India has an anti-Israel track record.
Ghandi was strongly anti-Semitic, hated Israel and corresponded with Hitler in a friendly way.
The lengthy article does not give a single bit of evidence for its premise.
[ The aircraft had taken off smoothly and had climbed to a height of 4,000 feet. Most eyewitnesses said that the aircraft appeared to be in a spin and hit the ground leaving behind an enormous cloud of smoke. ]
Well, then. That certainly proves the Mossad did it. Now what, break out The Protocls of The Learned Elders of Zion?
Did Mossad really have reason or interest to kill him?
Why John Gunther Dean was allowed to continue in the State Department after his disastrous assignment to I Corps in Viet Nam can only be explained by his close relationship with Henry Kissinger. As for this pot-boiler, it needs to be read with skepticism.
I do not like the idea that a diplomat is “determined” by “state department psychiatrists” to be mentally unstable due to stress, anytime
(it should be totally independent outside health professionals who make such a finding - for the individual, with the report going to the state department) -
but it is particularly disconcerting when the circumstances are that the diplomat is in strong disagreement with the top policy makers at the state department and/or White House.
However, I can’t imagine on what grounds Mr Dean had any reason to suspect Israel, other than some mad conspiracy theory. What was Israel to gain from it?
I would question most an “inside job” via a mole, a Zia opponent deep inside his “closest advisors”. Why else would anyone arrange a trip putting at possible risk Zia and his whole intelligence brass?
I thought it was the ISI. Sure, the top ISI was on the doomed a/c, but that also was the plan.
Most or some of the ISI and Paki military were not happy with Zia, because he wouldn’t go into Kashmir, and he was slow in the Islamification of the
Anyway, that’s what I heard from some brass.
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That is just one of the conspiracy theories. You may find many more in the Pakistani forum
2005:
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/israelis-killed-zia.465/
2011:
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/who-killed-zia-ul-haq.117139/
2012
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/who-killed-gen-zia-ul-haq.197534/
3013
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/who-killed-gen-zia.268304/