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Pakistan’s counter-terrorism efforts in Karachi have failed miserably,because several factors
1) MQM terrorism
2) Sania Naz, a PPP Jiyali and a Powerful Karachi Bhatta Mafia Boss, who is also a favorite of vocally challenged CM of Sindh, “Hapless” Qaim Ali Shah
3)The inept and paralyzed civilian government of Nawaz Sharif, which is too busy in skimming money for grandiose projects. Or paying homage to his foreign master, the United States.
4)They do not pay attention to the fire being raged by Indian, Saudi, UAE, and Super Power’s agents in Karachi, through surrogate operatives like Sania Naz and the gangsters like Amin Buledi.
5)Pakistan’s Intelligence Agencies cannot lift a finger against these politically patronized terrorists, like Karachi Amn Committee, under the protection of Pakistan’s People’s Party.
In the meantime the Jiyalas and Jiyalis of Pakistan Peoples Party like Sharmila Faruqi and the turncoat of PPP, Nabil Gabol, go on to the media or TV talk shows and through glibness of their venomous tongues defend terrorist patrons like Sania Naz.
They fan the flames of Lyari Gang War, whose ultimate objective is to de-couple Karachi and Gwadar from Pakistan. Gwadar is a thorn on the side of US, India ,the Saudis, and the corrupt Arab Sheikdoms of UAE,particularly Dubai, whose business is threatened by the development of Gwadar.
US does not want to have China develop Gwadar Port and get access to Persian Gulf and shorten its trade links to Europe and the Middle East.
Therefore, there is a confluence of competing interests of India, US, UAE, Saudi Arabia,UK, EU, and Russia, and Iran against the interests of Pakistan and China.
The promotion of terrorism and insurgencies in Balochistan, Karachi, and Gwadar, serves the combined interest of many countries in the region and big powers like Russia and US.
The result is promotion of rampant terrorism in Karachi and deliberate delays in enacting legislation to combat it in Sindh legislator, where RAW agents and Phoolan Devi of Pakistan rules the roost.
Asif Zardari in the mean time is basking in the glory and protection afforded by his twin brother, dubiously “elected” US Agent, PM Nawaz Sharif.
Not of single case of corruption against Asif Zardari has been criminally prosecuted, even, though he is no longer under the umbrella of presidential immunity.
Nawaz Sharif will never prosecute Asif Zardari, because both of them had served the interest of US in the past.
A key interest of US in Pakistan is to destabilize Karachi and Balochistan and sever, Gwadar and Karachi from Pakistan’s control. In order to carry out this objective, people like Sania Naz and Amin Buledi have been recruited to subtly promote terrorism.
Keep Pakistan’s economy hostage to terrorism in Karachi, the commercial hub of Pakistan.
In all these activities, India’s RAW, MQM Terrorists, BLA Terrorists, Taliban Terrorists, Karachi Gangsters, and their patrons like the corrupt politician of Lyari, Sania Naz have been bought off and do the bidding of their foreign masters, a result, the beautiful City of Karachi, the commercial hub of Pakistan is completely paralyzed.
They promote objectives of terrorist organizations in Pakistan and portray Pakistan as a terrorist haven. Here is a list of publications of a RAW f
India has never accepted Pakistan. It destroyed half of it and with Zionist and US help create Bangladesh.
Now its target is Karachi, where it is promoting terrorism, through its surrogates like Sania Naz.
Pakistan’s PM Nawaz Sharif is fiddling like Nero, while Karachi is burning.
He continues to consolidate his foreign businesses run by Hamza Sharif.
He is all set with his super gradiose projects, where he can rob poor Pakistanis of Pakistan’s wealth and fund his global businesses through Hamza Sharif.
His brother, Shahbaz Sharif, through stealth and chicanery, and self promoting and self-aggrandizing propaganda, builds own image as Mr.Clean,
while robbing Pakistan’s biggest province, Punjab blind.
