Arnaud de Borchgrave Keeps the Pakistan-India Pot Boiling

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[Here we have the old CIA warhorse Arnaud de Borchgrave stirring up
the shit between India and Pakistan.  The "Times of India" is eating
it up as hungrily as de Borchgrave's rabid dog of the yellow press,
the Moonie-owned Washington Times. What does De Borchgrave care if
there's a nuclear war? He's too old to worry about it.]

PTI via The Times of India - Dec 28, 2001

'Pak neck deep in terrorism against India'

WASHINGTON: Pakistan is neck deep in terrorism against India and
Lashkar e-Taiba, Pak-based terrorist outfit, is no different from
al-Qaeda, a leading US columnist has said.

"If truth be known, the facts behind LeT are identical to Osama Bin
Laden's al-Qaeda organisation. The terrorists are interchangeable
between both organisations. They were all trained in al-Qaeda's camps
and some of Bin Laden's Afghan Arabs have already found refuge among
LeT's ranks in Kashmir, Editor at Large of The Washington Times,
Arnaud de Borchgrave, says.

The White House's new formulation calls LeT "a stateless sponsor of
terrorism." But LeT is also Pakistan-based and Pakistan-sanctioned,
he says.

"In an attempt to avoid embarrassing Pakistani President Pervez
Musharraf and to pre-empt any Indian campaign to extend the war
against terrorism to cover terrorist training camps in Pakistan, the
White House announced Dec 20 it was blocking the assets of LeT which
it described as 'a Kashmiri terrorist organisation' that has
conducted a number of operations against Indian troops and civilian
targets in Kashmir since 1993," Borchgrave writes.

LeT's ranks consist of Pakistanis, Afghans, and Arabs led by
Pakistani cadres. Pakistan's ISI oversees LeT's terrorist operations,
he says.

Headquartered at Muridke outside Lahore, LeT holds annual conclaves
that are attended by serving and retired officers of ISI and the
regular army, political leaders, and retired scientists of Pakistan's
nuclear establishment, he says. (PTI)

 
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