It has been a year since the globally televised terrorist attacks on Mumbai. All the camera’s, Journalists in India and strangely the world media are up with their mikes, voices and camera’s, expert witnesses lined up with in hours of the attack. Our great dubaya bush who decided to spend time telling stories to the kids during that fateful September 11th decided to convene pentagon meeting with in hours and decided to send the FBI and CIA expert and their counterparts in Israel ready to send their notorious mossad agents to help the crisis and India’s media, which became more right wing propaganda machine than its western counterparts preaching for foreign intervention during these crucial hours of the attack. No need to say, it repeated the trauma of 911. Luckily, Indian government didn’t listen during the entire crisis, despite the propaganda and the story ended with 155 peoples death and in a surprise later move Indian government called in Israel ( MOSSAD) and US (CIA) to help in investigation. No Terrorist attacks for a year, other than usual attacks in Kashmir and North eastern India and some maoist area’s. But the media hysteria continued, but the circumstance surrounding this attack still doubtful. Who did it?, who are scripted this attack?, how the world media which did not give damn to Indian media, changed direction with in hours are more crucial questions to ask.
As usual, CIA’s puppet Unit Pakistani ISI was blamed for it and We were vehemently told that ONE and ONLY ONE survived terrorist left, who was motivated by the mere $2000 bribe (along with 7 or 8 culprits ) , traveled the dangerous waters of Arabian sea, crossing the Indian border into Gujarat and then traveled to Mumbai which is 100’s miles away with those tons of explosives and entered the city and started firing like a madman, not even bothered to hide him self from any thing. We have camera man waiting at the right places to show the live drama and we were shown over and over and was reminded that we are insecure, so give up what ever the freedom you had.
This raises some very interesting questions.
1. what is the motive behind the sudden abrupt interest in India where terrorism is not new and estimated 4108 terrorism incidents happened from 1970 to 2004 ?.
Terrorism is not new to India , It is always there, always motivated by the communal, electoral, religious politics. Frankly No body was indicted except the one caught and there is no trace of people paved the way until this point and who publicized . the question raises is Where are the terrorists after the attack ?. Did they achieved their objectives to keep silent ?.
Before the latest mumbai attacks, All the terror attacks threats came from a American called Kenneth haywood whose machines are used to sending the threat mails and in strange coincidence, he disappeared from the media altogether. The silence that surrounds after series of attacks with extraordinary media hype raises many questions. Did the planners achieve what it wants to achieve ?.
2. When the Outcry for the investigation of Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare and two of his colleagues, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte, who were mislead to go to the remote location to get murdered during the early hours, there is enormous media outrage against the investigation. Why?. Even the cabinet minister Antulay was silenced over it. If the Indian cabinet is not control of investigating the terrorist attack, who is in control?. Who benefits this environment of Fear?. Obviously, We don’t know, but marks of the paws of Beast Empire are quite evident as shown below.
India to create national spy agency in wake of Mumbai attacks
India’s top law enforcement official has announced sweeping changes to the country’s security and intelligence agencies, which have come under heavy criticism in the aftermath of a series of deadly attacks across Mumbai.
Phone Call Hoax From India to Pakistan – Yet Another Mossad Operation?
At the height of the 60-hour siege in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai last month a phone call was placed to Pakistan’s President, Asif Ali Zardari. The caller, claiming to be the Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, threatened war against Pakistan in retaliation for the terrorist attacks that killed almost 200 persons in Mumbai.
As a result of the phone call, Pakistan scrambled fighter jets – fully armed – and sent them screaming towards the Indian border. The Pakistani Prime Minister was contacted and ordered to report in the middle of the night. The Foreign Minister was shuffled onto a plane and flown to Islamabad. Pakistan was put on a war footing and all the major players needed for fighting a war were assembled in quick order. Preparations were made to divert thousands of troops from the western border with Afghanistan where Pakistan is currently assisting NATO forces in fighting terrorists.
India New Anti-Terror Laws Draconian Say Activists
Following the late November terror attacks in Mumbai, India has passed two tough laws being seen by rights activists as potentially eroding the country’s federal structure and limiting fundamental liberties.
Parliament — meeting under the shadow of the November 26-29 attacks on India’s commercial hub resulting in close to 200 deaths — approved the legislations on Thursday with no considered debate and the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pushing them past amendments tabled by several parliamentarians.
Israel now India’s number one defense partner
A senior defense official said the total value of the deal was over $2 billion, with one portion valued at $600 million being hived off to the state-controlled Defense Research and Development Organization. This makes Israel India’s biggest defense supplier, clocking over a billion dollars in new contracts in 2007 and 2008 to overtake Russia.
Last August, New Delhi inked a $2.5 billion deal with Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd (IAI) and Rafael to jointly develop a new and advanced version of the Spyder surface-to-air missile system.
