Conclusions;

The so-called of British fortitude, efficiency, fair play, sportsmanship, assiduously created and marketed by its media and writings is now being tested, in the case of shooting of the Brazilian by London police and confused and conflicting versions.

The writer who had organized in late 1980s at the Diplomats Training Institute in New Delhi, a week-long training module on political violence and how to manage crisis situations caused by abduction of diplomats, takeover of embassies and hijacking of airplanes by terrorists was stuck by the British authorities response to engage the public attention by telecasting hourly police activities to feed the ever hungry 24 hour news channels. The police confusion gets magnified; the terrorists get the oxygen of publicity and learn from police’s methods and mistakes or feints.

The Indian media coverage in 2000 when Pakistan based terrorists had hijacked an Indian airline plane from Kathmandu on to Delhi was pathetic, with TV channels showing the screams and tears of the affected families of hijacked passengers and ignorant TV anchors when interviewing government officials almost chided them for not acceding to terrorists demands, which the Indian government finally did. Omar Sheikh who was then released is now in Pakistani prison for the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl.

In view of expert conclusions that UK would sooner or later face reprisals, whenever I wrote that there was a tacit understanding between the British intelligence authorities and the various terrorist and militant organizations based in London –‘that you don't touch us and we won't touch you’, this paragraph was excised by the editors. London and UK are very useful hubs for communications for international terrorists, as those from South Asia and the Middle East, except for the French-speaking Maghreb countries, are generally English speaking. The situation for terror organizations has become quite difficult in USA after 911.They cannot operate freely because of language and cultural problems in European countries except for those from the Maghreb countries in France and Belgium. It would now appear that the terrorist organizations have decided ,having perhaps placed enough sleepers and infrastructure in place in UK and elsewhere, that the time has come for reprisals against UK, which has been doing back seat driving and even encouraging USA in its anti- Arab and anti- Muslim policies. It will be a long miserable war on terror.

For example, it was quite possible that George Bush senior might have been persuaded to accept an Arab solution, which was being worked out by King Hussein of Jordan and others after Saddam Hussein has foolishly invaded Kuwait in 1990. But at that time, Margaret Thatcher happened to be with Bush Senior. Chiding him not to be wobbly, she persuaded him to deal with Saddam Hussein ‘sternly’. That more or less made up the mind of a wavering Bush Sr. This led to 12 years of sanctions against Iraq , economic deprivation , devastation and destruction and misery of the Iraqi people including death of half a million children, thus putting Muslim masses firmly against US and British policies . The US and UK leadership had even indicated that whatever Iraq might do to fulfill the UN resolutions, they would not relent on the sanctions. The British were equally active with USA in bombing Iraq at will during the period.

After the 2003 invasion, the perfidious Albion in the words of a great French leader, was quite smart and took over South Iraq knowing that being the home of oppressed Shias it would be passive to begin with, while the hubris driven Americans thought of pacifying the Sunni Arabs in the only way they know, with their historic experience of pacifying Red Indians and black Africans imported to work on their plantations as slave labor.

At the time of 1991 Gulf war I was based in Amman , among others a TV image left an indelible mark, of an educated Iraqi lady whose house was destroyed in collateral damage, snapping at US journalists ,” We are not Red Indians” . After the London blasts, the British will have a more difficult time in Basra and South Iraq. In any case, they have given a free run to criminal, obscurantist and fundamentalist Shiia elements there that run their own fiefs almost like Talibans.

There is no law against rich industrial nations dumping their pollution near or in poor developing countries. Also there is no law against militarily strong countries controlled by warmongers leaving behind ‘ terrorism pollution’ created by their wars, as by America in Afghanistan , supported by a list which included almost all anti-Soviet states including China . One of the countries which had nothing to do with the US supported and financed proxy war and has suffered the most is India. That proxy war was responsible for creating Jihadis and terror pollution in Afghanistan and Pakistan and has since globalize itself and ready for a blowback.

Some stirred-up Moslems!

In an interview with Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998, Zbigniew Brzezinsky, former National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, admitted that the CIA's intervention in Afghanistan preceded the 1979 Soviet invasion. When asked if he regretted having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists? , he answered;

“What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war? “Some stirred-up Moslems? You can say that again!

If Pakistan goes down under, which many fear it might, then the world has a real problem on its hands. The bear guzzling Punjabi Pakistanis, former ISI generals who have made tones of money cannot even escape to USA on UK. Would they follow dismissed Premier Nawaz Sharif , now in exile in Saudi Arabia , now itself under attack and could have a Sunni revolution like the 1979 Shiia revolution in Iran . Perhaps Istanbul could provide some security and a place to hide.

Wherever he might be, bin Laden must be a very satisfied man. Populations of London and some other Western cities have got a taste of what the Iraqis have felt since 3 years. He may live in caves, which cannot be that easily targeted , but the way Western civilization has evolved, tall towers and suburban way of life, both dependent on cheep supply of energy, can be easily targeted and even squeezed.

.(K Gajendra Singh, served as Indian Ambassador to Turkey and Azerbaijan in 1992-96. Prior to that, he served as ambassador to Jordan (during the 1990-91 Gulf war), Romania and Senegal . He is currently chairman of the Foundation for Indo-Turkic Studies, in Bucharest . The views expressed here are his own. - Email G-Singh@mwcnews.net

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