Sania Naz is Pakistan’s Peoples Party’s true face of a RAW operative. She is Phoolan Devi of Pakistan. She runs the biggest gang in the port city of Karachi, but no one knows her true face. She sits as a politician in the Sindh Assembly and is under the patronage of Chief Minister of Sindh Qaim Ali Shah. Pakistan is being damaged from the roots by this gangsta moll. She is behind most of the criminal activities and terrorism carried out by elements from interior Sindh. Her group is always in conflict with the other political gang in Karachi, run remotely, by British terrorist Altaf Hussain, from London.
She was responsible for weaponization of the PPP faction of Lyari, after the dismissal of arms dealer and distributor PPP’s ,Minister, Zulfiqar Mirza.
All these gangs,including the Buledi Gang patronized by Sania Naz, are getting their instructions from Indian intelligence agents operating from the region of Afghanistan, adjacent to North Waziristan region. Sania Naz operates with impunity as she is protected by none other than Asif Zardari, the former President of Pakistan and his pup, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
Indian Intelligence Think Tanks run by Hindus publish reports on the state of terrorism in Pakistan. Their primary focus, nowadays is Karachi, and specifically, the Karachi Gangsters.
One such report by, most likely, a Hindu woman, masquerading as a Muslim (and using the relative anonymity of cyberspace). She/He writes under a Muslim sounding name Ambreen Agha.
She claims to be a Research Assistent in Delhi University. But, most of these writers are employees of the PSYOPS WING of RAW operating from South Block.
One such RAW front Organizations masquerades under the sanctimonious name of SOUTH ASIA TERRORISM PORTAL or SATP.
This RAW front organization key objective is portray Pakistan as a have for terrorists.
In order to give themselves legitimacy, they use the Zionist ploy of mildly implicating terrorism in their own country, by publishing half-baked articles on terrorism in South Asia, particularly, when focusing on India.
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SATP
A RAW FRONT ORGANIZATION BASED IN INDIA
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They promote objectives of terrorist organizations in Pakistan. Here is a list of of publications
Pakistan’s counter-terrorism effort are at best can be described as frail. The corrupt civilian government of Nawaz sharif is too busy to pay attention to the fire being spread by Indian agents in Karachi, through politicians like Sania Naz and gangsters like Amin Buledi.
Pakistan’s Intelligence Agencies cannot lift a finger against these politically patronized terrorists, like Karachi Amn Committee, under the protection of Pakistan’s People’s Party.
The Jiyala’s and Jiyali’s of Pakistan Peoples Party like Sharmila Faruqi, go on to the media or TV talk shows and through glibness of their venomous tongues defend terrorist patrons like Sania Naz
Asif Zardari in the mean-time is basking in the glory and protection afforded by his twin brother, dubiously “elected” US Agent, PM Nawaz Sharif.
Not of single case of corruption against Asif Zardari has been criminally prosecuted, even, though he is no longer under the umbrella of presidential immunity.
Nawaz Sharif will never prosecute Asif Zardari, because both of them had served the interest of US in the past.
A key interest of US in Pakistan is to destabilize Karachi and Balochistan and sever, Gwadar and Karachi from Pakistan’s control. In order to carry out this objective, people like Sania Naz and Amin Buledi have been recruited to subtly promote terrorism.
Keep Pakistan’s economy hostage to terrorism in Karachi, the commercial hub of Pakistan.
In all these activities, India’s RAW, Karachi Gangsters, their Patrons like the corrupt politician of Lyari, Sani Naz have been bought off and do their Master’s bidding. As a result, the beautiful City of Karachi is completely paralysed by
By Ambreen Agha
August 19, 2013
– Lyari Gangster Ghaffar Zikri’s interview with the CNBC.
Recent incidents of violence in Karachi have covered a wide spectrum, including gangsters and terrorists targeting politicians and media, gang wars between local criminals, and targeted killings of a range of civilians.
On August 16, 2013, two persons – a female staffer, Raheela Zohair, and a security guard, Mir Ali – were injured when four unidentified assailants opened fire at the Express Media office located at Korangi Road in Korangi Town.
On the same day, unidentified militants ambushed the vehicle of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) Sania Naz Baloch near Dubai Chowk in Lyari Town. Sania Baloch, however, escaped unhurt.
