Monday, September 26, 2011

Inside Haqqani Network

Brutal Haqqani Crime Clan Bedevils U.S. in Afghanistan
By MARK MAZZETTI, SCOTT SHANE and ALISSA J. RUBIN
New York Times, September 25, 2011

WASHINGTON — They are the Sopranos of the Afghanistan war, a ruthless crime family that built an empire out of kidnapping, extortion, smuggling, even trucking. They have trafficked in precious gems, stolen lumber and demanded protection money from businesses building roads and schools with American reconstruction funds.

They safeguard their mountainous turf by planting deadly roadside bombs and shelling remote American military bases. And they are accused by American officials of being guns for hire: a proxy force used by the Pakistani intelligence service to carry out grisly, high-profile attacks in Kabul and throughout the country.
Today, American intelligence and military officials call the crime clan known as the Haqqani network — led by a wizened militant named Jalaluddin Haqqani who has allied himself over the years with the C.I.A., Saudi Arabia’s spy service and Osama bin Laden — the most deadly insurgent group in Afghanistan. In the latest of a series of ever bolder strikes, the group staged a daylong assault on the United States Embassy in Kabul, an attack Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, charged Thursday was aided by Pakistan’s military spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI. According to two American officials, cellphones used by the attackers made calls to suspected ISI operatives before the attack, although top Pakistani officials deny their government played any role.
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Deteriorating U.S - Pakistan Relations

Pakistan's generals meet as relations with US hit new low
Pakistani military join scramble to tackle crisis as tensions with US escalate, raising likelihood of more drone strikes
Declan Walsh, Guardian, September 25, 2011

Pakistan's army chief has gathered his generals to discuss the escalating war of words with the US over the Haqqani insurgent network amid a deep sense of foreboding across the country.

The military refused to comment on the meeting chaired by General Ashfaq Kayani other than to say it was to discuss the "prevailing security situation". Media reports said the generals considered retaliatory action in the event of US military strikes in the northwestern tribal belt.
Meanwhile the prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, recalled his foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar, who has strongly defended the military, from the United Nations in New York.
The political and military scrambling reflected the gravity of a crisis triggered by a 20-hour Haqqani assault on the US embassy in Kabul on 13 September, and subsequent US allegations that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency was behind the attack.
Last week the outgoing US military chief, Admiral Mike Mullen, described the Haqqani network as a "veritable arm" of the ISI that were being used to fight a "proxy war" in Afghanistan.
The bare-knuckles criticism of Pakistan's military, unprecedented since 2001, has plunged already troubled relations to a new low and triggered a deep sense of foreboding in Pakistan about what is coming next.
US actions will also be driven by domestic political pressure. In a taste of rising impatience with Pakistan, one senior Republican said the US was "going to have to put all options on the table, including defending our troops".
For complete article, click here
Related:
What Pakistan Should Do? By Khaled Ahmed - Express Tribune 
Pakistan-US Row -Khaleej Times
A Bad Romance - Pakistan and the US - Aljazeera Blog
Pakistan’s Spy Agency Is Tied to Attack on U.S. Embassy - NYT

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Bangladesh's Potential

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in New York on Sept. 20, 2011. (Elsa Ruiz/Asia Society)

Bangladesh's Economic Progress and Potential

Full Text of Speech by Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Delivered September 20, 2011 at Asia Society in New York


Mr. Chairman,
Trustees and Members of the Asia Society, Distinguished Leaders of the USA’s Commerce and Industry,
Ladies and Gentlemen, Assalamu Alaikum and Good Afternoon to you all.

