The Final Solution Frenzy Part One: From Afghanistan with Love
Had Van Gogh been given a canvas the
size of the Eurasian landmass in 1890, he
would probably have painted what the
United States in painting now:
Spectacular psychosis smothering
withered sanity, towering talent defeated
by raging madness, sky-high ambition
smashed by rock-hard realities, a
troubled genius in self-immolation.
What we are witnessing today, and what
may unfold in the coming months, is Von
Gogh’s ‘At Eternity’s Gate’ on cosmic
scale. ——- Welcome to the ‘Final
Solution,’ Made in USA.
In this series of investigative reports we
shall sum up the results of thousands of
kilometers of arduous and risky travel by
our team in search of clues scattered in
the harsh terrain of the Pakistani
province of Balochistan and the
adjoining, equally unforgiving,
landscape of Afghanistan and Iran.
Our startling findings are explained and
augmented by experts and sources in
Moscow, Washington, Kabul and New
Delhi.
This series starts with what is happening
in Pakistan and will expand gradually to
cover the Greater Central Asia and its
immediate neighbourhood.
We will tell a dreadful story, segment by
segment, part by part.
This is the first part of our ‘Final Solution’
Frenzy series and in this report we shall
describe what we found in Afghanistan
and Pakistan. In the subsequent report
we shall connect these findings with
explanations and interpretations of
experts.
As with our previous reports, this series
would be abrupt and incomplete. It is not
possible to come up with an alpha-to-
omega story, complete in all respects,
merely through investigative reporting.
Without generous leaks from well placed
sources a story of this kind must remain
unfinished.
So, let’s start cutting through the web of
deceit, ambition, cruelty, backstabbing
and violence.
Training camps in Afghanistan
There were persistent reports that the
Americans, through their contractors,
were operating at least two training
camps, churning out an assortment of
terrorists.
It sounds strange that a country
supposedly fighting a global war against
terrorism would train its own terrorists.
Nevertheless, the crux of investigative
journalism is that every lead, no matter
how ludicrous, should be followed to its
logical end if it promises some relevance.
In one of our earlier reports (Mumbai
Mystery: American Designs on Pakistan
and India), we uncovered that the
Americans had tunneled into some
Jihadi outfits in Pakistan. The links to all
four parts of our Mumbai report are given
at the end of this narrative.
In the Mumbai report we mentioned that
as far as we had been able to determine,
the earliest deal between the Americans
and the Jihadis took place in Quetta in
August 2007.
With the help of our experts in Moscow,
we predicted in our Mumbai report that
bombings and acts of terrorism were
likely to increase in Pakistan in the
coming months. Our Mumbai report was
published in December 2008 and since
then Pakistan has hardly seen a day of
respite.
There is no joy in being right in this case;
we are not gloating. All we are trying to
register is that most of the substance of
our previous reports has withstood the
test of time.
We also told in our Mumbai report that
Michael Vickers, the assistant secretary
of defence for Special Operations/Low-
Intensity Conflict and Interdependent
Capabilities (ASD/SOLIC&IC) was the
author of the chaos that were going to be
systematically unleashed in Pakistan. It
is necessary to remind that Vickers was
directly running the Jihadi war against
Soviet Union for about six years and he
has personal contacts with almost all the
players in the current mix.
We underlined in our Mumbai report
that Vickers would mainly use United
States Special Operations Command
(USSOCOM) for beating Pakistan to
near-pulp. Here, again, we were right on
the mark, as we shall show in our
subsequent reports in this series.
Based on the findings in our previous
reports, we started examining the
possibility of existence of American
terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.
Interviews with some knowledgeable
persons in Afghanistan and Pakistan
suggest that at least one of the training
camps run by the American contractors is
located in either Ghowr or Uruzgan
province of Afghanistan.
What is important from the point of view
of our reports is not the exact location of
these camps but the fact that they do exist
at all. We will return to the subject of
these camps in our succeeding reports in
this series.
Chicken lunch before hawk chase
It was early October 2009. We were
sitting in a killi – a small clan-village – in
the Pakistani province of Balochistan,
not far from the border with Afghanistan.
We shall not disclose our exact location
but it was somewhere between the towns
of Dalbandin and Nushki in Chagai
district of the Balochistan province of
Pakistan.
The chicken, cooked hastily, was tasty
without being tender. The flatbread was
improbably large, perfectly round and
evenly baked.
The lunch over, we started planning on
the travel route for the next few days.
Most of the legwork by our field contacts
had been completed already. We were
about to start verifying some of the leads
that looked significant.
The first, and the closest point, was where
we expected to see some young men who
were not Muslims. We started off after
downing a pot of excessively sweetened
black tea.
They are not Muslims
We drove for about an hour and reached a
place almost at the border of
Afghanistan. It was pre-evening (Asr)
prayer time when we reached a small,
nondescript teahouse.
“When I point at someone with my eyes,
just watch but not overtly and not
immediately. And, don’t talk when you
look,” said our local contact in a low
voice.
We sat down on the palm-frond mat on
the dirt floor. After a while, he looked
meaningfully to his right and quickly
averted his eyes. In a few seconds we gave
a brief, furtive look and saw two bearded
young men, somewhere in their late
teens, dressed in slightly dirty baggy
trousers and long shirt, no different from
everyone around, walking toward a low
mound to attend to the call of nature.
They emerged shortly from behind their
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mound that served as open air toilet and
went straight to the prayer mat.
Some ten minutes later, our local partner
made a similar gesture toward another
young man, with a mere hint of a beard on
an otherwise smooth face, who was also
walking to the toilet-mound. He also
returned after unburdening his urinary
bladder and walked directly to the prayer
mat.
We had seen enough; there was no point
in sitting there any more and attracting
unnecessary attention.
“This kind of people started appearing
more than a year ago,” said our local man.
“After attending to the call of nature, they
don’t even wash their hands. They don’t
perform necessary ablutions (Wudoo)
before going from toilet to prayer mat,”
he said after we had started driving to the
next point in our journey.
“They are not Muslims,” he said.
Yes, we could see that they were not
Muslims. After attending the call of
nature, it is mandatory for all Muslims to
perform ritual ablutions before they can
stand for prayers. The only exception is
when water is not available, which was
clearly not the case.
‘Taliban’ in American Helicopters
After having seen the young men who
wanted to look like practicing Muslims
without bothering to go through the
obligatory ablutions for prayers, our next
stop was to meet someone who could tell
us about ‘Taliban’ being transported in
American helicopters.
