the attack on the sri lankan cricket team is 'diplomatic theater' by the ISI

mar 4th, 2009

as were the various 'assassination attempts' on musharraf, all of which happened just after musharraf's convoy had passed the sites where the bombs were detonated. miraculous, indeed. lo, the ISI is merciful! a few policemen died, but who cares? there are plenty of poor pakistanis to serve as cannon fodder.

consider the following:

1. now the pakistanis can claim, "we are also the victims of terrorism just as much as india is". james astill will be the first person claiming india-pakistan-equal-equal. (sorry, he has been pre-empted by the guy writing in the nyt, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/opinion/04sethi.html?_r=1 who gave away the game -- see where his interviewee says: "They were saying that this was done to show the Indians that we in Pakistan are also the victims of terrorism." You think our own government did it?" I asked.

"No one else could get away with this kind of thing," he insisted.

He described the attackers' feat: they appeared out of nowhere at one of the city's busiest intersections and fired for more than 20 minutes at the van carrying the players to Qaddafi Stadium, and then fled in rickshaws.

"I know the kind of precautions we have to take when we are in a V.I.P. motorcade," the young officer told me. "And this was a 'V.V.I.P.' motorcade. Every house in that neighborhood was surrounded by the police. My friend was there and he told me the attackers didn't receive a single wound.") sorry, no cigar, james astill.

2. the UPA will now proclaim the same india-pakistan-equal-equal. pronob mukherjee will say he is bherry bherry saarry and suggest that the piss process be started again.

3. the mumbai attack is now forgotten. see 1 and 2. also, the kkkangress will remind us that "one pakistani did mumble something that mumbai attackers came from their country". this is a momentous achievement, of historic dimensions. therefore the kkkangress has done its bit to ensure the safety and security of all individuals in india. therefore there will be no further action on the mumbai invasion. chidambaram will mouth "if there is yet another attack on india, we will... we will... hold our breath until we are blue in the face. so there!"

4. isn't it amazing that even though the attackers had rocket-propelled grenades and other medium-heavy weapons, they only managed to shoot off some kalashnikovs?

5. as per 4, there were only minor injuries to the sri lankans. but this is being portrayed as "see, in india foreigners were targeted. in pakistan too foreigners were targeted." let us forget that in india the jews and others were raped, tortured, mutilated and then killed based on explicit cell phone instructions emanating from pakistan

6. the attackers jogged up from a grassy knoll (yes, remember the grassy knoll in the kennedy assassination?), fired for 20 minutes, and then leisurely ran away to their auto-rickshaws, which then took them to safety. this while there were lots of policemen around. and this is the center of punjabi power.

7. why didn't the attackers do the 'suicide-bombing' thing, which would have -- if they really meant it -- guaranteed that the entire busload of sri lankans would have been wiped out?

8. why didn't they attack the hotel where the sri lankans had been camped out? that would have been quite easy.

9. why wasn't there more security for the sri lankans?

therefore the conclusion is that this is an ISI 'production' -- scripted and choreographed by them. very nicely done, too. perhaps hamid gul can be nominated for the mohammedan film awards, oops... oscars, for best supporting actor? and manmohan singh for best patsy?