Pakistani Police Arrest Former President Musharraf - Charges Include Treason

Source: Facebook

April 19, 2013 - Former Pakistani president Gen. Pervez Musharraf was arrested today at his farmhouse near Islamabad.

The arrest comes just one day after he fled the Islamabad High Court that ordered his arrest in a 2007 case regarding his decision to dismiss judges and to impose emergency rule that year. Musharraf faces multiple charges, including treason.

This story, frankly, is frigging weird, as this report from Foreign Policy blog on Thursday, 18 April indicates:

"Pervez Musharraf's bizarre return to Pakistan from self-imposed exile, which has already been marked by the former president being disqualified from upcoming elections and live-tweeting his bail hearing (and exercise routine), just got even more bizarre, with the once-all powerful Pakistani leader fleeing a courtroom in Islamabad on Thursday after judges ordered his arrest over a bitter 2007 clash with the country's judiciary." As I said, it's frigging weird. Read the Foreign Policy post, which includes some fun (and frigging weird) video.

Keep in mind that Musharraf fled from the law, after the court ordered his arrest. He ran away to his farmhouse yesterday. Today, Musharraf posted this strange message on his Facebook page at approximately 2:10 AM (New York time):

I have today brought an end to the mass distraction and media frenzy generated by the unwarranted act of the Islamabad High Court. The allegations leveled against me in the detention of judges case could not be further from the truth and were filed against me by an unrelated individual eight months after the alleged act; not even one of the alleged aggrieved judges is the petitioner. These allegations are politically motivated and I will fight them in the trial court, where the truth will eventually prevail. PM

Wait, what? It took the police and army troops to arrest Musharraf at his hidey hole in the outskirts of Islamabad, yet he wrote that he "brought an end to the mass distraction and media frenzy?" The poor man does not seem to realize that his own strange behavior has provided legitimate fodder for the media's "frenzy."

Needless to say, this story is developing and promises to provide many entertaining - and frigging weird - moments in the coming months.

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• Pakistani police arrest Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad BBC
• Pak police arrest former president Pervez Musharraf... India Today
• Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf flees court after arrest order Telegraph UK
• Pakistan’s ex-president Musharraf barricades himself inside Islamabad estate as police and army block off the area Voice of Russia
• Pervez Musharraf's doomed return The Guardian UK

Taliban Attack On Pakistan Airbase Foiled

PAF Kamra - Photo: AFP

August 16, 2012 - Yesterday's assault on a key northern Pakistan airbase was successfully repelled. Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Minhas base at the town of Kamra outside Attock, was attacked by nine heavily armed members of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The pre-dawn attack happened at 2:00 a.m. on August 16, Pakistan time. The attackers were dressed in military fatigues. Most also wore suicide vests.

The militants used rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, reports Reuters today, "in a brazen challenge to the nuclear-armed country’s powerful military." Only one aircraft was damaged, says Reuters. A report at Radio Australia says that two Pakistani soldiers were killed in the attack and that the base commander was shot in the shoulder as he led the counterattack but is in stable condition.

When the attackers neared aircraft hangars, reports The Express Tribune, "Security forces opened fire when militants approached aircraft hangars, prompting other militants to fire rocket-propelled grenades from outside the base’s walls, said the air force spokesperson."

All nine attackers were killed by Air Force troops, the Tribune report says. Eight died inside the airbase boundary wall and one "exploded himself outside the perimeters where he was hiding," the air force said. The fighting went on for over two hours. Millitary spokesperson Tariq Mahmood confirmed the base was "totally safe," says the Tribune story.

AIR BASE NOT NUCLEAR: Nearly all of the media reports about this attack have said that Minhas Airbase houses nuclear weapons. This appears to be false, however. Reuters quoted an air force spokesman who said that the Minhas airbase has no nuclear weapons. In fact, Reuters quoted him as saying that, "No air base is a nuclear air base in Pakistan."

