Posted on 06/01/2002 11:48:12 AM PDT by swarthyguy
It is said that you can fool some people for all time, all people for some time, but not all people for all time.
Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, whom the late Gen. Asif Nawaz Janjua, the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) during the first tenure of Nawaz Sharif as the Prime Minister, used to describe as "Tricky Mush", had always believed that he could fool all people for all time. Not quite where terrorism is concerned, as he is finding to his embarrassment and confusion.
The whole world without exception is coming down on him like a ton of bricks to stop his sponsorship of jehadi terrorism against India. There are no longer any takers for his pleas of injured innocence and for his sermons about the difference between terrorists and freedom-fighters.
The US, the UK, France, Germany, Russia, Japan and every other country, which is concerned over the depredations of jehadi terrorists bred in the snake-pit of terrorism that is Pakistan, now know who is the godfather of the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) seeking terrorists, who is the breeder of the venomous snakes.
Tricky Mush was by appointment terrorist-breeder to the late Gen. Zia-ul-Haq. With the assistance of Gen.Mohammed Aziz Khan, now Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, and Maj.Gen.(retd) Mahmud Ali Durrani, former station chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the Pakistani Embassy in Washington DC, he bred a dreaded army of terrorists euphemistically called the Army of Islam.
There was a symbiotic relationship between Tricky Mush and Osama bin Laden. He created bin Laden and made him into the dreaded terrorist that he is today or was, if he is dead. He used him against the Soviet troops in Afghanistan and, in 1988, when a Shia revolt for an independent Karakoram State rocked Gilgit in the Northern Areas, he let loose bin Laden and his murderous tribal hordes on the Shias. More Shias were massacred in Gilgit in 1988 than in the Hazara area of Afghanistan under the Taliban post-1996.
The dubious "exploits" of bin Laden helped Tricky Mush, till then considered a mediocre commando, upwards in his career. But for bin Laden's services it was doubtful if he would have ever become the COAS. Thus, Tricky Mush was the creator and the creation of bin Laden. And yet, when Larry King of the CNN asked him in his programme immediately after October 7,2001, about his relationship with bin Laden, he replied without batting an eye lid : "I had never known him." When Larry King persisted by asking him: "You mean, you have never met him?". "Never", replied the commando without a moment's hesitation.
It required gall to deny it with such confidence because Tricky Mush would have known that his American buddies from the days of the Afghan wars of the 1980s were aware of his snake-farm, which was funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In fact, he bred bin Laden and other snakes at the CIA's instance for use against the Soviet troops.
If there is one person in Pakistan today who would know the whereabouts of bin Laden, that is Tricky Mush. Instead of taking hundreds of Al Qaeda and Taliban members to the Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and interrogating them, if only the Americans had taken Tricky Mush there and given him the works, bin Laden would have been by now a dead man, if not already dead, and the Al Qaeda on its death bed. Instead of doing that, they showered lollipops on him. And what honours for the terrorist-breeder when he visited Washington DC in February last!
What did the Americans get in return for the lollipops? A wild goose chase with a string of botched-op operations in Afghanistan with exotic names like OP Anaconda, OP Mountain Lion, OP Snipe, OP Condor etc. And a string of horrible tragedies in Pakistan-- the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl, the American journalist, and his being brutally killed by slitting his throat like the Muslims kill the sacrificial goat to propitiate God; the death of the wife of an American lady and her young daughter while praying to Jesus Christ in an Islamabad church and the slaughter of 11 French experts who were mistaken for Americans outside a Karachi hotel.
Not one of these cases has been detected convincingly. In the meanwhile, Pakistan, including Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) and the Northern Areas, are swarming with the terrorist dregs from Afghanistan--- Arabs of the Al Qaeda, the Pashtuns of the Taliban, the Pakistani Punjabis of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM), the Harkat-ul-Jehad-Al-Islami (HUJI), the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), the Jaish-e-Mohammad (LET) and the Sipah-e-Sahaba and the Chechens, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, the Arakanese, the Filippinos and the Bangladeshis of one knows not which organisation.
Tricky Mush was gratified and concerned. Gratified because more trained and bitter terrorists meant more jehadi killers available for making the Indians continue to bleed. Concerned because some of these terrorists, particularly the Arabs and the Pashtuns, insisted on continuing in Pakistani territory to settle score with the Americans. Not knowing whom to fight---the Indians in Jammu & Kashmir, the Americans in Pakistan or their own Governments back home---the Bangladeshis, the Arakanese, the Malaysians, the Filippinos and the Indonesians have taken to brigandage and Shia-slaughter in Karachi rendering an already ungouvernable city even more ungouvernable, while waiting for their passage home.
Tricky Mush suddenly finds that he is no longer believed by the outside world. His word no longer counts, even with the Americans, who are, however, not yet prepared to ditch him.