On August 7, 2013, at least 11 persons were killed and 26 were injured in an explosion outside a football ground in Lyari Town. The blast occurred when footballers and the crowd were leaving the grounds after a football match. The apparent target of the blast was Provincial Minister for Kutchi Abadis and Spatial Development, Javed Nagori, who was the chief guest. Nagori was reportedly injured in the blast.
On August 1, 2013, gunmen belonging to the Sheraz Comrade and Amin Buledi group of the Pakistan Amn Committee (PAC) opened fire on Shakeel Shako, the Joint Sector in-charge of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), killing him on the spot in the Jodia Bazaar (market) of Saddar Town. The Station House Officer Azam Khan said the incident was “a skirmish between activists of the MQM and criminals belonging to the banned PAC”.
The recent incidents of violence are only an extension of the existing culture of mindless killing and arson in Karachi, the District which has provided a ‘level playing field’ to a multiplicity of extremist actors, including criminals, political extremists and terrorists, to orchestrate violence, against a background of a violently polarized politics, with political parties pitting one against the other. Karachi continues to burn with the spill-over of unabated violence in Lyari Town, with gangsters operating in the locality driven by the ambition of establishing full control across the wider Karachi District, comprising of 18 Towns.
All the 18 Towns of Karachi District have been engulfed by extensive violence. According to partial data collected by the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP) Karachi has recorded at least 3,828 fatalities since January 1, 2011, (all data till August 18, 2013), including 3,288 civilians, 274 Security Force (SF) personnel, and 266 terrorists/criminals. Of these, Lyari Town in South Karachi remains the worst hit, recording at least 507 fatalities, including 446 civilians, 36 SF personnel and 25 terrorists/criminals; followed by Orangi Town in Karachi West with at least 478 fatalities, including 430 civilians, 23 SF personnel and 25 terrorists/criminals; and Karachi East’s Gulshan Town, with 443 killed, including 399 civilians, 28 SF personnel and 16 militants. In 2013 alone, Karachi District has already recorded 1,089 fatalities, including 898 civilians, 106 SF personnel and 85 terrorists/criminals. Lyari Town, Gulshan Town and Gadap Town remain the worst affected.
Political killings have become the order of day in the soaring violence that afflicts Karachi. Activists of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), the MQM and the Awami National Party (ANP) have been the principal targets. A total of 304 activists of these parties, including 159 of the MQM; 95 of the ANP, and 52 of the PPP, have been killed since 2011. While the PAC flourishes under the open support of PPP, the Ghaffar Zikri-led Lyari gang is supported by the MQM. Amidst this politically fuelled violence, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has also penetrated Karachi in recent years.
Karachi’s intriguing diversity appears to have become the bane of the entire region. Home to Balochi, Pashtu, Urdu and Sindhi speaking people, the diverse ethnic-linguistic spread across the District is a raw nerve, with identity-based political parties supporting and championing the cause of specific ethnic groups, and engineering a convergence of political elites and criminal elements. Indeed, the continuing wave of violence in Karachi is an account of the state’s complicity in criminal activity, even as a prolonged turf war between two local criminal formations – the PAC and the Lyari gang – which defiantly continue to war for control over Lyari Town and to extend their influence beyond.
The PAC, currently led by Uzair Baloch, and the Lyari gang, led by Ghaffar Zikri, have been fighting tooth and nail to consolidate their influence in the area. The Lyari gang was founded by Arshad Pappu, who was killed by criminals from Uzair’s PAC on March 16, 2013.
The PAC was founded by the deceased Sardar Abdul Rehman Baloch alias Rehman Dakait. The Sindh Home Ministry banned PAC under Section 11-B of the Anti-Terrorism Act on October 10, 2011.
The turf-war began with the killing of PAC founder Rehman Dakait by the SFs on August 9, 2009. It was after his killing that Lyari was divided into two halves – one dominated by present PAC leader Uzair Jan Baloch and the other controlled by Lyari gang founder Arshad Pappu. Soon after Dakait’s death Uzair took over the PAC leadership and initiated the struggle to establish full control over Lyari. Uzair’s territorial aggression was met with resistance from Arshad Pappu. The turf-war escalated with the murder of Arshad Pappu on March 16, 2013. Ghaffar Zikri thus claimed in an interview to CNBC on July 20, 2013, “PAC criminals Baqar Baloch and Yousuf Baloch impersonated Police officials and picked up Arshad on false charges. He was tortured to death, his dead body cut into pieces and thrown in a gutter in Lyari.”