Our earlier report: UNDER CONTROL: Militants Attacked, Entered Pakistan Nuclear Air Base

UNDER CONTROL: Militants Attacked, Entered Pakistan Nuclear Air Base

Pakistan's nukes on display

UPDATE 2: Taliban Attack On Pakistan Airbase Foiled

UPDATE 1: IT'S ALL UNDER CONTROL. A report by SiasiTV (Pakistan) says that the situation is "under control now. Terrorists didn't get to destroy a jet due to prompt action of forces." (See their video, below, and Siasi's page on Facebook for updates.)

Earlier Reports:

PAKISTAN - A Pakistan Air Force base is under attack, probably by Taliban militants. PAF Kamra Airbase (also called PAF Minhas Airbase) is thought to have nuclear weapons. [Map]

The gun fighting was ongoing, according to reports of 8:00 p.m. EDT/New York time. Earliest reports said that as many as nine militants "wearing military uniforms had attacked the airbase," according to Tribune.com.pk.

"The militants were said to be armed with automatic weapons, grenades and suicide vests," reports Dawn.com (Pakistan). "Intense exchange of fire between militants and forces ensued after the attackers infiltrated the base."  Dawn also notes that Kamra airbase "is a heavily guarded compound with the Pakistan Air Force’s Kamra Aeronautical Complex in its vicinity, where Pakistan assembles and overhauls fighter jets in collaboration with China. Located about 70 kms from the Pakistani capital Islamabad, the base is known to house the PAF’s JF-7 Thunder and Mirage jets."  Dawn says that "least 30 aircraft were on the base" according to sources.

The airbase, in Punjab province, is approximately 60 kilometres (37 miles) northwest of Islamabad, Pakistan's capitol city. The attackers are most likely Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

Business Insider reports that gunmen have "attacked and entered an air force base in central Pakistan." The attack came Thursday, Aug. 16 local time.

The Pakistani air calling the attackers “terrorists,” which the Pakistanis often call the Taliban and similar groups, says Reuters. Mulitple reports say that the "intense" and "heavy" gunfire has been ongoing for at least three hours. The Business Insider story cites multiple news sources.  For live updates, see "Kamra airbase attack: Live updates" at Tribune.com.pk.

Nukes: Come and get 'em

Intelligence knew that this specific attack was probable. Tribune.com.pk reported that the threat was great on August 10. "The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is planning attacks on the Pakistan Air Force Base and other military and security establishments in Lahore before Eid," reporter Asad Kharal wrote, "according to intelligence reports received by the Home Department."  

Was It a Saudi Plane or Russian Plane That Made An Emergency Landing in Karachi Today?

Is this plane Russian or Saudi?

December 25, 2011 - Karachi, Pakistan - There seems to be some media confusion about the nationality of an airplane that "crash landed" at Karachi's Jinna International Airport today. Some are saying it's from Russia, others say it's from Saudi Arabia.

"A Saudi chartered plane MD 83, with 72 people on board having a nose wheel problem made a safe landing at Karachi Airport on Sunday," reports the Associated Press of Pakistan. That report went on to say that "the plane was heading from Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, to Quetta."

The News Tribe, however, reports this: "A Russian Airline flight from Tabuk to Quetta made an emergency landing at Jinnah International Airport Karachi on Sunday morning due to mechanical problems." The plane, says News Tribe, "had 72 passengers on-board including crew."

Jinna Airport, Karachi (image via Wikipedia)Could it be coincidence that two planes, one Russian and one Saudi, with the same number of passengers and traveling from and to the same cities, would both make a safe emergency landing in Karachi on the same day?   I seriously doubt that. This was one plane, but somehow different news outlets are reporting that it's Saudi while others say it's Russian. How is that possible?

TheNews.com has a story today, "Saudi private airline plane's safe emergency landing," about - get this - a plane on its way from (you guessed it) Tabuk to Quetta. Guess how many people were on board. Yep, 72.

