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Political Destabilization in South and Central Asia: The Role of the CIA-ISI Ter

Andrew G. Marshall | 19.09.2008 09:57 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Terror War | World

Recent terror attacks in New Delhi on September 13, 2008, raise the questions of who was responsible and for what reason these attacks occurred. Terror attacks in India are not a new phenomenon, however, in their recent past, they can be largely attributed to the actions, finances, training and resources of one organization: The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). These new bombings bare the same relationship with the ISI as has occurred in the past, and so it must be asked: what is the purpose of the ISI both in Central Asia as well as South Asia?



Introduction

Recent terror attacks in New Delhi on September 13, 2008, raise the
questions of who was responsible and for what reason these attacks occurred.
Terror attacks in India are not a new phenomenon, however, in their recent
past, they can be largely attributed to the actions, finances, training and
resources of one organization: The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence
(ISI). These new bombings bare the same relationship with the ISI as has
occurred in the past, and so it must be asked: what is the purpose of the
ISI both in Central Asia as well as South Asia?

The ISI appears to play the role of a force for the destabilization of
Central Asia, India and the Middle East. It acts as a Central Asian base of
operations for the CIA and British Intelligence to carry out Anglo-American
imperial aims.

India will be the main focus of this report, due to the escalation of
organized terror and violence against it in the past few years. As India is
one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, after China, its northern
neighbor which also borders Central Asian countries, its place in the New
World Order is yet to be set in stone. Do western, and particularly
Anglo-American elites allow India to grow as China, all the while attempting
to co-opt their banking system to the western banking elite, thus, making
them controllable? Or, will India be destabilized and dismantled, as is the
plan with the Middle East and Central Asia, in order to redraw borders to
suit geopolitical imperial ambitions, creating a network of manageable
territories feeding the Metropoles of the New World Order, specifically New
York (Wall Street) and London (The City of London)?


The September 13, 2008 New Delhi Bombings: 9/13/08

The Bombings

On September 13, 2008, five blasts ripped through New Delhi within 45
minutes of each other, killing 21 people and injuring roughly 100 more. The
Indian Mujahedin claimed responsibility for the bombings, sending emails to
major Indian news organizations. In July, bombings took place in the western
state of Gujarat, which killed 45 people, and in May in the city of Jaipur,
which killed 61 people. The Indian Mujahedin also claimed responsibility for
those attacks. This new wave of attacks across Indian cities was intended to
"sow panic, inflict civilian casualties and, according to Indian officials,
inflame tensions between Hindus and Muslims."

National elections are also approaching in India, giving the opposition
Bharatiya Janata Party the opportunity to criticize "the coalition
government led by the Congress Party for its inability to prevent bombings
like those of Saturday," making it a "major point of vulnerability for the
incumbent administration."[1]

What is the Indian Mujahedin?

According to Indian police, the Indian Mujahedin (IM) is "an offshoot of the
banned Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)."[2] In fact, it is "the
hardline faction of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) that broke
away in 2005 to protest against the diffidence of the moderate faction about
declaring a full-scale war on India."[3] Reports also link the IM with the
banned organizations, Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami and Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen.[4]

The Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) has reported ties with the
Pakistani ISI, in having had cadres of its members being trained by the ISI
to launch terror attacks in India. The ISI is also reported to have
maintained contacts with SIMI in relation to their operatives traveling
around the Middle East, specifically Saudi Arabia, to engage in fund
raising. SIMI's reorganization was also aided by the ISI, which led to the
branching out of the hardline element, the Indian Mujahedin.[5]

Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami also has extensive ties with the ISI, as the group
carried out terror attacks in Hyderabad in 2007, "at the instance of
Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence."[6] Many members of the
Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami were trained at ISI camps in Pakistan, and it
"receives patronage and support from Pakistan's Inter-Services
Intelligence." Significantly, "the group's anti-India operations are planned
by the ISI, mostly from the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka."[7]

Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen, the third terror network with extensive ties to the
Indian Mujahedin, used to be known as the Harkat ul-Ansar. Harkat ul-Ansar
was created by then-Pakistani General and future President Musharraf in the
early 1990s, and was active in recruiting 200 Pakistanis to be trained by
the ISI and sent to fight a jihad in Bosnia, "with the full knowledge and
complicity of the British and American intelligence agencies." This group
also has links to those individuals associated with financing 9/11, as well
as being involved with the London 7/7/ bombings.[8]

So all three terrorist groups associated with creating and having links with
the Indian Mujahedin (IM) have extensive ties with the Pakistani ISI. Since
these three organizations created the IM, it is essentially a creation of
the ISI itself.