India has been shouting hoarse since 1993 that what we are facing in J&K is not Kashmiri militancy, but pure and simple Pakistani Punjabi terrorism, that it is not a Kashmiri freedom-struggle as projected by Islamabad, but an indirect war of aggression through the intermediary of the Pakistani Punjabi Army of Islam of Musharraf's creation.
For the first time after nine years, India is heard, India is believed. The Government of India has every reason to be gratified by the turn of events and deserves to be congratulated for its skillful diplomacy. But, the credit is not due to India alone. It is also due to the dozens, if not hundreds, of the communications experts of the USA's National Security Agency (NSA) deployed by the USA in Afghanistan and Pakistan to intercept the communications of the terrorist snakes, wherever they are found in this region---in Afghanistan, Pakistan or India. They have been telling their Government in Washington DC that India has been wronged all these years by not believing its complaints, that India is right, that the godfather of these terrorists projected as freedom-fighters is none other than a tricky guy called Gen.Pervez Musharraf. In panic, Tricky Mush is reported to have asked the ISI to withdraw all communication sets from the terrorists, whether operating against India or the US
Washington DC is stepping up the pressure on Tricky Mush, but is not yet prepared to abandon him. India should keep up the pressure of its diplomacy. Tricky Mush may still have a couple of more tricks up his sleeves to ingratiate himself back into the favour of the US.
Will there be a war over Pakistan's sponsorship of terrorism against India? One does not know. One hopes not. India will fight only if forced to by circumstances by the unwillingness of the rest of the world to call Tricky Mush to account. But, if it fights, its soldiers will be fighting not only to make India free from terrorism, but also to make the USA, West Europe, Russia, the Central Asian Republics, China, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and the rest of the world free from Pakistani-bred terrorism.The roots of the terrorist cancer afflicting the world are in Pakistan.
And India's soldiers will be fighting to ensure that there is no more September 11,2001, neither in the USA nor anywhere else in the world. The civilised world has a moral obligation to rally to the support of India.
(The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai.
Radical islam and its state sponsors are the Enemy using jihadis and proxy wars to implement the vision of an islamic khalifa based on a saudi sharia vision
"Moderates" like the Musharraf are the stalking horses for the Tragic Kingdom and its benighted vision of the world. Osmama and Co. MAY be estranged from the perfumed princes, but no doubt he has tons of sympathy amongst the general population of our friends, the Saudis.
If Musharraf's policy of nuclear blackmail is enshrined, watch it move west. Eventually, pakistani nukes on Saudi missiles. A fonecall to Fox claiming a nuke in an unnamed American city; unless the US does this or that, the nuke goes off.
Exhilarating to hear Bush give Mush a big Push. Now we'll see the results.
I hope this is right but I have to wonder why the same thing isn't happening to the terrorist leader, Arafat? As far as I know Europe still embraces this snake, could it be because Arafat is killing Jews? That would go along with European history.
And India's soldiers will be fighting to ensure that there is no more September 11,2001, neither in the USA nor anywhere else in the world. The civilised world has a moral obligation to rally to the support of India.
I don't see why any western country would not be on India's side in this conflict. She is a democacy being terrorized by muslim jihadist killers just as America is and she has every right to defend herself just as we do. Moreover India has pleged no first strike with nuclear weapons while the Paki's have not. The civilised world should be 100% behind India, IMHO.
Makes sense to me.
The period 1947 to 1949 left a lot of unfinished business; namely Israel/Palestine and Pakistan/India. If you throw in Northern Ireland, you get three places, previously Britain-dominated, left to battle for decades to divide the land and power.
As long as their disputes stay local, they simmer. Sooner or later, they boil over onto the international stage.
Back to the present, and to the past. In 1947 the UN Sec. Council concluded that:
Pakistan should cease sending military forces to Kashmir
India hold a referrendum, to determine who the citizens of Kashmir wished to rule them.
To date neither have taken place. That is 55 years, more or less. It predates "Tricky Mush."
"On the issue of citizenship, overall, 61% said they felt they would be better off politically and economically as an Indian citizen and only 6% as a Pakistani citizen, but 33% said they did not know. "
But Pakistan has never withdrawn either.
And since the end of the Afghani jihadi campaign, the islamists focused hard on Kashmir.
And the issue is a big rallying cry for Pakistan; virtually the only thing that unites it as a nation-state, such as it is.
Some talk had been given to partitioning it along the current LoC but that idea has gone nowhere. And for India to allow it to become a base for LashkareTaiba whose stated goal is a MuslimSharia India and then TelAviv and Washington, however laughable that may sound, makes any kind of solution without the extermination and evisceration of these jihadi groups unfeasible.
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