GeoNewsZone.com, however, says that "A Russian plane landed in Karachi because its wheels were not unfolding. The pilot informed the control room on Sunday."

Judging from late updates, it would seem that the plane is actually Saudi and that initial reports that it was Russian were in error. Some of the media are a little slow to correct mistakes. Several have, but many are still reporting that the plane was Russian.

Bloody Reuters Bin Laden Photos Are Still Up

May 4, 2011 - This afternoon, Reuters posted some very graphic photos of corpses, killed in Sunday's raid in the bin Laden compound in Pakistan. You can see them here, in the Reuters story titled "Photos from the Bin Laden Compound." Some hasty bloggers have snagged the Reuters photos and have are claiming - in error - that Reuters took the photos down. In fact, they are still up (as of 7:30 p.m. EDT). Bungalow Bill's blogspot ran some of the amazing Reuters photos in a post titled "The Reuters Images of the Attack Against Osama Bin Laden That Were Removed From Reuters Web Site." Ah, sorry, your headline is misleading. American Power blogspot has some pointless commentary and over there, where they at least acknowledge that Reuters re-posted the photos in "an update." (Actually, American Power hat tipped blogger Iconic Surrealism for the update info.) Even one of my all-time fave websites, iOwnTheWorld, fell for the Reuters-pulled-the-photos hysteria. In a wonderfully titled post, "Warning: These photos might be too graphic if you’re a progressive pussy," my good friend Big Fur Hat wrote, "These photos were pulled by Reuters about one hour after they were published. But the genie cannot be re-corked on the internet." Well, no, the photos are still up at Reuters.com. I still love iOwnTheWorld, though. See, my fellow bloggers, now and then news sites post updates and move stuff around - kinda like we do - and so all of the hysteria about Reuters "pulling" the photos is nonsense. It was housekeeping, dudes. Reuters simply moved the furniture around, so to speak. They didn't hide it.

British Girls Forced Into Prostitution by Foreigners (Video)

In economically depressed northern England, especially in run-down industrial towns, young girls in their early teens are being abused and forced into prostitution by immigrants from Pakistan and other Asian countries. Often plied with drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, the girls are easy prey for these vermin. The shocking videos below will make you see this horrible abuse of young girls in a way you might never have dreamed possible. It's truly a nightmare for the girls and for their parents. Sometimes forced into prostitution and/or the narcotics trade, this is a tragedy that affects women of all nationalities worldwide. The Mail Online (UK) has an excellent article about British girls being forced into prostitution in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Another good article about forced sex work comes from The Independent (UK). Of course, there are non-British girls being victimized by these scumbags, too. The BBC had a thorough piece about a 16-year old Lithuanian girl who was forced into prostitution while on a trip to the UK. Her tormenters were a group Albanian pimps operating a string of brothels in a west London suburb. This is NOT a uniquely British problem. It is a global epidemic, getting worse every year.

FLASH: 30,000 Pakistani Troops Attack Taliban

BREAKING, BBC - 17 October 2009, 06:51 GMT, Saturday, 17 October 2009 07:51 UK The Pakistan army has started moving troops and artillery towards the Taliban militants' stronghold in South Waziristan, local officials say. They told the BBC that 30,000 troops backed by tanks were moving in on the stronghold of Hakimullah Mehsud, the new head of the Pakistan Taliban. They are moving from the north, the east, and the west. A curfew was imposed in the region before the offensive began, after several Taliban attacks in recent days. FULL STORY: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8311927.stm Conservative Caps, Shirt and more! Leave a Comment - Chicago News Bench RSS Feed Visit us on Twitter!

