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Shaheen
29-08-03, 20:13
SAUDIS PLEDGE TO INCREASE PAKISTANI MILITARY PRESENCE

ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Saudi Arabia has relayed a pledge that it will import from Pakistan military and security advisers and personnel.

Gulf defense sources said Riyad agreed to permit additional Pakistani military and security personnel for a number of projects as well as to replace some of the Westerners who have left the kingdom over the last year. The sources said the increase in Pakistani nationals will help expand projects already being carried out by Islamabad in Saudi Arabia.

Pakistan is regarded as a leading ally of Saudi Arabia. Islamabad helps train Saudi military and security personnel as well as help operate aircraft and naval vessels.

Moreover, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have engaged in a joint venture to produce light weapons and ammunition in the kingdom. The sources said the two countries plan to expand the project to include mortar and heavy munitions.


http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2003/august/08_27_2.html

ik had al eerder gehoord van nieuws berichten maar onlangs uit dat ze zelfs meer willen

lennart
29-08-03, 20:30
Link tussen Pakistan en Osama:

http://www.maroc.nl/nieuws/forums/showthread.php?threadid=69946



Mr Ijaz believes an agreement was reached between Gen Musharraf and the American authorities shortly after Bin Laden's flight from Tora Bora.


Het ISI beschermt OBL en nu krijgt de ISI ook nog eens verantwoording over de beveiliging in SA. Hmm.
De ISI heeft overigens goede banden met en is opgeleid door MI5/6, deze organisatie staat er bekend om dat het terroristen de hand boven het hoofd houdt.

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/15/nspies15.xml



French accuse MI5 of failing to help terror hunt
By Kim Willsher in Paris and David Bamber
(Filed: 15/09/2002)

French intelligence personnel have accused Britain of failing to cooperate with European partners in the war against Islamic terrorist groups. The allegations, made by senior French officials, have angered MI5 officers.

France's security services claim that their British counterparts are refusing to share information, work with them or act against known British-based terrorist suspects.

A senior French intelligence official who reports directly to the President's office said that while there had been a "slight" improvement in cooperation immediately after September 11 last year, "things are now worse than they were before; that is to say, the British just don't appear to be doing anything. It's a pity because Britain has excellent intelligence but your people simply won't cooperate with us."

The anti-terrorist official also said that the French were certain that MI5 was sheltering Abu Qatada, a militant cleric, while officially denying knowledge of his whereabouts. Mr Qatada, named by Spanish intelligence as the "spiritual head" of al-Qa'eda in Europe, disappeared from his home in Acton, west London, at the beginning of this year shortly before new anti-terrorism laws came into force. French anti-terrorist officers in Paris believe that their British counterparts at MI5 colluded in his disappearance.

"British intelligence is saying they have no idea where he is but we know where he is and, if we know, I'm quite sure they do," the official said.

lennart
29-08-03, 20:33
Musharraf's army breaking ranks
By Syed Saleem Shahzad

KARACHI - Ever since its creation in 1947, Pakistan's political landscape has been characterized by the military's deep involvement, be it through direct intervention and the imposition of martial law, or through behind-the-scenes manipulation of civilian governments.

The present administration is no exception. President General Pervez Musharraf came to power in October 1999 through a bloodless coup that deposed the elected government of Nawaz Sharif. National elections have subsequently been held, although Musharraf effectively still wields power through his presidency and as chief of army staff.

However, the army's role in politics has been dramatically shaped by the unprecedented events of September 11, 2001. The army under Musharraf has been forced, because of the global fallout from the terrorist attacks on the United States, to make decisions that have seriously split the armed forces.

Well-placed sources within the army have revealed to Asia Times Online that recently several top officers have been arrested. These arrests have been kept secret as no charges have been laid. The officers, according to the sources, were seized after being fingered by agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as probably having links with international Islamic militants.

The FBI has been given a free hand to interrogate the officers at its cell in the capital, Islamabad, or at any other location of its choosing in order to establish ties between the officers and militant networks.

Asia Times Online investigations have established the names of two of those arrested: Assistant Adjutant-General and Quartermaster-General, Lieutenant-Colonel Khalid Abbassi (posted in Kohat, North-West Frontier Province) and one Major Atta.

The investigations show that neither the family of the officers nor their subordinates know where they are being detained. Senior officers in the army, when contacted by this correspondent, remained tight lipped and their advice was, "stay away from this matter".

Further investigations reveal that Abbassi is a widely-respected officer in signals, and that he is also a very religious person. Apparently, he delivered lessons from the Koran every day to his junior officers, a trend that was encouraged by former dictator General Zia ul-Haq in the army, and which is still common nowadays.

