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India upset with US for underplaying Pak's role

Mobius

8/1/2006 1:00:00 AM

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1...

The Times of India Online
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India upset with US for underplaying Pak's role

Chidanand Rajghatta
[ 1 Aug, 2006 0218hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

Washington: After reviewing satellite imagery - which the US
used last year to prove the existence of jehadi camps in Pakistan in
connection with a case involving a Pakistani father-and-son duo - for the
jury, US government expert Eric Benn had said the mountainous location and
description of the camp near Balakot in northeast Pakistan are consistent
with statements made by accused Hamir Hayat. Hayat had been interrogated by
FBI last June, when he returned to US after two years of training and
indoctrination in Pakistan.

"The kind of information I got out of the (Hayat interview)
transcript... is consistent with the physical things I observed," Benn
testified in US district court. "This would be a militant camp."

The testimony undermines Pakistan's insistence that there are no
terrorist camps in the country, a pro forma denial that is often buttressed
by state department certification about Islamabad being a frontline ally in
the war on terrorism. Pakistan has now turned around charges that it hosts
terrorist groups to charge India with sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan.

It has also furnished its own list of terror suspects it wants
New Delhi to apprehend and send back in lieu of India's 20-most wanted,
including Dawood Ibrahim.

Indian officials are yet to review the Lodi case fully, but they
say it has not gone unnoticed in anti-terrorism circles that young men of
Pakistani origin are being prosecuted on terrorism charges in places from
California to New York to Florida to Georgia to Toronto, Sydney, London and
other areas in Europe. "You never hear of Iranians or Syrians being charged.
It is always Pakistanis who have returned from Pakistan or are heading
there," said an official, who asked not to be named.

New Delhi also appears sore at US state department for
underplaying the gravity of Pakistan's role in terrorist activities to
achieve its (Washington's) political objectives. Such repeated
certifications of good behaviour, even in the face of evidence to the
contrary from the US defence and intelligence agencies, only serve to
embolden Pakistan's military establishment and undermine its civil
institutions, Indian officials say.

Washington has also lost the plot in cases like Daniel Pearl's
murder where Pakistan's military establishment is holding up execution of
death sentence of the convict, Omar Sheikh, because of his links with the
ISI, they added.

In recent months, US law enforcement authorities have cracked
several cases, including the one in Virginia, of jehadis with connections to
LeT. Lashkar, New Delhi now says, is more potent than the al-Qaida and
virtually functions as al-Qaida's operating arm.
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subir.de@concert.com

8/1/2006 2:00:00 AM

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Technically, what Pakistan says is correct, there is no terrorist
training camp, just freedom fighter training stations!