While praising India for not attacking Pakistan immediately following the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned India could not be expected to show such restraint if another attack happened.
Which led Secretary Gates to conclude that al-Qaeda is attempting to spark a war between India and its long-standing rival Pakistan. Tensions have continued to grow between the two nations since 2008, with India’s Army Chief declaring his nation ready to fight both Pakistan and its ally China at the same time: a three-way war which would involve 40 percent of the worlds population.
Moreover, Secretary Gates claimed that al-Qaeda secretly exercises control over every militant group in the region, and that a “victory for one is a victory for all.” The US certainly has shown difficulty distinguishing between militant factions, but Gates provided no evidence that they were actually all part of a single “syndicate,” as he put it.
The Mumbai attack was blamed on the Lashkar-e Taiba (LeT), a militant group of Kashmiri separatists. LeT was quick to deny the charges. Links between LeT and al-Qaeda are unclear at best, and officials have used the fact that both groups operated in Afghanistan before the 2001 US invasion as evidence of ties.
Such a war would be wishthinking of Mr Gates and he will probably do anything to make it happen!!
And the CIA will work on it to make it happen!
W.
Lets blame Al-Qaeda for the under cover operations of the CIA. after all, Iraq is winding down and we need a place to go for all those Soldiers. the War Machine wont make any Money with the Soldiers sitting at home where there are no more Jobs.
No, al Qaeda, the CIA creation, along with MOSSAD and RAW wanto to trigger an India-China war; and then sit back and watch as the two largest populated countrys of the world tear themselves apart, leaving what remains to Israeli and American corporate interests:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8466238.stm
and:
http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/the-nari…
That doesn't make any sense. Pakistan will be another Iran. They will kick out the US supported communist dictators and have their country back. Just like Iran does today. (the greenies are CIA plants, they were arresting agitators months before the elections)
This international communism is coming to an end. The people are taking their countries back. Egypt, jordan, germany, saudi Arabia etc. Will kick out these commie dictators and take their country back.
Some people haven't yet been upgraded to post-cold-war rethoric. Just let it be.
I know the, there will be an attack on India, a nuclear attack on the capital, and millions of people will die. And while PM Singh is giving his speech about how dare they do this to us, and screaming about the enemies of India this and the enemies of India that, while the military is already bombing China and Pakistan, you try to remember that this war is another set-up by the Americans yet one more time.
I learned early on that anything we say al Qaeda wants to do is actually what we are planning on doing. Al Qaeda wants civil war in Iraq? Al Qaeda is trying to draw US troops into Pakistani territory? I am not a truther or anything like that but I believe that a lot of public statements about what al Qaeda is supposedly planning is actually what we are trying to achieve behing the scenes. Another way to look at it is that everything "they" say about the wars is a lie or double speak. For instance when Bush said "The US does not torture" this means "The US tortures", or when Obama says we will not have boots on the ground in Yemen or Somalia this means "We are putting special ops, mercs, or CIA boots on the ground.
In my opinion the US was never really interested in being allies with Pakistan. I think part of the reason we invaded Afghanistan was to eventually invade Pakistan through mission creep. I think the US, Israel and India are trying to contain Pakistans nukes. I also believe though that the US will eventually use India as a lever against Pakistan. War between Pakistan and India is ultimately in the interests of the United States. The US cannot win a Guerilla war in Afghanistan, we need all out war where we can pull out the big guns and re-assert our deterrant power. Obama has been skillfully and quickly extending the tentacles of US power around the world. I think pretty soon the veil will drop and the public will realize we are actively involved in almost every conflict happening right now in the world. WWIII might just come before the complete collapse of the dollar, its a race against time.
Al-Qaeda was responsible for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, so what's one more? The only negative aspect is that the US wouldn't be included in this one, so there's no potential profit in it — that's what pisses Gates.
Gates must be hallucinating. The only way Al-Qaida controls them all is if Al-Qaida really is a complete CIA operation. Remember, Al-Qaida means "the database" and refers to the database the CIA kept of the mujaheddin it enlisted to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan.
"the database"?!?!? Al Qaeda means no such thing; it means "the base".
The U.S. Government gets most of their ideas from Hollywood.They really are insane.
I don't think that the Neo-conservatives and the Military Industrialist will be very sorry if that were to happen. There is money to be made by supplyng probably both warring parties with more military hardware. American economy will be booming.
Al Queda is acting more and more like the US government.
This is highly irresponsible public statement. And why India is NOT expected to exercise constraint in a case of an terrorist attack? India SHOULD exercise constraint, because an action by an unknown group, however damaging, is not a war. Only in the neocon hallucination dealing with such violence is equal to war. However, it seems like someone is itching to have a REAL war, with some real masses of people involved.
India better exercise constraint. It has a number of unsolved problems within its own territory, and an ongoing dispute with neighbors. India, as a presumably responsible country knows better then to equate terrorist violence with the actions of any state. In many cases, such groups are manipulated by intelligence services that provide them with the funding, arms, and other logistics. It is essential to avoid being manipulated into action, and the restraint is a virtue.
Pakistan has zero incentive to support any millitants. And if the state is not supporting them, and not openly aggitating for a war, what is the purpose of a target country picking a war as a solution?
a war between india and Pakistan will involve nuclear weapons.
if this happens the world we know will be over.
and something much worse will take its place
Great..!!! Before you know it Al-Qaeda will be blamed for everything from Global warming to trans fatty acids and failing schools. Remember: Ignorance is strength!
Mounting evidence that AQ=Mossad