We drove on a dirt trail for about thirty
minutes and reached another point, still
not far from the Afghan border. One of
our local contacts in Afghanistan had
confirmed earlier that he had spoken to
some people who had seen the so-called
Taliban being carried in American
helicopters. He was waiting for us at a
makeshift gasoline station. Border
crossing is no big deal in those parts.
Our man told that he had spoken to
several people who had seen bearded
young men disembarking from American
helicopters near the border of
Afghanistan with Pakistan. Based on the
accounts narrated by our contact person,
we understood that batches of four to ten
persons were dropped twice or thrice a
month, every time at a different location
but always in walking distance from the
Pakistan border.
The villagers on the Pakistani side of the
border also confirmed that illegal border
crossing was a universally common
phenomenon on the entire border line in
Chagai district.
Next, we drove to see the man who had
been left for dead.
Murder after prayers
In a killi about thirty kilometers from the
Afghan border we met Osman (not his
real name). He is in his early forties and
told a tale that is not uncommon in those
areas.
He said that two persons, who said that
they were Afghan traders, hired his car
for a day trip along the border. Since it
was the area where anything can happen
at any time, Osman took a friend along
for company.
The ‘Afghan traders’ said that they had to
meet some people near the border and
the trip would be over in less than half a
day. At a deserted place near the Afghan
border the clients said that since it was
prayer time, they should stop the car and
pray.
Osman and his friend also joined the
prayer, led by one of the Afghans. Soon
after completing the prayer, while rising
from his prayer position, the prayer
leader took out a pistol from his side
pocket and shot straight at Osman’s
friend. He was hit in the shoulder and fell
back like a log.
Then he pointed the weapon at Osman
and pulled the trigger again. Osman was
wearing a loose and baggy shirt and the
bullet passed through his shirt sleeve,
grazing his upper arm slightly. He also
fell down, pretending that he had also
been hit.
The two Afghans took the car, sped
toward the border, and into Afghanistan.
Osman says that when the car snatchers
disappeared, he carried his friend on his
shoulder for about a couple of kilometers
before he found someone willing to give
him a lift to the hospital. His friend
survived but remained bedridden for
more than six months.
Less than a week later the car was found
connected to an act of terrorism in
Quetta.
Unregistered automobiles
There were reports that more than half of
the automobiles and motorbikes in a
wide swath of Balochistan, from
Dalbandin to Taftan in the north, and
from Pasni to Gwadar in the south, were
running without any number plates.
This was the easiest thing to verify. All we
had to do was to drive around the area
and look at every vehicle to see whether it
had a registration plate or not. Yes, more
than half of vehicles of all description did
not have any registration number at all.
It was difficult to understand the reason
for this mass anomaly. An unregistered
vehicle is an ideal getaway transport for
terrorists, criminals and everyone else
interested in breaking the law.
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Theft of cars
Driving from place to place in pursuit to
confirm the findings of our team, we
heard repeatedly that theft of motor
vehicles, especially cars and SUVs, was
an organized crime, reaching the scales of
a sophisticated business in Balochistan.
Stealing a parked automobile is definitely
easier than snatching it at gunpoint.
What we could gather from our
conversation with several people was
that vehicles were stolen from all parts of
Pakistan and smuggled across the border
to Afghanistan. Sometimes, a car is stolen
as per specifications of the client i.e. a
particular make, model and colour.
These cars and SUVs go to Afghanistan
and some of them are used for cross-
border forays into Pakistan and Iran, as
seen in Osman’s case. Sometimes these
vehicles, after commitment of a crime,
are abandoned deliberately to put the
investigators on the wrong trail.
So far, we had found that some young
men are regularly crossing over from
Afghanistan to Pakistan, some of them
were Muslim in appearance but not in
essence, and quite possibly some of them
are being carried by Americans in their
helicopters close to the border of
Pakistan. We had also found that
automobiles were being stolen or
snatched at gunpoint, taken to
Afghanistan, and later used in the acts of
terrorism in Pakistan.
Funding mechanism
A terrorist must work for someone. Self
employed terrorists are far and few
between. If they were working for
someone, there must be a system to
provide them with funds when in
Pakistan.
This was a challenge. With a small team
running on a shoestring budget we could
not trail anyone for long. Tracking
multiple targets was simply impossible.
We did the next best thing ——- We
watched the moneychangers in Quetta,
the administrative centre of Balochistan
province.
Quite a few moneychangers in Quetta are
concentrated in one of the bustling
streets of the cramped city. With the help
of cooperative fruit vendors, shoeshine
boys, tobacconists, and just plain
loiterers, we created a temporary
network to keep an eye on some
moneychangers.
In a few days we found that some people
were changing US dollars to Pak rupees
regularly. This, in itself, can hardly be
called a suspicious activity except for the
fact that they were not changing all of
their money from a single vendor.
Instead, they went from moneychanger
to moneychanger, never converting more
than $ 2000 from a single vendor. This
was an obvious precaution to avoid being
noticed.
Because of our insufficient capacity to
study the money-changing phenomenon
in detail, this can, at best, be considered
implied evidence. The thing to remember
is that terrorism is a comparatively low
cost enterprise.
The corridor of instability between
Afghanistan and Iran
In our first investigative report on
Balochistan, published in March 2005,
we reported that a corridor of instability
exists in the territory of Pakistan through
which all kinds of players were traveling
from Afghanistan to Iran and Back. This
report is not available on our own website
anymore because we lost our archive
after it was hacked. However, the report
received wide audience and it can be seen
at dozens of portals; two links are given at
the end of this narrative.
In that report we said that if you marked
Shah Ismail and Ziarat Sultan Vais Qarni
in Afghanistan and Jalq and Kuhak in
Iran, and connected Shah Ismail with
Kuhak through a slowly arching line, and
Ziarat Sultan Vais Qarni with Jalq
through another line running in parallel
with the first one, the space between
these two lines would form a corridor
that is used by the American defence
contractors, and many other kinds of
players, to travel between Afghanistan
and Iran through Pakistan.
Now we would like to report that the
corridor has somewhat narrowed down
in width but there is more activity
through it to destabilize Iran, and put
pressure on Pakistan. The main reason
why it is so easy for anyone to use this
corridor to travel between Afghanistan
and Iran is that the patrolling in
Balochistan is done mainly by the
irregular militia and (FC) frontier
constabulary, mostly manned by
illiterate personnel.
To check on this theory, we drove across
the breadth of Chagai, Kharan, and
Panjgur districts, reaching just four
kilometers from the border of Iran near
Kuhak. Throughout the journey we
encountered several check posts and
mobile patrols but hardly anyone could
even read our identity documents much
less determine whether we were genuine
travelers or someone else in disguise. We
also learned during this road trip that at
least two Indian nationals had been
caught, using this corridor to reach Iran.
