U.S. Intelligence on
al-Qaeda is as Reliable as Ever!
"One
might very well say with the same authority, that those who Hillary claims are holed
up 'somewhere' in Pakistan are ensconced in New York or Washington. … And let
us suppose they are here. Who is to blame?"
U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton has kept alive her family tradition. When her husband Bill
Clinton as president favored this country with a brief visit, he took time out
of his five hour trip to appear on state broadcaster PTV to admonish, heckle
and lecture us natives of Pakistan. She likewise has used our soil to
administer a severe taunt to us during her just-concluded visit, which a
fawning media, civil society and commentariat euphemistically billed as a charm
offensive.
She loudly expressed her
belief that we Pakistanis are liars, cheats and frauds. Their best information,
she blared, is that the al-Qaeda leadership is “somewhere” in Pakistan and that
it is unbelievable that no one in Pakistan's government knows where - and that
they could have been caught if the government wanted to find them. But when it
comes to her information, the less said the better.
The perpetrators of the September
11 terrorist strike did their planning in the German city of Hamburg; and training
for the attack occurred at American aviation academies; yet the immense intelligence
apparatus of the United States, that boasts of over two dozen agencies, had no
clue of this whatsoever. That should be enough to demonstrate the fitness of her
information. Her information is obviously conjecture. And if one were to engage
in conjecture, one might very well say with the same authority, that those who are holed up “somewhere” in Pakistan are ensconced in New York or
Washington.
And let us suppose they are
here. Who is to blame? Before Sept.11, al-Qaeda was hardly known in this
country nor the world at large. Back then, Americans led a coalition of armies
to invade Afghanistan, not only to oust the Taliban but dismantle al-Qaeda
and take out Osama bin Laden - dead or alive. Yet they failed to put enough
boots on the ground to mop up the fleeing rump of al-Qaeda and man the borders to
prevent them from escaping.
Because of this operational oversight
- which verged on outright cowardice as far as America and its invader allies are
concerned - the rump of al-Qaeda took refuge inside Afghanistan and remained embedded
with their Taliban friends who had returned to their homes and tribes. Scores
of al-Qaeda fighters and their leaders who fled and sneaked back into Pakistan
have been rounded up by us. But instead of drawing it kudos, it has come to be an
article of faith by Americans, their Western allies and compulsive
Pakistan-bashers, that Pakistan has been al-Qaeda base all along. This discourse
stinks to high heaven.
Know this. Long before the
9/11 episode, American sleuths were on Osama’s trail. Yet they couldn’t capture
him during or after invading Afghanistan. More curiously, even as they branded
him enemy number one, the U.S. suspended their special team assigned to capture
him "dead or alive" in 2005. If their intelligence is so accurate as
Hillary claims it to be, they should have been able to take him out in one of
their frequent drone attacks on our territory - attacks that kill many of our
innocent children, women and their kith and kin.
It indeed could only be a
queer kind of al-Qaeda that Americans and their close western allies claim to
be ensconced in our territory. They assert that it poses a serious threat to
their security and so want it
be finished off to secure their streets. But
it is the streets of Pakistan, not Washington, London or Brussels, that this
monstrosity with all its wickedness is soaking with the blood of innocent people.
So whose proxy is this monstrosity? If some sense and wisdom is left among our hierarchy
in Islamabad, it must open its religiously-sealed lips and finally speak out.
Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
The words of their American overseers
and Western sidekicks don't square with reality. The Quetta Shura [the Taliban’s
ruling council], Pakistan's hierarchy must know,
could be the greatest crock of this century, given the fact that much of
Afghanistan’s Pashtun land has been open to the Taliban’s since the day of the invasion
- never encountering the slightest sign of occupying troops. Thus, Taliban
leaders have never had need for a foreign sanctuary.
The revival this CIA-invented
contrivance by the Americans, Hillary included, should now demonstrate to our
leadership which way the wind is blowing. The Obama Administration is struck
deep in an Afghanistan quagmire with no easy way out. It will soon need
whipping boys and scapegoats to blame its troubles on.
Let us not permit Pakistan to
become another Cambodia for frustrated American invaders - that is what this
hierarchy of Pakistan owes our people.