Though PAC has been banned for the last two years, it continues to operate with obvious support from the local administration and politicians. For instance, while expressing his grievances against the collusion between the Police, politicians and members of the PAC, Zikri reiterates:
Uzair Baloch enjoys open support from the PPP and the Police, who do not mount any substantial operation against them. The Chief Minister meets Uzair but he never bothers to meet the residents of Lyari who have been inflicted with violence orchestrated by the PAC. The Police come and sit with the members of the PAC and leave without launching any operation against them. In fact, whatever operations the Police claim to launch are fruitless and superficial.
Indeed, soon after the swearing in ceremony, the newly elected Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, accompanied by his cabinet colleagues, attended a ‘formal dinner’ hosted by the PAC leader, Uzair Baloch, in the night of May 30, 2013. Significantly, Lyari is the only constituency from where the PPP swept all the three seats during the May 2013 Elections. Lyari has one National Assembly seat and two Provincial Assembly seats.
In addition to the crime syndicates present and performing in Karachi, the city is also infested with TTP terrorists who have destabilised the region, along with various sectarian outfits such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jama’at (ASWJ, earlier known as Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan), Sunni Tehreek (ST), Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) and Jundullah. According to a July 22, 2013, report, the Sindh Home Department confirmed the presence of these terrorist groupings. Earlier in October 2012, the Inspector General (IG) of Police, Sindh, Fayyaz Ahmed Khan Leghari submitted a report to a judicial bench of the Supreme Court regarding the infiltration of more than 7,000 TTP militants in Karachi. According to partial data compiled by the Institute for Conflict Management (ICM), 58 persons, including 35 civilians, 12 SF personnel and 11 TTP terrorists have been killed in incidents linked to the TTP in the current year [Data till August 18, 2013]. The number of persons killed in TTP-linked incidents stood at 19 (eight civilians, six SF personnel, five terrorists) in 2012; 69 (36 civilians, 23 SF personnel, 10 terrorists) in 2011; 20 (nine civilians, 11 terrorists) in 2010; and 50 (43 civilians, two SF personnel, five terrorists) in 2009.
TTP’s urban mobility and survival in the metropolitan landscape also suggest its insidious alliance with local criminal groupings and other sectarian-terrorist outfits. Way back in July 2011, security officials were investigating possible links between local criminal gangs and religious outfits in Karachi with terrorist groups associated with TTP. Taking note of the sudden upsurge in violence in 2011, an unnamed official in the Police Department disclosed, “There are definite signs of some connectivity in Karachi between local criminal gangs and some religious extremist groups with Taliban (TTP) who are well organised and this could be the reason for the upsurge in violence in the city.” On July 11, 2011, a counter-terrorism official sounded the alarm on the growing level of co-ordination among extremist groups, including the TTP and local criminal elements.
According to a July 12, 2011, media report, Crime Investigation Department (CID) had sent a secret report to the Federal Ministry of Interior [date not mentioned], about 250 high-profile terrorists, including at least 94 belonging to LeJ, have been arrested from Karachi between 2001 and 2011. Some 40 detained extremists belonged to al Qaeda-linked Harkat-ul-Mujahideen al-Alami (HuMA). During their interrogation the detainees revealed that they worked as a “very well-gelled-together” network and seek commands from their mentors in the tribal areas. This criminal-terrorist nexus not only adds up to presently precarious situation in Karachi, but also has serious implications for Pakistan’s overall stability.
Pakistan continues to adopt a smoke-and-mirrors policy to cover up its inadequacies and the collusive arrangement between elements in the state apparatus and the criminal-terrorist complex. The criminal-terrorist formations appear to command increasing mainstream support in the political system. The recidivism of the political classes has pushed Karachi to extreme desperation, virtually to the edge of anarchy and civil war. While politicians themselves are increasingly targeted by the criminal-terrorist networks, it appears, the will to confront this violence remains conspicuous in its absence, as the calculus of immediate partisan advantage continues to outweigh the high long-term costs that the escalating criminalization of politics and society are inevitably inflicting on the city and the country at large.
