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For those who laid down their lives - From Langley to Al Khobar, From Nairobi to Bombay |
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1.
Extracts from the Article ‘Kashmir: Fundamentalism Takes Root’ by
Jonah Blank, published in Foreign Affairs, November/December 1999 Issue. 2. Jet Hijackers Are Backed by Pakistan, US Contends was published in the ‘New York Times’ on Jan. 25, 2000. It was published on the front page, alongside other articles dealing with the presidential campaign, signalling the importance attached by the paper’s editorial staff to the revelations contained therein. The article sparked off a series of statements at the highest levels of the Clinton administration, including one by President Bill Clinton, and another by State Department Spokesman James Rubin. They follow the main text of the article. A series of commentaries and analyses related to this apparent dichotomy in the American stance is published in the media follow sequentially. In fact, this particular series of events symbolises the subtlety with which the US is having to deal with the first nuclear state in which a military coup has brought a dictator to power. Analysts will note that the first nuclear weapon state in which a coup occurred is also the first Islamic state to acquire nuclear weapons. 3. The Deadly Game was published in the ‘London Times’ of August 6, 1999. It had the sub-headline: Foreign interference is destabilising Afghanistan. 4. Rocket Attacks in Islamabad is an article by B. Raman, Additional Secretary (Retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and at present Director, Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai (former Madras). He can be reached by e-mail at: corde@vsnl.com. The article was dated 14/11/1999 and published at the website of South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG) at: www.saag.org 5.
Heart of Darkness, is by the renowned Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid,
published in the Far Eastern Economic Review. The article was datelined August
5, 1999 from Kabul and Faizabad.
6.
This extract on the background of Tablighi Jamaat is from an article by
B. Raman, Additional Secretary (Retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and
at present Director, Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai (former Madras). The
article is titled ‘Dagestan: Focus On
Pakistan's Tablighi Jamaat’. Mr. Raman can be reached by e-mail at:
corde@vsnl.com. The article was dated 15/9/1999 and published at the website of
South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG) at: www.saag.org
7. Defiant Pakistan Walks a Path to Isolation is by Amin Saikal, published in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 13, 1999. It had the sub-head: Islamabad's domestic and foreign policies are destabilising the region. Professor Amin Saikal is director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia) at the Australian National University. 8. Proxy War in Kashmir: Jehad or State-Sponsored Terrorism? This is a paper by Gurmeet Kanwal, Senior Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. It was published in April 1999, just one month before the “Kargil crisis” erupted with the insertion of Pakistani troops into the Indian sector of the high Himalayas. 9. Pakistan's Islamic Bomb is by Yossef Bodansky, dated July 1998. Mr. Bodansky is a long-time observer of the radical Islamic scene, and has served on a US Congress Taskforce on Counter Terrorism. The article is located at: http://freeman.io.com/m_online/jul98/bodansky.htm10.
Pakistani Group
Denies Indian Hijacking Role is by by Pamela Constable
of the Washington Post Foreign Service. The article was dated Saturday, February
5, 2000 (Page A13). While giving the militants viewpoint, it ends on a note
depicting the reality as one “Western diplomat” sees it. 11.
Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami: The Hidden Agenda, is by B.Raman, Additional
Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt.of India. He is at present the
Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai (former Madras). His e-mail: corde@vsnl.com.
The article was dated 27-8-99 and is available at www.saag.org.
12.
Pak Nuclear Tests – Fallout on the Arab World highlights the perception
of Pak nuclear tests in the Arab
World. The Article is by Abdus Sattar Ghazali. It is dated July 1998 and is
located at: http://www.toluislam.com/pub_online/previous_issues/july98/paknuclear.htm
13.
Militant Groups in Kashmir: An Analysis is by D. Suba Chandran. The paper
is dated mid-1999 and was found in the website of the Institute for Peace and
Conflict Studies, located at www.ipcs.org.in
14.
TJP Warns
Against 'Hidden US Agenda' is a report by the Staff
Reporter of Dawn
Newspaper of Pakistan, Internet Edition, datelined Karachi, Feb 4, 2000. 15. Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs by US Ambassador Michael A. Sheehan, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Washington, DC, November 2, 1999. In this testimony, the Ambassador Sheehan expresses concern about Pakistan’s terrorist linkages but stops short of labelling it a state sponsor of terrorism. 16.