It is worth mentioning that the corridor
of instability identified by us terminates
right near the town of Pishin in Iran
where an act of terrorism several months
ago took the lives of dozens of people,
including 15 senior officials of Pasdaran.
PRIVATE US CONTRACTORS IN AFGHANISTAN
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Part Two: Russian Atheist Explains Suicide Bombing
With Sergi Pyatakov and Tamara Orlova in Moscow
Additional reporting by Qasim Jan in Kandahar and GN Brohi in Kharan and Nushki
Lucky breaks come when you least expect
them. A major break presented itself
recently, revealing the involvement of the
USA and India in the terrorism spate in
Pakistan and Afghanistan. We will come
to it near the end of this narrative. When
working on this series of investigative
reports, we understood early the need to
think out of the box.
In an attempt to think out of the box we
decided to consult an atheist. It was on
his prodding that we went back to the
field and found something big.
Vitaly was a professor of gosateism (state
atheism) at the now-defunct department
of atheism at the Moscow State
University (MGU).
An atheist by choice rather than
opportunism, Vitaly is as knowledgeable
about Islam as any well- educated and
well-read Muslim scholar. To bolster his
argument, he can quote verses from the
Koran and the sayings of The Prophet
from memory. The fundamental
difference between Vitaly and a Muslim
scholar is that Vitaly studied Islam to
debunk it. In several interviews, we
discussed suicide bombing with him.
Our first report in this series (‘Final
Solution’ Frenzy – Part One: From
Afghanistan with Love) was the basic raw
material from which we expected Vitaly
to come up with a plausible explanation
as to why some young people would agree
to act as suicide bombers.
In that report we mentioned that the
Americans were running at least two
training camps in Afghanistan, they were
most probably preparing the kind of
young people who looked like Muslims
but acted otherwise, quite possibly some
young men who looked like Taliban were
being transported in American
helicopters to areas near the border with
Pakistan, automobiles were being stolen
or snatched at gunpoint in Balochistan
and some of those vehicles were being
used in the acts of terrorism, there were
huge numbers of unregistered
automobiles in half of the Pakistani
province of Balochistan, and there was a
wide corridor in Balochistan that was
being used by different kinds of people
for illegal traveling between Afghanistan
and Iran.
Here we present the essence of our
conversations with Vitaly in the form of
question-and-answer sequence:
Talking to Vitaly
nCa: Before we discuss the process of
suicide bombing in Afghanistan and
Pakistan, could you please give us some
insight into non-personal acts of suicide
in general?
Vitaly: Right at the start, I must make it
clear that the use of suicide as a tactic or
weapon, what you call non-personal act
of suicide, is not exclusive to religion –
any religion at all. The incidents of the
use of suicide as a method of advance or
retreat, offence or defence, desperation
or exhilaration, are scattered throughout
the history of mankind. It is a mindset
that can be induced or acquired.
For instance, Jim Jones and 909 of his
followers committed mass suicide in
November 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana.
Except for 9-11, it was the largest number
of American casualties in a single event.
Jones and his followers described
themselves as communists, and in their
last will they left assets worth more than
US $ 20 million for the Soviet Union.
Their mass suicide can be described as an
act of desperation and retreat.
The Kamikaze pilots blew themselves –
and the enemy – to pieces not for God but
for the King and the country.
The Tamil Tigers have their land and
their political agenda, not God, in mind
when going for a suicide mission.
As far as organized religion is concerned,
it is susceptible to manipulation after
reaching the inevitable stage of
‘intellectual coma.’
It was the intellectual coma that
generated the early waves of crusaders to
their sure death.
nCa: How do you define intellectual
coma?
Vitaly: Intellectual coma is when an
organized religion gets disconnected
from spirit. It is the triumph of form over
substance. It is when the written and
spoken word of scholars divides the
adherents instead of uniting them.
For example, when Saladin was knocking
at the doors of Jerusalem in 1187, the
Christian scholars were debating in
earnest whether Jesus Christ was the son
of man or God. In 1258, just 71 years later,
when the Mongol armies under Helegu
were entering Baghdad, the Muslim
scholars at the main square were
contesting hotly whether crow washalal
or haram.
nCa: How does it relate to suicide
bombing in Islam?
Vitaly: Suicide as such is probably not
permissible in Islam. In one of the early
battles of Islam, a companion of The
Prophet fought valiantly and got
seriously wounded. The onlookers
praised his bravery but The Prophet said
that he may end up in hell. This made
some listeners wonder and they kept an
eye on the wounded companion to see as
to what he would do next. A few hours
later, he committed suicide in his tent.
Intellectual coma is when
an organized religion gets
disconnected from spirit.
It is the triumph of form
over substance. It is when
the written and spoken
word of scholars divides
the adherents instead of
uniting them.
This incident is universally quoted by the
body of Muslim scholars who speak
against suicide.
However, it is possible to divide the act of
suicide into two categories i.e. the
permissible and the forbidden. For
instance, a convincing case can be built
that commitment of suicide to escape
despair, law, shame or pain is forbidden
while suicide as a tactic in asymmetrical
warfare is permissible.
Regardless of the doctrinal stance one
takes on this issue, the persistent
occurrence of suicide bombing in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Pakistan demands
different treatment. Looking at the
complexity of the situation, one needs to
be mindful of external and internal
manipulations.
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TERRORIST CAPTURED DURING THE ATTACK ON
LAHORE’S POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL LAST YEAR
To expand on this point, I would like first
to give my personal understanding of
Islam.
In the early texts, Islam was referred to as
path (deen) – a very wide path – and the
preference to walk on the right or left, or
in the middle, of that path was defined as
mazhab. It is only when public debates on
religion became a fashion that Islam
came to be referred to as mazhab.
You may rightly ask as to what difference
it makes.
The sheer bulk of literature in Islam that
appeared after the sacking of Baghdad,
veered away from the main path, the
deen. It was denial and retreat.
My understanding of Islam is that neither
your body nor the soul is answerable
because body is perishable and soul is an
order (amr) of God. What is answerable is
your consciousness. Your consciousness
is the product of the lifetime of your
commission and omission, negation or
acceptance.
However, just read the Islamic literature
created during the last seven hundred
years. Except for some notable
exceptions, the general impression is that
everybody is going to hell except for a
chosen few. Based on the bulk of
literature produced during the
intellectual coma, it appears that it is
nearly impossible to please the God of
Islam.
