Archive for September 21st, 2008
Islamabad Hotel Bombing: A CIA/MI6/MOSSAD false flag like Bali and Jakarta(update3)
Islamabad Hotel Bombing; A false flag like Bali and Jakarta
This is a false flag terrorist action, a signature instrument of warfare
Have a look at the crater; it is enormous: 40 meters deep.
Only a small nuke, one that is less than 1kton (a mininuke), even smaller perhaps, 0.1kton (a micronuke) could have done this.
Otherwise, they would have had to have found a pretty large truck, one that holds 100 tons or more of explosives to have done this. Unlikely.
Those people in the picture are unaware they are walking unprotected in a radioactive zone. The radiation is not massive as this is a thermonuclear bomb, not a pure fission bomb, but the effects will show up in time later with a mysterious epidemic of deaths.
Little do these people know that the Israelis have struck before in a similar fashion, most notably in Indonesia, in the Bali bombing (the first one; the second one was done to destroy evidence), and elsewhere eg. Lebanon. Joe Vialls has covered this topic well.
And of course, CIA military officers were the target. The Zionists are simply setting up the Americans against the Pakistanis.
The Americans will be used like this, as false flag targets, until they are of no use to the Zionists anymore.
This is how the Afghani Taliban were set up.
It looks like Pakistan is the new Afghanistan.
Look for more false flags with Pakistanis as patsies.
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“..Earlier, a U.S. State Department official led three colleagues through the rubble from the charred building, one of them bleeding heavily from a wound on the side of his head. One of the four, who identified himself only as Tony, said they had been moving toward the rear of a Chinese restaurant inside the hotel after a first, small blast when a second explosion hurled them against the back wall.
“Then we saw a big truck coming to the gates,” he said. “After that, it was just smoke and darkness.”…”
Got that? THEN WE SAW A BIG TRUCK COMING TO TH EGATES…”After the exp;losion had hurled them against the wall. hmmmm
Di dthey make a mistake? Wonder if these were the “cia targets” (yeah sure), and would be valuable to know the orietnation of the chinese restaurant adn hence the blast vector.
But if it IS a correct quote, how could they see the Truck coming AFTER the hue blast? Weird. Truck a fufry then? IF that is a true order of events.
Wonder if it was a gas line and if it was, where was it, how deep and how on earht could a small explosion penetrate deeply enough through ground from a surface vector ppint to resuolt in deep earht penetration???
Just like Bali and Jakarta.
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What Was Mysterious Activity Going on in the Marriott Hotel Islamabad by United States Marines
Marriott Hotel has now become a ghost house which was yesterday the most beautiful and prestigious hotels in the Islamabad. While the condemnation of the blasts and the deaths and the loss of property is going on from all the quarters, some intriguing news is also pouring in.
After the blast, mysteriously fire was started at the fourth and fifth floors. It was said that this fire was the result of gas pipeline burst running through the hotel. The million dollar question is that was the gas pipeline not running through the other floors? Why the fire broke out from the fourth and fifth flours? That is the question which perhaps holds the key to the mystery as why the hotel was targeted yesterday, in which more than 60 people died including many foreigners.
Though it would never get confirmed but the fire on the fifth and fourth floor of the hotel broke out because those flours were housing the mysterious steel boxes under the heavy guard of United States marines and no one including the Pakistani security forces and the security men of the hotel were allowed to go near with the them. These boxes were shifted inside the hotel when the Admiral Mike Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad.
It is said that one member of parliament Mumtaz Alam who belongs to the PPP, the ruling party was there eye witnessed the whole scene when the white truck of US embassy came to the gate of Marriot Hotel and US marines themselves unloaded the steel boxes from the trucks and shifted them to the fourth and fifth floors without passing through them the scanners at the entrance of the hotels. When the truck was there, all the entrance and the exit passage way to the hotels were closed.
And now this blast has occurred at the Marriott, while that mysterious activity was going on.
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This bombing occurs just days prior to Zardari’s attending the 63rd UN General Assembly session. Ahmadinejad will deliver a speech, as well. Zardari has already started the “we will fight the terrorists’ craptalk. Good boy, now sit.
It seems there is a “radical Islamists kill CIA agents” spin being spun. Also, as others have pointed out, witnesses detail TWO explosions happening, like Oklahoma City in 95.
