WikiLeaks: ISI allowed terrorists to attack India, says Gitmo detainee

[Halwa]

New Delhi: In revelations that could further embarrass Pakistan, WikiLeaks has released a fresh set of US diplomatic cables that show how the country's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), allowed militants to go to India to carry out strikes on targets chosen by the Pakistan army.

The revelations are part of nearly 800 interrogation reports of suspects held in Guantanamo Bay prison.

WikiLeaks, in one of the several cables that exposes ISI's links to terror groups, quotes a US cable as saying that an Algerian Al Qaeda militant arrested in 2002 said that his mission was to "kill Indians in India".

It further quotes the militant saying that the ISI "allowed" fighters to travel to India where they conducted bombings, kidnapping or killing Kashmiri people.

More significantly, the targets in Indian according to the militant, were chosen by the Pakistani Army.

The revelations are damning in that it further reinforces India's oft-repeated claims that the Pakistani military, especially the ISI, has been actively supporting terror groups in anti-India activities.

The WikiLeaks expose is also significant coming as it does at a time when Pakistan is under intense international scrutiny after US forces tracked down and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, a garrison town just a half-hour drive from the Capital, Islamabad.

WikiLeaks: ISI allowed terrorists to attack India, says Gitmo detainee

 

[Humanist]

Wats leak about it... We all know tat very well..

 

[SpArK]

26/11: Allegations of ISI Involvement to Surface at Trial​

It may be a while before the world knows if ISI had any role in sheltering Osama bin Laden but allegations of its involvement in terrorism will be made public at the Chicago trial of Mumbai attacks from May 16, which could put fresh strains in US-Pak ties, a media report said here today.



Noting that federal prosecutors last week quietly charged a suspected ISI major with helping to plot the murder of six Americans in Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, eminent investigative journalist Sebastian Rotella wrote in The Washington Post that the indictment has explosive implications because the US and Pakistan are struggling to preserve their fragile relationship.

Observing that ISI has long been suspected of secretly aiding terrorist groups while serving as a US ally in the fight against terror, the Post said the discovery that bin Laden spent years in a fortress-like compound surrounded by military facilities in Abbottabad has heightened those suspicions and reinforced the accusations that the Pakistani spy agency was involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

"It's very, very troubling," Congressman Frank Wolf, Chairman of the House Appropriations sub-committee that oversees funding of the Justice Department, was quoted as saying by the daily. "Keep in mind that we've given billions of dollars to the Pakistani government."

"In light of what's taken place with bin Laden, the whole issue raises serious problems and questions."

While the 33-page indictment in the Mumbai attacks names the suspect only as "Major Iqbal" and does not mention the ISI, Iqbal's affiliation to the spy agency has been detailed in US and Indian case files.

"The first public airing of the ISI's alleged involvement in the Mumbai attack will begin on May 16 with the trial of (Pakistani-Canadian) Tahawwur (Hussain) Rana, owner of a Chicago immigration consulting firm," the article said.


Rana was arrested in 2009 and charged with material support to terrorism in the same case in which four suspects were indicted last week.

"The star witness will be David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American businessman-turned-militant who has pleaded guilty to scouting targets in India and Denmark. Rana allegedly helped Headley use his firm as a cover for reconnaissance," the report said.


Headley trained in LeT camps before being recruited in 2006 by an ISI officer, Major Samir Ali, who referred him to Iqbal in Lahore, it said.

Iqbal became Headley's handler, introducing him to a "Lt Col Shah" and giving him months of spy training before deploying him to India, according to the Indian report, which officials say repeats Headley's confessions to the FBI.


FILED ON: MAY 08, 2011 13:36 IST

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[SBD-3]

Algerian Al Qaeda militant + arrested in 2002 + mission was to "kill Indians in India"=??????

conclusion

1-An attempt to prove Pakistan is supporting AQ???

The WikiLeaks expose is also significant coming as it does at a time when Pakistan is under intense international scrutiny after US forces tracked down and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, a garrison town just a half-hour drive from the Capital, Islamabad.

2- it would be AQ who would be involved in 26/11 instead of LeT.

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Detainee’s account is only partially truthful. Detainee has not been completely forthcoming about his connections to extremists including members of al-Qaida despite his admitted involvement with the LT. Detainee has provided contradictory dates regarding his travels and the veracity of his story is questionable due to incriminating statements made by other detainees. For instance, Detainee provided conflicting information to Algerian delegates regarding the year he traveled to Saudi Arabia and his length of stay in Pakistan (2 and a half to 3 years). Detainee has also both admitted being recruited and facilitated by the LT, but denied joining the LT. Detainee also acknowledged and denied receiving training from the LT. Two senior al-Qaida facilitators both recognized photos of detainee, yet detainee has failed to mention any connections to either of them. Discrepancies between detainee’s account and reporting from others are assessed to be the result of detainee’s withholding of information and intentional deception to hide his affiliation with al-Qaida and his activities in Afghanistan.

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Pakistani police arrested both detainee and AG-705 at AG-705’s house in Peshawar on 29 May 2002. Pakistani authorities transferred detainee to US custody during the first week of June 2002