Who Benefits?

Two days before the bombings took place, the Times of India ran a story
discussing US defense corporations seeking major contracts in India,
including "the single largest one-time military contract in history,"
India's buying 126 multi-role combat aircraft (MRCA). The deal is said to be
worth $10 billion, "which would not be concluded in the term of this
government but by the next government." Two major US companies vying for
this contract are defense giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin. India's Defense
Minister A.K. Antony said that his recent meetings with US Defense Secretary
Robert Gates and other Washington figures were primarily focused on
"Pakistan's rapid descent into chaos and the stepped up terrorist activity
by renegade elements in the country, including provocations on the border
and in Kashmir."[9]

Two days later, the attacks within India would confirm the need for a built
up defense and military establishment within India. Contracts are sure to be
signed.

The bombings also occurred at a time that "India is resisting renewed
pressure from the West to send its troops into Afghanistan to boost the
coalition troops there." More troops are needed in Afghanistan as the
Taliban experience a resurgence, armed and financed by Pakistan's ISI.
However, as the Times of India notes, "India is not about to enter this
particular cauldron because its troops would fan the flames in a way that no
others would do. They would draw fire from Pakistanis and India would be
sucked into a battle, which would have huge implications for its internal
security."[10] Perhaps this is the idea?

The attacks also occurred just as "the US Congress is considering the
approval of the US-India civil nuclear deal and days before [Indian] Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh visits Washington."[11]


The ISI-CIA Islamic Terror Networks

The Mujahideen

The ISI has long established ties with terrorist networks in the region. The
ISI was used as a conduit by the CIA in 1979 to finance and arm the Afghan
Mujahideen in Afghanistan in the Afghan-Soviet War of 1979 to 1989. The
Mujahideen then branched off, with the active financing and support of the
ISI, into both Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.[12]

During the 1980s, many "officers from the ISI's Covert Action Division
received training in the US and many covert action experts of the CIA were
attached to the ISI to guide it in its operations against the Soviet troops
by using the Afghan Mujahideen, Islamic fundamentalists of Pakistan and Arab
volunteers." Further, the "CIA, through the ISI, promoted the smuggling of
heroin into Afghanistan in order to make the Soviet troops heroin addicts.
Once the Soviet troops were withdrawn in 1988, these heroin smugglers
started smuggling the drugs to the West, with the complicity of the
ISI."[13]

Al-Qaeda and Yugoslavia

The ISI not only has had close ties to Al-Qaeda, but also to guerillas
fighting in the disputed territory of Kashmir between India and
Pakistan.[14] The ISI's connections with Al-Qaeda were so extensive, that
even on the night before 9/11, Osama bin Laden was in a hospital in Pakistan
protected by Pakistani military and intelligence.[15] The ISI also supported
the wars in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia throughout the 1990s, by training
and sending militant Islamists into the regions to sow chaos and exacerbate
ethnic tensions, leading to the break-up of Yugoslavia. All this was done
with the tacit approval, support and complicity of British and American
intelligence.[16] The ISI financed its covert terrorist support through the
global drug trade, especially important in Afghanistan. The ISI also
supported terrorist groups in Chechnya.[17]

The LeT

The Lashkar e Toiba (LeT) terrorist organization also works very closely
with the ISI, and they work together in a "coordinated effort" in
orchestrating terror attacks in Kashmir.[18] The LeT is "funded, armed and
trained by the Inter-Services Intelligence," and is linked up with Al-Qaeda,
and is "the most visible manifestation" of Al-Qaeda in India. The LeT
"receives considerable financial, material and other forms of assistance
from the Pakistan government, routed primarily through the ISI. The ISI is
the main source of LeT's funding. Saudi Arabia also provides funds." The LeT
also played a part in the ISI organized "Bosnian campaign against the
Serbs," which was directed above the ISI by the CIA and British
intelligence.[19]