The US is in effect punishing the people of Pakistan for having the audacity to be enraged at the US for killing it’s citizens. In other words, the US is saying to Pakistan with this attack “you see, you won’t let us kill the bad guys and look what happens, we told you so.” It will not work, of course.
The timing is just right, as a huge “terrorist attack” sets the tone for the new government, in respect to it’s attitude toward “militants”. And as I said before, it occurs just prior to the 63rd UN G. A. session.
But all of this only reveals how detached the West is from reality. The Pakistani people won’t buy any of it. It will only cause the US to be more hated and distrusted.
The coming days will reveal more to us…
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Bomb a warning to end Pakistan-US cooperation
Marriott bomb seen as warning to Pakistan to end cooperation with US on fighting militants
KATHY GANNON
The brazen truck-bombing of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad Saturday is a warning from Islamic militants to Pakistan’s new civilian leadership that it should end already-strained cooperation with the United States to pursue al-Qaida and the Taliban, analysts said.
The massive bomb targeting an American hotel chain killed at least 40 people and wounded hundreds, setting a fire that blazed for hours and gutted most of the five-story luxury hotel.
“The attack on the hotel is a message to the Pakistani leadership: End all cooperation with the Americans or pay the price,” said Brian Glyn Williams, associate professor of Islamic history at the University of Massachusetts. “Both sides see Pakistan as a vital battlefield in their global struggle and clearly Pakistani civilians are paying the price for being in the middle of this struggle,” he told The Associated Press.
The U.S. has angered Pakistanis with increasing cross-border raids by its forces from Afghanistan to root out Islamic militants entrenched in the lawless and rugged tribal regions along the border.
Local newspapers are filled with outrage from columnists who accuse the United States of treating Pakistan as a surrogate, flaunting its sovereignty and killing innocents. Civilian casualties from the U.S. assaults have prompted tribesmen in the volatile frontier to threaten revolt.
Williams said the country’s new leaders are caught between pressure from the U.S. to crack down on the militants and al-Qaida demands that they cut all ties with America.
Officials have harshly criticized U.S. incursions into Pakistani airspace and last week, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Pakistan to try to calm the anger.
At the same time, the government is also talking tough to the other side.
Just hours before the suicide bombing, Pakistan’s newly elected President Asif Zardari vowed to wage war against extremists who have been battling government troops in the violent northwest. Osama bin Laden and his top deputies are believed to be hiding in the border region and the U.S. claims al-Qaida and the Taliban have found a safe haven to regroup there.
Zardari has received several threats from al Qaida and the Taliban, who are suspected of assassinating his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, in December.
Last month al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri accused Pakistan’s new leaders of acting on behalf of the United States and called on his followers to rise up against them.
“Let there be no doubt in your minds that the dominant political forces at work in Pakistan today are competing to appease and please the modern day crusaders in the White House and are working to destabilize this nuclear-capable nation under the aegis of America,” said an audio message purported to be from al-Zawahri.
The militant groups that operate in Pakistan’s northwest are a ferocious and disparate group.
The Pakistani Taliban operate under the umbrella group, Tehrik-e-Taliban, which was established last December. It used a tried and tested strategy to gain control of the area — promising to restore law and order.
Within months of taking control, the Pakistani Taliban then terrorizes the local population with public beheadings. Occasionally men accused of spying for the United States are taken to the center of the village and publicly beheaded. Taliban fighters often make videos of the gruesome beheadings that circulate in the markets in northwest Pakistan.
Daniel Markey, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former State Department official, questioned the government’s ability to wage a successful battle without overhauling Pakistan’s intelligence service, which is often accused of aiding and abetting the militants.
“They are able to fight but not able to win without a lot of changes,” he said. “Most will have to be done by the Pakistani army and (intelligence), some by civilian government, and some that would need outside assistance,” Markey added.
Source: AP News
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=365108
Read the great article of Joe Vialls (The Truth Seeker)
Here: Bali false flag bombing
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Indonesia too was a stooge US country with a islamic fundamentalist problem, due mainly , as in Pak, to the gross corruption and injustice of the regime.
bali! boom. Indonesia back off the sanction list for weapons and makes huge purchases and all are happy as teh plundering contineus and the false flags continue (notice the Aceh bombing at a concert, adn notice the court case where military guilty of plantin gbombs etc) using Islamists as the target (in Suharto time the Communists suffered the genocide). All for the plundering. Now fully armed.Repeated in Jakarta at Aussi embassy just before the Anitterrorism based elections. Bangbang gets in and police chief dines with Bali bombers.