Gunmen Abduct 400 at School in Pakistan

June 1, 2009: This is a breaking story, still developing: Police official Meer Sardar said the abduction occurred about 20 miles from Razmak Cadet College in North Waziristan tribal area. The people were leaving the school area after they were warned to get out in a phone call from a man they believed to be a political official, Sardar said, citing accounts from a group of 17 who managed to get away. Around 30 buses, cars and other vehicles were carrying the students, staff and others when they were stopped along the road by a large group of alleged militants in their own vehicles. Full Story from Associated Press via FoxNews... (Also see some background on this, from Radio Australia.) RELATED: Police: Group of 400 abducted in Pakistan - Pakistan - msnbc.com Pakistan Kills 18 Rebels, Asserts Grip Over Swat City Leave a Comment Here... See our cool merchandise... Chicago News Bench RSS Feed Hey! ChiNewsBench is on Twitter

Pakistan Connection to Bangladesh Mutiny?

There are strong suspicions now that Pakistans' spy service, ISI, may have played a support role in last week's bloody rebellion in Bangladesh by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR). ISI is also suspected of playing a role in the Mumbai massacres in India last November. Two important reports: The Telegraph UK reports: The Times of India quoted sources close to the investigation claiming arrested mutineers had named a senior a Bangladeshi businessman and politician believed to have close links with Pakistan's intelligence service. It was also reported that confession statements suggested the mutineers had received around £100,000 to bankroll their revolt. Full Report from The Telegraph UK... A report from 123 Breaking News makes a very strong case for the Pakistani connection (emphasis added): The preliminary interrogation of some of the rebels has thrown up the name of Salauddin Qadeer Chowdhury, a well-known shipping magnate and reportedly very close to the Pakistan military-intelligence complex and the opposition BNP. According to sources monitoring the situation, about one crore taka has already changed hands to help the mutiny along. Chowdhury, a close associate of opposition BNP leader Begum Khaleda Zia, was closely connected to the Chittagong arms drop case of April 2004 - the arms were apparently intended for ULFA. The ships were caught carrying the arms. Salauddin Chowdhury, belonging to an old Chittagong family, has been close to Pakistan for decades. Full Report from 123 Breaking News... MUST-READ: 1,000 Murderers Hunted in Bangladesh - Chicago News Bench 'We have never raised the temperature with Pakistan' - Business Standard ISI behind BDR mutiny? - Chandigarh Tribune The BDR killings and some hard questions - The Daily Star Bangladesh a Nation under blended conspiracy - Bangladeshi Hindu Pakistan Links with BD Mutiny - Sania Mirza Chicago News Bench RSS Feed Cool Stuff...

UPDATED: PAKISTAN-INDIA TENSIONS STILL HIGH

Dec 27, 11:26 AM EST - Associated Press - Pakistan Moves Troops Toward Indian Border ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan told India on Saturday it did not want war and was committed to fighting terrorism - a move apparently aimed at reducing tensions after Pakistan moved troops toward their shared border. Islamabad also announced it was canceling all military leave - the latest turn of the screw in the rising tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors following last month's terror attack on the Indian financial capital of Mumbai. THIS BEGS THE QUESTION: Why, then, did Pakistan move thousands of troops to its border with India on Friday? Why was leave canceled for all of Pakistan's military? That seems to be a very odd way of signalling that they don't want war. AP continues: Intelligence officials said Friday that the army was redeploying thousands of troops from the country's fight against militants along the Afghan border to the Indian frontier - an alarming scenario for the West as it tries to get Pakistan to neutralize the al-Qaida threat. FULL ARTICLE from AP... PREVIOUSLY, 26 DEC 2008: Pakistan is preparing for war with India. They are, at this moment, placing thousands of soldiers on its border with India. Tensions are very high, fingers are on the triggers. New bunkers are being built. The tension has been building since the Mumbai attacks. God forbid, it looks like it may reach the boiling point at any moment. AFP Reports today: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh summoned his military chiefs to review New Delhi's "defence preparedness" while his foreign ministry advised Indians not to travel to Pakistan, saying it was unsafe for them to be in the country. The developments sent ties plummeting to their lowest point since late 2001, when Kashmiri militants staged a brazen attack on the Indian parliament -- an attack New Delhi blamed on the Pakistan-based extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is also blamed for the recent Mumbai massacres. Times of India - 27 Dec 2008, 0042 hrs IST, Ajay Sura, TNN - Pakistan has stepped up its war moves by cancelling all military leave, sharply increasing deployment of its troops along the border adjoining Punjab and Jammu, and building new bunkers along the border near Barmer, Jaisalmer and Ganganagar. Highly placed sources said Pakistan has shifted its 4 Corps, an important strike arm, to Lahore, just 25 km from Attari. Its 10th brigade, consisting of around 5,000 personnel, has further been moved to forward areas along Punjab. Similarly its 3rd Armoured Brigade has been moved towards Jhelum.... India's 2nd Corps from Ambala and 10 Corps from Bathinda have also moved to border areas for what an Army spokesperson described as annual exercises. This comes even as 11 Corps from Jalandhar has already moved for the exercise. RELATED: US warning on South Asia tension Pakistan Sends Troops to Indian Border Tensions mount as Pakistan shifts troops to Indian border South Asia descends into terror's vortex Newsdesk: Brown warns of Pakistan terror