The Islamic literature of the past few
centuries promotes hopelessness instead
of hope. The scholars, by and large, don’t
offer optimism; they dispense fear. This
is one reason why it was easy to convince
people of the validity of atheism in Soviet
Union.
Looking at the main body of Islamic
literature, it seems that paradise is a
small island, able to accommodate just a
handful.
It also gives the impression that God is an
angry old man, taking pleasure in
committing people to eternal torture,
creating them merely to throw them into
the hell. Considering that every author
recommends every other author for hell,
the Islamic paradise would be one lonely
place.
When a common Muslim looks at the
presumed demands made on him, he
sometimes loses all hope and starts
looking for a shortcut to heaven.
This opens door for internal and external
manipulation. Suicide can be billed as
cheap ticket to paradise. Ka-boom, and
you are there already, in the company of
eternal virgins along the banks milk and
honey rivers.
This is just one of the several reasons why
someone would agree to become a suicide
bomber. I will come to another, more
relevant reason, in a minute.
nCa: You are saying ‘internal and
external manipulations.’ Could you
please elaborate?
Vitaly: You told me that some young
people, Muslim in appearance, were seen
entering from Afghanistan into Pakistan,
and they did not perform obligatory
ablutions before their prayers. This is the
sign of induced exclusiveness; this is
what I call ‘Zombification.’ This is the
other reason I am talking about that
could be more relevant to the situation in
Pakistan and Afghanistan.
nCa: We are afraid we don’t understand
your line of argument.
Vitaly: If you take a group of teenagers,
preferably 12 to 17, and the idea is to
make them suicide bombers, here is how
you would zombify them:
If they are from Muslim families, chances
are that they would know at last the
basics of their religion. Your first job
would be to rewire their acquired
knowledge.
The sheer bulk of the extraneous and
wrongly focused Islamic literature makes
it easy. You can take any young man or
woman and convince them easily that
they are the only ones going to paradise;
give them exclusivity and they will die in
name of God, in the manner determined
by you.
You would start building their
uniqueness by giving permissions not
available to ‘ordinary Muslims.’
As you tell me, these young men pray
without ablutions. This permission can
be created by twisting the provision that
in case of non availability of water or in
extreme danger, such as in the heat of
battle, one can substitute full ablutions
with dry ablution. All you have to tell
them is that they are in the middle of a
war, they are the chosen few, and the
usual rules don’t apply to them.
If your finding is correct that the
Americans are preparing and sending
these people to Pakistan, there has to be
more to it than just the practice of
praying without ablutions. I will suggest
that you go back and try to find more.
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Back to spadework
We took his advice and returned to the
field to learn more. To begin with, we
were not sure of the location of American
training camps in Afghanistan.
Moreover, for several reasons, we did not
want to talk with any of the probable
graduates of the American training
camps.
Our contacts in Afghanistan and
Pakistani province of Balochistan started
looking for people who may know
something about the lifestyle and
mindset of the young people we
mentioned in the first report, who were
saw praying without ablutions.
In that first report we mentioned that at
least one American training camp was
located in either Ghowr or Uruzgan
province of Afghanistan. The later
reconnaissance, carried out after our
initial conversation with Vitaly,
convinced that the camp was somewhere
in Uruzgan, not very far from Kandahar
and Helmand provinces.
In fact, the new discoveries we made are
enormous in scope.
Acquiring sharp focus
Our findings are immense in nature.
There is no denying that fact that our field
team worked very hard but we must
acknowledge one lucky break that made
it all possible.
When Vitaly sent us back to the field, we
didn’t know what to do therefore we
simply started listening attentively to the
local gossip. There was the talk that an
Indian citizen, who was disguised as
Afghan mullah, had been caught in
Kharan district of Balochistan, probably
in the third week of March 2010.
We talked to people in Kharan to confirm
whether it was true, and if so, who he was
and what was he doing in Kharan, a
district that does not touch with
Afghanistan.
In those areas rumor mill works better
than Twitter. Soon we found that an
Indian citizen had definitely been caught
in Kharan and he was in the company of
two Afghans. They were traveling by
public transport to Iran. This confirmed
our earlier reports that a corridor exists
in the territory of Pakistan that is used by
certain elements for traveling between
Afghanistan and Iran.
The reason for his being detected and
caught is somewhat funny; it is directly
related to the male instinct of stealing a
glance at the others’ “endowment.”
In most areas of Balochistan the whole of
the outdoors is used as an open-air public
toilet. It so happened that when that
unlucky Indian went to attend the call of
nature, someone else also felt the urge to
discharge his urine. Just by chance, the
other person saw that the Indian was not
circumcised. He told it to others and in no
time at all about a dozen people gathered
and started beating him. In those rough
environs people beat first and ask
questions later.
The Indian, who was not only bearded
and turbaned like a typical Afghan
mullah but also spoke Pashtu fluently,
broke soon; after being roughed
thoroughly he was handed to an FC
patrol.
A college student in Nushki who has
some friends in FC told us that the Indian
was interrogated by FC before being
transferred to the authorized agencies.
The student told us that the Indian talked
candidly to avoid further beating. He told
the FC that he was an instructor in a
training camp in Afghanistan where the
Indians were subcontractors on behalf of
Blackwater (now Xe). The camp was
training young men to destabilize
Pakistan, Iran and China through suicide
bombing and other acts of terrorism.
He also told the FC interrogators that
vodka smuggled from Tajikistan was
mixed with orange juice and given
occasionally to some trainees as a sample
of what they might expect in paradise.
The other thing of significance that he
told was some Indian female sex workers,
brought from India as nurses, were on
their staff and their services were
available to some select students in the
camp. He told also that some young
Afghan boys, kidnapped by local
warlords as sex slaves, were brought
occasionally to the camp for servicing the
designated suicide bombers. Those
‘nurses’ were also available, in their spare
time, to ‘nurse’ some local warlords.
Our sources in Afghanistan confirmed
that kidnapping of young boys for sex
slavery was almost back to the same level
when Taliban first appeared on the scene.
In fact, the first rise of Taliban, in 1990s,
started with the rescue mission to free a
boy who had been kidnapped by a
warlord.
Our sources also confirmed that, yes,
vodka was being smuggled in large
quantities from Tajikistan and it was
generally used in the private gatherings
of the warlords. Orange or mango juice
was popularly used for mixing the
cocktail.
So, Vitaly was right.
Resuming conversation with Vitaly
nCa: You were right. There was much
more to it than just the practice of
praying without ablutions. The American
training camp is being run by the Indian
subcontractors on behalf of Blackwater,
and they provide female and male sex
mates and alcohol to some if not all
students.