Dreaming the Pax Talibana Nightmare is by renowned Pakistani journalist
Tariq Ali. The Oxford-educated Ali wrote this article in the Indian magazine
‘Outlook’ for the issue dated Feb. 14, 2000. 17.
Jamaat-i-Islami Donates Rs 10m for Chechnya was published in the
Pakistani newspaper Dawn, Internet Edition, on Feb. 7, 2000 18. Killers in Their Midst was published in Newsweek International, February 14, 2000. It was written by Steve LeVine and Zahid Hussain with support from Ismail Khan in Peshawar and Munir Ahmed in Lahore. 19.
The Muridke Terrorist Gathering and its
geo-political environment is examined in an article was published in Vol. 56,
No. 1, pp. 14-16, of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, January/February 2000.
It was written by Mohammed Ahmedullah, a special correspondent with the Business
Standard in New Delhi. He was a Bulletin visiting fellow in 1999. The article
can be found at: http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/2000/jf00/jf00ahmedullah.html
20.
Pakistan’s Kashmir Strategy is a research
paper by Yossef Bodansky. At the time of writing the paper, he was the Director
of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the U.S. Congress,
as well as the World Terrorism Analyst with the Freeman Center for Strategic
Studies (Houston TX). Mr. Bodansky is a contributing editor of Defense
and Foreign Affairs; Strategic Policy, the author of three books (Target
America, Terror, and Crisis in
Korea), several book chapters, and numerous articles in several
periodicals including Global Affairs,
JANE's Defence Weekly,Defense and Foreign
Affairs; Strategic Policy, Business
Week. In the 1980s, he acted as a senior consultant for the
Department of Defense and the Department of State. The paper can be found on
line through: http://freeman.io.com
21. Islamabad’s Road Warriors is a research paper by Yossef Bodansky, World Terrorism Analyst with the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies (Houston TX). See above. 22. A report on how the Indian Airlines (IC 814) hijackers received new weapons in Afghanistan, by Agence France Presse news service, dated Jan. 2, 2000. 23. Terror - And the Ties That Bind: The Taliban and Harakat ul-Ansar (HUA) is sourced from the website of the Federation of American Scientists, Intelligence Resource Programme, dated Nov. 2, 1997. The URL of this article is http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/97_11_02.html 24. Thieves Fall Out - $300 Million Ransom Infuriates Taliban was published in the Sydney Morning Herald of 31/Dec/1999. It was written by Christopher Kremmer, the paper’s New Delhi correspondent. 25. They Asked Her to Spell 'Coffin' is an article detailing the experience of the lone American passenger in the Indian Airline IC 814 jet hijacked in December 1999. The article was procured from a third party who does not know the source of the interview, believed to be an Indian newspaper. 26. ‘Pakistan Responsible for Instability in Kashmir: UK’ is by Vijay Dutt. It was published in the Hindustan Times newspaper on Jan. 21, 2000, datelined London. 27. The New Year 2000 terrorist plan in Jordan is a report carried at the abcNEWS.com website at: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/dailynews/deek000129.html It provides clues to the background of the terrorists involved and their Pakistani links. It is dated Jan. 29, 2000. 28. The Price of Fanaticism was published in TIME on April 3, 1995, Vol. 145, No. 14. It is written by Bruce W. Nelan. The article refers to the way in which extremists are moving closer to getting their hands on weapons of mass destruction. 29. Dominance of Islam is an expression from the “Jihad page” of the Markaz Ad Da’wa Wal Irshad and Lashkar-e-Taiba website. It gives broad expression to the agenda of the Pakistani Islamic groups. This write-up is located at: http://www.dawacenter.com/jihad/jihad.html 30. Jihad is the Only Solution: say participants of a seminar on Jihad in Kashmir and Chechnya. Extracted from ‘Voice of Islam’, a publication of the Markaz Ad Da’wa Wal Irshad, dated February 2000. Located at: http://www.dawacenter.com/magazines/voiceofislam/feb00/seminar.html
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