India: Man arrested in Mumbai attack probe is cop

[Sapiens]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...cle=1&catnum=0

CALCUTTA, India (AP) - One of the two men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by gunmen in the Mumbai attacks is a counter-insurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials said Saturday.

The officials in Indian Kashmir demanded that police in Calcutta, where the suspect is being held, arrange for his quick release.

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Amateurs, can't even cover their tracks. They have much to learn from the West. :rolleyes:

[politicalfootballfan]

Re: India: Man arrested in Mumbai attack probe is cop

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[D-Mack]

Re: India: Man arrested in Mumbai attack probe is cop

Hoax call put Pakistan on high alert
By Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad
Samstag Dez 6 2008 10:25

South Asian regional tensions mounted last week after nuclear-armed Pakistan entered a state of "high alert" after receiving a phone call, now believed to be a hoax, from India's foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee to Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari the day that terrorist attacks on Mumbai concluded.

The caller allegedly threatened to attack Pakistan if measures were not taken to track down militants associated with the Mumbai terrorist strikes.

On Saturday, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported on the incident: "Whether it was mere mischief or a sinister move by someone in the Indian external affairs ministry, or the call came from within Pakistan, remains unclear, and is still a matter of investigation. But several political, diplomatic and security sources have confirmed to Dawn that for nearly 24 hours over the weekend the incident continued to send jitters across the world. To some world leaders the probability of an accidental war appeared very high."

Senior Pakistani government officials confirmed the report and said the matter was under investigation, which involves efforts to trace the origin of the phone call and how it was directed to Mr Zardari.

One senior Pakistani official said Indian officials have denied that the call ever originated from Mr Mukherjee, raising the possibility that the call was a hoax. However, the Pakistani official insisted that the calling number was traced back to Mr Mukherjee's office in New Delhi.

"We are looking at two possibilities right now. Either it was somebody from the Indian foreign ministry who used the foreign minister's number to pull a prank or some very sophisticated technology was used to fabricate the calling number" said the official who spoke to the Financial Times on condition of anonymity.

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http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage...5416505&page=2

Reminds me of other covert operations

[Rajiv]

Re: Pakistan under pressure

Saeed Shah investigates origin of Ajmal Amir Qasab; only gunman caught in Mumbai attacks

McClatchy Newspapers' Saeed Shah speaks to Paul Jay about his investigation into Ajmal Amir Qasab, the gunman identified by Indian investigators to be linked to the November 26th Mumbai attacks that lasted three days. Shah travelled to Qasab's alleged village of origin, Faridkot in the Khanewal district of Southern Punjab. Qasab's parents went missing earlier in the week, and several villagers confided in Shah that Ajmal Amir was indeed from Faridkot but had left several years before. In his investigation, Shah finds mullahs have a history of recruiting young, poor, uneducated villagers for their causes to fight in Kashmir, and more recently in Afghanistan.

Note: It is fairly easy to spoof telephone numbers that display on phones.

Also No danger of Indo-Pak War

According to Pakistani officials, security forces over-ran a militant camp on the outskirts of Pakistani Kashmir's main city and seized the alleged mastermind of the attacks that shook Mumbai last month. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was among at least 12 people in Sunday's raid on the camp run by the banned group Laskhar-e-Taiba the group reportedly responsible for the attacks. It remains unclear if Lakhvi will be extradited to India. These ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan took place amidst local Indian elections with certain Indian media stations speculating on potential Indian military action against Pakistan. Although the deputy editor of The Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan states "that there is no danger of war between India and Pakistan" he believes that "this crisis is p

[D-Mack]

Re: Pakistan under pressure

Note: It is fairly easy to spoof telephone numbers that display on phones.

Could be, reminds me of the whole United 93 debate and the back and forth switching between cell phones and no cell phones.

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The most well known of the reported cell phone calls from Flight 93 were four calls that Deena Burnett reported receiving from her husband, Tom Burnett. She knew that he had used his cell phone, she reported on several TV shows and later in her book, because she saw his Caller ID number. However, as I reported, there are now devices, such as “FoneFaker,” that will produce the person’s Caller ID as well as his or her voice. Deena Burnett and the others, I believe, were not lying; they were duped.

The most famous of the reported calls from the flights supposedly came from Barbara Olson, the well-known commentator on CNN who was married to Ted Olson, who was then the US solicitor general. Olson reported that his wife had called him twice from American Airlines Flight 77, stating that hijackers with knives and boxcutters had taken over the plane. Besides providing evidence of hijackers, this call also provided the only evidence that Flight 77 was still aloft (it had disappeared from radar and there had been reports of an airliner crash nearby). Although Olson went back and forth on the question of whether his wife had used a cell phone or an onboard phone, he finally settled on the latter.

In the first edition, I challenged this claim on the basis of evidence from American Airlines that their Boeing 757 (which is what Flight 77 was) had no onboard phones. After publishing the book, however, I became worried, because of some new evidence, that that statement from American Airlines, made in 2004, had referred only to their 757s at that time -- that their 757s in 2001 may well have had onboard phones. So I published a retraction, saying that the claim was uncertain.

That retraction, however, evoked new evidence, including a statement made by American Airlines in 2006 that their 757s in 2001 had had no onboard phones, so that anyone calling out from Flight 77 had needed to use a cell phone. Barbara Olson, therefore, could not have used a passenger-seat phone. That left open, of course, the possibility that Ted Olson was correct when he said that his wife had used her cell phone.

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http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/hom.../08/01871.html

The recent interview with Gul was interesting and him mentioning the geopolitical aspects

"Yes indeed, you’re right. because, there is a whole theory, which us, military first put out by Mckinder, and then Mahan, who was an admiral in the us. navy. that this is the rim land, you have to first control the rim land of Asia, before you can strike in the heartland of Asia. so this heartland, rim land thing, I think it fits into the picture, that if they have a conflict in the rim land, and they can control it, and then it becomes so much easier to penetrate into the heartland. it is really asking so much when America is not really in a very healthy economic condition, so I think that this is brinkmanship of the highest order. and if they enlarge the area of conflict in this war against terrorism. and if they prolong the period of conflict, that America will definitely lose. because I know that when you are fighting the irregular fighters, then area of conflict is enlarged, let’s say it is extended into tribal area of Pakistan, of its pushed into Kashmir as well, so that china can be watched and monitored quite easily. then the area will become larger, and the us. simply does not have the troops. and there is not a moral cause strong enough for the American people to be mobilized behind it. so it is shear madness to be thinking about this at such a time."

http://www.radiodujour.com/people/gul_hamid/