Pakistan and Terrorism: Motivation of the Poet

Was Pakistan complicit in the Massacres of Mumbai last month? India is saying they were, and has presented "evidence" of this to representatives of Germany and the US. If the Indians are correct, this should be acted on swiftly. If they are being paranoid, the Indians are to be forgiven; Pakistan has never been a friend to India. In fact, history shows without ambiguity that Pakistan has always been an enemy of India and of the Indian people. There has been tension - hatred - between India and Pakistan for 41 years. In 1947, Pakistan became a nation when it was split off away from India when its the British colonial rulers drew a line on a map that fateful August 14. Pakistan was created for the sole purpose of giving Muslim Indians a nation of their own, an idea that gained steam in 1930 when poet Allama Iqbal pushed the notion of a separate country for Muslims. The motivation of the poet, and of all those who bought into his idea, was driven by religious intolerance of their non-Muslim fellow Indians. (Imagine a push in the US by a religious group to split New England away as a new nation just for them.) We could go back even farther in history, to the year 711 A.D., when the first Islamist invasion of India occurred. (In the same year, Islamists were invading and conquering Spain; this was hundreds of years before the first Crusades.) Since 1947, India and Pakistan have engaged in three major wars. There has been frequent skirmishing along their borders, too, most notably in Kashmir. But let's stay in the year 2008: Taking full advantage of the international community’s concern over the growing lawlessness in “ terror epicentre” Pakistan, New Delhi on Friday provided more evidence of its neighbour’s complicity in the Mumbai mayhem to the US and Germany. India also asked them to put pressure on Islamabad for dismantling the terror infrastructure on its soil. (Source: India Today Group Online) BE READY FOR NUCLEAR WAR: The head of India’s rightwing Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS, National Volunteers Corps) gave an ominous warning this week. According to Dawn.com, Sangh "warned that a nuclear war with Pakistan could become inevitable if peaceful means fail to rein in terrorism and voiced the chilling prospect of a Third World War breaking out, which he feels may cleanse the world of evil." Pakistan has deep internal problems, India aside. Engaged reluctantly in the War on Terror, with Afghanistan right next door, wild tribal areas that are uncontrollable, and tensions between fundamentalists and an educated, religiously moderate middle class, Pakistan's leaders have plenty of distractions. Nevertheless, Pakistan's ruling class needs to grapple with the fact the hard core militant Islamists who want to destroy India would also like to destroy Pakistan. To the Islamists, borders mean nothing, and the government of Pakistan is hated by the Islamist militants as much as is India. To make anything short of an all out effort to hunt down and destroy them within their own borders is a slow road to national suicide. The fact that Pakistani army’s ties to Islamists is under scrutiny is a good step, but should have happened years ago, with full fledged purges effectively cleaning them out of the military ranks. Pakistan must cooperate firmly and fully with India in moving against groups such as Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Lashkar-e-Tabai, if for no other reason than self-preservation. RELATED: RSS chief says India should be ready for nuclear war India, Pak standoff will intensify if no Pakistani is handed over Pak hasn't followed up on any proof: Pranab Pak has to act forcefully: US ‘Clear proof of Pak role in Mumbai blasts UN says Pakistan charity front for terrorist group Indonesia calls for united action to fight terrorism Pakistan's Post-Mumbai Clampdown Targets Islamists Pak detains over 30 JuD men; seals 65 of its offices