INDIA’S RAW AGENT AND HINDU MASQUERADING AS A MUSLIM AMBREEN AGHA, WRITES FROM SOUTH BLOCK, DELHI INDIA ON RAW PORTAL SOUTH ASIA TERRORISM PORTAL
FRAUDULENT IDENTITY: Ambreen Agha is Research Assistant, Institute for Conflict Management
INDIAN INTELLIGENCE OPERATED SOURCE : South Asian Intelligence Review
URL: http://www.newageislam.com/islam,terrorism-and-jihad/ambreen-agha/karachi–gangsters-
Posted by admin in YAHOOD & HUNOOD AXIS:PREDICTED IN HADITH on September 20th, 2013
Both countries are homelands for ancient peoples who gained their independence from the British in the 1940s.
Both states have gone on to create vibrant, multicultural democracies that have experienced dynamic, technologydriven economic growth. India and Israel each also have a large Muslim minority population, and each faces an ongoing terrorism threat from foreign and domestic Islamic extremists; indeed, both Israelis and Indians were targeted and killed in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Even more serious, India and Israel each face ballistic missile threats from at least one close, hostile Muslim state.
India already faces the nuclear threat posed by Pakistan, and Israel may soon confront the same threat from Iran.
There is also a blossoming military and commercial relationship between India and Israel. Israel is India’s second largest arms supplier after Russia, and Israeli-Indian military cooperation extends to technology upgrades, joint research, intelligence cooperation and even space (in 2008, India launched a 300-kilogram Israeli satellite into orbit). Israel has upgraded India’s Soviet-era armor and aircraft and provided India with sea-to-sea missiles, radar and other surveillance systems, border monitoring equipment, night vision devices, and other military support.
Bilateral trade reached $6 billion last year and negotiations began this year for a free trade agreement.
Israel-India cooperation in agriculture and water technology is growing both through government-sponsored initiatives and private business deals.
Last year, Israeli and Indian government institutions jointly launched an online network that provides real-time communications between Indian farmers and Israeli agricultural technology experts, and Israel is in the process of setting up 28 agricultural training centers throughout India.
Israeli Professor Yoram Oren has been studying the potential use of nano-filtration to filter out harmful textile dyes from India’s polluted Noyyal River.
Last June, a delegation of 16 high-ranking Indian officials from the water authorities of Rajasthan, Karnataka, Goa and Haryana traveled to Israel to visit wastewater treatment plants and meet with some of Israel’s leading environmentalists and agronomists to learn about the desert country’s newest green technologies.
Tata Industries, the multi-billion- dollar Indian company, recently invested $5 million to kick-start the Technology Innovation Momentum Fund at Tel Aviv University’s Ramot technology transfer company. Tata Industries hopes to capitalize on future Israeli innovation, like the algorithm for error correction in flash memory (which is one of the patents filed by Ramot and now inside billions of dollars’ worth of SanDisk products).
In addition to economic reasons for India and Israel to strengthen their ties, there are also strong geopolitical motivators. Israel’s tiny land mass (about 21,000 square kilometers) makes the Jewish state particularly vulnerable and compels it to make strategic use of seaborne offensive and defensive military capabilities. A vital component of those capabilities is Israel’s submarine force, which requires friendly waters in which to deploy and maintain such a force – something that the Indian Navy can provide with its dominance of South Asian waters.
With the ongoing security threats posed by India’s nuclear-armed rival, Pakistan, the Kashmir conflict (which recently claimed the lives of five Indian soldiers), and potential conflict with the other Asian heavyweight, China, India needs the kind of military edge that Israel can help it to obtain. Insofar as India provides an Asian counterweight to Chinese dominance, a powerful India bolstered by Israeli technological expertise is also in the interest of smaller Asian countries and the United States.
One area where India could deepen its alliance with both Israel and the US is on the issue of Iran. India, the second largest importer of Iranian crude oil after China, won its third 180-day waiver from US sanctions last June after reducing its oil purchases from Iran.