The ISI and 9/11

The ISI may also have played a roll in 9/11 itself, as its General was in
Washington in the lead up to and during the 9/11 attacks, meeting with top
intelligence, State Department and Congressional officials, including CIA
Director George Tenet, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Secretary
of State Colin Powell, Senator Bob Graham, Representative Porter Goss, who
would go on to become CIA director, and Joseph Biden, who is now Barack
Obama's running mate. The ISI's General, while meeting with all these top US
officials in foreign affairs and intelligence, also happened to be the money
man behind 9/11, having wired $100,000 to the lead 9/11 hijacker, Mohammed
Atta.[20]

The Liquid Bomb Plot

In August 2006 in the UK, there was a massive roundup of terrorism suspects
as the British and Pakistani authorities revealed that they uncovered and
prevented a massive terrorist plot to blow up several transatlantic
airliners with liquid explosives. This plot is the reason for which people
can no longer carry a bottle of water or any liquids through security at
airports. However, following the roundups, Pakistan arrested the "lead
suspect" who was said to have masterminded the whole operation, Rashid Rauf.
Over a year later, Rashid Rauf escaped from Pakistani police custody,
however, as it turned out, he was kidnapped by the ISI to prevent him being
extradited to the UK.[21]

As Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, wrote shortly
after the plot was `foiled', "According to John Loftus, a former Justice
Department prosecutor, [bomb plot suspects] Omar Bakri and Abu Hamza, as
well as the suspected mastermind of the London bombings Haroon Aswat, were
all recruited by MI6 in the mid-1990s to draft up British Muslims to fight
in Kosovo. American and French security sources corroborate the
revelation."[22]

Covert War Against Iran

It was revealed by the London Telegraph in 2007 that the US, through the
CIA, was funding and arming terrorist organizations to "sow chaos" inside
Iran.[23] ABC News reported just over a month later that the terrorist group
was a Pakistani militant group named Jundullah, which is based in the
Baluchistan region of Pakistan, just across the border from Iran.[24]
Jundullah also has very close ties with Al-Qaeda.[25] Although the US funds
this Al-Qaeda-linked group, the funding is indirect, as it travels through
Pakistan's ISI.[26]

So clearly, the ISI has some troubling connections to Al-Qaeda, various
other Islamic extremist groups, and British and American intelligence. Where
the ISI is operational, so too, are Anglo-American ambitions.


The 1993 Bombay Bombings: 3/12/93

On March 12, 1993, Bombay (now called Mumbai) experienced 13 explosions in a
coordinated attack, of which the most significant target was the Bombay
Stock Exchange, which killed roughly 50 people. The total number of dead was
257, with roughly 1,400 other injured. Dawood Ibrahim was believed to have
coordinated the attacks. Ibrahim is known for extensive ties to Osama bin
Laden and Al-Qaeda,[27] has financed operations of the Lashkar e Toiba
(LeT),[28] and was believed to be hiding out in Pakistan.[29] The 1993
Bombay bombings were "organised by Dawood Ibrahim under pressure from the
Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan."[30] In 2007, the ISI was reported
to have taken Ibrahim and his top lieutenant into custody from the
Pakistan-Afghan border.[31]


The 2006 Mumbai Bombings: 7/11/06

On July 11, 2006, Mumbai experienced another major terrorist attack, as
seven bombs went off within 11 minutes of one another on trains. The total
deaths reached 209 with roughly 700 others injured.

The blame for the bombings was placed on the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and local
Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI),[32] which are closely interlinked
with each other and have direct links with the ISI.[33] A few months later,
following an investigation, Mumbai police "blamed Pakistan's intelligence
agency ISI for masterminding the explosions which were executed by activists
of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba and SIMI." The Mumbai Police Commissioner said
that, "the attacks were planned by ISI in Pakistan and carried out by
Pakistan-based militant group LeT with the help of banned Students Islamic
Movement of India (SIMI)."[34] India even shared evidence of Pakistani ISI
involvement in the attacks with the United States.[35]

The bombings led to a postponement of India-Pakistan peace talks, which were
set to take place the following week.[36] The Indian Prime Minister had said
that, "a peace process with Pakistan was threatened if Islamabad did not
curb 'terrorist' violence directed at India."[37] Again, perhaps a peace in
the region is not in the interests of the Anglo-Americans.