Pakistan has an exact bomb event with same crater. Again times for max islamic casualties at break of fast. Who would want to target tose breaking their fast? Again At night.
Uk/US patsy Mr 10%, whose wife was killed (she interviewed with David frost and said OBL was dead and the financials should be dug to find the culprits of terrorism, ouch bye bye) . Again corrupt regime against Islamic based backlash. Again military issues. Strategic position.
Next thing this will be blamed upon Iran…………NOTE NO RESPONSIBLITY CLAIMED YET, out of character for real terrorist attack.
Typical of false flag.
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False Flag Op in Pakistan, Islamabad, Marriot Hotel
Ask questions, demand answers!
1. Who can make profit for bombing Islamabad now?
2. President is just changed, who wants to rule his thoughts?
3. New government has take some policy, towards whom, against whom?
4. Why Marriot, why like that?
5. Timing is the right question, why now?
6. Who was on the building, and why?
When I look these questions, and challenging the history of alledged “terrorists” who rise up always there where most needed: 7/7 in London, 8/8 in Georgia, 9/11 in USA, In Madrid, Yemen, Afghanistan…
I see always a need for policy, to rejoin the coalition of “War on Terrorism” … All the attacks have been for making alliance stronger against that black forse: Al Quaida, what ever it is, when wanted to show up… I am confused. And now in Islamabad: Just the time when your country was taking a step away from “coalition of will” Against threatening Iraq and Iran… A bomb near the new president.
Dont matter if one of GI-Joe’s is dead, they kill their boys like thousands in war against that great myth: Al Qaida. I see that there is very probable reason, real profiteer from attacks…
1. Pakistan is going away from coalition. You are armed with sophisticated western arms, and you are good customers of US war industry. Your break way hurt the main business: Control The Fear. You are a neignbour to Iran, too important to loose now when the great step is on the door of history: They have main target over all your freedom, and human rights: Defeat Persia. Zionist believes give them rights to do any bad, for their god purpose.
2. Blackmale: “If you dont do as we say, your country is in great danger, and this will happen again.” And just how did his wife died? In a bomb… Before her precidency: They rule him with obvious fear: Make A bomb. U.S. Blackwater industrial complex.
3. Towards tribe leaders, against US. “Just tell me why, suspected “Al-Quaida” terrorists from mountains, who are now getting growing goverment protection against US drone-attacks, would thank government by truckload of TNT?” There is no common sence… Also nobody has still taken any responsibility to this attack… ust wait for a new “Osama-Video*tm” to be released soon… Why Al quaida, if ever existed in real life, will attack a goverment who is turnbing against US imperium and Zionist targets???
4. Marriot Hotel is international company, and insured in very many ways. All the healing of wounds is secured by international companys, and rebuilded then by zionist bankers.
5. Attack of Iran is coming closer every day… There is no place for broblem in nearby country: Then policy makers just do as before: Bomb the main city inside of coalition, blame terrorists, and then “coalition of will” is more strong… Thats called National Terrorism.
6. Look those who are most scared, not corpses, they cant tell you a thing no more… : Look those who are in true shock: They had been lucky this time: They know their value for other possible future. Ask them.
And after all: Look this evidence!
Was it an attack on US Marines?
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread393485
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Mossad/CIA Busy In Islamabad
“A huge truck bomb exploded at the entrance to the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday evening, killing at least 40 people and wounding at least 250, the police said.
The blast, one of the worst acts of terrorism in Pakistan’s history, went off just a few hundred yards from the prime minister’s house, where all the leaders of government were dining after the president’s address to Parliament.
The toll was expected to grow because of reports that people had been trapped inside the six-story hotel, which has been a favorite meeting spot of both foreigners and well-connected Pakistanis in the heart of the capital. The building was quickly engulfed in flames and continued to burn for hours Saturday night.
The bomb left a vast crater, 40 feet wide and 25 feet deep, at the security barrier to the hotel. Witnesses said security guards were buried under a mound of rubble. Cars across the street from the hotel were mangled, and trees on the street were charred and stripped of their branches. The blast shattered windows in buildings hundreds of yards away.”
Of course it just happened and more information/disinformation is forthcoming, but this event has all the trappings of a classic Mossad false flag attack.
