Zionist designs. But what is often dismissed as conspiracy theory turns out to be an intuitive analysis that is firmly grounded in little known historical facts. If people are unaware of history and want to keep their eyes shut, they are most welcome to do so; but then episodes like Abbottabad will continue to be repeated, and the people nominally in power will have not a word to offer in protest.

In February 2010, Jeff Gates, the author of Guilt By Association, was in Pakistan, where he met almost all those who were concerned with Pakistan’s security. Jeff’s only pitch was that Israel and its Zionist supporters are out to destroy Pakistan, with India also playing a part. Israel would not conduct open raids against Pakistan; instead, the U.S. would be given the dirty task. Wherever he went, he explained two theories on which the Zionist operatives are working. He quoted Robert Gates, the former U.S. Secretary of Defence, who had said that the most dangerous enemies are the “people in between” who replace facts with falsehood to create perceptions. By this, he meant primarily the role of the Zionist-controlled media who would never allow facts to be revealed to the public but convey a picture that suits their agenda. Here Jeff also discussed field-based warfare where a chart would be drawn, false flag operations would be filled in the fields that would all lead or point to Pakistan. After having conducted several such operations, Pakistan would be declared as the next “evil doer.” This is what has happened today; Pakistan is being accused of harbouring terrorists—therefore, Pakistan, the evil doer, must be attacked to eliminate such elements. Jeff and Gordon Duff (who was also here) went on the TV to appraise the Pakistani people of the situation.

Things have not stopped here. Pakistan’s fragmentation is also on the cards, not to forget Blaochistan Liberation Army (BLA), Tehrike Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Awami National Party (ANP) and Muthahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), all of which have a very shady background and their linkages with India, CIA, MI6 and Mossad etc. are well known. BLA and TTP were in direct contact with Raymond Davis. Here I would not absolve parties like Peoples Party and almost all the factions of Pakistan Muslim League that have no vision or commitment to Pakistan except their personal agendas.

Beginning with 9/11, all false flag operations, be it Dr Aafia Siddiqui, Faisal Shahzad in Times Square, New York; the London bombings; the Madrid train bombings; and the Mumbai hotel, where Ajmal Kasaab, an Indian Hindu was projected as a Pakistani citizen, was played up so much to make it certain that he be accepted as a Pakistani. Here our own media, especially Geo, played a very dirty role.

When Jeff was here, he asked all those whom he met, “Please help us to help you expose the real enemy of both Pakistan and the Unites States.” But it appears his request and pleading fell on deaf ears.

Now, starting from Raymond Davis, all those stories that were buried as “conspiracy theories” have come out of the closets. The attack on Abbotabad is the first visible indication that the U.S. is being induced to attack Pakistan to take out its nukes.

Whether Osama was real or fake is of no consequence when looking at the Pakistan’s security situation. Pakistan’s airspace has been violated in spite of the fact when we have all sorts of radars. Where were our AWACS to detect the ground-hugging fliers? To say that we were not expecting any external threat is hardly credible. It’s well known that the Zionist-controlled U.S. is no friend of ours. She has struck has several times in the past, all under the cover of friendship.

Certainly this raid on the supposed Osama hideout next to the Pakistan Military Academy, with half a dozen other regimental centers in close vicinity, has given tons of experience and confidence to the U.S. that could now propel them to reach our nuclear installations. If this happens, then what would our military planners say after the raid has been carried out? Would they advance the same argument: “an attack from the west was not imminent hence we had our defences down”? Not only America but now both India and Israel also know that Pakistan can be caught unawares, so they might also be looking forward to making a sneak raid. Knowing that both these countries have a strong presence in Afghanistan, and India also has an operational base in Tajikistan with SU 30s on the ground, they would always be on the look out for opportunities. Keeping the present security failure in mind, India stands a fairly good chance of success.

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Now it’s about time that Pakistan should reassess her relationship with the United States. On this, I asked Maidhc Ó Cathail, an analyst of U.S. foreign policy, who said, “Unless Pakistan ends its abusive relationship with the U.S., the relationship is going to end Pakistan — much to the delight of India and Israel. As far as I see it, Pakistan should be forming a defensive alliance with China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Belarus, Myanmar and other countries targeted for destabilization by the powers that be.”

