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Published originally in The Nation and AhmedQuraishi's blog.
It has finally taken a US Republican Senator to see some sense and admit that there was no proof of any Taliban connection with Faisal Shahzad, and that the Obama Administration has been making its statements in this connection purely on conjecture.
(sounds alarming and dangerous, that the Obama administration should be making wild throw away accusations against Pakistan at such a sensitive time which is not based on facts against an "ally" in such a hurry, rather than holding their judgment........should clearly tell us something about the USA and its true intentions against Pakistan.
The Afghan Taliban is a nationalist force set up by the USA/Pakistan from 1994 that has never shown any Internationalist pretensions, against the USA or against anybody else.
The TTP is an American fiction created sometime in 2005 by the USA using ex-Guantanamo Afghan captives of whom there many at one time to keep in check the Pakistan military, and off balance the Pakistani state.....with terrorist ops, some of which involves attacking Pakistani military personnel of a senior level. Also possibly as retaliation for Pakistan's unofficial support for the Afghan Taliban.)
According to the top Republican of the Senate Intelligence Committee, US intelligence had no real proof of any Taliban link at all.
( "Moreover, nobody is certain that the “Pakistani Taliban,” otherwise known as Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP), who allegedly claimed responsibility for Mr. Shahzad’s actions, was behind the attack. Indeed, the TTP told reporters that, although they cheered his actions, their organization had “no links whatsoever” with Faisal Shahzad.
“The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan has had no links with Faisal Shahzad whatsoever,” the group’s spokesman, Azam Tariq, told reporters via telephone in Peshwar.“We never imparted training to him, nor had he ever come to us.”
Alarm bells should be ringing since TTP regularly went out of its way to claim responsibility for attacks, even when they had nothing to do with them. After all, nowhere does the adage “bad publicity is good publicity” have more significance than in the terrorist business. But in the United States, the “damage” is already done: it is practically etched in stone that the Pakistan Taliban – a group that just several months ago could barely lace up its boots – is responsible for Shahzad’s would-be act of terrorism......."American Everyman blog)
This is what the Pakistanis have been saying all along, including the Pakistan military. The TTP itself has stated it had no link with Shahzad, nor had it trained him. Given how the TTP routinely lay claim to terror acts across the world with no hesitation, and often when they are not involved even, if they had denied any linkage to Shahzad that denial should have been given some credibility.
(Not if the Obama administration has hidden negative agenda's against Pakistan.......then such manufactured incidents are an opportunity to lash out against Pakistan and thus show their true intentions towards the country.
Pakistanis are not high on the global IQ level, its after all a Third World country. It is further said in India that Punjabis think with their muscles. But at a certain point the Pakistani military top brass have to understand that the USA is not good for Pakistan, and is wholly stupid and a bit embarrassing for Pakistani officials repeatedly speaking of friendship between the USA and Pakistan, when the REALITY on the ground is quite the opposite)
However, the US Administration, for its own purposes, was so desperate to malign Pakistan and Pakistanis as monsters that it behaved in a most irresponsible manner towards an ally that has had its citizens shed their blood for the US cause.( he he he....uncle Tom speakin here, "Massa I be a good nigger slave soldier for you!!!!!) In the process, they have undermined the safety and security of thousands of Pakistani students and others living in the US; they have publicly and wrongfully sought to portray Pakistanis in a dangerous light and have almost forgotten that Shahzad is an American citizen.
(A billion Muslims have been maligned since the Israelis with their American agents pulled off 9/11 in Jew Noo Yawk and else where. By Contrast the Pakistani military top brass were busy helping the Americans sustain and create the "al-Qaeda" narrative.........so the Americans are saying thank you)
Ironically, in an effort to demonise Pakistan and Pakistanis, they have also conveniently forgotten that none of the 9/11 terrorists were Pakistani or had lived in Pakistan. But such sensitive details are lost on a US Administration that effectively is following the Bush policies on Pakistan.
(The Party has changed but not the policies in the USA)
Unfortunately, some US apologists in Pakistan have also been quick to jump on this US bandwagon and tried to show how middle class Pakistanis are all anti-American and capable of carrying out terror attacks against the US! No one is interested in the truth and all Pakistanis now are deemed to be guilty till proven innocent as far as the US is concerned. That is why the New York transport authorities (MTA) saw it fit to put out an advertisement directly targeting Pakistanis, which has since been removed from some places but not totally.
(This is the result of the Pakistani military for 30 plus years backing and arming Jihadis at the behest of the USA....................I think its called Chickens coming home to roost)
The worst part is that Mrs. Clinton as well as the US Attorney General who made the strongest Shahzad-TTP linkage in his statements have not seen fit to either concede this mistake or apologise to the Pakistani people for their histrionics and accusations. As for the haste in declaring the Shahzad-TTP link, clearly it had a purpose. It was intended to push Pakistanis into acceding to more unreasonable demands from the US - such as an immediate commencement of the military operation by the Pakistan Army in NWA and the increase in US troops on the ground in Pakistan. All this has also been accompanied by increased drone attacks on FATA. Meanwhile, Pakistanis stand maligned and abused; but who gives a damn?
(Yes obviously, and I hope the Pakistan military firmly and finally resists such requests of waging worthless wars against her own people.......and begins a comprehensive steady policy of pulling away from the USA................easy, there is China and India waiting..............alternative solid sources of help......HOWEVER IT SHOULD BE NOTED that India and China do not bribe foreign leaders to get a state on their side)
