[Reader-list] Shahzad is of Kashmiri descent ?

[Pawan Durani]

Dear Sir,

I never mentioned that. I have forwarded an article . Maybe in
Pakistan it is allowed. As after all any absurd thing can happen there
in the name of Jihad and religious extremism.

Failed state do not have any control.

Pawan

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:23 PM, A.K. Malik <akmalik45 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Mr Durani,
>                Since when Kashmiri nationality being accepted in passport applications?
> Regards,
>
> (A.K.MALIK)
>
>
> --- On Wed, 5/5/10, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Reader-list] Shahzad is of Kashmiri descent ?
>> To: "reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
>> Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 6:17 PM
>> http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1987126,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
>>
>> The Times Square car bomb failed to detonate, but it could
>> yet cause
>> political reverberations around two questions: Should the
>> government
>> have known about the plot and its alleged perpetrator? And
>> does using
>> the rules of the criminal-justice system against a man
>> accused of
>> plotting a terror attack against America leave the country
>> more
>> vulnerable? So far, the answers to both questions seem to
>> be breaking
>> in favor of the Obama Administration, but it's early days
>> yet. And
>> questions have been raised over how Faisal Shahzad managed
>> to board
>> the Dubai-bound flight on which he was arrested shortly
>> before takeoff
>> Tuesday at JFK International Airport despite being under
>> surveillance
>> by the FBI.
>> The criminal complaint against Shahzad alleges that he
>> received
>> bombmaking training in a militant camp in western Pakistan.
>> Still, the
>> suspect appears not to have previously registered on the
>> radar of the
>> U.S. security bureaucracy through any known association
>> with terrorist
>> or radical groups.
>> (See pictures of the car bomb's discovery in Times
>> Square.)
>> Pakistani government officials told TIME on Tuesday that
>> Shahzad is of
>> Kashmiri descent and the son of a former top Pakistani
>> air-force
>> officer. On his most recent Pakistani passport application,
>> he had
>> given his nationality as Kashmiri — a fact that some
>> analysts suspect
>> might tie him to militant groups based in Pakistan
>> originally formed
>> to fight Indian control of the divided territory. An
>> official in
>> Islamabad said Pakistani authorities are investigating
>> whether he had
>> ties to any Kashmiri jihadist groups. During his latest
>> spell in
>> Pakistan, Shahzad was also said to have spent significant
>> time in
>> Peshawar, the capital of the North-West Frontier Province,
>> where
>> Islamabad has waged a fierce war against Taliban
>> militants.
>> A Pakistani government source, speaking on condition of
>> anonymity,
>> told TIME on Tuesday that the suspect had had ties with
>> militants
>> while in Pakistan. "He was here at a training camp," the
>> source said.
>> The legal complaint against Shahzad, which charged him with
>> terrorism
>> and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, said he
>> admitted
>> to receiving bombmaking training in Waziristan, the lawless
>> tribal
>> hotbed of militancy. Pakistani officials claim that there
>> have been a
>> number of arrests in Karachi of people suspected by
>> authorities of
>> having a connection with the suspect. "There will be more
>> arrests
>> before the night is out," a senior government source told
>> TIME.
>> (See the TIME 100 list of the world's most influential
>> people.)
>> But so far, the only indication that Shahzad had raised any
>> suspicion
>> among U.S. officials is the fact that he underwent
>> secondary screening
>> at the airport upon his return to the U.S. earlier this
>> year.
>> According to Congresswoman Jane Harman, chairman of the
>> Homeland
>> Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Shahzad was pulled
>> aside and
>> gave "critical contact information that was entered into
>> the system
>> and used in his arrest yesterday."
>> At a press conference in Washington Tuesday, Homeland
>> Security
>> Secretary Janet Napolitano said Shahzad had been screened
>> "because
>> some of the targeting rules applied," but declined to
>> elaborate. At
>> the same press conference, FBI deputy director John Pistole
>> said,
>> "There are a number of steps that are taken to identify
>> potential
>> terrorists, whether that's the country from which they
>> originate, in
>> terms of terrorist training camps, or the individuals they