Thank you for inviting me to speak before you on the prospects of trade and investment cooperation between Bangladesh and the USA. I would also like to thank the US Chamber of Commerce and the Asia Society, for holding this event. The Asia Society’s recent report on “Enhancing Trade and Investment between Bangladesh and the United States” demonstrates their sincere desire to improve trade relations with Bangladesh. Meanwhile the US Chamber of Commerce is playing a highly commendable role in deepening Bangladesh’s commercial ties with the United States. The Joint US-Bangladesh Working Group launched by US Chamber of Commerce in May 2010 also contributes in creating greater awareness amongst the American companies about the business opportunities in Bangladesh. I am glad to see that so many American business leaders could be present in today’s event.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was also my father, dreamt of a “Sonar Bangla”- a happy and a prosperous nation free from poverty and hunger; A country upholding the values of democracy, secularism, and social justice. I continue to pursue his dream, by transforming our country into a middle income “Digital Bangladesh”. You will be pleased to know that during the recent world recession, our annual GDP growth rate averaged at 6%. Our export basket has been widening and the Export/GDP ratio continues to rise. Our industrial growth averaged at 8%; Services grew at 6%; and Agriculture maintained growth around 4%. Thus, now 90% of our annual public expenditure comes from domestic sources.

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Related:
Bangladesh on the Rise - Asia Society Event Summary

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Who Killed Burhanuddin Rabbani ?



Source: MSNBC
Afghan Peace Council Head Killed in Kabul
By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi
Reuters, September 20, 2011

KABUL (Reuters) - A Taliban suicide bomber on Tuesday killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and head of the government's peace council, a dramatic show of insurgent reach and a heavy blow to hopes of reaching a political end to the war.

The killing was a strong statement of Taliban opposition to peace talks, and as the latest in a string of high-profile assassinations will increase the apprehension of ordinary Afghans about their future as the insurgency gathers pace.

Since Rabbani was a prominent Tajik, his killing is also likely to exacerbate ethnic divides, which in themselves could do more to halt any peace process than the death of a man who while influential, had so far produced limited evidence of concrete steps toward negotiations.

"A Taliban member who went to Rabbani's house for peace talks detonated a bomb hidden in his turban," a statement by the Kabul police chief's office said.

A police source said Masoom Stanekzai, a senior adviser to President Hamid Karzai, was badly injured in the attack.

It was the highest profile assassination in Afghanistan since the younger half-brother of President Hamid Karzai, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was killed at his home in July by a highly trusted family security guard.

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Ali Khamenei, Burhanuddin Rabbani
Related:
Slain ex-President Burhanuddin Rabbani: Snapshots of Afghanistan's tortured political history - MSNBC
Assassination Deals Blow to Peace Process in Afghanistan - NYT
Assassinations in Afghanistan - Washington Post
Profile: Burhanuddin Rabbani - BBC

US and Pakistan Look Forward....

Dr. Rajiv Shah (L) and Ambassador Cameron Munter (R) speak with
moderator Hassan Abbas. (Suzanna Finley)

After Challenging Year, US and Pakistan Look Forward:
U.S. Ambassador Munter gives himself a "C or D" grade

September 19, 2011, Asia Society New York

For Complete Video of the Event Click Here

NEW YORK, September 19, 2011 — In the decade since the United States first helped launch Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, Washington has seen neighboring Pakistan as both friend and foe — occasionally simultaneously — in its fight against Islamic extremism.

Given that Pakistan's other neighbors include Iran and India, it is easy to understand why the U.S. diplomatic relationship with Islamabad is viewed as one of the world's most important. 

Speaking Monday morning at Development and Diplomacy in Pakistan: A Way Forward for US-Pakistan Relations, hosted by the Asia Society in New York, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter and USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah presented a side to the country that often escapes the notice of the global media. Pakistan, after all, remains a developing country which faces major challenges in providing primary school education, electricity, and other basic services to its population of more than 150 million.

Though enormous challenges remain, Shah said many of these needs are being met. According to Shah, USAID has helped fund infrastructure projects throughout the country, all the while working to ensure that the benefits of economic growth are spread more equitably throughout the population. This assistance, Shah said, has the additional benefit of improving the perception of the U.S. among the Pakistani population.
"Our relationship with Pakistan is complex, but our development side should be more straightforward," said Shah.

Nevertheless, problems remain. Munter candidly referred to the past year as "tough" and gave himself only a "C or D" grade, indicating that current relations between Islamabad and Washington have much room for improvement. Incidents like the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad and the arrest of suspected CIA informant Raymond Davis only exacerbated a sense among many Pakistanis that their nation's sovereignty was under threat by an aggressive American foreign policy. Added to the usual problems with corruption, government instability and ethnic tension, Pakistan has endured a tumultuous year even by its own standards.

However, Munter remains optimistic that the U.S.-Pakistan relationship will ultimately prosper, citing the maintenance of strong military-to-military ties as well as the continued implementation of  projects like those cited by Shah. Both men agreed that continued economic development is a key component of improving the often-contentious diplomatic relationship between the two countries, a relationship that will continue to define events in the region for the foreseeable future.
Reported by Matt Schiavenza

Related:
U.S-Pak talks made ‘substantial’ progress on counterterrorism: Munter - APP

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Asia Society Event - Development and Diplomacy: A Way Forward for U.S.- Pakistan Relations




Asia SocietyDevelopment and Diplomacy: A Way Forward for U.S.- Pakistan Relations

September 19, 2011 - 9:00am - 10:15am
Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street), New York, NY

USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah and U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter will share insights on U.S. diplomatic and civilian assistance efforts in Pakistan. This public discussion forum will provide a brief look at U.S. diplomacy and development assistance to date, and will focus on the future of this complex relationship. Additionally, this interactive session will provide the Pakistani American diaspora community an opportunity to share ideas and questions with senior U.S. representatives. The event is being co-presented by the Asia Society and the American Pakistan Foundation. Moderated by Professor Hassan Abbas, The College of International Security Affairs (CISA), National Defense University; and Senior Advisor, Global Policy Programs, Asia Society.

More information on the American Pakistan Foundation may be found at http://americanpakistan.org/
There will be a light breakfast reception at 8:30am, followed by the program at 9:00am.

Can't make it to this program? Tune into AsiaSociety.org/Live at 9:00 am ET for a free live video webcast. Viewers are encouraged to submit questions to moderator@asiasociety.org

UPDATE: For event video and summary click here

Rajiv Shah, Hassan Abbas and Cameron Munter
Picture credit: Suzanna Finley



Wednesday, September 14, 2011

'India cannot always be at odds with Pakistan' - Kuldip Nayar

India cannot always be at odds with Pakistan  By Kuldip Nayar
September 14, 2011, Express Tribune
 
Former national security adviser MK Narayanan, now the governor of West Bengal, has always been a hawk. That he differed with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on improving relations with Pakistan, does not come as a surprise to those who have followed his career from the days of his service in the intelligence agencies. Even then, his reports are said to have been anti-Pakistan. Such bureaucrats, on both sides, have not allowed normalisation between the two countries. And they are still at it.

I was amazed when Narayanan was appointed as the national security adviser (NSA). I could tell why, when I was told that he was close to the ‘dynasty’. His loyalty was tested during Mrs Indira Gandhi’s authoritarian rule and he came out on top. In the beginning, there were two advisers, one for politics and another for security. When former foreign secretary JN Dixit, heading the political side died, both segments came under Narayanan, thanks again to his proximity to the ‘dynasty’.
I admire the patience of Singh who put up with Narayanan for such a long time. Maybe, the prime minister could not convince the ‘dynasty’ that Narayanan should be moved elsewhere because he was not on the same page with him when it came to relations between India and Pakistan. Probably, the history of rapprochement between the two countries could have been different if Narayanan had not been the NSA.

A US diplomat cable released by the WikiLeaks says that when Mamohan Singh spoke about India’s shared destiny with Pakistan, Narayanan reportedly said: “You have a shared destiny, we do not.” There is no reason to disbelieve the report, particularly when India’s Foreign Office (FO) has expressed its inability to comment on it. Narayanan is the one who can throw light but he has preferred to keep silent on this aspect, although he has said that India wanted the custody of David Headley, a US citizen, who has had a hand in the Mumbai terrorist attacks.

