"...and they asked me, 'How many Predator UAV's does it take to destroy our base camp in Pakistan?', and, just like here, I told them 'one', and they didn't believe me! They just shook their heads and said, 'Go make the video, Achmed,' like I was lying or something..."
Congratulations funny people!
(Thanks, Blake! I never did pay attention during the Misses pageants)
Pakistan's News One channel had a Pakistani security expert who blows the lid on who staged the Mumbai 11/26 attacks: Hindu Zionists.
The Times of India are on it. For some reason, though, they don't seem too convinced with the scenario.
NEW DELHI: Mumbai's 26/11 was actually a plan hatched by "Hindu Zionists" and "Western Zionists", including the Mossad, said a self-styled Pakistan security expert on a Pakistan news television show, uploaded on www.hotklix.com.
" Inki shaklein Hinduonwali hain, jis zabaan mein guftagoo kar rahein hain, woh zabaan koi Pakistani istemaal nahin karta hai (They look like Hindus. No Pakistani speaks the language they chatted in)," said Zaid Hamid while referring to the terrorists on the show Mujhe Ikhtilaf Hai (I differ) on Pakistan's News One channel. The sensationalist channel was launched in November last year.
Anyone else tired of the Mossad being blamed for anything Islamic extremists commit? The sad thing is that many people believe what this idiot says as gospel truth. "The Mossad, of course!".
Hamid said that it was a "badly planned" operation that had gone horribly wrong. "9/11 jo Americans ne kiya tha usko bahut khoobsurat camouflage kiya tha. Unhone media mein perception management bahut acchha kiya . Indians ne wahi game repeat karne ki koshish ki, lekin akal to hai nahin . In ahmakon ne complete disaster kiya isko handle karne mein . (The Americans executed the 9/11 attack perfectly. They managed the media very well. The Indians tried to repeat the formula but goofed up. The idiots made a complete mess of it).
One has gotta love the backhanded compliment to the US. Our government executed 9/11 perfectly, so much so, that it fooled people into believing 19 innocent lads from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, who just happened to be travelling together that day in 3 airplanes, and who filmed confessional tapes about what they were doing, were framed.
But the Indians? Pfff. They couldn't kill more than 300 or so people. Pikers.
He said that the attackers wore saffron Hindu Zionist bands, which no Muslim would tie. Hamid also said that within the first 5 minutes of the attack, the three ATS policemen investigating the network of terror within India's security agencies and radical right were killed.
I love the idea of saffron Hindu Zionist bands. Why isn't Anna Wintour on this new fashion trend?!
That ensured that those investigations reach a dead end. Anchor Qudsia Qadri added that with their killings, the investigations into the Samjhauta Express carnage would be halted. The killings also immediately shifted attention from India's domestic terrorists to Pakistan, said Hamid.
Marvi Memon, glamorous Pakistan Muslim League member, on the same programme, was appalled at the Pakistan government's expansion of the "India-appeasement package" by initially agreeing to send ISI chief to India. "I just don't get it," she exclaimed in exasperation.
God forbid anyone helps those nasty Hindu Zionists to investigate a tragedy of their own making. Yeah, I don't get it either, Miss Memon.
She wondered how can you send the ISI chief to a " mulk jiske sath jang chal raha hai ...at a different level...," mentioning Kashmir and accusing India of blocking Pakistan's waters. Memon said, "They (Indians) are quite obsessed with anti-Pakistan speak and that unites them," she said. Memon also spoke about India's separatist movements and believed that India was only reaping the bitter harvest of the poisonous seeds it had sowed.
The Hindu Zionist chickens are coming home to roost!
Blogger daily.pk writes in pakalert.wordpress.com, "India has been relapsing into religious extremism and numerous separatist movement have mushroomed due to official patronage ...I see the Mumbai bombings as the desperate move of separatists who want to blame everything on Muslims."
It is true that political Hinduism has become more proactive, as their leader Raj Thacheray gains more power. But what Pakistanis fail to understand is that their country and other countries are not being infiltrated by "Hindu extremism" for the purpose of blowing people up. That's an extremist Muslim thing which fans outward AND inward. Not realising this development undermines their position, and their advance as a nation-state, just like it does any other country which harbours or makes excuses for their religion having been hijacked by these murderers.
The so-called "Arab Street" has always been notoriously conspiracy-prone.
It is inevitable, perhaps, that people who are the pawns of dictators, and who rarely if ever have truth told to them in those countries, should find alternate truths to explain their conditions. After all, everything is a sham. Why should you believe reality when it stares you in the face?
The tragedy of course is that conspiracy theorists are rife all around the world. We in the US are in the grips of so many prominent celebrities who are outspoken in saying they believe our own government was behind 9/11. These people tell you with a straight face that the Mossad planned it, and even emailed every Jew who worked in the World Trade Centres to stay home that day.