Vitaly: This is the classic Sabbah formula.
Remember the 11thcentury cult of
Assassins (Hashashin), founded by
Hassan bin Sabbah?
His cult, which plagued the mainstream
Islam for more than 150 years, was built
on exclusivity through sex, drugs, strong
loyalty to the leader and distortion of
tenets.
Whoever is running the camp in
Afghanistan has certainly borrowed
heavily from the Sabbah model.
nCa: What could be the training period in
such a camp?
Vitaly: Based on my knowledge of human
nature, I can say that the training period
would be three to five weeks. In less than
three weeks it would be difficult to rewire
the brain – to zombify – and in more than
five weeks there would be the risk of the
student waking up from the trance.
Also, there is comfort in numbers. In this
kind of training you cannot prepare
would-be suicide bombers in isolation.
The company of fellow crazies is a
booster. Nonetheless, the size of each
group would have to be small, probably
five or so.
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Part Three: Rendezvous with Final Solution
With Sergi Pyatakov in Moscow, Mark Davidson in Washington
Several things happened since the
publication of the second report in this
series about a couple of week ago: Karzai
finally broke down under tremendous
American pressure; after a gap of six
years terrorism resurfaced in Russian at a
time and in areas most convenient for
American interests; the government in
Kyrgyzstan collapsed with a helpful push
from Russia; Ban Ki-moon toured
Central Asia, and the lecturing tone of his
talks in each country and the
composition of his delegation raised
eyebrows in the region; and there is an
unprecedented push to impose more
sanctions on Irn.
All of these developments are related to
our current series of investigative reports
in one way or the other.
The accelerated pace of events in the
Eurasian region has forced us to hasten
with the remaining material. This series
– ‘Final Solution’ Frenzy – was supposed
to unfold in about twelve reports but now
we have decided to cram the remaining
information into three or four reports.
This would rush the things and make if
difficult to provide an easily
understandable narrative.
For the purpose of this report, we
consulted four experts, two in Moscow,
and two in Washington. For obvious
reasons, they would like to remain
anonymous. Instead of assigning them
pseudonyms, we would simply refer to
them as ‘experts’ in this report.
July Rendezvous
There is a new sense of urgency in the
DoD-CIA circles. An anxiety, bordering
on desperation, has apparently
enveloped the minds of everyone from
Gates-Vickers duo down to field
commanders.
The media whitewash notwithstanding,
Operation Moshtarak was neither a big
battle not a big success, the political will
is eroding fast in many NATO countries,
some of the defeats of Americans in
Afghanistan are being pathetically
described as strategic repositioning,
there is nothing to show for the military
and civilian surge so far while Obama is
nearing the election phase where he
might face a very formidable Sarah
Pallin, and Iran is stronger than ever.
Run, Obama, run. Run, Bob, run. Run,
Mike, run.
Our experts in Washington and Moscow
were unanimous in their opinion that
JULY 2010 appears to be a crucial month
in American plans. The architects of the
Final Solution are rushing to rendezvous
with the Final Solution. Most of the
elements for the Final Solution would be
in place by July 2010.
Our experts also opine that after July
2010, the components would be in place
to start a proper war against Iran and do
an amputation surgery on Pakistan.
Patriot, Patriot
A network of Patriot Defence System
(PAC-3) has been established in UAE,
Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi
Arabia. UAE and Saudi Arabia purchased
Patriot under their ambitious acquisition
drives largely fed by the fear mongering
by the United States. Final tests are
scheduled for July 2010.
Our Washington expert told that all of
these systems are centrally linked to the
control centre in Israel. Among other
things, it would ensure that none of the
Patriot systems, costing the Gulf
countries billions of dollars, would be
available for their defence against Israel.
Our expert in Moscow said that Patriot
system is designed to protect the
aggressor from counterattack. It means
that an aggressor, after hitting first, can
hide behind the Patriot shield to avoid
retaliation by the aggrieved party.
Obviously, the only understandable
reason for erecting a wall of Patriot
between Israel and Iran is to provide for
the time when Iran would try to retaliate
after being bombarded by US-Israel
forces.
Our expert in Moscow also told that USA
is pushing very hard to sell Patriot system
to Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, two
countries that bordering Iran.
Patriots are produced by Ratheon.
William Lynn, the former vice president
of Raytheon, is currently the deputy
secretary of defence and a close friend of
Gates and Vickers.
Less than perfect Patriot
Our Washington expert said that despite
being billed as the ultimate shield, Patriot
has two basic flaws: 1. If left running for
several days, it acquires a time lag; and 2.
Its IFF ping response system is prone to
mistakes.
He said that a time lag of 1/3 second
creates an error of 600 meters at
optimum range, rendering it virtually
ineffective.
Even Raytheon people would try to
convince you otherwise, the IFF ping
signature recognition system of Patriot
can easily be duped into mistaking foe for
friend and friend for foe, he said.
Formidable Presence
The United States has formidable
presence in the Gulf already. Bahrain is
home to the US Navy Fifth Fleet. Qatar
hosts the US Central Command
(USCENTCOM), and Kuwait has a large
US military base. These forces would be
augmented starting July 2010.
Ticonderoga class cruisers
In addition, at least four upgraded
Ticonderoga class cruisers, equipped
with Aegis ballistic missile defence
system, will be stationed in the Gulf
region by July 2010.
Our expert in Moscow told that Aegis
ABM system is supposed to counter the
Iranian Shahab missiles. This stands to
logic because the only other regional
countries with indigenous long range
missile capacity are India and Pakistan
and no one has expressed concerns about
their posing threat to anyone.
The ships with Aegis interceptor systems
are capable of blowing up ballistic
missiles above the atmosphere. The
system can track over 100 targets
simultaneously. It has multidimensional
capabilities i.e. it can engage land, air, sea
and subsurface targets concurrently. It is
an all weather system, our experts in
Washington and Moscow told.
The versatility of Aegis can be seen from
the fact that it was used in February 2008
to destroy a satellite orbiting the earth.
New Generation of Nuclear
Warheads
The first batch of the new generation of
nuclear warheads called RRW (Reliable
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Replacement Warhead) was scheduled to
enter service in 2012 but the deadline has
reportedly been shifted back to third
quarter 2010 (circa July). They are likely
to be mounted on Trident II submarine-
launched ballistic missiles
The Achilles heal of the RRW is that its
delivery error is said to be above 30%.
Our Washington expert told that DoD is
itching to test it in real life conditions, the
kind of conditions that would be
obtainable if confrontation with Iran
becomes a reality.