The army's about-turn
The Pakistani army, largely through the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), as part of its strategic vision for the region actively supported and promoted the Taliban in its formation and ultimate seizure of power in Afghanistan in 1996. As a result, many of Pakistan's top brass are familiar with senior Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders. Notably, the former director general of the ISI, Lieutenant-General (retired) Mehmood Ahmed, was close to Taliban leader Mullah Omar. Mehmood Ahmed is now managing director of Fauji Fertilizers Company, where a number of former army officers also work.

It is an open secret in Washington now that a delegation of senior Pakistani army officers, sent to Afghanistan prior to the US invasion ostensibly to convince the Taliban to step down, actually spent their time instructing the Taliban on how to protect their weapons from the impending US aerial bombing.

With the rapid retreat of the Taliban from Afghanistan, though, and in the face of tough Washington pressure to join in the global "war on terror", Musharraf had little choice but to throw in his hat as an ally of the US. This had two immediate effects: it disenchanted a large section of the military-security apparatus, and it paved the way for US intelligence to muscle into internal Pakistani affairs, which further upset those within the military-security establishment.

Initially, the FBI was allowed to set up small cells in the operations offices of the ISI, and ISI officials were attached to these cells. However, the FBI was able to decide on its own targets, and it delegated specific assignments to ISI officials, but under FBI surveillance.

Lately, the FBI has been given separate premises all over the country, and its own separate teams of officers, who, with the best bugging devices in the world, now have maximum access to Pakistan's telecommunications system.

This kind of access means that the FBI is now privy to much of the information that the Pakistan army has, which has led to the Americans being able to nip in the bud a number of attempts by the ISI to re-establish its presence in Afghanistan through local commanders of the Hezb-I-Islami of warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now a key player in the Afghan resistance movement.

Call to prayer
When General Zia ul-Haq was president and the chief of army staff in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he encouraged his officers to say their prayers five times a day (as is customary in Muslim society), and those who did so were looked on favorably when promotion time came around. Indeed, it became essential that anyone seeking a top position in the army or the ISI displayed the appropriate religious fervor.

Even better would be if an officer had a background in the Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba (the student wing of the Jamaat-i-Islami, the premier fundamentalist party). Such a connection led to the emergence of the likes of Lieutenant-General Hameed Gul, Brigadier Imtiaz and dozens of others who made their names in political operations in favor of Islamic parties or in launching conspiracies to unseat secular parties, such as the Pakistan People's Party of twice premier Benazir Bhutto.

Even after his death in an airplane crash on August 17, 1988, people have been careful to at least pay lip service to Zia's legacy. Musharraf himself, a relative liberal compared to the former dictator, commented in an interview a few years ago in which he praised Zia's policies that, "He was a patriot and was a very God-fearing person."

But times have changed. After taking over from Sharif, Musharraf placed a team of religious zealots in all prominent positions. Now he is reversing that trend and is ditching many stalwarts in favor of new, more flexible, faces - faces that are presumably more acceptable to the US.

This has not been without severe backlash. Three known assassination plots have been hatched against the general, but he has remained undeterred; in fact, moves to rid the services of religious-minded officers have gathered pace, and many have been given their marching orders or passed over for promotion.

It is no coincidence, then, that the Jamaat-i-Islami is championing, with grim determination, a drive to have Musharraf step down as head of the army. With its historically close connections to so many within the forces, Jamaat's move can only be seen as a signal from within the now bitterly divided armed forces.

And the latest news of Musharraf's willingness to send 10,000 troops to northern Iraq (the Kurdish regions only) further aggravates the situation, as this is strongly opposed by many within the army who foresee Pakistanis as being used as cannon fodder by the US.

The actual departure of the troops, then, could be the final straw for Musharraf, who has earned vengeful and powerful enemies in uniforms as a result of forcing the army to march to his own beat.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EH30Df01.html

Shaheen
29-08-03, 21:08
ey lennart bedankt voor je interessant artikel maar atimes is echt pro-indiaas zend altijd anti pakistani dingen. ben je een marokaan trouwens :)

lennart
29-08-03, 21:12
Geplaatst door Shaheen
ey lennart bedankt voor je interessant artikel maar atimes is echt pro-indiaas zend altijd anti pakistani dingen.


Geen idee, maar ze zitten vaak wel goed.


ben je een marokaan trouwens :) [/B]

Nee :confused: Sinds wanneer is lennart een arabische naam :maf:

Arvid
29-08-03, 21:15
Pakistan is wel gevallen voor de bribery van de Amerikanen :aanwal:
Pakistanen zijn eenmaal zeer gemakkelijk om te kopen

Gelukkig heeft India wel oog voor het onrecht van de illegale oorlog en heeft daarom het Amerikaanse verzoek afgewezen :lole:

dus hoezee voor India http://www.smilies.nl/iconss/icon162.gif en zeer slecht van Pakistan http://www.smilies.nl/iconss/icon130.gif

an3sdej
29-08-03, 21:21
Goede zet van Pakistan om vriendschap met die olieboeren aan te halen :fpimp: