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Mumbai attacks more complicated than corporate press reports
Wayne Madsen
Online
Journal
Wednesday, Dec 03, 2008
As first reported by WMR while the corporate press
was uttering the “Al Qaeda” bogeyman as likely behind
the terror attacks on Mumbai, the Press Trust of India (PTI) is
now confirming WMR’s initial report that Pakistan- and Dubai-based
criminal syndicate boss Dawood Ibrahim’s gangsters handed
over the weapons and explosive material to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET)
terrorists to carry out the assault on targets in Mumbai.
According to PTI, one LET terrorist captured by India, Ajmal
Qasab, said he and his fellow terrorists sailed from Karachi and
entered Mumbai’s port area with the help of Ibrahim’s
agents who run several customs facilities in Mumbai. However,
there are some questions being raised about Qasab and his claims.
The so-called security camera shot of Qasab, who is being billed
by the media as the “lone surviving gunman,” at Chatrapathi
Sivaji train terminal in Mumbai, appears fake. The angle is too
narrow for a train station which would have a wider angle and
be shot from higher up than the photo being shopped by the Indian
police. However, according to Asian intelligence sources, Qasab
may have been trained by Hindu militants and was rushed to the
scene of the attack for a photo opportunity hastily arranged by
the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) propaganda team.
One Asian intelligence source who has spent a great deal of time
in Pakistan reports that he has “never seen a haircut like
his [Qasab’s] in Pakistan or on either side of Line of Control
in Kashmir.” He also pointed out that Qasab is a bit overweight
for an average “mujad” who slim down in training by
exercising and eating a sparse diet of lentils and flat bread.
An abandoned Indian fishing boat, the Kuber, discovered off the
coast of Mumbai, was found to contain satellite phones and global
positioning system (GPS) equipment pre-programmed with a return
route to Karachi, Pakistan. The Ibrahim gangsters and LET terrorists
had hijacked the Kuber and killed its crew.
It has also been revealed that the Trident-Oberoi Hotel had been
chosen by the terrorists because a large number of Israeli businessmen
were staying there while attending a diamond exhibition. WMR has
learned from our Asian intelligence sources that a large number
of Mossad officers used the Trident-Oberoii as a base of operations,
along with the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Chabad House, which was also
targeted by the terrorist-gangster alliance.
The Oberoi hostages were shot in the back of their heads, a typical
gangland execution method preferred by Ibrahim and not the firing
squad method used by LET. The outbreak of fires in rooms at the
Oberoi also point to the possibility that the hotel was being
used by British, American (possibly Defense Intelligence Agency),
Australian, and Israeli non-official cover (NOC) agents as a base
and documents were being destroyed before the hotel was fully
secured by the Ibrahim-LET assailants. There was an initial report
that a number of bodies of white males brought out of the Oberoi
were Australians.
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A report in Kashmir Times, since removed from its website, claimed
that the terrorists that entered the Taj Mahal Palace hotel had
identified two senior U.S. intelligence officers in the crowd.
The fact that the two CIA agents were singled out lends more proof
to WMR’s original report that Ibrahim was retaliating against
his old CIA friends because he suspected them of working with
India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Pakistan’s
Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) agency to extradite him from
his sanctuary in Quetta, Pakistan, to India. Ibrahim is a veteran
of CIA “off-the-books” operations during the mujahedin
war against the Soviets in Afghanistan and currently in CIA drug
and weapons smuggling and money laundering activities in South
Asia, particularly in facilitating the shipment of a bumper crop
of opium from U.S.-occupied Afghanistan to enrich the coffers
of CIA slush funds.
Ibrahim was also involved in supplying nuclear materials to Pakistan’s
father of the nuclear bomb, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan. Khan has made
no secret that the CIA was well aware of his activities and Ibrahim
may be in a position to know much more about the secret networks
that supplied Pakistan with proscribed materials, including nuclear-related
and missile items, networks that may involve CIA channels and
Turkish and Israeli criminal intermediaries.
The fate of the two CIA agents at the Taj, which was apparently
being used by the CIA as an operational base, is unknown. Ibrahim’s
targeting of Britons was a message sent to British MI-6 assets
in ISI not to cooperate with the Americans and Indians in double-crossing
Ibrahim by arranging a quick extradition “flight”
from Pakistan to India.
However, Ibrahim, before he became a target for the United States,
was keenly avoided by U.S. officials in connection with terrorist
acts. On July 11, 2006, when Mumbai was struck by a series of
deadly train bombings that killed over 200 people (the so-called
“7/11” bombings), Assistant Secretary of State for
Central and South Asian Affairs Richard Boucher was careful not
to assign blame to Ibrahim. Boucher said, “Dawood Ibrahim
is indeed on our list. We do think he was responsible for some
of the previous crimes. I don’t know personally if he is
responsible for this one or not . . .”
India is trying to boost the LET’s involvement in the Mumbai
attacks while downplaying the role of Ibrahim. However, WMR has
learned that LET was a mere subcontractor to Ibrahim’s criminal
syndicate in order to send a message to Delhi, Washington, and
London that he will not be bartered away in a side deal with Pakistan’s
president, Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto’s tainted widower,
who is a business rival of Ibrahim in Pakistan. Zardari has made
no secret of his dislike of Ibrahim, especially since the Indian
expat son of a Mumbai Criminal Branch police constable is so powerful
in Pakistan he is known as the “King of Karachi.”
The Indian government realizes that Ibrahim has catered for some
time to India’s wealthy elite, including the nouveau riche
of “Bollywood,” India’s movie-making mecca.
He has served as pimp, drug dealer, moneylender at casinos (including
the casinos in Kathmandu Ibrahim runs jointly with CIA assets),
hitman, extortionist, import and export fixer, cop briber at amazingly
reasonable fees via deals disguised as legitimate business contracts.