Narayanan’s successor, Shiv Shankar Menon, was high commissioner at Islamabad. I found him to be a person who believed that India and Pakistan should be on the best of terms. I believe he has, of late, undergone a change, not on people-to-people contact, but the limit to which India should go to make up with Pakistan. He was not in favour of separating terrorism from talks as Singh had agreed at Sharm el-Sheikh. Menon is not yet a hawk, like Narayanan, but reportedly differs with Singh, who is willing to go the extra mile to make up with Pakistan.

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Latest Developments in Afghanistan

U.S. cutting funds for Afghan forces' training
Reuters, September 14, 2011

(Reuters) - A Senate panel on Tuesday approved a $1.6 billion cut in projected U.S. funding for Afghan security forces, part of a significant reduction in outlays for training and equipping Afghan army and police expected in the coming years.
The United States started withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan in July with the goal of handing over lead security control to an expanded Afghan army and police force by the end of 2014. It has spent billions bulking up Afghan security forces to prepare for that day.

But the Pentagon is in the process of deciding how quickly those costs might come down in the next several years from the $12.8 billion it had initially projected in spending for fiscal year 2012.

Senator Daniel Inouye, the chairman of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, said $1.6 billion was being cut because of an "overstated requirement" identified by the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

U.S. officials acknowledged to Reuters that total spending on training and equipping Afghan forces could fall much further. A figure of $6 billion in funding, first reported by the Los Angeles Times, was probably within the realm of consideration, one official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

For complete article, click here

Related:
Indian firms eye huge mining investment in Afghanistan - Reuters India
Pakistan to deploy troops along Afghan border - Express Tribune
US: Religious persecution up in Afghanistan - Associated Press

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

American Jihad!

An American jihad
By Muhammad Bilal Lakhani, Express Tribune,
September 11, 2011
 
Despite everything she had been through in the last ten years, Talat Hamdani, a Pakistani-American substitute teacher in New York City, was still caught off guard when her 7th grade student called her a terrorist.

“Why did you call me a terrorist?” asked Talat.
“Because you guys attacked the twin towers,” replied the 14-year-old.
It’s an accusation that would hurt anyone, but for Talat Hamdani, it cut to the core. That’s because for her, 9/11 was not just a national or even a global tragedy, but a deeply personal one.

And even today, she remembers every detail of the day her life changed forever,
“It’s a very clear Tuesday,” Talat remarked to her younger son, Zeeshan, as she drove him to college on the morning of September 11th, 2001. Her eldest son, Salman, 23, a cadet with the New York Police Department and a certified emergency medical technician (EMT), was still in bed at their home in Queens, when she left at 7:15 a.m.

At 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Centre. According to the 9/11 commission’s report, in the 17 minutes between 8:46 and 9:03 a.m., the largest rescue operation in the city’s history was mobilised. Well over a thousand first responders were deployed, an evacuation began and the critical decision was made that the fire could not be fought. Then the second plane hit.

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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Ten Years after 9/11 Tragedy - American AND International Perspectives

The Reckoning: America and the World A Decade after 9/11 - New York Times
And Hate Begat Hate - By Ahmed Rashid, NYT

Two very different 9/11 Pentagon tales of fate
By David Martin, CBS, September 11, 2011

(CBS News) On Sept. 11th, 125 people who worked at the Pentagon were killed when a hijacked jetliner rammed into the building.

And, as CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports, it was pure fate that intervened for everyone inside, with decidedly different outcomes, depending on the person.

The plane hit the west wall of the Pentagon and tore a 270-foot path of destruction through the building. Feet and inches, and just plain luck, were often the difference between life and death.

Special coverage: 9/11: Ten Years Later

Most people in the pentagon were transfixed by the televised pictures of the burning towers in New York.

"After some period of time watching it," says Rear Adm. Frank Thorp IV, who has since retired, "I came to realize, 'Hey, we've got this big project due.' So I said, 'Hey, everybody, let's get back to work."

Then Thorpe, at the time a Navy officer, changed his mind.