But in 2012, Iran and India agreed to trade in rupees for shipments of oil, rice, sugar and soybeans, to circumvent US financial sanctions on Iranian oil shipments. And Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals is now reportedly receiving a cargo of Iranian crude, after a four-month hiatus, with Hindostan Petroleum also restarting imports soon. Iran may also become the top buyer of soybean meal from India for a second straight year, as Iran turns to Asia’s biggest exporter to replace imports disrupted by Western sanctions.
While India has its own commercial interests, India also has a strong interest in a peaceful resolution to the Iranian nuclear issue. India’s economic and diplomatic clout can help to pressure Iran into a compromise that prevents a catastrophic Middle East war. Such a regional conflagration could spread beyond the Middle East and, in any case, would send India’s energy costs skyrocketing, disrupt global trade, and dangerously destabilize India’s geopolitical backyard.
The author is the author of The Last Israelis, a war novel about Iranian nukes and an Israeli submarine with an Indian Jew on board.
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Syria’s consent to a deal that would catalogue, locate and eventually see the destruction of its vast chemical weapons arsenal has brought Israel and its various arms programs closer to the international spotlight, raising questions about what it does and does not possess and what strategic purposes its weapons serve.
Speaking to Russia’s state-run Rossiya-24 TV last week, Bashar Assad called on Israel to sign all relevant international treaties. “If we want stability in the Middle East, all the countries in the region should stick to [international] agreements,” said the Syrian president, who is believed to have gassed his own people on seven different occasions,according to a new report from the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism. “And Israel is the first state that should do so, since Israel possessed nuclear, chemical, biological and all other kinds of weapons of mass destruction.”
Israel, built on the ashes of the Holocaust and with a sense of persistent persecution etched into its consciousness, has in fact been drawn, since the earliest days of its existence, to those sorts of weapons. In April 1948, before the state declared its independence, future prime minister David Ben-Gurion, according to Michael Keren’s “Ben-Gurion and the Intellectuals,” instructed a Jewish Agency official in Europe to seek out Jewish scientists who could “either increase the capacity to kill masses or to cure masses; both are important.”
The search began with biological weapons. Avner Cohen, a professor of Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and an outspoken critic of Israel’s policy of ambiguity as regards WMDs, put the date at February 18, 1948, when the Haganah’s chief operations officer, Yigal Yadin, sent a microbiology student named Alexander Keynan down to Jaffa to establish a unit called HEMED BEIT.
Keynan and the original HEMED commander, Ephraim Katzir, a future president of Israel, “planned various activities, to get a sense what chemical and biological weapons are and how we could build a potential should there be a need for such a potential,” Cohen quoted Katzir as telling the Hadashot newspaper in 1993 in a comprehensive article for The Nonproliferation Review.
This potential, at least in part, apparently existed even before the founding of the state. Abba Kovner, the famous poet and partisan fighter, is depicted in Dina Porat’s “The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner” as having traveled to pre-state Palestine after the war and receiving poison from Katzir in order to kill incarcerated SS officers in Europe.
He was apprehended on board a British ship and threw the poison overboard before his arrest.
Several years later, in May 1948, forces from the Carmel Brigade of the Haganah allegedly used a biological weapon in the battle for Acre.
“I spoke to the company commander from Battalion 21 of the Carmel Brigade, who poured the stuff into the water supply,” said military historian Uri Milstein in a phone interview. Milstein, a controversial figure in Israel, said that the man had since died, that the material had been delivered to the battalion by Moshe Dayan, and that the container had been filled with the typhus bacterium.
“Apparently, or rather more than apparently, wells were poisoned too in order to stop villagers from returning to villages,” he added.
After the war, HEMED BEIT relocated to a building in an orange grove just outside Ness Tziona, where it has remained. Today it is called the Israel Institute for Biological Research, “a governmental, applied research institute specializing in the fields of biology, medicinal chemistry and environmental sciences.”
The institute publishes a great deal of defense-related research and is widely cited academically and is highly regarded.
In terms of possible offensive capacities, very little is known.