Super Bunker Buster
The super bunker buster MOP (Massive
Ordnance Penetrator) or GBU-57A/B is a
new generation of super bomb, ten times
more powerful that its predecessor, BLU-
109, that was sued in Tora Bora. Because
of its immense size, it can be delivered
only by B-52 or B2a Stealth Bomber.
It can penetrate 200 feet (about 60
meters) before exploding. Our sources in
Washington told that the deadline of for
availability of first batch of these bombs
has been shifted back by three years to
July 2010. DoD has pushed Boeing real
hard and they have promised to deliver at
least 4, possibly 10, super bunker busters
by July 2010.
Under the present conflict mix, Iran is
the only country where these bombs
would be used, said our Moscow expert.
Small Diameter Bomb
The Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) has
been tested successfully and the first
batch of 140 has already been handed by
the manufacturer to DoD. By July 2010,
some F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft would
be ready for dropping these precision
bombs on any targets in Iran or Pakistan.
Cyber Warfare
July 2010 is also the month when the
Tenth Fleet of the US Navy would be re-
established. Formerly anti-submarine
command, the tenth fleet has been
resurrected as Navy Cyber Command
Tent Fleet, a naval component of the DoD
Cyber Command.
Its charter can be summed up as
“information dominance,” said our
Washington expert.
The tenth fleet would focus on managing
and protecting the war-fighting
capabilities of the defence information
tech networks and simultaneously wage a
war of disinformation, and airwave
jamming. The possibilities include false
and fake TV and radio transmissions, and
websites, to spread fear and panic in
target countries.
The tenth fleet will comprise of 44000 IT
specialists, of which 24000 would be
available by July 2010. Some of the ships
from the re-created tenth fleet are
expected to move to the Gulf region by
late July 2010.
Floating Air Force
At least five aircraft carriers of the US
Navy would either be stationed or be able
to reach the Gulf region at short notice by
July 2010.
Combined, they would be able to launch
about 700 sorties every day, more than
enough of air power to render ineffective
any air force in the region.
It is heard, but not confirmed, that the
new F-35 Lightening II fifth-generation
fighters would be available for some of
these carriers by late July or August
2010.
Virginia Class Submarines
Our Washington experts said that some
Virginia class submarines are also likely
to be deployed to the Gulf region by July
2010.
In addition to their conventional role,
these submarines are also capable of
providing covert intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance.
This would be augmented substantially
by additional ships and submarines from
the US Seventh Fleet. The US Seventh
Fleet is part of the US Pacific Fleet, the
largest naval force in the world under a
single command.
At root – JSOC
Our experts in Washington and Moscow
agree that JSOC (Joint Special
Operations Command) is at the root of
most of what is happening now in
Pakistan and Iran and what is likely to
happen after July 2010. It is necessary to
underline that JSOC operates outside the
US military chain of command.
JSOC is run by vice admiral William
McRaven, who answers to the head of US
Special Operations Command, Admiral
Eric T Olson. It is located at Pope Air
Force Base and Fort Bragg in North
Carolina, USA.
JSOC commands and controls the
Special Mission Units (SMUs) that are
responsible for highly classified
operations, a euphemism for engaging in
terrorism and blaming it on someone
else.
Army’s Delta Force, Navy’s Seal Team 6,
and a joint unit engaged in clandestine
operations are all part of JSOC.
Because of the fact that both Robert
Gates and Michael Vickers have deep
roots in CIA, the SMUs of JSOC operate
in close collaboration with CIA. In fact,
their personnel are co-opted so
frequently that it is impossible to draw a
line between DoD and CIA as far black
operations are concerned, told our
Washington expert.
Blackwater (now Xe) is still the main
contractor for outsourcing terrorism.
JSOC operates under the umbrella of
USSOCOM (US Special Command
Operations Command), the main unit of
the sprawling empire of Michael Vickers.
We would like to underscore that even
though most of the elements would be in
place by July 2010 for something big to
happen, it doesn’t mean that something
drastic would necessarily happen in July
2010. The essence of this report is that
the USA would be in a position by July
2010 to impose Final Solution on
Pakistan and Iran.
Our next report would deal with the
anatomy of Final Solution for Pakistan.
We hope to release in about a week or ten
days.
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Part Four: Final Solution for Pakistan
With Sergi Pyatakov in Moscow, Mark Davidson in Washington, Qasim Jan in Kandahar
and Rupa Kival in New Delhi
The components of the ‘Final Solution’
for Pakistan are known, and almost
ready. The exact shape those components
will take when put together is not so clear.
The expected outcome is recognizable;
the degree to which the actual outcome
would resemble the expectations is still in
the dark.
This report is based on our legwork in the
field and the expert opinion of our
consultants in Moscow, Washington and
New Delhi. There is unanimity in the field
findings and the expert opinion that the
United States could be on the verge of
doing something drastic and desperate in
the region.
The main frustration for the American
policymakers is that when they move
with their own plans, everything else also
moves, not necessarily in the same
direction. The inability to anticipate the
complex dynamics has rendered many of
their moves not only ineffective but
counterproductive.
One of the important new developments
is that India, till now an enthusiastic
partner of Gates-Vickers duo in
destabilizing Pakistan, is fast losing
appetite for such adventures.
There are three main pillars of the ‘Final
Solution’: 1. Cut the western half of
Balochistan from the rest of Pakistan and
declare it ‘international strategic
corridor’; 2. Topple the sitting
government in Iran; and 3. Create an
Ismaili state, joining the Gorno-
Badakhshan oblast of Tajikistan,
Badakhshan province of Afghanistan,
and Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan.
The benefits that the Americans expect to
derive from this triple-decker ambition
would be discussed in one of the later
reports. In the present report we shall
deal with the components of the ‘Final
Solution’ as they relate to Pakistan.
The mock operations in Helmand
and Kandahar
The DoD-CIA and their embedded
journalists painstakingly spun a tale that
Helmand was a stronghold of Taliban.
That was their justification for Operation
Moshtarak. In fact, half of Helmand was
already in the hands of the US forces. The
other half, sparingly populated, was not
important for the ongoing operations in
Afghanistan.
As the operation Moshtarak unfolded, we
were in touch with our sources in
Helmand. We know from first-hand
accounts that:
The operation was conducted mainly by
the US forces although the reporting gave
the impression that the NATO was
equally in the forefront. One of the main
reasons given for the operation was that
Taliban were benefiting from poppy
crops and they must be denied this source
of income. We know for sure that not a
single poppy bulb was destroyed during
the operation.
The village elders that were shown
meeting the US force commanders were
the middlemen for poppy, and the
Americans fully knew it.