In 1997, Ibrahim was accused of the contract murder of well-known
Bollywood filmmaker Gulshan Kumar. One of Kumar’s Bollywood
rivals was accused of ordering the hit on Kumar.
Ibrahim’s network in Bihar facilitates lucrative gold smuggling
in and out of neighboring Nepal, a gold smuggling network that
ultimately leads to Ibrahim’s gold smuggling operations
in Dubai. Ibrahim also runs a lucrative gold and weapons smuggling
operation in Gujarat. The Ibrahim gold smuggling operations in
Dubai also mask British intelligence money laundering operations
in the Caribbean and Isle of Man -- and this intelligence has
been captured by National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance of
both financial transactions and the reported compromise of encrypted
British TOP SECRET UK EYES ONLY communications by NSA.
Ibrahim sent a lesson to Britain based on history. The weapons
smuggled by Ibrahim’s men and the LET into Mumbai came through
the customs house on Sassoon Dock and transferred to fast inflatable
boats that landed at the Gate of India, the old British East India
Company’s trade passage into India. The lucrative Indian
drug trade conducted through Mumbai has been divided between Ibrahim’s
Muslim gangs and the relatively new arrivals, the Russian-Israeli
Mafia. The Indian drug business is largely run out of London and
there has even been some cooperation between the Russian-Israeli
mob and Ibrahim’s gangsters by divvying up stolen Nokia
mobile phones --hijacked during the shipment process -- that are
used to coordinate the drug and weapons smuggling trade.
However, WMR has learned from Asian intelligence sources that
the Russian-Israeli gangsters operating out of Chabad House tried
to take over Mumbai’s drug trade with the help of local
Jewish mobsters so Ibrahim, while settling scores with India,
the CIA, and Britain, decided to have his subcontractor LET terrorists
pay a visit to Chabad House and “collect on a debt with
high interest.” Ibrahim has always been careful to kill
more criminals than he employs and after his attacks on Hindu
and Israeli mobsters in Mumbai, the ratio has reportedly gotten
better. Ibrahim eliminated practically every one of his criminal
rivals in Mumbai during the 1980s and he is not about to see Hindu
and Israeli crime syndicates replace him in his fiercely fought-for
turf in Mumbai and other parts of India. Ibrahim’s drug
and other smuggling operations in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore,
Africa, and Sri Lanka have also faced new and increased competition
from Russian-Israeli gangsters operating in the same regions.
In March 1993, Ibrahim launched a deadly series of car bombings
in Mumbai that, like the recent attacks, were dual purpose: Ibrahim
got his revenge for a Hindu massacre of Muslims in India and he
wiped out Karim Lala’s criminal network in central Mumbai,
one of his last rivals in the city. Lala was once Ibrahim’s
boss before Ibrahim broke away to form his own crime syndicate.
The perpetrators of the attacks, possessing Indian passports,
arrived in Mumbai via Pakistan with valid Pakistani visas obtained
from the Pakistani consulate in Dubai. The Pakistani visas showed
no Pakistan entry or exit stamps, courtesy of the ISI.
The 1993 terrorists arrived in India, like their more recent
colleagues, by boat from Pakistan. Indian police found an unused
detonator and timing device with an unexploded bomb used by the
terrorists. The FBI confirmed that the timer was of U.S. origin
and part if a CIA shipment to the ISI during the 1980s Afghan
war.
Due to pressure from India and INTERPOL, Dubai pressured Ibrahim
into leaving the emirate in 1994. He took up residence in Karachi
and often traveled to Nepal. In 2003, Iqbal Kaskar, Ibrahim’s
brother, and Ibrahim’s lieutenant, Ejaz Pathan, were extradited
by the United Arab Emirates to India for their roles in the 1993
Mumbai attacks.
There is also evidence that right-wing Hindu elements of the
RAW were aware of Ibrahim’s hit on Mumbai beforehand but
allowed it to play out in order to carry out a “soft coup”
by right-wing Hindu nationalists against the Indian Congress government
of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Hindu nationalists are allied
through lucrative business ties with prospective U.S. Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton. The Hindu nationalists are hoping for
a showdown with Pakistan and a confrontation with China. The Hindu
right-wingers are also supported by the Israeli criminal and intelligence
network in India.
Ibrahim and his friends in ISI may have been sending a clear
message to the billionaire Tata family that owns the Taj Mahal
Palace hotel. The Tatas stand to make a handsome profit from the
recent U.S.-nuclear deal and the fact that the Tatas are Parsees
-- fire worshippers -- prompted Ibrahim to order his men to burn
down the Taj Mahal hotel.
The first police official who uncovered the soft coup in New
Delhi by the Hindu right-wingers was Hemant Karkare, the anti-terrorism
chief of the Mumbai police. Karkare was the first target when
the attacks in Mumbai began, but it is certain that his knowledge
of ties between Hindu terrorists and Indian RAW intelligence in
carrying out “false flag” attacks later blamed on
Muslims likely earned Karkare a death sentence from the Hindus
and their RAW friends. One of the terrorists caught on CCTV at
the Mumbai train station was seen wearing an orange wristband,
which is commonly worn by Hindu fundamentalists.
And Ibrahim has his own connections with India’s extremist
Hindus. Ibrahim’s influence over and fascination with Bollywood
has resulted in a friendly relationship between the “King
of Karachi” and the actor-turned-Hindu extremist, Hindu
Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray, who has been accused of involvement
in terrorist violence against Indian Muslims. Shiv Sena is connected
to a gangland rival of Ibrahim’s, one of Ibrahim’s
former aides, Chotta Rajan. Rajan split with Ibrahim after the
1993 Mumbai attacks.
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