What is clear is that Israel has not signed the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention; that the deputy director of the biological institute, Professor Marcus Klingberg, was covertly arrested by the Shin Bet on January 19, 1983, and subsequently charged with spying for the KGB for more than three decades (Klingberg, perhaps the most damaging spy in Israel’s history, spent the first 10 years of his 20-year sentence in solitary confinement, under a pseudonym); and that on two occasions the Mossad attempted to assassinate people using biological weapons.
The first known Israeli assassination with biological weapons was Dr. Wadi Haddad, a Palestinian terrorist, who was the first to hijack an El Al plane, in July 1968, and one of the commanders of the Entebbe hijacking in 1976. One year later, he was given Belgian chocolate “coated by Mossad specialists with a lethal biological poison,” according to Aaron J. Klein’s “Striking Back.” [Full disclosure: this reporter translated the book.] He lost his appetite, he lost weight, and his immune system collapsed. On March 30, 1978, in an East German hospital, he died.
On September 25, 1997, shortly after 10 a.m., two Mossad combatants approached Hamas official Khaled Mashal and released into his ear a potentially fatal dose of a synthetic opiate called Fetanyl, according to foreign sources. ”I felt a loud noise in my ear. It was like a boom, like an electric shock. Then I had shivering sensation in my body like an electric shock,” Mashal told Alan Cowell of The New York Times.
Within two hours he was close to respiratory collapse and would have died had Mishka Ben David, a senior Mossad officer, not provided the Jordanian authorities with the antidote.
In 1955, sure that war with Egypt loomed on the horizon, Ben-Gurion pushed the defense establishment to produce a nonconventional capacity to respond to any such assault from Egypt. “He ordered that this nonconventional capability be operationalized – i.e., weaponized and stockpiled – as soon as possible and before a war with Egypt broke out,” Cohen wrote in an article published in The Nonproliferation Review in the 2001 Fall-Winter edition. “The ‘cheap nonconventional capability’ that preceded the nuclear option was chemical, not biological,” he added.
In June 1963 Egypt used chemical weapons in the Yemen civil war. The first usage was considered primitive. But in subsequent years and, most alarmingly from an Israeli perspective, in the months and days leading up to the Six Day War in 1967, Egypt fired chemical bombs on villages, killing hundreds; the last attack occurred on May 10, 1967, three weeks before the start of the war and four days before Egypt began amassing troops in the Sinai desert.
In July 1990, in perhaps the most straightforward indication of Israeli capacities, then-science minister Yuval Ne’eman was quoted in The New York Times as having told Israel Radio that if Saddam Hussein attacked Israel, ”In my opinion, we have an excellent response, and that is to threaten Hussein with the same merchandise.”
In 1992, the crash of an El Al 747 near Amsterdam revealed — according to a paper by Jean Pascal Zanders, a senior research fellow at the European Institute for Security Studies — that the cargo contained three of the four precursors to sarin, including dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP).” The compound has several legitimate civilian uses, Zanders wrote, but “the secrecy with which the investigation of the accident and the recovery and clean-up operations were conducted, fed speculation over its true purpose.”
Finally, last week Foreign Policy magazine discovered an old CIA document, which revealed that US spy satellites in 1982 located “a probable CW [chemcial weapon] nerve agent production facility and a storage facility… at the Dimona Sensitive Storage Area in the Negev Desert. Other CW production is believed to exist within a well-developed Israeli chemical industry.”
Presuming the CIA is correct and Israel has those weapons, or at least had them at one point and maintains the capacity to create them on demand, in what way does Syria’s recent agreement to destroy its chemical weapons change the picture?
The first element is time. Syria has agreed to list and locate its enormous chemical arsenal and for it to be destroyed by mid-2014. This is a highly optimistic timetable. “I’d say it’s somewhere between unreal and surreal,” said Ely Karmon, a senior research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism and the teacher of a masters course on WMDs.
In Iraq, he said, it took six years for the UNSCOM inspectors to complete their work, from 1991 to 1997, and in the final report they still conceded that there were “550 filled munitions unaccounted for and 2,000 unfilled munitions.”