In May this year, India should receive the first of three new Phalcon Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) developed for the Indian Air Force by IAI. The three “eyes in the sky” Phalcons priced at $1.1 billion will be mounted on Russian-delivered Ilyushin-76 aircraft. The deal was inked in March 2004 and has been delayed due to problems in technical integration.
India boosts military spending to $29.3bn
While India’s defence spending would grow to $29.39 billion as it moves to modernise weapons systems and overhaul its security forces after last year’s Mumbai attacks exposed major gaps, Mukherjee said the country would spend $562 million exclusively for boosting border security and modernising its police force.
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Within the main allocations, the army is looking at helicopters, artillery, armour and infantry, while the air force is on the verge of buying 126 jets worth almost $12 billion and the navy wants an aircraft carrier.
Entire 1.2 Billion Population of India to be Given Biometric ID Cards
In India, Big Brother just wants to help. The country’s 1.2 billion citizens are to be issued with a biometric identity card in an attempt to improve the delivery of India’s inefficient public services – a move civil liberties’ activists are condemning as the act of a “surveillance society”.
This month, the country began the ambitious scheme of issuing everyone with a unique identity number. Within the first five years of the scheme, giant computer servers will hold the personal details of at least 600 million people. The introduction of what will be one of the world’s most ambitious IT projects will cost an estimated £1.5bn.
India’s new IT law increases surveillance powers
A new IT law has come into force in India that frees Internet portals from liability for third-party content and activity, but also gives the government powers to monitor communications on the Internet, and block web sites that are found to be offensive.
The Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 was passed by the Indian Parliament in December last year, about a month after terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and reflects the government’s concern that the Internet is being extensively used by terrorists to communicate and plan their activities. It entered force Tuesday, according to a news release from India’s Ministry of Communications & Information Technology on the web site of the government’s Press Information Bureau.
India’s well know activist author Arundathi roy makes some interesting comments in her book Field Notes on Democracy
The schism between knowledge and information, between what we know and what we’re told, between what is unknown and what is asserted, between what is concealed and what is revealed, between fact and conjecture, between the `real’ world and the virtual world, has become a place of endless speculation and potential insanity.
The U.S. Government used the lies and disinformation generated around the September 11th attacks to invade not just one country, but two — and heaven knows what else is in store. The Indian Government uses the same strategy not with other countries, but against its own people.
Outside this circle of light, farmers steeped in debt are committing suicide in their hundreds. Reports of starvation and malnutrition come in from across the country. Yet the Government allowed 63 million tonnes of grain to rot in its granaries.
When victims refuse to be victims, they are called terrorists and are dealt with as such. POTA is the broad-spectrum antibiotic for the disease of dissent.
she goes on to explain the link between commerce , politics and home grown extremism.
“The Government is conducting an extraordinary dual orchestra. While one arm is busy selling the nation’s assets off in chunks, the other, to divert attention, is arranging a baying, howling, deranged chorus of cultural nationalism. The inexorable ruthlessness of one process feeds directly into the insanity of the other.
Economically too, the dual orchestra is a viable model. Part of the enormous profits generated by the process of indiscriminate privatization (and the accruals of `India Shining’) helps to finance Hindutva’s vast army — the RSS, the VHP, the Bajrang Dal and the myriad other charities and trusts which run schools, hospitals and social services.Between them they have tens of thousands of shakhas across the country. The hatred they preach, combined with the unmanageable frustration generated by the relentless impoverishment and dispossession of the Corporate Globalisation project, fuels the violence of poor on poor — the perfect smokescreen to keep the structures of power intact and unchallenged.”
In her Dec 13th 2008 article in The Guardian called Mumbai was not our 9/11 Arundhati Roy exposed this extraordinary connection between Media, Politics, military, Home grown Hindu extremism and Mumbai Attacks
This pattern changed in October 2008 when Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) that was investigating the September 2008 Malegaon blasts arrested a Hindu preacher Sadhvi Pragya, a self-styled God man Swami Dayanand Pande and Lt Col Purohit, a serving officer of the Indian Army. All the arrested belong to Hindu Nationalist organizations including a Hindu Supremacist group called Abhinav Bharat. The Shiv Sena, the BJP and the RSS condemned the Maharashtra ATS, and vilified its chief, Hemant Karkare, claiming he was part of a political conspiracy and declaring that “Hindus could not be terrorists”. LK Advani changed his mind about his policy on the police and made rabble rousing speeches to huge gatherings in which he denounced the ATS for daring to cast aspersions on holy men and women.
On the November 25 newspapers reported that the ATS was investigating the high profile VHP Chief Pravin Togadia’s possible role in the Malegaon blasts. The next day, in an extraordinary twist of fate, Hemant Karkare was killed in the Mumbai Attacks. The chances are that the new chief whoever he is, will find it hard to withstand the political pressure that is bound to be brought on him over the Malegaon investigation.