PAKISTAN STRIKES LASHKAR-E-TAIBA CAMP: "QUIET" CRACKDOWN NATIONWIDE

Pakistan engaging in nationwide, internal sweep to clean house: ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani security forces on Sunday raided a camp used by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), two sources said, in a strike against the militant group blamed by India for last month's deadly attacks on Mumbai. Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported on Saturday that Pakistan had put its forces on high alert after a caller pretending to be Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee threatened President Asif Ali Zardari while the attacks were still going on. More from Reuters... The story from Dawn, mention by Reuters above, tells us that more than just one camp was targeted and that there is now a nationwide sweep of Pakistan by the military to arrest extremists: MUZAFFARABAD/ISLAMABAD, Dec 7 - Security forces have launched a ‘quiet’ crackdown on activists belonging to the banned jihadi outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba in different parts of the country and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.In Muzaffarabad, a major army operation was under way in the city suburbs on Sunday against a site being used by the Jamaatud Dawa, which is headed by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed. Sources said that more than 20 members of the banned organisation and Lashkar-i-Taiba’s ‘commander’ Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi had been arrested. More at Dawn... ALSO: NATO supplies attacked in Pakistan

FLASH: UK PAPER PROVES PAKISTAN CONNECTION

The Hindu newspaper (India) has this now: Contradicting Pakistani denials that its nationals were involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, The Observer reported on Sunday that it had established that Ajmal Amir ‘Kasab,’ the lone surviving suspect, came from a village called Faridkot in the Okara district of Pakistan. The story indicated that the terrorist’s correct name is Mohammed Ajmal Amir, son of Mohammed Amir Iman. (Source: The Hindu)

FLASH: Sec. Rice Hints at Punitive Attacks Against Pakistan

In what may be her last, and perhaps boldest, move as the US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice told Pakistani leadership that they cannot wash themselves of any responsibility for the Mumbia terrorist acts that originated from Pakistan. Punitive military strikes were threatened. The Times of India: Although US officials have not outright approved immediate punitive Indian strikes against terrorist targets in Pakistan, it is clear Rice has bought time for Islamabad to prove its bonafides and promise of cooperation. (Source) That's Rice grabbing Pakistan by the balls. Pakistan has a ''special responsibility'' and needs to act ''urgently'' she said, even as India has indicated it will wait for a Pakistani response to its demands before any punitive action. "Before any punitive action" is Rice squeezing hard, very hard. The response would be not the US alone, not India alone, but a coalition of sorts. The Times quotes Robert Kagan, a Carnegie Endowment analyst, as saying that "international community [could] declare that parts of Pakistan have become ungovernable and a menace to international security," which would theoretically provide a justification for those punitive strikes against Pakistan. FULL STORY at Times of India...

UPDATED: PAKISTAN BRACING FOR WAR: INDIAN MILITARY ASKS FOR AIRSTRIKES

Will it be war? Let us hope not, but tensions between India and Pakistan seem to be deteriorating by the hour. The Australian is reporting that India's military "chiefs" are pleading with India's leaders for permission to bomb the "al-Qa'ida-linked Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist organisation near Lahore" in Pakistan, near the Indian border. UPDATE: US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is now in India to facilitate diplomacy between India and Pakistan. What she can do to ease tensions remains to be seen. RELATED: Condoleezza Rice on mission to ease India and Pakistan tensions Pak accepts terrorists may be from its territory: US Will they battle terror or each other? Rice in India to ease tension with Pakistan Pakistan, India assert right to self-defense Pakistan says Pranab's military action statement won't help Italy arrests two jihadists planning attacks on Italian civilians