The 2008 Indian Embassy Bombing in Kabul: 7/7/08

On July 7, 2008, the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan was bombed,
killing 58 people and wounding 141. Two days after, it was reported that,
"The Afghanistan government and Indian Intelligence Agencies have confirmed
that some elements within the ISI in collaboration with the Taliban/Al Qaeda
planned and executed the attack on the Indian embassy." Further, "the ISI
Station Head in Kabul, is collaborating with the Taliban to destabilise
India's strategic presence in Afghanistan."[38]

The day after the attack, the Afghan Interior Ministry said that, "[it] was
carried out in co-ordination and consultation with an active intelligence
service in the region," and as the Financial Times reported, "Western
diplomats in Islamabad warned that the Kabul bombing was likely to increase
the distrust between Pakistan and Afghanistan and undermine Pakistan's
relations with India, despite recent signs that a peace process between
Islamabad and New Delhi was making some headway."[39]

It was also reported that the Afghan Interior Ministry stated that,
"Militants who carried out this week's suicide bomb attack on the Indian
embassy in the Afghan capital received their training at camps in
Pakistan."[40]

Just weeks earlier, on June 25, 2008, "An Afghan official accused Pakistan's
premier spy agency on Wednesday of organizing a recent assassination attempt
on Afghan President Hamid Karzai," and that they were "sure and confident"
of an ISI connection.[41]

On July 13, "Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) [had] been
blamed by India for the bomb attack on Kabul's Indian embassy."[42] On July
10, "The United States has said there was no evidence suggesting involvement
of foreign agents in the suicide bombing on the Indian Embassy in
Afghanistan."[43]

However, on August 1, the New York Times reported that, "American
intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan's powerful spy
service helped plan the deadly July 7 bombing of India's embassy in Kabul,"
and that, "The conclusion was based on intercepted communications between
Pakistani intelligence officers and militants who carried out the attack."
Interestingly, "American officials said that the communications were
intercepted before the July 7 bombing, and that the C.I.A. emissary, Stephen
R. Kappes, the agency's deputy director, had been ordered to Islamabad,
Pakistan's capital, even before the attack." Further, "a top Central
Intelligence Agency official traveled to Pakistan this month to confront
senior Pakistani officials with information about support provided by
members of the ISI to militant groups."[44]

However, given that this is not new information, and that CIA collaboration
with these efforts has been widely documented, what was the real purpose of
this top CIA emissary going to Islamabad?

Two days after the New York Times report surfaced, it was reported that,
"The United States has accused Pakistan's main spy agency of deliberately
undermining Nato efforts in Afghanistan by helping the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
militants they are supposed to be fighting." In January, the Bush
administration "sent two senior intelligence officials to Pakistan" over
"concerns" that the ISI was supporting militants, and further, "Mike
Mc-Connell, the director of national intelligence, and [CIA director] Hayden
asked Musharraf to allow the CIA greater freedom to operate in the tribal
areas." President Bush also "warned of retaliation if it continues."[45]

Who Benefits?

In 2006, it was reported that as Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, was
trying to balance a relationship with Pakistan and India, "Islamabad might
be feeling squeezed and do its best to undermine the renewed Afghan-Indian
partnership -- at great cost to Afghanistan."[46]

As Time Magazine reported on the day of the Embassy bombing, "The bombing is
likely to have regional ramifications, both for India's relations with the
neighborhood and those of every other country supporting Afghan President
Hamid Karzai." Further, "India and Pakistan have been vying for influence in
Kabul for decades, and India -- which for years backed the opposition
Northern Alliance against the Pakistan-backed Taliban regime -- came out on
top after the U.S.-led invasion scattered the Taliban and installed
President Karzai in power." India has also pledged $850 million in
reconstruction aid for Afghanistan.[47]