Why can’t Pakistan talk straight and tell the U.S. that 9/11 was a false flag operation, with much of the evidence indicating that it was staged and manipulated by the Mossad? And therefore it has nothing to do with the so-called “war on terror,” that in fact emerged only after the killing of hundreds and thousands of innocents (collaterals) that produced terrorists from every house in the affected areas. Pakistan should distance itself from this insane war being waged in the name of fighting terrorism—but which is actually targeting Muslims and Islam. Since 9/11, so many independent investigations have been carried out, all saying the same thing, that it was a false flag operation conducted for the benefit of Zionist Israel and the closely-linked military-industrial complex of the United States. I did refer this question to Anthony Lawson, an eminent investigative reporter who has done in-depth research on 9/11 and other false flag operations, who said, “Why should anyone believe anything that comes out of the United States any more? Quite clearly, the original 9/11 story was full of holes, as I have already mentioned in my interview with Kourosh Ziabari. I have also read, many times, that the FBI says it has “no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11”. And, on top of that, there are many people who think that Mr bin Laden died or was killed a long time ago.

Furthermore, the so-called terrorist organisation: al Qaeda, was an invention of the CIA’s during its attempts to get the Russians out of Afghanistan. Apparently, to their clandestine operatives, al Qaeda meant something like “The List” or “The Database” of some of Osama bin Laden’s own operatives. This kind of shorthand slang is quite common in many organisations, but this one suddenly morphed into a fully-fledged terrorist organisation with as many branches as 7-Eleven, or Pakistan’s equivalent of that ubiquitous 24-hour American convenience-shop, only days after September 11th, 2001. As I state in my video: 9/11: The Unidentified Murder Weapons Osama bin Laden has denied that he ever claimed responsibility [for 9/11]. Almost anyone with a telephone or Internet access can claim to be a member of al Qaeda and make such threats; including U.S. government employees.

It [al Qaeda] has affiliates wherever the CIA or CNN or the BBC, without providing any proof, like to imagine they have affiliates, and they are now describing suspects who were apprehended prior to 2001, when the name al Qaeda was coined, as being members of an organisation that was yet to be invented.

Other than the above, I couldn’t begin to guess what effect this is going to have on Pakistan/U.S. relations. Diplomats and politicians have a way of spinning such incidents to suit their own agendas, whether or not there are any real issues of cause and effect, and any nation or group that wanted to mount a false-flag operation and to blame it on al Qaeda are probably well into the planning stages, as I write this. Such an event is like an announcement that it is open season for terrorist attacks, real or pseudo.”

On the Osama operation, the statements of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton are very meaningful. Kerry said that the U.S. is assessing the strategical capabilities of Pakistan. This is a very loaded statement, meaning an attack on Pakistan could be imminent, but before that Pakistan’s strength has to be fully assessed. Clinton is saying that the U.S. has every reason to believe that Mullah Omar and other outfits are also present in Pakistan.

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China has given a serious warning to the US not to mess with Pakistan, messing with Islamabad would be taken as messing with Beijing. This warning from China is indicative that things are very serious and we must not relax.





For Pakistan it’s a very clear message: would Pakistan’s military leadership of all three services reassess the need to make a clean break from the U.S. and look towards other options to meet our national aspirations? What General Kayani said on the martyrs day “that economic development of Pakistan is essential but at what cost? Should it be at the cost of national sovereignty and honour?” This pledge needs to be translated into action immediately. It has a lot more weight to it today than ever before. The national leadership inclusive of the military leadership should cut down on expenses and set an example of austerity.Theleadership, both political and the military must tone down their lifestyle to an ordinary level and give up the princely styles so that we can stand on our own feet within our available resources. Given the lead, the nation would follow with pride.

Lets not waste any more time and build the pipeline from Iran for our hydrocarbon needs. The same pipeline should also be extended to China that would make its defence the joint responsibility of all the three countries.

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Pakistan’s Long War Has Begun

Submitted by Aurangzeb on May 8, 2011 – 2:22 pm

By Brig Samson S Sharaf

For Pakistanis, this is not time to feel embarrassed and to hang heads in shame over the simplicity and quickness of the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. It is rather, a time for a long overdue bugle cry that Pakistan is at War. 1/5 was not Pakistan’s Day inasmuch as 9/11 exposed the vulnerabilities in USA’s homeland security.

Writing in Nation in December 2010, I had assessed the next eighteen months and beyond as crucial for Pakistan and reiterated it in my article ‘Pakistan Must Reassert Itself’ on 20 February. I had written, ‘the next 18 months and beyond will test Pakistan to the verge”.