We are still in touch with our Helmand
sources and we know that the Americans
don’t dare go far beyond their camps.
Roughly five percent of the US forces
were busy in keeping an eye on the newly
trained Afghan police because the
policemen had the tendency to desert and
join the enemy whenever they found a
chance.
After the mock operation in Helmand,
the US forces are now planning a bigger
offensive in Kandahar, an area that is
billed ad nauseam as the spiritual capital
of the Taliban.
Based solely on the media hype and DoD-
CIA statements, one gets the impression
that not even a mosquito can fly in
Kandahar without the consent of
Taliban.
The actual fact is that the Kandahar
airport is the busiest single-runway
airport in the world. More than 700
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American and NATO flights land or take
off every day at Kandahar airfield. Had
Taliban been in control of the whole of
Kandahar, it would not have been
possible for so many American and
NATO warplanes to land and take off in
that province. Also, there are two
American bases in Kandahar. Therefore,
the impression that Helmand and
Kandahar were, or are, out of bounds for
Americans and NATO is based on
manufactured ‘truth.’
In search of an explanation for the
American fascination with Helmand and
Kandahar and the operations that are not
what they are said to be, we consulted
some experts in Moscow and
Washington.
Oleg in Moscow and Simon in
Washington (not their real names) are
military strategists with access to
information not available to the media or
public. Oleg said, “One way to
understand the operations in Helmand
and Kandahar is to see where the
operation begins and where it ends. At
the end of the operation, do you find
more American forces near the border
with Pakistan?”
Simon in Washington agreed. “Yes, the
objective is apparently to put large
number of troops along the border with
Pakistan,” he said.
When asked for the reasons for this
move, Simon said, “The bipartisan
thinking here is that Pakistan is the
problem. —– If you find a boulder in your
path, either you remove it or you try to go
around it. The inclination here is to go
around this boulder.”
This cryptic remark of Simon reminded
us of a Russian expert we sometimes
consult for our investigative reports. The
keywords in his remark were ‘boulder’
and ‘go around.’
In what way is Pakistan a boulder and
how would one ‘go around’ it, we asked.
Simon said, “Everyone in Washington
considers China the main threat. If
unchecked for another decade or so,
China would be a superpower, probably
replacing the USA as the only
superpower of any consequence. It is not
possible to contain China without cutting
a free path across Pakistan and
Afghanistan, right up to the borders of
China.”
“Cutting a path through Pakistan? Are
you talking of Greater Balochistan?” we
asked.
“Yes,” Simon said, “But now it is not
Greater Balochistan, at least for now. The
gossip here is that the hawks in the
establishment would now be content
with half of the Pakistani Balochistan.
They call it international strategic
corridor.”
We returned to Oleg in Moscow to ask
whether the American forces that would
end up near the borders of Pakistan on
completion of Kandahar operation would
be enough to sever half of Balochistan
from the rest of Pakistan.
“First, you have to see what is happening
in Helmand where the operation
Moshtarak has been completed already.
Whatever they do in Helmand would be
repeated on larger scale in Kandahar,”
said Oleg.
We already had this information. Soon
after the completion of operation
Moshtarak, the American forces started
building forward bases and depots at four
points in Helmand, the first of them at
Gereshk and the last at a location
southward of Malik Rokand, practically
at the border with Pakistan.
We told this to Oleg. He said, “You see,
this is systematic deployment of forces at
the Pakistan border, with a semi-
permanent logistics support system for
prolonged presence.”
Some new questions arose: Would the
American forces, at some convenient
time, try to rush into Pakistan in order to
create the ‘international strategic
corridor’ they want? What will be the size
and geographical scope of such a
corridor? What would be the likely
strength of US troops at the border of
Pakistan at the end of the planned
operation in Kandahar? Would the US
troops at Pakistan border be enough for
cutting off half of Balochistan
considering that Pakistan is likely to offer
some tough resistance?
The other jaw of pincer
“The pincer must have two jaws,” said
Simon.
He explained, “The US Navy would be in
a position after July 2010 to station some
landing ships, probably four, near the
territorial waters of Pakistan. They would
be able to land and support more than
30000 troops, complete with transport
units and fighting gear, anywhere at the
Pakistan coastline between Pasni and
Gawadar. There would be aircraft
carriers with more than enough
warplanes to overwhelm the Pakistan
Airforce. This is the other jaw of the
pincer.”
The picture thus emerging was that after
July 2010, the US would have substantial
number of troops at the border of
Pakistan with Afghanistan. This is the
area where the Chagai district of
Pakistani Balochistan meets the
provinces of Helmand and Kandahar in
Afghanistan. The total number of these
troops, Oleg in Moscow estimated, would
be more than 35000. Simultaneously, as
Simon told us, there would be some
30000 soldiers and marines waiting to
land at the beaches of Balochistan. This
makes military sense, especially in the
face of the fact that the part of
Balochistan that lies between these two
pressure points does not have any
significant presence or support system of
Pakistan army.
International strategic corridor
The international strategic corridor, the
clipped version of the former plan to
create Greater Balochistan, was of great
interest from the point of view of our
report.
To get a clutch-hold on this question we
consulted Oleg. We asked him that as a
military strategist how he would draw
such a corridor on the map.
“First, you need to define our military
goals and then you look at the terrain.
Match the two in the most efficient
manner,” said Oleg.
He said that Chagai district of Pakistan
Balochistan runs for about 500 km along
the border with Afghanistan. This, he
said, represents nearly 30% of the total
Pak-Afghan border and the easiest
terrain from the military point of view.
“If I were to draw such a border, I would
take Nushki as the starting point and
draw a north-south line, connecting it
with Ras Malan. All the area west of the
line up to Iranian border would be the
strategic corridor,” said Oleg.
We took this hypothetical corridor to
Simon and asked for his comments.
Simon said, “Yes, this is about the size of
the thing. DoD-CIA brains are also
thinking along the same lines.”
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Trigger point
Theoretically it looks neat and orderly to
draw a corridor on the map and cut it off
from a sovereign country on the military
strength alone. However, in real life one
needs some excuse, even the size of a fig
leaf, to undertake such an enterprise.
We asked Oleg and Simon as to what
could be the trigger point for the
American forces to justify such an
audacious undertaking.
Oleg said, “The excuses are not hard to
fine. There can be the civil war in
Pakistan, which they are trying hard to
start. There can also be a political
assassination in Pakistan to start unrest
at such a scale that the USA would be able
to convince the international community
that ‘humanitarian’ intervention had
become necessary.”