As the UK Times explained, India is "the only regional power committed to a
new democratic Afghanistan. It was no accident that India shouldered part of
the cost of the parliamentary and presidential elections. Nor should one
ignore the symbolic value of the fact that India is building the new Palace
of Democracy to house the Afghan parliament." Further, "The only power
likely to offer Afghanistan long-term support is India. Helping Afghanistan
would weaken radical Islamism and prevent Pakistan acquiring a hinterland
through Afghanistan in Muslim Central Asia."[48]

Historically, the Taliban were financed and armed by the Pakistani ISI,
while India had backed the Northern Alliance during the 1990s. After the
2001 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance was put
back into power as the Taliban were deposed.[49] This would explain why the
ISI and Pakistan has again become the main supporter of the Taliban.[50]
However, in most discussion on Pakistan funding the revival of the Taliban,
what is left ignored is the ISI's continued connections to British and
American intelligence. For example, with the London 7/7 bombings, the
mastermind was an MI6 asset and he had, along with several of the suspected
bombers, connections to the Pakistani ISI.[51]

Interestingly, keeping in mind the ISI's help in the resurgence of the
Taliban, in February of 2008, it was reported that, "Britain planned to
build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as
part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides." Further, "Afghan
government officials insist it was bankrolled by the British. UK diplomats,
the UN, Western officials and senior Afghan officials have all confirmed the
outline of the plan, which they agree is entirely British-led, but all
refused to talk about it on the record."[52]


Conclusion

Ultimately, the benefactors of the Indian Embassy bombing in Kabul and other
bombings, such as the recent New Delhi bombing in India, is not Pakistan,
but is the Anglo-Americans. Pakistan ultimately will collapse as a result of
these actions being taken. The ISI has long been referred to as Pakistan's
"secret government" or "shadow state." It's long-standing ties and reliance
upon American and British intelligence have not let up, therefore actions
taken by the ISI should be viewed in the context of being a Central Asian
outpost of Anglo-American covert intelligence operations. This connection
between American and British intelligence and the ISI is also corroborated
by their continued cooperation in the covert opium trade in Afghanistan,
whose profits are funneled into the banks of Wall Street and the City of
London.[53]

The goal in Pakistan is not to maintain stability, just as this is not the
goal throughout the region of the Middle East and Central Asia. Recent
events in Pakistan, such as the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, which has
been linked to the ISI, should be viewed in the context as an active
Anglo-American strategy of breaking up Pakistan, which will spread chaos
through the region.[54]

Pakistan's position as a strategic focal point cannot be underestimated. It
borders India, Afghanistan, China and Iran. Destabilizing and ultimately
breaking Pakistan up into several countries or regions will naturally spread
chaos and destabilization into neighboring countries. This is also true of
Iraq on the other side of Iran, as the Anglo-American have undertaken,
primarily through Iraq, a strategy of balkanizing the entire Middle East in
a new imperial project.[55]

One of the main targets in this project is Iran, for which the US and
Britain have engaged in massive acts of terror and orchestrating large
battles and conflicts from within the already-failed state of Iraq.[56] The
Anglo-American role as terrorist supporters and as covertly orchestrating
terror attacks within Iraq is amply documented.[57] To imagine that these
same Anglo-American intelligence and covert networks are not using their
long-time conduit, the ISI, for the same purposes in Central Asia, is a
stretch of the imagination and logic. It is not merely the Middle East that
is the target, but Central Asia, specifically for its geographical
relationship to the rising giants such as India and China. This also follows
in line with Anglo-American strategies in destabilizing the Central European
region, specifically the former Yugoslavia,[58] and more recently, Georgia,
largely in an effort to target Russia.[59]

What we are seeing with Pakistan and India is an effort to drive the region
into chaos. The US allowing blame to be placed on the Pakistani ISI for the
Embassy bombings in Kabul has provided an excuse and basis for US military
intervention in Pakistan, which has already begun,[60] and which threatens
to plunge the region into total war and crisis. But then again, that's the
idea.



Endnotes

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