>> associate
>> with." The fact that he appears to have briefly evaded
>> surveillance to
>> buy a ticket and board a flight out of the country also
>> raised concern
>> among legislators, although Attorney General Eric Holder
>> insists there
>> was never any danger of Shahzad slipping through the net.
>> Despite the allegation that he trained in Waziristan,
>> Shahzad can't
>> have been any jihadist professor's star student: the bomb
>> contraption
>> he is alleged to have built was so dysfunctional that it
>> could have
>> illustrated a how-not-to-build-a-bomb manual. Perhaps the
>> good news is
>> that jihadist training may have deteriorated as networks
>> based in
>> Afghanistan and Pakistan have come under sustained attack
>> from the
>> U.S. and its allies.
>> More distressingly, the case could highlight a downside of
>> the
>> U.S.-led war against terrorism since 9/11: while wars in
>> Afghanistan
>> and Iraq — and drone strikes in Pakistan — have killed
>> hundreds of
>> militants, those who survive tend to operate more
>> independently, and
>> there are plenty more willing to join them.
>> "We haven't bent their determination one bit, but these are
>> smaller,
>> lower-quality efforts," says Brian Jenkins, a terrorism
>> expert at the
>> Rand Corp. "We have managed to break up their capability to
>> conduct
>> large-scale, centrally directed operations," he adds.
>> "Clearly there's
>> a quality-control problem. So they're exhorting violence by
>> locals, to
>> do whatever they can, wherever they are." Instead of
>> 9/11-style
>> attacks carried out under direct orders from Osama bin
>> Laden and
>> lieutenants, recent efforts have been attempted by more
>> amateurish
>> lone wolves.
>> And Americans should not take too much comfort from the
>> ineptitude of
>> the Times Square bombmaker. "If Major [Nidal] Hasan had
>> jumped up on
>> the desk at Fort Hood and shouted 'Allahu akbar' and his
>> guns jammed,
>> he would have looked like a buffoon," says Ralph Peters, a
>> retired
>> Army officer who writes often about terrorism. "But his
>> guns didn't
>> jam. This guy didn't get it right — he didn't know how to
>> do bombs —
>> but the next guy might know how to do bombs."
>> Coming after months of fierce debate between congressional
>> Republicans
>> and the Administration over the appropriate legal strategy
>> for dealing
>> with terror suspects, Shahzad's treatment after his arrest
>> was always
>> going to be controversial. At Tuesday's press conference,
>> Pistole said
>> that "Joint Terrorism Task Force agents and officers from
>> NYPD
>> interviewed Mr. Shahzad last night and early this morning
>> under the
>> public-safety exception to the Miranda rule. He was, as the
>> Attorney
>> General noted, cooperative, and provided valuable
>> intelligence and
>> evidence. He was eventually transported to another
>> location,
>> Mirandized and continued talking."
>> Before hearing that Shahzad had been read his rights,
>> Republican
>> Senator John McCain of Arizona said, "I don't believe
>> [people like
>> Shahzad] should be given Miranda rights ... [in case] he
>> gets lawyered
>> up and doesn't give any information. We need information to
>> know how
>> this thing happened." Peter King, the senior Republican on
>> the House
>> Homeland Security Committee, said the Attorney General
>> should discuss
>> reading Shahzad his rights with the intelligence community
>> before
>> doing so.
>> As details of the arrest began to emerge, legislators from
>> both
>> parties were effusive in their praise for the efforts of
>> the U.S.
>> law-enforcement community, though the GOP leadership has
>> been more
>> circumspect on the issue of Shahzad's handling. Senate
>> minority leader
>> Mitch McConnell said Tuesday, "Hopefully the appropriate
>> officials are
>> using this opportunity to exploit as much intelligence as
>> he may have
>> about his overseas connections and any other plots against
>> Americans
>> either here or abroad."
>> But the controversy over Mirandizing terror suspects is
>> unlikely to go
>> away: Connecticut independent Senator Joe Lieberman
>> announced Tuesday
>> that he plans to propose a bill stripping the citizenship
>> of those
>> Americans deemed by the U.S. intelligence community to have
>> joined
>> foreign terror networks. Presumably the Shahzad case, as it
>> unfolds,
>> will feature in that debate on Capitol Hill.
>> — With reporting by Katy Steinmetz / Washington; Omar
>> Waraich / Islamabad
>>
>>
>> Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1987126,00.html?xid=rss-topstories#ixzz0n3hcLe8c
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