For one thing look at the photo above. No conventional explosive as in a car bomb will dig a crater that deep. Elementary physics dictate that dynamite, ammonium nitrate, C4 or any number of other explosives take the path of least resistance and will explode upward and outward. It’s more reminiscent of the mini nuke that was set off in front of the Sari nightclub in Bali. It’s probably a safe bet that no muslim terrorist group possesses such weapons, which don’t just shatter or pulverize but vaporizes.
It’s also a safe bet that this convenient quote by an unnamed individual will get big play in MSM:
“An American intelligence official said the attack “bears all the hallmarks of a terrorist operation carried out by Al Qaeda or its associates.”
Well, no, it doesn’t. It bears all the hallmarks of a fascist false flag attack which is conveniently timed to jump start fear and anger to enable the perpetrators to accomplish their agenda, which is to suck a nation of 175 million deeply into the war on terror scam.
“The Marriott is an icon,” said Abdullah Riar, a former aide to Mrs. Bhutto. “It’s like the twin towers of Pakistan.
Recall that prior to the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq, Australians were overwhelmingly opposed to supporting and being part of fascist conquest and slaughter in the middle east. The only people on board with an american strike were the toadies in government. The Bali blast was in front of a nightclub that was popular with Aussies and they made up most of the dead, while if it were muslim fanatics who set off the explosion, they would have picked the american hangout down the road. Afterwards all opposition to the Iraqi invasion was nullified by calls of righteous indignation and anger and from that point on the australians were dragged into the quagmire.
From the initial reports the same exact thing has just occured in Islamabad. In the past several weeks there’s been a huge outcry from Pakistanis about american forays and strikes inside their border from Afghanistan, subsequently killing Pakistani citizens. The Pak military was even given orders to repel american cross border attacks with deadly force. Obviously the monsters playing out their phony WOT can’t have the uppity wogs asserting themselves when there’s a conquering agenda to follow, so this should teach them a lesson to follow orders and allow the ziofascists have their way with impunity.
By all reports this was a massive explosion that follows the false flag modus operandi exactly. It was so powerful it was heard almost 20 miles away. It happened at dusk, ensuring that operatives would have all night to fix the evidence to point to the designated patsies. American agents were quick to offer their “assistance” immediately, just as in Bali:
“The F.B.I. offered to send special agents to help investigate, said a senior American official, who declined to be identified because of the nature of the matter.”
In any nuke explosion the incredibly hot thermal wave sets fire to everything around. The entire Marriott hotel was engulfed in flames and was burning fiercely after the blast in Islamabad. Just as in Bali, where no trace of around 100 people were found, the fireball seems to have done more than just smash people up into small parts. “Witnesses said that security staff at the front of the hotel, where the blast was strongest, had ’simply been vaporised.” And just like in Bali there apparently were one or two smaller preliminary explosions that would scatter traces of common explosives to contaminate the murder scene. ‘First there was a blast and then all the electricity went out … then it came back on and there was a second much bigger blast or a series of deafening blasts.’ And of course, the “vast crater”.
My guess is that that’s the last we see of the crater because it’s just too incriminating, and an hour surfing around now brings up only images of burning buildings. Also we’ll hear from the Pak government all the usual strong condemnations about terrorism. But there was great danger doing this. The entire world has had years since 9/11 to understand how the real terrorists do things and blame it on the designated patsies. It just may be that instead of being bludgeoned by this false flag catastrophe into going along with a slow motion western invasion of their country, Pakistanis will now fiercely resist the ziofascists, and they do have nukes.
http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2008/09/mossadcia-busy-in-islamabad.html
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At least 60 people were killed and scores others injured when an explosives laden vehicle was blown up at the entrance of Marriot Hotel here on Saturday.
Those killed include five women. 257 wounded, some of them critically were shifted to the local hospitals after the deadly explosion. The death toll is feared to rise further.
The powerful explosion caused fire in many parts of the hotel besides shattering the windowpanes of the buildings around the hotel.
According to details, a small vehicle broke through the security barrier outside the hotel before an explosives laden dumper truck was struck with the hotel causing a huge explosion.
The cowardly terrorist act of attack on innocent people is one of the series we are wittessing these days from Tribal areas to Islamabad. The timing of this attack is when President Zardari announced major steps in fight against terrorists. The elements involved in these terrorists acts inside Pakistan are being trained and financed by CIA and India’s RAW in Afghanistan headed by former Guantanamo Bay detainess Baitullah Mahsud who is presently working closely with Indian backed Northern Aliiance in Afghanista.
