FTR #657 Targeting the Centers of Finance

The “ter­ror front” exploded with a major, headline-garnering attack on Mum­bai, India’s finan­cial and cin­e­matic center.

Let’s Give Pakistan the Attention It Deserves

The Mum­bai attack is the lat­est wake-up call.
By BERNARD-HENRI LEVYWSJ
“The world is decid­edly poorly made,” Asif Ali Zardari, wid­ower of Benazir Bhutto and pres­i­dent of Pak­istan, must be say­ing to him­self. The French expres­sion Le monde est décidé­ment mal fait sums things up quite nicely.
For it was at the very moment that Mr. Zardari was [...]

Qaida in partnership with Lashkar in India

Times of India
NEW DELHI: Ter­ror does leave a call­ing card. As the enor­mity of the attack on Mum­bai sank in, it seemed like the arrival of al-Qaida in India, a ver­sion of 9/11 designed to attract a global audi­ence given the scale of vio­lence and the planned tar­get­ing of west­ern­ers.
With the cap­ture of a ter­ror­ist, the [...]

Key Eyewitness In Benazir Bhutto Assassination Case Killed

The Memri Blog
Khalid Sha­hen­shah, the key eye­wit­ness in the Benazir Bhutto assas­si­na­tion case and the Chief Secu­rity Offi­cer to her hus­band Asif Zardari, the leader of rul­ing Pak­istan People’s Party, was shot dead at his door.
Accord­ing to a report in the Urdu-language news­pa­per Roz­nama Nawa-i-Waqt, car-borne assailants fired six bul­lets into Khalid Sha­hen­shah in Karachi. In the [...]

For Sale: The West’s Deadly Nuclear Secrets

THE SUNDAY TIMES

Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria

A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extra­or­di­nary claims about how cor­rupt gov­ern­ment offi­cials allowed Pak­istan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.
Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old for­mer Turk­ish lan­guage trans­la­tor for the FBI, lis­tened into hun­dreds of sen­si­tive inter­cepted con­ver­sa­tions while [...]

FTR #596 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Mur­der of Pak­istani cricket coach Bob Woolmer con­nected to Pakistan’s ISI; Bin Laden financ­ing Euro­pean neo-Nazis; Ibn Khal­dun an advo­cate of privatization.

Murder by Cricket

by Patricky HrubyE­SPN E-Ticket
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The body is gone, long since removed, stuffed into a black zip-up bag, chilled to 40 degrees. Life­less and embalmed.
Yet still the detec­tive is tak­ing pic­tures.
Actu­ally, he’s not tak­ing pic­tures. He’s telling another guy to take pic­tures, which makes sense, since the other guy is hold­ing a big black [...]

New Jersey and Terrorism… Perfect Together PART 2

by Allan P. Dun­can Sep­tem­ber 4, 2004
Part 2: The Good Doc­tor Who Wasn’t So Good [...]

New Jersey and Terrorism… Perfect Together PART 1

Ter­ror­ism is oper­at­ing in NJ unchecked, and Bush’s Jus­tice Dept knows about it.
A FOUR PART SERIESby Allan P. Dun­can
Introduction [...]