LSD, Cocaine Helped Fuel Terror in Mumbai

Cocaine partially fueled the terrorist rampage in Mumbai last week. So reports CBS3 (Philadephia) in an Associated Press story today. MUMBAI, India (AP) ― The gunmen who went on a rampage in Mumbai, India for almost three days had drugs in their system and drug paraphernalia, such as syringes, were recovered from the scene of the assaults, according to British paper the Telegraph: The killers were doing more than cocaine: "We found injections containing traces of cocaine and LSD left behind by the terrorists and later found drugs in their blood," an official told the Telegraph. The official also noted that "There was also evidence of steroids, which isn't uncommon in terrorists." More at CBS-13... RELATED: Mumbai attacks: Jews tortured before executed during hostage crisis India demands Pakistan turn over 20 fugitives US official: India attack may have Pakistani roots India was warned of Mumbai attack, US officials say

UPDATED 12/2/2008: INDIA READY FOR WAR, SAYS PAKISTAN GUILTY OF MUMBAI SLAUGHTER

UPDATED 12/02/2008: INDIA IS STILL RATTLING SABRES. (This is not fear mongering, folks, it's passing on what the Indian government is saying.) From inthenews.co.uk today: India raises spectre of war over Mumbai attacks Previous Post, 12/01/2008: INDIANS SEEK REVENGE FOR MUMBAI TERRORISM. DEVELOPING. FROM THE GUARDIAN.CO.UK (Monday December 1 2008 00.01 GMT ): The Indian minister said yesterday [30 Nov 2008] there was "no doubt that the terrorists had come from Pakistan ... We have evidence of their nationalities. We will reveal everything soon". The Indian government raised the country's security to a "war level" yesterday saying it had certain proof of a Pakistani link to the Mumbai attacks. The dramatic move prompted Pakistan to say it would end military operations against Islamist militants on the Afghan border, which are critical to the "war on terror", for an "unwanted conflict" with Delhi. FULL STORY... RELATED: Pakistan warns west over growing crisis Pak may relocate 100,000 armymen to border Tribal leaders vow to support Pak govt against India

UPDATE: RICE SAYS PAKISTAN MUST COOPERATE

UPDATE: 3:11 AM, NEW YORK TIME: Rice: Pakistan must cooperate in terror probe - International Herald Tribune, France BREAKING: Associated Press reporting now that US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice "says Pakistan must provide full cooperation after India terror attacks." DEVELOPING, watch for AP news updates... (3:51 AM New York time)

MUST READ: "8 Links to al-Qaeda"

A stunning article that shows al-Qaeda ties to the terrorists that attacked Mumbai last week. Written by 20-year CNN veteran correspondent Maria A. Ressa for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. MANILA, Philippines—There is increasing evidence that the attacks in Mumbai were carried out by a Pakistani militant group linked to al-Qaeda, Indian and American intelligence sources tell me....The ties are clear if we take the facts in Mumbai and compare them with the history of al-Qaeda and its affiliate groups. Full Article...

Did Mumbai Locals Help Terrorists? Pakistan Connection Still In Play...

The Times of India reports that this seems to be the case: MUMBAI - Did some Mumbai locals provide support to the Pakistani terrorists? Azam Amir Kasab, the only Pakistani terrorist nabbed alive, has revealed names and addresses of at least five people from the city who helped the terror operation. Perhaps those five people hate their own country in same way that this guy does. Meanwhile, the Pakistan connection is still in play: Crime branch has also recovered several fake identity and credit cards from the belongings of dead terrorists. "All the cards are in different names and of different banks. Now we are at least trying to figure out how they procured credit cards from various banks.'' said Maria. The recovery of so many cards with different names have led Mumbai police to suspect the involvement of ISI. Full Story at Times of India...