Despite repeated informations provided to US and NATO force about exect location of Baitullah Mahsud and his gang by Pakistani agenicies, no action has been taken against him by US. This reflects the true intentions of USA in name of war on terror. The sole purpose of American lead war on terror seems to take control of “FATA’ region along with Afghanistan and Baluchistan for future energy route from Central Asia and also to contain China.
For this purpose, once again religious extremists are being used as in previous Afghan war against Soviet Union with active support of Indian RAW to destablise Pakistan. We, the citizens of Pakistan condemn these cowerdly acts and demand from government to respond by all means, military and diplomatic to defeat the conspiracy against Pakistan.
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Was Marriott Hotel Islamabad an attack on US Marines and What Was Stored On Floors 4 And 5 U.S. military equipment?
Witnessed by many, including a PPP MNA and his friends, a US embassy truckload of steel boxes was unloaded and shifted inside the Marriott Hotel on the same night when Admiral Mike Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad.
Both the main gates (the entrance and the exit) of the hotel were closed while no one except the US Marines were either allowed to go near the truck or get the steel boxes unloaded or shift them inside the hotel. These steel boxes were not passed through the scanners installed at the entrance of the hotel lobby and were reportedly shifted to the fourth and fifth floors of the Marriott.
Besides several others, PPP MNA Mumtaz Alam Gilani and his two friends, Sajjad Chaudhry, a PPP leader, and one Bashir Nadeem, witnessed this mysterious activity to which no one other than the PPP MNA objected and protested.
A source present there told that after entertaining them with refreshments at the Nadia restaurant at midnight when Mumtaz Alam, along with his friends, was to leave the hotel, he found a white US embassy truck standing right in front of the hotel’s main entrance.
Both the In-gate and the Out-gate of the hotel were closed while almost a dozen well-built US Marines in their usual fatigues were unloading the steel boxes from the truck. No one, including the hotel security men, was either allowed to go near the truck or touch the steel boxes, which were being shifted inside the hotel but without passing through the scanners.
Upon inquiry, one of the three PPP friends who was waiting for the main gates of the hotel to open to get his car in, was informed that the suspicious boxes were shifted to the fourth and fifth floors of the hotel. Mumtaz Alam was furious both at the US Marines and the hotel security not only for the delay caused to them but also for the security lapse he was witnessing.
On his protest, there was absolutely no response from the Marines and the security men he approached were found helpless. Mumtaz Alam told the hotel security official that they were going to endanger the hotel and its security. He was also heard telling his friends that he would never visit the hotel again. He also threatened to raise the issue in parliament.
One does not know whether the PPP MNA revisited the hotel after that mysterious midnight but his brother Imtiaz Alam, who is a senior journalist, was in the same hotel when the truck exploded at the main gate of the hotel. Imtiaz Alam had a lucky escape and found his way out of the hotel with great difficulty in pitch darkness.
One of the lifts he was using fell to the ground floor just after he forced the door open on the 4th floor and got out of it.
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The camera would have been a security camera, with monitoring in the hotel’s security office, and recording either on a VCR (if old fashioned) or a propper loop recording digital multi-channel security recorder. I found an image that is a collage of six frame grabs from the recording, and it’s noticable that the camera is panning around, and zooming in on the truck. Thus, it was being monitored live by a security person.
As for why it cut out – considering the explosion was at the main street entrance, and the building’s power feed may well have come in near there, it’s quite conceivable that the power went off within a single video frame-time during the explosion. Also if it was a digital recorder, there’s a latency between the incoming video stream and when the data is written to the disk, due to video encoding processing. So the explosion being missing is believable.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=ql&ie=UTF8&cd=1&t=k&ll=33.732589,73.087487&spn=0.002427,0.005472&z=18
Marriott hotel
@Paperinoisback – looking at the google aerial image (which will be a year or two old) and the many pics on the net, it’s clear where the major explosion was. Also the various images of scenes around the outside of the hotel match for that being the major explosion origin.
However, there is something very odd…
For an explosion forceful (and high VOD) enough to have dug that crater from a surface detonation, there’d have been a high velocity shock wave expanding horizontally outwards. This would have pushed parked cars nearby away, and certainly caused asymetrical overpressure damage (panels pushed in on one side, panels ripped off in one direction, etc.
