- Dear Jeff,
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- Among us Jews we often refer to Fox News as the Mossad
network. We are always amazed how gullible are the Goyim to believe all
the 'news' fabrications and distortions at Fox 'News'.
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- In-spite of the blatant journalistic dishonesty of Fox
News, they propelled themselves to the be a top American TV network without
almost any criticism from their peers!
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- The following article is the first that I ever saw which
mentions the connection Between Fox and the Mossad. We needed the Asia
Times to remind us Americans, what no American publication had the guts
to say the obvious.
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- Regards,
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- Gadi Goldberg Orlando Florida
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- http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FK03Df05.html
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- India And The Road To Osama
By Siddharth Srivastava
Asia Times
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- NEW DELHI - Speculation is
rife in India that Osama bin Laden, who has gate-crashed the United States
elections with the release of his latest video, is holed up in eastern
Pakistan, in the northern regions of the country's portion of Kashmir,
with even the possibility that he might have already ventured into Indian
territory.
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- Reports, calculated leaks and intelligence are flowing
thick and fast that bin Laden is not where he was originally thought to
be - somewhere along the harsh Afghanistan-Pakistan border, running from
cave to cave to escape intense shelling. This view has been further strengthened
by the fact that the recent bin Laden tape, in which he addressed the American
people, was delivered to the upscale Islamabad office of Arabic network
television channel al-Jazeera. This has given credence to India's long-standing
fear that most of al-Qaeda's operatives are holed up and living comfortably
in urban hideouts in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, with the complicity
of the Pakistan establishment. The US-Pakistan operations on the Afghan-Pakistan
border have been dismissed by India as a wild-goose chase at the instance
of Pakistan to keep US troops occupied and confused.
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- Independent confirmation by Asia Times Online, however,
has elicited mixed reactions from Indian government officials. While sources
in the military say that all reports about sighting bin Laden close to
the Indian border are mere "hogwash" and "media speculation",
intelligence sources who report to the Home Ministry say that there is
considerable concern, as well as the belief that bin Laden is indeed in
Pakistan and moving to the northeastern regions close to the Himalayas
as a prelude to a winter retreat before he surfaces again in spring.
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- It goes without saying that the military generally tends
to be more closed about any sensitive information because of operational
difficulties faced in the wake of any such leakages, while intelligence
agencies not in the field of combat are generally more forthcoming about
information. Indeed, intelligence officials here confirm the news that
a senior official of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) flew
to India last week to alert Indian intelligence agencies about the possibility
of bin Laden sneaking into India. The Pakistan-based official sought Indian
assistance for joint operations by Indian and US forces to nab the world's
most wanted fugitive if he crossed over from northeastern Pakistan, the
sources said. The official's visit followed the reported spotting of bin
Laden in northeastern Pakistan, close to the Pakistan-China-India border.
The sources said the FBI official met senior officials related to internal
and external security and appeared to have information about the impending
release of the latest bin Laden videotape.
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- Apart from the fact that bin Laden is the world's most
wanted fugitive, his presence close to the Indian border could have a huge
impact on the United States' "war on terror", irrespective of
who wins the US elections. The US will have to seriously re-think its strategy
of aligning with Pakistan when it will be India's assistance, both military
and intelligence, that may be required to finally crack down on bin Laden.
It may also result in the amassing of Indian and Pakistani troops along
the Indo-Pakistan border to scour for bin Laden, leading to problems of
logistics, command and control.
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- Hideaway in Kashmir?
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- Reports of the bin Laden sighting, even if speculative,
come on the back of news of heightened activity in the Ladakh region (northern
part of Indian-administered Kashmir) by the Aviation Research Center (ARC),
a specialized reconnaissance agency of India's Research and Analysis Wing,
which looks after external intelligence. Highly placed defense sources
have been quoted as saying that the Ladakh region has seen an unusual number
of sorties by ARC aircraft. While there is little information about the
purpose of such missions, the ARC's sudden activities could trigger further
speculation that bin Laden may be lurking in what India refers to as Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir.
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- The former commander of US Central Command, Tommy Franks,
wrote in the New York Times last month that even in late 2001 there was
intelligence speculation that bin Laden might be hiding in Kashmir. That
was around the time when the US had pounded the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan,
with reports saying that bin Laden had been injured and forced to flee.
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- Indeed, in the past few days there has been a surfeit
of news about the alleged whereabouts of bin Laden. The United States'
Fox News Channel and a website reported to have close links to Israeli
intelligence agency Mossad have claimed that an Indian air force reconnaissance
plane sighted bin Laden's convoy a few days ago in the Tibet-Ladakh region
close to the northeastern border of Pakistan, near India and China. The
view has been endorsed by the website Debka.com, which is believed to be
run by Mossad. Additional surveillance aircraft were called in and identified
the al-Qaeda leader on the move with a 10-vehicle convoy of black Japanese
minivans, the website says. Fox, too, made similar claims.
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- However, doubts have been expressed about the ability
of Indian agencies to nail so accurately a convoy and identify it as that
of bin Laden. India's abilities to monitor a foreign land are primarily
based on a series of satellites, aerial reconnaissance by aircraft and
signal intelligence. While the satellites have a resolution of about five
meters, a plane like the Jaguar - a deep-penetration fighter jet - can
monitor up to 80 kilometers within enemy territory. But neither possesses
the ability to pinpoint accurately a specific person in a convey.
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- Despite the speculation surrounding the whereabouts of
bin Laden, there are several conclusions about the fugitive that cannot
be denied - he is not on the run; he is healthy, not injured and well fed,
as his earlier gaunt visage has been pretty much filled out; he decides
when he wants to issue another videotape, unlike Saddam Hussein, who disappeared
from his state-run satellite television radars once US troops got close
to him; bin Laden says the security of the American people (and by default
the rest of the world) is in their own hands, though it is not and perhaps
won't be for some time to come; he also knows that millions of dollars
might have been spent on promotions and advertising campaigns by incumbent
US President George W Bush and challenger John Kerry to propagate their
cause, but it is his one videotape that may influence the way the American
voters are going to exercise their choice for president.
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- Siddharth Srivastava is a New Delh-based journalist.
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- (Copyright 2004 Asia Times Online Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Comment
- From Max
- 11-3-4
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- Hi, Jeff. I have read the short posting on your site
as entitled above. I hope you can addend this comment of mine regarding
that article:
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- Hi, Gadi.
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- Well, though I live in the UK I guess you would class
me as "goyim" as I am not Jewish. I would add that I do not
believe, for a single moment, 99% of what is portrayed as news no matter
what country I am viewing it in. Or what network is pushing that "news"
upon me. In fact, I would cite Fox Snooze and the Cocaine News Network
as the worst offenders.
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- But the real reason for my comment is this: do NOT CALL
non-Jews Goyim. After all, how would you like it if I was to describe
you as a Kike!? Hmmm, bet that sticks in your craw, doesn't it? Well,
as the old saying goes, treat others as you yourself would wish to be treated.
Or, to use another cliche, if you can't stand the heat, get outta the
kitchen!
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- Max
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