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Pakistan Mourns Big Military Loss: General
Musharraf Weeps.
Politicians Call for Investigation and Sharing of
Information
Conspiracy Theories:
U.S.
or Al-Qaida or
Mechanical Failure?
On February 21, 2003 for the first time
General Musharraf wept quietly
in public at the funeral of Mushaf Ali Mir, chief
of the Pakistan air force
and his wife who were killed along with two air
vice marshals, 11 squadron
leaders of the air fighter command, and two
technicians when their Fokker
aircraft went down near the
Afghan
frontier, 55
miles west of Kohat.
Both Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif have
demanded (from exile) an
investigation into the crash. The government has
urged that speculation in
the media be stopped till an inquiry is held.
There is a plethora of
conspiracy theories coming out of Pakistan. The
three most important are as
follows:
1. According to the government, the crash took
place owing to technical
reasons. Critics of the government say that such
an explanation is not
tenable because:
i. The plane was in "mint condition," and the
final message from the plane
did not indicate any technical problems.
ii. The weather conditions were perfect.
Thus attribution of technical reasons means the
government is hiding
something.
2. The U.S. shot it down. This is the most
popular theory and is receiving
widespread acceptance owing to the prevalent
anti-U.S. sentiment. These
theorists link it to the kind of subversion which
brought down the plane in
which General Zia was flying. The U.S. did not
demand any investigation of
that crash.
2a. These theorists add that the U.S. has used
Musharref and now wants to get
rid of him to (possibly) bring back someone else
(like Benazir).
2b. It is said that Mushaf Ali was unhappy with
U.S. bases in Pakistan
(though there is no evidence of this).
3. The Air Chief was flying near the Afghan
frontier where fighting has been
going on almost every day in bits and pieces. The
mujahideen would see any
air craft as American. In December and January,
two American pilotless planes
returning back from Afghanistan crashed short of
their base in Jacobabad,
Pakistan (probanly limping back after being hit
by ground fire). The Fokker
and the pilotless planes are relatively slow
moving and relatively easy to
shoot down.
3a. The Fokker could have been known to be
Pakistani and shot down by the
mujahideen in retaliation for Musharraf's
cooperation with the U.S. More than
400 mujahideen have been hunted down and handed
over to the U.S. by
Musharraf's troops. Pakistani helicopters entered
Pashtun villages giving
refuge to the mujahideen and Musharraf's troops
blew up homes in
Israeli
style.
3b. This theory is strengthened by the fact that
Mushaf Ali was not visiting
Pakistani air bases on the
Indian
frontier but
was operating in the Pashtun
areas. The Pakistani military is paid for by the
Pakistani people to defend
the country against India, not to cooperate with
the U.S. to hunt the sons of
Islam.
Which one of these theories is correct? Only time
will tell. There could be
some indications:
i. If Musharref starts, gradually, changing his
policy towards the U.S., that
would mean that he suspects the U.S., and his
feelings are hurt (Mushaf Ali
was very close to him).
ii. The U.S.
media
has COMPLETELY IGNORED THE
DEATH OF ITS CHIEF ALLY'S AIR
MARSHAL. Absolutely no reporting at all! Why?
Does it fit into the U.S. psy
ops of ignoring the losses it suffers in
Afghanistan? Even the
CIA
officer
killed last month did not get anything more than
a news line UNDER the TV
screen. Something is going on here. Watch U.S.
reporting carefully. Some say
the jihad is taking a steady toll of U.S. and
pro-U.S. forces.
TRUE OR FALSE?
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ASSASSINATION IN RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA
On February 21, 2003, a British citizen
connected to the defense
industry, BAE, was shot when he stopped at a
traffic light in Riyadh. The
item was reported VERY BRIEFLY in the U.S. media,
which is very strange for
something happening in the Saudi capital.
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IRAN DEPORTS HIKMATYAR'S FAMILY
The Afghaistan-sl list reported February 23,
2003 that the Iranian
government has deported the wife and children of
Hizbe Islami leader
Gulbuddin Hikmatyar. Observers think the move is
meant to please the U.S.
[Iran is said to be working with the U.S. in the
coming attack on
Iraq.
It is said to be using pro-Iran groups to undermine
the Iraqi regime when the
U.S. attacks. Also, it hopes to gain some Iraqi
territory. It also wants to
liquidate Iranian rebel groups which are
located in Iraq.]
Scroll down to reports below on the U.S.
stance on Hikmatyar and
Hikmatyar's reply.
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BIGGEST OBSCENITY OF THE MONTH: "Democracy" in
Turkey
U.S. media report that 90% of Turkey's
PEOPLE oppose the U.S. planned
attack on Iraq. Regardless of what the 90% think,
the generals who control
Turkey are working to provide military facilities
to the U.S. but are holding
out for $30 billion as a bribe rather than the
$26 billion the U.S. is
offering.
SELDOM HAS A NATION BEEN SO UNITED. 90%
against, 10% for ! That's a
record unequaled in history. Then you have
America working against
"democracy." It ignores the 90% and wants to use
$26 billion to launch
aggression against Iraq from the north.
[Those idiots who think the U.S. supports
democracy should now shut up.]
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