Simon in Washington added, “An
international incident can easily be
linked to Pakistan and that would be a
good enough reason for invasion. It can
be as big as assassination of Obama and
as small as bombing of a refinery in the
UK. In fact, the latest amendment to the
NATO charter seems designed to add this
kind of hair trigger in the NATO
mechanism. Justification, in any case, is
no big deal when you don’t really need to
justify it to anyone.”
Simon said that the recent history was
full of false flag operations. He cited the
1954 firebomb and unrest in Alexandria
(Egypt) by Israel, to make Egypt look
unstable and delay the withdrawal of
British troops from Suez Canal, the CIA
murder of Mehdi Ben Barka of Morocco
to foil communists from coming to
power, the murder of Patrice Lumumba
by CIA in 1965, the JFK plan to shoot
down American civilian plane and blame
it on Cuba as some of the examples.
Self financed war and civilian surge
A chance remark by Oleg opened a new
path for investigation.
He said, “Goals are layered in the military
strategy. If you go for a single goal and
you fail in that, you are a skunk. However,
if you go out there with seven goals and
achieve just two, there are ways to make
you look good despite overall failure.”
We started thinking of what other goals
could be found in the US intention of
cutting off half of Balochistan from the
rest of Pakistan in addition to the obvious
advantage of getting a direct supply route
to Afghanistan, easy access to Central
Asia, and curtailment of China.
Although these are three major goals,
each one of them enough to justify an
ambitious expedition, and all of them
would be achieved if the US manages to
create its international strategic corridor,
could there be something else that we had
missed?
While we were pondering this question,
our sources in Helmand told that the
Americans were planning a major
‘civilian surge.’ The sources told us that
thousands of civilian professionals were
being trained in the US in conditions
resembling the terrain, town and country
life, and unrest in Afghanistan.
We asked Oleg if the civilian surge in
Afghanistan could have any connections
with the international strategic corridor
the American might try to create before
the end of this year.
“Look at the corridor area and see if there
is anything of economic or strategic
importance,” he said.
Sure enough, as if our eyes had opened
for the first time, we saw on the map
Saindak and Reko Dig mines, rich in gold,
silver and other precious metals and
minerals. There is also a mountain in the
area that is of interest to Americans
because they believe it houses some of the
atomic facilities of Pakistan.
We took this hunch to Simon. He took a
few days to get back.
In our next session Simon told that about
38 mining engineers and nine nuclear
scientists were among the professionals
who were being trained under the civilian
surge programme and they would be
ready to arrive in Afghanistan near the
end of July 2010.
Simon conjectured that the mining
engineers could be used to assess the
potential of Saindak and Reko Dig mines.
The general estimates are that these
mines hold more than US $ 200 billion
worth of wealth. If the civilian surge
engineers can confirm these estimates, it
would be all the more reason to create the
international strategic corridor and get
hold of these assets.
After all, it could be the ticket to make this
war pay its own expenses, and give some
profit at the side.
Nuclear bonus
Simon also said that a certain mountain
in the general area of the anticipated
corridor was of great interest to
Washington bigwigs. It is a mountain
where some in Washington believe that
Pakistan maintains some of its nuclear
facilities.
“If this mountain falls in our hands, it
would be a definite way to not only to be
sure of the exact nuclear capability and
expertise of Pakistan, but also to cut it
back to an acceptable level,” said Simon.
“It would be a big bonus for Americans,”
said Oleg.
Gawadar and Pasni Ports
Both Simon and Oleg pointed out that
one must not underestimate the
importance of Gawadar and Pasni ports,
both of them in the expected area of the
international strategic corridor. The
ports, and the infrastructure,
transportation and communication
network connected to them, could of
immense value to the USA.
Role of India
The creation of an international strategic
corridor – a euphemism for the
downsized independent Balochistan – is
a big American enterprise and there are
several sidekicks on the show, most
notably India.
India, till now, was an enthusiastic
player, in the hope that it would get to
police Afghanistan after the Americans
leave. However, it appears that the
Indian appetite for meddling in Pakistan
and Afghanistan has dampened of late.
We are not sure whether it is a simulated
effect or the real thing.
Because of the recent reshuffling in the
Indian power agencies, our ability to
understand the Indian plans and mindset
has been reduced to a third hand access,
that too not very reliable.
What we have been able to gather is that
the Indian intelligence community is
split between hawks and realists – doves
are not employable in this profession.
Hawks want to keep pushing on the
current plans and realists are advocating
a wait and see policy.
Nonetheless, we found that India has
increased its support for the movement
to create an independent Ismaili state in
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the northern areas, now re-designated
Gilgit-Baltistan province. The supposed
leadership of the movement is sitting in
India. We also learned that the takeover
of the Swat valley by the so-called
Pakistani Taliban was a dry run to cut off
Pakistan from northern areas when a real
attempt is made to create the Ismaili
state.
Our sources in Afghanistan also told that
India recently staged fights in some
provinces of Afghanistan not far from the
Central Asian states to convince them of
the usefulness of allowing Indian military
bases on their soil. Their main aim was to
intimidate Tajikistan where India has
vacated a base it once had. The recent
skirmishes in Badghis and Fariab
provinces were in this category.
We also found that the Indian embassy in
Kabul has thwarted negotiations
between Brahmdagh Bugti, the grandson
of late Akbar Bugti, and the Pakistan
authorities. A Baloch, who is a lawyer by
profession, was acting as middleman in
these talks.
Pakistan Media
One sidekick is India, the other is the
Pakistani electronic media, especially the
150 or so TV hosts who prefer to call
themselves ‘anchors.’
We talked to an American diplomat
whose job requires frequent interaction
with the Pakistani media. This report will
not assign a pseudonym, or declare the
gender of the American diplomat
because that was the condition of
cooperation. We will not tell whether the
diplomat is still in Pakistan or has moved
out.
“Pakistani TV journalists are some of the
easiest to buy or manipulate,” said the
American diplomat.
“Their price is ridiculously small. A drink,
a lunch with a second or first secretary in
a place where they can be seen by their
admirers, invitations to official
receptions, or at most, a trip to the states,
is all you need to buy their loyalty,” said
the diplomat.
“My dog is usually fussier,” the diplomat
added in disgust.
“There was a drive,” the diplomat
explained, “very obvious and crude, in
some selected countries, to make the
educated people feel ashamed of being
Muslims.”
“The Pakistani TV journalists swallowed
it hook, line and sinker,” said the
diplomat.
“Except for an incorruptible handful,
they are a sorry lot,” the American
diplomat said with an undisguised
revulsion.
The next report in this series will deal
with the ‘Final Solution’ for Iran. We
hope to release it within the next ten days
or so.
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