While the Sangh Parivar does not seem to have come to a final decision over whether or not it is anti-national and suicidal to question the police, Arnab Goswami, anchorperson of Times Now television, has stepped up to the plate. He has taken to naming, demonising and openly heckling people who have dared to question the integrity of the police and armed forces. My name and the name of the well-known lawyer Prashant Bhushan have come up several times. At one point, while interviewing a former police officer, Arnab Goswami turned to camera: “Arundhati Roy and Prashant Bhushan,” he said, “I hope you are watching this. We think you are disgusting.” For a TV anchor to do this in an atmosphere as charged and as frenzied as the one that prevails today, amounts to incitement as well as threat, and would probably in different circumstances have cost a journalist his or her job.
In her Interview on Democracy Now , well known Indian Activist Writer Arundhati Roy explains the reasons behind the recent surge of 100,000 troops to the Central India to crush extermists. Terrorism is a familiar argument used to justify the capture the innocent and to justify increase in military budgets. They go out of control with mysterious suicide attacks, starting a vicious cycle of attack and destruction of people’s life and property, where as wealthiest military beneficiaries and their commercial media distracters go on psychopathic rampage of plundering the exchequer of the treasury.
ANJALI KAMAT : Operation Green Hunt will reportedly send between 75,000 and 100,000 troops to areas seen as Maoist strongholds in central and eastern India. In June, India labeled the Naxalite group, the Communist Party of India – Maoist – a terrorist organization, and earlier this month India’s home minister came to the United States to share counter terror strategies.
The Indian government blames the deaths of nearly 600 people this year on Maoist violence and claims that Maoist rebels are active in twenty out of the twenty-eight states in the country. The Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh outlined the threat to a conference of state police chiefs earlier this month.
ARUNDHATI ROY: Well, let me just pick up on what Anjali was talking about just now, about the assault that’s planned on the so-called Maoists in central India. You know, when September 11th happened, I think some of us had already said that a time would come when poverty would be sort of collapsed and converge into terrorism. And this is exactly what’s happened. The poorest people in this country today are being called terrorists.
And what you have is a huge swath of forest in eastern and central India, spreading from West Bengal through the states of Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh. And in these forests live indigenous people. And also in these forests are the biggest deposits of bauxite and iron ore and so on, which huge multinational companies now want to get their hands on. So there’s an MoU [Memorandum of Understanding] on every mountain, on every forest and river in this area.
And about in 2005, let’s say, in central India, the day after the MoU was signed with the biggest sort of corporation in India, Tatas, the government also announced the formation of the Salwa Judum, which is a sort of people’s militia, which is armed and is meant to fight the Maoists in the forest. But the thing is, all this, the Salwa Judum as well as the Maoists, they’re all indigenous people. And in, let’s say, Chhattisgarh, something like the Salwa Judum has been a very cruel militia, you know, burning villages, raping women, burning food crops. I was there recently. Something like 640 villages have been burned. Out of the 350,000, first about 50,000 people moved into roadside police camps, from where this militia was raised by the government. And the rest are simply missing. You know, some are living in cities, you know, eking out a living. Others are just hiding in the forest, coming out, trying to sow their crops, and yet getting, you know, those crops burnt down, their villages burnt down. So there is a sort of civil war raging.
And now, I remember traveling in Orissa a few years ago, when there were not any Maoists, but there were huge sort of mining companies coming in to mine the bauxite. And yet, they kept – all the newspapers kept saying the Maoists are here, the Maoists are here, because it was a way of allowing the government to do a kind of military-style repression. Of course, now they’re openly saying that they want to call out the paramilitary.
And if you look at – for example, if you look at the trajectory of somebody like Chidambaram, who’s India’s home minister, he – you know, he’s a lawyer from Harvard. He was the lawyer for Enron, which pulled off the biggest scam in the history of – corporate scam in the history of India. We’re still suffering from that deal. After that, he was on the board of governors of what is today the biggest mining corporation in the world, called Vedanta, which is mining in Orissa. The day he became finance minister, he resigned from Vedanta. When he was the finance minister, in an interview he said that he would like 85 percent of India to live in cities, which means moving something like 500 million people. That’s the kind of vision that he has.
And now he’s the home minister, calling out the paramilitary, calling out the police, and really forcibly trying to move people out of their lands and homes. And anyone who resisted, whether they’re a Maoist or not a Maoist, are being labeled Maoist. People are being picked up, tortured. There are some laws that have been passed which should not exist in any democracy, laws which make somebody like me saying what I’m saying now to you a criminal offense, for which I could just be jailed. Even sort of thinking an anti-government thought has become illegal. And we’re talking about, you know, as you said, 75,000 to 100,000 security personnel going to war against people who, since independence, which was more than sixty years ago, have no schools, no hospitals, no running water, nothing. And now, now they’re being – now they’re being killed or imprisoned or just criminalized. You know, it’s like if you’re not in the Salwa Judum camp, then you’re a Maoist, and we can kill you. And they are openly celebrating the Sri Lanka solution to terrorism, to terrorism.
If you think terrorists murder for a purpose, you have found the Terrorists.