(I guess Cantor Fitzgerald employee and brother of their CEO, Howard Luttnick, alongside scores of Jewish fatalities that day, didn't get the memo)
How do we combat this conspiracy theory disease? Because make no doubt of it. It is a corrosive, invasive, debilitating disease which afflicts the most mentally unstable, most cognitive dissonant of people.
Conspiracy theories are the graveyards of the mind. It's where all logic goes to die.
Hindu Zionists are just the latest additions to the mausoleum.
I have just returned, and pray Sundries readers' indulgence just a while longer.
Have you ever gone on holiday and (perhaps naturally) avoided watching the news?
That was largely my situation this past week. It's not that I wasn't shocked by the Mumbai attacks and didn't want to follow its sad drama unfold; it's just that I wanted a little peace of my own, albeit the cruel irony of being in a 5-star hotel just like the victims there were, didn't go unremarked by me, or my parents.
(I confess, though, that my cable news viewing has declined a full 50% since President-Elect Obama's victory. I suspect I am not alone amongst you in this)
If you have your own reasons for not having followed this mind-bending tragedy in India, I urge you to read this post on the police (non-)reaction by Neo-Neocon. The comments section, as usual, shines.
She wrote this below.
Having been to India, and having seen the overzealous attitude of the police, which often confused a high-handed dismissiveness with professionalism, I was left depressed. It was like watching the CNN reporter within a few feet of the Taj Hotel, as another explosion went off behind her. The police hadn't even bothered to cordon off the active crime scene and establish a perimeter, as even I would know to do.
It seems that in India, even “commandos” (which indicates at least some sort of specialized preparation) are not trained to face the chance that they might possibly inflict civilian casualties themselves in a situation like this. But such a risk is an inevitable part of dealing with terrorists willing and eager to fire into crowds. The police must be willing to do the same. The big difference is that the terrorists are aiming for the civilians, whereas the security forces are aiming for the terrorists.
In a dazzling documentary about a Rio de Janeiro hostage situation inside Bus 174, one elite SWAT team member, Rodrigo Pimentel, said the following:
Nothing exposes a nation's weaknesses more than a violent confrontration. If there is no training to overcome it, the culture allows the will to sag where it needs to be toughest.
We are all the victims and benefactors of our respective cultures. It is only through vigilance that we gain the upper hand and conquer it.
Ahh. Room Service. One of the pleasures of an extended hotel stay, especially one which falls during the most cherished of American holidays, Thanksgiving.
As I dig into my delicious turkey sandwich and scrumptious lamb soup this day, I want to wish the Sundries readership a very blessed holiday -- to you, and to all your families!
I'll be back soon, guys. Just recharging those batteries en famille. Hope you are doing the same.
As we give thanks for our blessings this day, though, please spare a prayer for those in other hotels today, who are in the grips of a terror few of us will ever know...
Can this be "unrepetant domestic terrorist" William Ayers'website? The archives date to March 2006, so it would seem it's legit.
Surprise, surprise, it's filled with the same anti-American bile that has characterised this son of a rich man's life since forever. The entry for September 10, 2008 (one day away from the seventh year anniversary of that September 11, 2001 interview he gave to the New York Times saying that he wished he had bombed more):
Here is a response to a friend and her collective who saw the Green/Siegel film, The Weather Underground, and wrote with some questions….
Hey Elizabeth—
I’m weak at e-mail and would love to come down for a conversation sometime—so much better. Also do you have Fugitive Days? It’s a deeper account than the film. But I’ll give a try at some response to your questions: 1) We started off as anti-war and civil rights activists in the early and middle 1960s’. We were created by those struggles, shaped by a belief that you learn to act by acting, that you must grow and learn from practice rather than any received ideas, and that the optimal place to be—from which to learn the most—is to ally with the most oppressed, Blacks in the South, for example, the victims of America’s wars, and to cast your fate with them. The wisdom on the ground, we thought, will change you. And it did—those early years were when we saw for the fist time the connections between racism at home, war abroad, chauvanism, sexism, environmental degradation, apathy and cynicism, and on and on. Once things were connected, we saw a system at work, we were radicalized, we named that system—imperialism—and forged an idea of how to overthrow it. We were influenced by Marx, but we were formed more closely and precisely by Che, Ho, Malcolm X, Amlilcar Cabral, Mandela—the Third World revolutionaries—and we called ourselves small “c” communists to indicate our rejection of what had become of Marx in the Soviet Block and the other doctrinaire, authoritarian state socialisms. We were anti-authoritarian, anti-orthodoxy, communist street fighters. 