Between the 14th and 17th months we have witnessed the Raymond Davis Case, a drone attack on a peaceful jirga, a fully fledged conventional multi directional night attack on a border outpost in Dir, a border skirmish at Anghoor Adda and now the operation to kill Osama Bin laden.

Writing earlier in November 2010, ‘Pakistan a Rudderless State with a resilient Nation’ I had cautioned the security planners of Pakistan to beware of Cold Start Type operations from across the Durand Line. I had also written about the heavily fortified US and ISAF citadels in Afghanistan that would be used as pivots of such operations against Pakistan. No one in Pakistan’s security establishment and the media took notice of the warnings.

2009-2010 had been remarkable years of Pakistan’s fight against militancy. During this time, joint intelligence operations led by Pakistani had resulted in elimination of numerous prized targets both from TTP and Al Qaida. The efficiency of information gathering was such that many high value targets deemed missing believed killed had been brought back into focus and neutralised, some amongst them US nationals. But by mid 2010, this cooperation began to wane due to the direct influx of CIA agents into Pakistan. This influx was not part of the working agreements between ISI and CIA. Pakistan’s security establishment felt that they were being stabbed in the back.

Counter security efforts on part of Pakistan indentified hundreds of locations in Pakistan in which US agents had hired or located inside Pakistan covertly. Some of these locations were heavily fortified and the activities inside them were always dubious. After much rallying, Pakistan was able to force the closure of some of these locations but not all. Meanwhile, the network of CIA’s local informers was spreading, a reason why CIA forced budgetary reallocations for its operations in Pakistan. With huge funds to play around, CIA could now buy off anyone including Al Qaida agents whose data Pakistan had shared with USA. They put tags on many such targets and monitored all their movements and places of visit. Consequently, what they have been able to track with their superior technical resources and heavy monetary disbursements is a trail of redoubts within Pakistan where militants have contacts and hiding places. Then came the Raymond Davis shooting and some issues became public.

There is definitely a trove of very important information that USA has extracted from shared sources and double crossing. One such is the hideout of Osama Bin Laden, his courier trails and much more. The biggest vulnerability that Pakistan faces is that some of its own assets within this Al Qaida trail may have been exposed, or double crossed and could be used to blackmail Pakistan into coercion.

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With all this information coming from electronic chatter, media and social websites, I was able to piece a MOST DANGEROUS HYPOTHESES that predicted covert sting and intelligence and overt JSOC operations inside Pakistan that subsequently became the theme of my articles on the subject. Having been vindicated, this does not end here.

I have followed the information about the Kakul raid on a real timeline with startling conclusions.

According to information available on twitter and TV Channels, the explosion and helicopter crash were successively reported before mid night on 1 May 2011.

The call to President Zardari came well past midnight implying that it was made much after the operation had been completed. I am also sure that Zardari was told by President Obama to ask PAF not to interfere in the flight path of the US aircrafts.

Concurrently, by the time Pakistan Air Force scrambled, the US troops were well outside Pakistan’s air space.

As an operational planner, I am wary of the fact that Pakistan’s surveillance system on the Western Front did not respond. The systems are deployed in layers in multiple redundancies to ensure that some elements of information do manage to beep through. The electronic systems are reinforced with human resources wherein even a section commander in a border post is trained to immediately report a violation/activity in real time. Why such a credible system was forced into passivity should be the subject of an inquiry and a story of the future. Surprisingly, much credible chatter emanated when the US helicopters made the exit.

I am also aware of the safety layers in US military procedures and purely on technical grounds feel that this operation was carried out by at least four or even more helicopters including transport versions, with credible fool proof backups all along. Simply put, the operation had a sizable operational and logistical trail.

Already information is available that the operation had ground, intelligence and pathfinder support from US assets very close to the target area.

Does this also imply that there was some sort of complicity by Pakistan to facilitate such an operation? Does this mean that US helicopters did not enter Pakistan’s air space on the day of the raid and were pre positioned for such an operation? However, what can be concluded with accuracy is that CIA agents have penetrated every nook and corner of Pakistan under the eyes of Pakistan’s counter intelligence, a fact that will be vindicated in the near future.

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Reaction of Pakistan’s Defence Forces to the raid was slow in coming. Complicity at the cost of such a disgrace appears a bad bargain and unrealistic. The Army and Air Force cannot absolve themselves. The reaction of ISI that will never become public is perhaps that of betrayal. Many of its intelligence assets that it had shared with CIA have now double crossed and as Shaukat Qadir says made Al Qaida richer.