"For the first time in my life, I said, 'But first, let's all go get a cup of coffee together.' To this day, I have no idea why I did that. All of us got up, walked out of the Pentagon or walked out of the office, walked down the hallway, and the plane hit about a tractor-trailer's length away from my office."

For complete article, click here

Related:
Obama urges service, unity on 9/11 anniversary - Associated Press
Thoughts on 9/11: On the Importance of Intolerance - Reuters
"Mixed bag" for U.S. Muslims since 9/11 - CBS
Civil Liberties, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence - Philip D. Zelikow, Foreign Affairs

From International Press:
China and 9/11: Beijing’s emerging role in the Hindu Kush - The Hindu (India)
Chinese media mourn tenth anniversary of 9/11 - China Daily (China)
Ten Years Later - By Riaz Mohammad Khan, Dawn (Pakistan)
10 years after 9/11: Islamophobia in the West - Zaman (Turkey)
A special report on the Indonesian perspective of the attacks and their aftermath - The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)

Saturday, September 10, 2011

The Roots of the Islamophobia - An Interesting Perspective



Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America
By Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matthew Duss, Lee Fan , Scott Keyes, Faiz Shakir |August 26, 2011, Centre for American Progress

On July 22, a man planted a bomb in an Oslo government building that killed eight people. A few hours after the explosion, he shot and killed 68 people, mostly teenagers, at a Labor Party youth camp on Norway’s Utoya Island.

By midday, pundits were speculating as to who had perpetrated the greatest massacre in Norwegian history since World War II. Numerous mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, speculated about an Al Qaeda connection and a “jihadist” motivation behind the attacks. But by the next morning it was clear that the attacker was a 32-year-old, white, blond-haired and blue-eyed Norwegian named Anders Breivik. He was not a Muslim, but rather a self-described Christian conservative.

According to his attorney, Breivik claimed responsibility for his self-described “gruesome but necessary” actions. On July 26, Breivik told the court that violence was “necessary” to save Europe from Marxism and “Muslimization.” In his 1,500-page manifesto, which meticulously details his attack methods and aims to inspire others to extremist violence, Breivik vows “brutal and breathtaking operations which will result in casualties” to fight the alleged “ongoing Islamic Colonization of Europe.”

Breivik’s manifesto contains numerous footnotes and in-text citations to American bloggers and pundits, quoting them as experts on Islam’s “war against the West.” This small group of anti-Muslim organizations and individuals in our nation is obscure to most Americans but wields great influence in shaping the national and international political debate. Their names are heralded within communities that are actively organizing against Islam and targeting Muslims in the United States.

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Friday, September 02, 2011

'Another Pakistan' - Christopher Lydon

Radio Open Source: arts, ideas and politics with Christopher Lydon


Lydon at large in Lahore, by the gun where Kipling’s Kim
held forth:
Another Pakistan

We’re in Pakistan at mid-summer 2011 — “the country that could kill the world,” in a native line that lingers. Or maybe the new normal. Think of Pakistan, we’re told by Pakistanis, as a model or perhaps a warning of the rising, rough, tough inequalities in the world, even in our embattled United States…
Early on we planned to see this nightmare aslant — less with oft-quoted strategists, more with the imaginative class, so to speak: with the typically grim but mettlesome singers, story-tellers and artists of Sind and the Punjab. They are wonderfully available, individual, candid women and men who have their own dark, truth-telling traditions. They each tell different stories, of course — and almost all of them different from the standard line of an “Af-Pak” crucible of global terrorism. Many of them point rather to “Indo-Pak” roots of the modern turmoil, in the Partition that carved two wounded and unequal sibling rivals out of the British Raj in 1947.

For details, click http://www.radioopensource.org/
“Another Pakistan” is a co-production of the Watson Institute and the Asia Society. Zarminae Ansari helped produce the series in Pakistan. Thanks also to Beena Sarwar of Aman ki Asha.

