Dec 3, 2008

The latest

  1. Mike McConnell, US Director of National Intelligence, has said the LeT is responsible for the attacks. Reports here, here, and here.
  2. Our favorite New York Times reporter files this new gemA former Defense Department official said Wednesday that American intelligence agencies had determined that former officers from Pakistan's Army and its powerful Inter-services Intelligence agency helped train the Mumbai attackers. Of course, I don't understand why a former DoD official would come across this information and why US "intelligence agencies" would leak it to him. But I do know that almost 4 days back several Indian newspapers reportedKasab, 21, the only terrorist arrested by the Mumbai police, told his interrogators that Abdul Rahman, an ex-soldier popularly called Chacha, had given them training. The FBI is in Mumbai interviewing Kasab. May be they are relaying this old news back to the US. Or may be the US intelligence has really found some new evidence for this in Pakistan. Still wonder why NYT keeps someone as flaky as Sengupta on its payroll? (Hint: see my previous posts and this).
  3. ABC News asks the million dollar question: Where are the 14 other Pakistani-trained terrorists? I wonder if Mr Zardari will go on Larry King again tonight and say these 14 guys are also "stateless actors"
  4. Condi Rice shot right back Zardari with this:  “Non-state actors are still a matter of your (Pakistan) responsibility ...”.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

you should read up on or visit Iran before you call it a brutal society, particularly one that is more brutal than India. Otherwise, you will be committing the same mistake as the British radio presenter.

Unknown said...

I think I posted my comment for the wrong article, sorry! :-)

Optimystic Indian said...

Aun, you are right about Iran. Fixed it.

Anonymous said...

a very nice blog and informative.

KP

kashmirihindu.wordpress.com

L. Venkata Subramaniam said...

yes we need to talk tough to pak...but lets not let our politicians get away. It is just as much the mistake of our politicians.