But we don’t see this. We see the cars in pretty much their original parked positions, with nearly symetrical (inwards from all sides and downwards) overpressure damage. This is hard to explain, unless… the explosion was underground, vented predominantly straight up, then expanded in a lower velocity overpressure pulse from higher up.
There are also one or two pics of what I gather are cars closest to the crater, that are nearly completely buried in dirt and rubble. This too indicates an underground explosion.
It is very noticable that NONE of the cars are burnt. Not even singed. One picture from AP makes it look like a row of cars are burnt, but it seems to be either AP photoshopping again, or a lighting trick. Since in shots of definitely the same cars from other sources, those cars are shockwave damaged, but have no obvious heat damage. Though, I’d like to see a shot of the same cars from the other (facing the bomb) side.
This really makes me wonder about the ‘fireball heat set the upper floors on fire’ claim. So very uniformly… That’s odd too.
Exactly. It must have been planted underground.
where this single source of blast was, to me it’s rather obscure. OTOH, i agree with your point on the cars being left in their original position, something rather strange. Take a look at this pic:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1716414.ece
Now at this:
http://media.washingtontimes.com/media/img/photos/2008/09/20/pakistanbomb.jpg
Looks like the parked cars are just left of the crater. Now with such a deep crater, wouldn’t you expect the cars to be just blown away if the blast was above the surface?
Now if you look at this other pic:
http://www.am770chqr.com/News/World/Article.aspx?id=50788
You will see that there are cars that are even closer to the crater, and these one, too, were not pushed away.
Also peculiar, in the first and second pic, is the way the first floor of the hotel (or first half-floor), just above the arches, looks totally unscathed, while the top floors are entirely engulfed by flames. Consider the height of a truck in relation with the structures in the photos: wouldn’t the blast force impact this first half floor too? You bet.
Also I believe no bomb could have started flames on the WHOLE length of the hotel. It must have been more than one.
One last thing: in the second photo, look at the silver car – it is closest to the crater, yet it’s the least damaged. Looks like all the cars on the left of it have been hit by a force coming from upwards (=the hotel’s top floors). This would also explain why they didn’t move. Besides, look at the leftmost car and the way its roof has caved in.
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Taliban denies role in hotel attack
Sdeptember 22, 2008
A senior commander of the Taliban in Pakistan has denied that his group was responsible for a bomb attack at Islamabad’s Marriott hotel, in which at least 53 people died and 270 were injured.
Baitullah Mehsud said on Monday that the Taliban had no role in Saturday’s attack, Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Islamabad, reported.
“Mehsud said that their group does not believe in killing so many locals in the attack,” Hyder said.
“RDX was used in the attack, which is a very volatile substance. The big question is: Where did such a large amount of RDX come from? In previous attacks, militants have not used this substance.”
In addition to the dozens killed, at least 270 people were injured in the attack on the hotel, a favoured place for foreigners and the wealthy elite.
British Airways announced on Monday that it was temporarily suspending flights to and from Pakistan, citing security concerns after the hotel bombing.
The airline, which offers six flights to Pakistan each week, did not face a direct security threat, but took the step out of caution, Suhail Rehman, a BA spokesman, said.
Foreign diplomatic missions and non-governmental organisations operating in Pakistan have also reviewed their security status.
Question over bomb
One of the lines of inquiry taken by Pakistani investigators is that the bomb attack was carried by an al-Qaeda cell operating in Islamabad.
They said that the attackers constructed the 600kg truck bomb at a safe house in the capital because vehicles entering the city are subject to routine searches.
“Our focus at the moment is to track down the network in Islamabad which must have facilitated the movement and construction of the bomb,” a senior official said.
Video footage of the attack showed the truck failing to break down a security barrier at the entrance to the Marriott hotel.
Security guards at the five-star hotel tried to put the resulting fire with extinguishers before the full bomb detonated, devastating the complex.
Two Americans, the Czech ambassador to Pakistan and a Vietnamese woman were among those killed in Saturday’s attack.
A Danish intelligence agent is still missing after the blast.
“Carrying 600 kilos of explosives over long distances and through checkpoints is not possible, so our immediate suspicion is that the bomb was loaded in Islamabad,” the official said.
It is possible that the explosives used in the bomb could have been sneaked into Islamabad in small quantities from the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, he said.
Military operation
A senior Pakistani security official said on Monday that the explosives used in the bombing were like those used in two recent deadly attacks.