Thursday, September 01, 2011

Sectarian Conflict in Kurram Agency - An Unending Tragedy

'Clearing' Kurram

By Daud Khattak, August 25, 2011, AfPak Channel, Foreign Policy
 
On Aug. 18, Pakistan's most powerful man, Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, secretly flew to Kurram agency in the country's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and declared it free of "miscreants."

No doubt the Pakistani Army did a great job clearing militants from Central Kurram, the focus of the operation, as it did in areas like the Swat Valley. But Kayani's visit and announcement raise the following question: What do "clear" and "miscreants" mean for a Pakistani Army fighting to regain control of the area from a discreet force that can shift, hit, kill, and target anywhere, any place, and any time? And if the area had been successfully cleared, why did Kayani not travel by road, and why did he not meet the open jirgas of tribal elders in that area, as was the tradition when top Pakistani officials visited the tribal belt before 2001?

Indeed, it would have been great fun if Kayani had taken the governor of Khyber-Puktunkhwa province (the federal government figure who is actually in charge of administering the FATA) along with him, traveling by road to the "cleared" area so that the youth of Kurram could welcome them with the beating of drums and traditional dance, attan, instead of welcoming Kayani's visit from afar while begging him to finish the job and lift the siege on Kurram's main city, Parachinar. Only then would the people of Kurram come to believe that their area had truly been secured.

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Related:

Silence Of The Liberal Lambs
Mohammad Taqi, Outlook India

Why would a supposedly liberal op-ed writer blatantly paint an aggrieved minority as an aggressive fifth column of a hostile neighbour? And why should such a portrayal encounter sounds of silence instead of being called out as calumny?  For complete article, click here

Latest:
7 die in firing incident in Lower Kurram Agency: Officials - Express Tribune

'The Informants': Counterterrorism in the US

out of 508 defendants...

The Informants
Mother Jones, September/October Issue
The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack. But are they busting terrorist plots—or leading them?

James Cromitie was a man of bluster and bigotry. He made up wild stories about his supposed exploits, like the one about firing gas bombs into police precincts using a flare gun, and he ranted about Jews. "The worst brother in the whole Islamic world is better than 10 billion Yahudi," he once said.

A 45-year-old Walmart stocker who'd adopted the name Abdul Rahman after converting to Islam during a prison stint for selling cocaine, Cromitie had lots of worries—convincing his wife he wasn't sleeping around, keeping up with the rent, finding a decent job despite his felony record. But he dreamed of making his mark. He confided as much in a middle-aged Pakistani he knew as Maqsood.
"I'm gonna run into something real big," he'd say. "I just feel it, I'm telling you. I feel it."

Maqsood and Cromitie had met at a mosque in Newburgh, a struggling former Air Force town about an hour north of New York City. They struck up a friendship, talking for hours about the world's problems and how the Jews were to blame.

It was all talk until November 2008, when Maqsood pressed his new friend.

"Do you think you are a better recruiter or a better action man?" Maqsood asked.

"I'm both," Cromitie bragged.

"My people would be very happy to know that, brother. Honestly."

"Who's your people?" Cromitie asked.

"Jaish-e-Mohammad."

Maqsood said he was an agent for the Pakistani terror group, tasked with assembling a team to wage jihad in the United States. He asked Cromitie what he would attack if he had the means. A bridge, Cromitie said.

"But bridges are too hard to be hit," Maqsood pleaded, "because they're made of steel."
"Of course they're made of steel," Cromitie replied. "But the same way they can be put up, they can be brought down."

Maqsood coaxed Cromitie toward a more realistic plan. The Mumbai attacks were all over the news, and he pointed out how those gunmen targeted hotels, cafƩs, and a Jewish community center.

"With your intelligence, I know you can manipulate someone," Cromitie told his friend. "But not me, because I'm intelligent." The pair settled on a plot to bomb synagogues in the Bronx, and then fire Stinger missiles at airplanes taking off from Stewart International Airport in the southern Hudson Valley. Maqsood would provide all the explosives and weapons, even the vehicles. "We have two missiles, okay?" he offered. "Two Stingers, rocket missiles."

For complete article, click here