SHAME ON THE CONGRESS/UPA GOVERNMENT

A team of FBI officials from America have landed here to 'help' Indian intelligence units with the investigations on the recent terrorist attack on Mumbai. A team of Scotland Yard sleuths have also landed here for the same task. A team of intelligence experts from Australia also seem to have arrived. So also a team from Israel.

WHAT IS HAPPENING? Has the Government of India decided that Indian intelligence personnel are not capable of carrying out this investigation? If that is so, it is a recent development which is very worrying.

We cannot easily forget the investigation of the 1995 Purulia Arms Dropping case where the British operative Peter Bleach and 5 Latvian crew of the aircraft were successfully prosecuted and jailed. Subsequently the 5 Latvian crew were pardoned and released in 2000, and Peter Bleach himself was given a Presidential pardon and released in 2004. However one more operative, Kim Davy from Denmark, had escaped and was absconding. The latest news seems to be that he has been caught by Danish authorities, and he is likely to be extradited to India to face trial.

Then again it is the alertness and pioneering investigation of the Delhi Police who smelled a rat, which was followed by a CBI investigation, that exposed the match-fixing scandal involving players of all major cricket playing countries, leading to many of them being banned from playing.

Just take a look at this 03FEB2005 report in
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/02-03-05.asp captioned:
"Remote viewing Indian intelligence makes India withdraw from SAARC meet in Bangladesh all of a sudden to protect India’s leaders from Islamic militants" by Kiran Chaube, Special Correspondent.

"India all of a sudden decided not to attend the SAARC meeting with the seven South Asian countries next week. Expressing shock and dismay at India's decision not to attend the SAARC summit, Bangladesh on Wednesday accused New Delhi of holding the seven-nation club "hostage to bilateral onsiderations." ................ According to sources in New Delhi, field intelligence, remote viewers in India’s military intelligence RAW and satellite feed from communications channels confirmed that Islamic militants were planning a major strike against Indian leaders during the SAARC meeting. Bangladesh has harbored Islamic militants and has secret training camps to train them .................... According to field intelligence and remote viewers, militants were well positioned to strike a major blow of catastrophic nature against India in Dhaka. A team of security experts who is in Dhaka investigated the suspected breach of security and possible means by which the Islamic militants can attack the Indian leaders in Dhaka. They were surprised at the pin pointed source of problem provided by the remote viewers and field intelligence. .............. India had no plans to cancel the plan of attending the meeting. As a matter of fact some solid breakthrough in relations between India and Pakistan was expected in the meeting and India was looking forward to the same."

That is how alert and effective our intelligence community has been.

Here again is another report Dated:02/03/2007 from:
http://www.thehindu.com/2007/03/02/stories/2007030204681400.htm
"Indian intelligence had warned about attack on Musharraf"Amit Baruah

"NEW DELHI: Indian intelligence had warned Pakistan about the first assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf in December 2003, claims a new book by a senior Pakistani journalist Zahid Hussain.

"In Frontline Pakistan, Mr. Hussain claimed that the December 14, 2003 attempt to kill Gen. Musharraf by blowing up a bridge used by his vehicle in Rawalpindi was the work of the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), a group formed by cleric Masood Azhar, freed by India after the IC-814 hijacking in December 1999.

""Ironically, it was Indian intelligence that had warned Musharraf of the first attempt to kill him by blowing up the bridge," the book said, stating that some two dozen Pakistan Air Force personnel were part of a clandestine JeM cell to assassinate the President."

"(Top Indian officials, familiar with the events of December 2003, confirm that Mr. Hussain's account of a warning being passed on by Indian intelligence agencies to Pakistani authorities relating to Gen. Musharraf, is accurate)."


Here is another report dated 03APR2002 on: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=8901, captioned:
"Indian intelligence wiretap identified 9/11 hijackers"

"Washington, April 3: Indian intelligence agencies helped the US to identify the hijackers who carried out the deadly September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, a media report said here on Wednesday.

"The new probe began after US officials learned that intelligence agents in India had wiretapped the telephone of a Pakistani charity funded by the Saudi government and discovered the transfer of 100,000 dollars to Mohamed Atta, one of the 19 hijackers, the paper quoting US officials said.

"The information helped US officials identify all the 19 hijackers -- 15 of whom were Saudi nationals, the officials said."

This has basically been the calibre and pedigree of our intelligence establishments. It is such a set-up which finds itself degraded, depreciated and reviled to the extent that, in the wake of the terrorist attack on Mumbai, the Congress/UPA Government at the centre has invited, or at the least allowed, the 'experts' from the USA, the UK, Australia and Israel to investigate this terrorist action. What a shame!!

One has to wonder whether this Government will go one step further now and outsource our intelligence/security/defence activities to the Americans, Britishers, Australians and Israelis. What a shame!!