“We are collecting evidence. The explosives were similar to those used in the Danish embassy, which was claimed by al-Qaeda, and the attack on the ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) camp in Rawalpindi last year,” the official said.
An al-Qaeda leader claimed responsibility for the attack on the Danish embassy, but no group said it had targeted the ISI facility.
Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, said after the Marriott attack that the government will take a tough line against fighters linked to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Pakistan’s military is currently trying to bring under control of the country’s tribal region bordering Afghanistan, an area long considered to be a safe haven for opposition fighters.
Pakistani troops Fire on US helicopters…
NAHAL TOOSI
Pakistani troops and tribesmen opened fire on two U.S. helicopters crossed into the country from neighboring Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Monday.
The helicopters did not return fire and re-entered Afghan airspace without landing, the officials said.
Pakistan’s army and the U.S. military in Afghanistan said they had no information on the reported incursion late Sunday, which will likely add to tensions between Islamabad and Washington.
A spate of suspected U.S. missile strikes into Pakistan’s border region and a raid by U.S. commandos that killed around 15 people have angered and embarrassed Pakistani leaders.
President Asif Ali Zardari is currently in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly. The newly elected leader is also expected to meet President Bush.
The two intelligence officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media. They said informants in the field told them of the incursion around one mile inside the disputed and poorly demarcated border in the Alwara Mandi area.
A week ago, U.S. helicopters reportedly landed near Angoor Ada, a border village in South Waziristan but returned toward Afghanistan after troops fired warning shots.
A military spokesman said last week that troops had orders to open fire in case of another cross-border raid by U.S. troops.
Associated Press writers Zarar Khan in Islamabad and Ishtiaq Mahsud in Dera Ismail Khan contributed to this report.
Source: AP News http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=367360
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Official Story Of Pakistan Truck Bombing Is A Lie
The recent truck bombing at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad Pakistan has been sold to the people of the world as an operation conducted by a blood thirsty Al-Qaeda suicide bomber. The official story states that an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber blew up the Marriott Hotel with a truck bomb killing 53 people and injuring hundreds. Surveillance video of the so called truck bomb that they claim caused all of this death and destruction showed an explosion so weak that it was incapable of doing any real damage to a security shack that was located just a few feet away from where the truck was parked. People who were roughly 15 to 20 feet from the blast were even able to run away from the explosion. It is laughable to think that this truck bomb was responsible for causing massive damage to the Marriott Hotel killing and injuring all of those people. Watching the video is proof that it was just a cover story for the real operation. Foreign news outlets including the Daily Pakistan reported that there was a contingent of U.S. Marines who were in the hotel guarding boxes with unknown contents at the same time that this truck bombing occurred. With all this in mind, it is obvious that we are not getting the full story.
What’s even more ridiculous about the official story is the fact that they want us to believe that an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber would attack a hotel in a country that is on uncertain terms with the United States. In fact, the Pakistan military has recently been in combat with U.S. military units that have violated their national border. The official story simply doesn’t make any sense and can easily be written off as a lie.
The video evidence indicates that there is no possible way that the truck bomb could have caused the damage that they claimed. With U.S. Marines staying in the hotel guarding boxes with unknown contents, the investigation should focus in on the U.S. Marines that were in the area. The damage of the hotel is more indicative of a blast that took place on the inside, instead of the over glorified truck explosion that barely did any damage to the surrounding area. It is quite possible that the boxes under control of the U.S. Marines contained explosive devices that did the real damage to the hotel.
There’s no doubt that it is much more likely that this was some sort of black operation designed to further socially engineer the American people to believe that there is an abundance of terrorism in Pakistan, as yet another excuse to have U.S. military operations in the area. The operations don’t really have anything to do with terrorism; instead it has everything to do with maintaining western influence over Pakistan. While all of this is going on, the corporate controlled media continues to spread propaganda that Osama Bin Laden is hiding somewhere in the area around the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Billions have been spent on the terror war but some how they still cannot find Bin Laden and every videotape of Bin Laden released after the 9/11 attacks has appeared to have been a fake. Isn’t it more plausible that Bin Laden is most likely dead and that his likeness is being used as a character to propagandize the phony terror war?
With all this said, it is obvious that there are many questions about this so called suicide truck bombing attack. We will probably never know 100% who was behind this, but the one thing that is certain is that the truck bomb was not responsible for the death and destruction that resulted. There should be an immediate investigation into the activity of the U.S. Marines that were in the hotel when this occurred.
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=12094
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