Back in the good days when CNN forum was more open and free, there was an India-Pak discussion board that opened up after our Nuclear test hungama. It stayed well until after September 11, 2001. I remember some really, really intense internet fight. When it got really ugly and there was some abuse of Islam, CNN was threatened with a lawsuit from ACLU (or was it the American Muslims?) and they shut down the forum. We moved to Peoplesforum.com, a more open and free forum for discussions of any kind. It's a pity this wonderful venue doesn't exist anymore. Thank you, Lance Brown, for all the three years of fun and zesty fights!
Anyway, I'm digressing.
A few days after Sep 11, 01, a story ran in Rediff.com (and of course, many a newspaper, including Indian Express, I think), linking the ransom paid for the kidnap/release of a Kolkata based businessman, and how the money ran its course to Syed Omar Sheikh, and how he subsequently wired the funds amounting to $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the evil hero of the twin tower tragedy. Just a few days before the tragedy.
In October 01, when Afghanistan was being bombarded, the forum was busy as usual, with the right wing hawks and liberal freaks thrashing it out. What I distinctly remember is every Desi worth his salt coming out to post a link to this story, pointing the obvious connection between Pakis and 9/11. Nobody paid attention to it. Everybody accused us of bashing Pakistan, the "staunchest ally in the global war against terrorism". Not even when the 9-11 Commission Report came out, not a single mention of these funds, routed all the way from kidnapping of a Kolkata businessman, funding the deadliest terrorist deed so far in the history of man kind. Is it the conspiracy theorist in me, or did not the United States govt want even a semblance of investigation into this angle? Why is it that to this day Indian publications carry this story around, but not a single American media outlet carries a whiff of this story!? Is Indian media lying? Or does America doesn't want to hear the inconvenient truth?
This article in Rediff.com carrying the review of a book by Observer Research Group(?) is a chilling reminder of the duplicity of General Musharraf. And a user comment in the forum says it all, I've reproduced it verbatim from Rediff.
by ss on Sep 13, 2007 02:26 PM | Hide replies
1.formed by the colonial british
2.took money from young India and attacked kashmir
3.during cold war helped china-us come closer took money and support in doing the brokinng job
4.when soviet invaded afghan took lots oh money from us to raise taliban and kill afghans
5.killed millions of bengali muslims
6. took help from US and trained militants and pallned for sept 11
7.took help from EU for earth quake and send militants for britain and spain attack
(emphasis is mine I had never given a thought about this aspect!)
8.father of pakitsan married a non-muslim girl still a muslim nation
9. father's daughter married a non muslim-man still a muslim nation
10.spakiustan nuclear man sold nuclear weapons
11. house for all terrorist
12.house for dawood and other gangsters
latest doing the same job of taking chinese funds
pakistan is great poor paksitani
Whenever Musharraf comes to New York or visit Washington, he has this uncanny knack of having the media eat off his hands, inspite of his pathetic English and the peon like military uniform.
Why does Bush still want to court this scumbag of a human being, the scums amongst nations
of the planet, and why does the "Global war on terrorism" bear profits for this rogue nation?
Is it all a big hoax, a bigger game plan of which we have no clue?
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