3) What we need to do—all of us—is to recognize our huge responsibility to act on what the known demands—to become subjects of history—but also to acknowledge that in a vast and expanding universe, each of us is a finite and flawed being. This should not paralyze us. We must act; we must doubt. In other words, we act in order to teach, and also in order to learn. A firm and unshakable structure of ideas is not a learning agenda, it’s a prison. So the problem—complex, full of anguish—is to open your eyes to the suffering world, to act knowing that you, too, and your group, has blind spots. We act to change things, but also to change ourselves, to grow, to develop, to become more effective, to get beyond some of our blind spots and to encounter others. Those not busy being born are busy dying. And there simply is no recipe or script to follow toward heaven. If there were, we’d already be there. So: act, question, learn, act again. 4) In a world so profoundly out of balance there’s so much to do—I think having a single standard of action is a mistake. Everyone who opposed the war against Viet Nam was on the right side. I want to embrace Diana, yes, but also draft resisters, deserters, tax avoiders, demonstrators, letter writers. Let’s help them all make the necessary links. The more you know, the more you see, the more is demanded of you. 6) The details and dimensions have to be worked out by millions over the life of the struggle. But we have to make a stab at articulating the alternative if only to provide some guidance and standards for our actions in the present. If we know we hope to achieve a democratic and socialist world, a culture of life and love, our strategy and tactics are informed by filling that vision out on the ground, in the real conditions we find. In South Africa, the ANC opposed the hideous practice of “necklacing”, for example, and the NLF in Viet Nam condemned the random killing of civilians as terror worthy of the US. 7) Yes, we built organizational links—Bernardine was the Interorganizational (International) Secretary of SDS. The World Social Forum, Seattle and Genoa, the international movements for human rights, environmental sanity, justice for women, against racism, and more—this is the most hopeful time there ever was for a progressive globalism to oppose neo-liberalism and empire, the globalism of reaction and death and greed. 8) It’s hard, it’s hard, it’s hard… To me the key is just like any important relationship—partners, parents and kids, teachers and students, whatever: be committed to the relationship and to the deep humanity of each person; figure out through practice when to push and when to support; be patient; be generous; aim high; hold on. Forgive each other and still invite the best in each other. Appear before each other as the best you can be. Avoid self-righteousness. Ask the most of yourself… Clearly it’s not a formula, but a practice. 10) It’s so much worse now… It’s breath-taking. And we need to live against those things and embody an alternative. 12) I won’t make any lofty claims for myself, but I’ve been being told to grow up from the time I was ten until this morning. Bullsh*t. Anyone who salutes your “youthful idealism” is a patronizing reactionary. Resist! Don’t grow up! I went to Camp Casey in August precisely because I’m an agnostic about how and where the rebellion will break out, but I know I want to be there and I know it will break out—we are not living at the end of history, this is not a point of arrival, and another world is possible. But nothing will follow what we already know, so be alive, awake, ready… use your art, your brain, your body to try to resist the dehumanizing in society now, and to live an alternative.
14) Opposing aggressive war is always urgent, but for revolutionaries we need to both be fully activated in the opposition, fully supportive of mass democratic formations, and at the same time trying to make connections and deepen our and others’ analysis: Iraq, Guantanamo, Kyoto, New Orleans, Chavez, SUV’s, the death penalty… It’s part of one thing. 15) Yes, but it’s big. Look to the Interventionist movement in art, Chiapas, the new documentary films and radio, commix, and anything else bubbling from below. 16) People who think they’re “fighting from the inside” are often deluding themselves. Of course, we do live inside the empire, inside a city, inside certain institutions. But the indispensable element is always an independent movement pushing from below, from the margins, from outside. What ended the war? The Movement—we created the peace wing of the democratic party, but not by joining it. What created civil rights law? The Movement, not LBJ. What made the New Deal reforms possible? The Labor Movement, not FDR. Organize.
XXX Bill"
I'm not sure what is more disconcerting.
To hear that he went to "Camp Casey" and his presence was completely ignored by national media during Cindy Sheehan's summer "visits" to President Bush's Crawford ranch. This despite the fact that many notorious figures' presence were often reported.
Or to find out that he ends noxious missives with exed-kisses like a teeny-bopper girl? This is like reading a Karl Marx manifesto which ends, "I'm Marx, peace out".
Read this blog before it goes down the memory hole.
Young 16-year old Hamza Bin Laden, who Wikipedia says is a "senior member of Al-Qaeda", must be the apple of his daddy's eye. To "commemorate" the 7/7 London bombings, he let forth with a charming poem composed on his own.
One suspects, since the Sun says this is he speaking the verses himself, that he hasn't quite reached puberty yet. But his words are full of macho brio just the same.
"Accelerate the destruction of America, Britain, France and Denmark.
Oh God, reward the fighters hitting the infidels and defectors. Oh God, guide the youth of the Islamic nation and let them assist with the fighters’ plans.
God, be pleased with those who want to go for jihad — and blind those who are watching and want to capture them.”
Grant victory to the Taliban over the gangs of infidels."
The voice of Al-Qaeda's future, ladies and gentlemen -- sounds atrociously like the present.
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