In Libya, another Middle East state that is a signatory to both the chemical and biological weapons conventions, a mustard gas facility was found in the Jufra district in late 2011, Karmon noted. Aside from the fact that the discovery points, yet again, to the limits of any inspection regime, even a highly regarded one such as the Chemical Weapons Convention, it also speaks to the timetable. “More than two years later,” he said, “and the Libyan experts are now in Germany studying. They haven’t even begun the work [of destroying the weapons].”
The US, a pioneer in chemical weapons destruction technology, ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997. Today, the destruction continues. It has been ongoing for 28 years, The New York Times reported earlier this week, and has cost $35 billion.
That is the cautious method. In Syria, it remains to be seen whether the deal includes the conveyance of the weapons to a destruction facility in Russia or the US or whether the intent is to destroy the weapons in Syria. Both options have drawbacks.
In Syria, Karmon said, there would be no way to build a destruction facility so long as the war raged on. This would mean either crudely disposing of the weapons, as was occasionally done in Iraq, or transporting them out of the country, either by truck or ship, which Karmon said is “very complicated and very dangerous.”
Lt. Col. (res) Dany Shoham, a BESA Center fellow, a former senior intelligence analyst with the IDF and an expert in chemical and biological warfare, was more optimistic, saying that any sort of destruction regime would require “a huge technological effort” but that it was doable, outside Syria, so long as there existed the — nearly regionally extinct — combination of fair play and goodwill.
While the two experts basically agreed that implementation within Syria was highly unlikely during the war, they largely disagreed about Israel’s reaction to Syria’s moves. Shoham said that while Iran had signed and ratified the CWC in March 1997 and the Biologocal Weapons Convention in 1973, the Islamic republic has amassed significant covert stores of chemical weapons. “So long as Iran and Egypt maintain their arsenals, Israel should not change its position,” he said.
Israel has clung to a policy of ambiguity. But while it has not so much as spoken a single official word about the BWC — Syria and Egypt signed the treaty but didn’t ratify it, and the latter is suspected of possessing some such weapons — it did sign the CWC on January 13, 1993. When the treaty was put into force in 1997, though, Israel remained on the sidelines and refrained from ratifying it.
Karmon called this position “a sort of half pregnancy,” and said that, since Israel has a significant interest in getting rid of the regional chemical threat, and since it possesses “other deterrent capacities,” it would do well to sign.
This position was wholeheartedly endorsed by Cohen, the author of “Israel and the Bomb” and “The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb.”
He said he “strongly doubts” Israel has deployable chemical or biological weapons in its arsenal at this time. If Syria stays on the path of disarmament, he added, Israel would do well to itself, to the region and to the world to follow suit, and of its own volition. “Already now Israel should tell the world we will contribute our own share at the right time to the international effort,” he said.
Ambiguity about those weapons makes no sense, he contended, “especially because Israel probably doesn’t have any. It’s just posturing.”
Regarding Israel’s alleged nuclear capacity and the possibility that ratifying the CWC and the BWC might, as he wrote in his article in The Nonproliferation Review, “be abused to infringe on the sanctity of Dimona,” Cohen said that “there are various safeguards in place” and that the likelihood of such an eventuality was low.
Moreover, from a military perspective and from a deterrence standpoint, Israel, which today is said to possess 80 nuclear warheads, according to a recent report in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, “has all the reasons in the world,” he said, “to join the global consensus in abolishing both chemical and biological weapons from the face of the earth.”
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History is being written in the East. As the U.S. stays distracted with stone age warriors in Central Asia and the Middle East, the last platform of the American economic foundation, the U.S. Dollar’s currency reserve status, is being underminded by their trade partners in Asia. Both Australia and Japan are set to start direct-trading in Chinese currency and they are not the only ones. There are almost 20 countries whom have currency swaps in place with China all in order to side-step the U.S. Dollar in global trade. At the China Money Report, we have written extensively on the “Rise of the Renminbi”. What is new and largely unreported and what we will cover in this article is the “Rise of the Petroyuan,” as China is now converting its oil imports into Chinese Yuan as opposed to U.S. Dollars. This will be a new challenge and possibly the fatal blow to the U.S. Dollar as the dominant global reserve currency.© 2024, All Rights Reserved by Pakistan Think Tank.
