http://us.rediff.com/news/2004/aug/27ariban.htm
The game's over. Khel khataam…
The Independent, London, reported it rather matter of factly: 'Like so much in the war on terror, the trail of the latest warnings of imminent al-Qa'ida attacks and orange alerts in the United States appears to lead back to Pakistan.'
Pakistan is 'widely seen as the ground zero of terrorism,' and a 'flurry of arrests over the last 48 hours of suspected Al Qaeda elements, all of whose trail leads back to Pakistan,' agreed the Christian Science Monitor.
'Pakistan is continuing to provide a 'production line' of new terrorists,' says The Observer, London.
Hai Ram!! Kya karen?
It seems the secret is out.
The firangs may have actually figured it out -- they've independently surmised that all international terrorism originates from Pakistan.
You have to admit this was not an easy one to deduce -- after all, there have been very few hints and suggestions to go by over the past few years about Pakistani complicity in global terrorism. But, we have to be careful -- Western standards of evidence can often be very exacting.
After all, these were these were the same firangs, who only after thoroughly investigating some entirely invisible signs of yellow cake from Niger, decided to take the relatively measured action of bombing 11,000 odd Iraqi civilians, including women and children, to their deaths.
But some of the clues may have been too subtle even for our favorite Yankees and their stiff-upper lipped angrez cousins, so, I thought -- perhaps, we should lay it all out, in our favorite name-the-country game questionnaire:
Remember the Bali bombings -- where did Hambali and his brothers get indoctrinated?
The embassy bombings in Africa -- where did the main perpetrators fly 'home' to after the bombings?
Aimal Kasi, the man who decided to take target practice on a traffic stop outside the CIA headquarters -- where did he come from?
The 1993 World Trade Center bombings, the Daniel Pearl murder, the Madrid bombings -- which country has common links to all?
Which country has played mid-wife to both Al Qaeda and the Taliban?
Rassam, the Algerian, who was trying to do his holy duty and blow up Los Angeles airport a few years ago -- where was his Algerian cell based? Which country did he first travel to for training?
Which is the only country whose nuclear scientists have maintained deep relationships with terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda?
While civilised countries around the world are spending billions of dollars building schools, roads and hospitals in Afghanistan, which country is spending untold millions in financing and stewarding a resurgent Taliban, that is engaged in burning schools for girls and even poisoning girls who dare to get educated?
Which country's intelligence chiefs have been directly linked with financial dealings with the 9/11 planners, according to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn?
The Independent, London, reported it rather matter of factly: 'Like so much in the war on terror, the trail of the latest warnings of imminent al-Qa'ida attacks and orange alerts in the United States appears to lead back to Pakistan.'
Pakistan is 'widely seen as the ground zero of terrorism,' and a 'flurry of arrests over the last 48 hours of suspected Al Qaeda elements, all of whose trail leads back to Pakistan,' agreed the Christian Science Monitor.
'Pakistan is continuing to provide a 'production line' of new terrorists,' says The Observer, London.
Hai Ram!! Kya karen?
It seems the secret is out.
The firangs may have actually figured it out -- they've independently surmised that all international terrorism originates from Pakistan.
You have to admit this was not an easy one to deduce -- after all, there have been very few hints and suggestions to go by over the past few years about Pakistani complicity in global terrorism. But, we have to be careful -- Western standards of evidence can often be very exacting.
After all, these were these were the same firangs, who only after thoroughly investigating some entirely invisible signs of yellow cake from Niger, decided to take the relatively measured action of bombing 11,000 odd Iraqi civilians, including women and children, to their deaths.
But some of the clues may have been too subtle even for our favorite Yankees and their stiff-upper lipped angrez cousins, so, I thought -- perhaps, we should lay it all out, in our favorite name-the-country game questionnaire:
Remember the Bali bombings -- where did Hambali and his brothers get indoctrinated?
The embassy bombings in Africa -- where did the main perpetrators fly 'home' to after the bombings?
Aimal Kasi, the man who decided to take target practice on a traffic stop outside the CIA headquarters -- where did he come from?
The 1993 World Trade Center bombings, the Daniel Pearl murder, the Madrid bombings -- which country has common links to all?
Which country has played mid-wife to both Al Qaeda and the Taliban?
Rassam, the Algerian, who was trying to do his holy duty and blow up Los Angeles airport a few years ago -- where was his Algerian cell based? Which country did he first travel to for training?
Which is the only country whose nuclear scientists have maintained deep relationships with terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda?
While civilised countries around the world are spending billions of dollars building schools, roads and hospitals in Afghanistan, which country is spending untold millions in financing and stewarding a resurgent Taliban, that is engaged in burning schools for girls and even poisoning girls who dare to get educated?
Which country's intelligence chiefs have been directly linked with financial dealings with the 9/11 planners, according to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn?
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