My analysis leads me to conclude that some levels of selective complicity existed, and it is this that combined with pre positioning of US assets inside Pakistan.

Foreign aircrafts have operated in Pakistan with impunity during the earthquake in 2005, floods, training missions etc. It is nigh possible that these flights were also used to dump hardware at secret locations that could subsequently become pivots for such operations. Troops for such operations could move into Pakistan under the garb of training, diplomatic staff and travellers coming to Pakistan from USA/ Europe, and local recruitments. Remember that some US soldiers as reported by the media spoke fluent urdu in a Pakistani accent.

Then there is also the much hyped issue of CIA contractors in Pakistan. Many of them have since returned but not before completing the ground work for an effective CIA presence in Pakistan all through the Long War.

The retired CGS of GHQ, Lt. Gen (R) Shahid Aziz had once claimed that he himself had reported evidence of US amphibious landing on the Balochistan Coast with the trails leading to interior Balochistan. If these landings indeed took place, where did these forces ultimately go; or where did they dump and move their cargo?

There is also the case of over 22,000 missing containers. Even if a mere hundred of them carried military hardware and knocked down helicopters, where has all the cargo gone and has anyone noticed it. The theory gets credence from a fact that in one of the ambushes, a container had a complete disassembled Blackhawk helicopter of the type used in Kakul.

My hypothesis is that from 2010 onwards, USA had built up a considerable covert military presence in Pakistan facilitated through visas bypassing the standing operating procedures, indiscriminate entry of containers into Pakistan, holding back of scanning equipment to scan these containers and bribes offered by the container operators from Karachi to the Afghan Border. Even the NLC was foxed into this in the name of business. As a military professional, I know that you do not need huge radioactive machines to scan these containers. A good thermal imaging device abundant in Pakistan can do the trick.

It is these reasons that put the Government of Pakistan and the Defence establishment at odds, something like a reverse replay of Kargil. While President Zardari like ever will use the occasion to push the army and ISI back, shore up new alliances to hedge his government, the security establishment may fight back in the name of national Interest. If this happens, it will set a confrontational environment with re alignment of strange bedfellows. As Pakistan will be destabilised further, Obama’s war in Afghanistan would be over and the Long War in Pakistan begun.

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Cat is Out of Bag

Submitted by Aurangzeb on August 9, 2011 – 8:06 pm



THE fear that were being expressed in the wake of American unilateral action in Abbottabad that Washington could also one day carry out similar operation against Pakistan’s nuclear assets have heightened after disclosure by the NBC News that the US military and intelligence operatives are debating, strategizing, gaming and potentially even conducting drills on entering Pakistan and seizing the nation’s nuclear weapons during a crisis. This is not a mere conjecture as former White House Deputy Counter-Terrorism Director Roger Cressey has also confirmed that the plan is highest priority of the US intelligence and White House.

Such apprehensions have always been there but the United States has been trying to assuage them by declaring that Pakistani nuclear assets were in safe hands and that it has no designs against them. The categorical statement made by Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator John Kerry during his visit to Islamabad that he was ready to write a guarantee with his blood that his country was not eyeing at the country’s nuclear assets was welcomed by some circles but the cat is out of the bag following report by the NBC News, which is a grim reminder that Americans must not be trusted in this regard. Otherwise too, credentials of a leader who could not ensure continuation of the aid pledged under the law titled after him become doubtful about giving such a firm guarantee. We have been emphasizing in these columns that the activities of the American spies on Pakistani soil and some of the Western diplomats/nationals who were caught around nuclear sites in different parts of the country clearly suggest that the United States was not just gathering terrorism-related information from ground sources but also spying on our strategic assets and therefore, must be checked. We are also sure that our armed forces are fully capable of defending the country’s interests and would thwart any attempt aimed at depriving the nation of its nuclear capability. As Americans are conducting drills, we also must carry out exercises to deal with any such eventuality with full force and this demands extraordinary vigilance and zero tolerance against any suspicious activity. In the backdrop of intensive Indo-US cooperation in the nuclear field, a Pakistani strategic expert has rightly pointed out that the US is seeking only to target Muslim states like Pakistan from developing even their civilian nuclear programmes through restrictions on exports of dual-use technology even where it is needed purely for civilian use — especially in the case of Pakistan since Pakistan’s missile and nuclear weapons programme is not premised on US designs nor dependent on nuts and bolts from the US. We should be on the highest alert as the US is unlikely to digest the reality of a nuclear Pakistan in the near future.

Source: Pakistan Observer