India MUST share DNA information about Mumbai attack -says INTERPOL Secretary General R. Noble
Washington D.C. - Our comment on last November’s ‘seaborne invasion’, (in the Khalistan Calling dated 31 december, 2008) that, “India’s (LINK) Chanakyan rulers are hiding something in their dezinformatsiya (official version of the Mumbai carnage they have broadcast to the world when they refused to share information with Interpol) has now been proved right. Obviously there is truth in the scuttlebutt that the Mumbai incident, orchestrated by Indian Military Intelligence to eliminate the MaharashtraAnti-Terrorist squad, went wrong.
Some of our esteemed readers, who were taken in by the Indian version (broadcast by rote) about the orchestrated Mumbai killings (and some dumb ‘confessional’ statements published in the Pakistan media) were uncomfortable with our commentaries which have ridiculed and exposed Indian official agencies for orchestrating terrorist acts inside India. like the ‘attack on the Indian parliament’; ‘bomb blasts in the Indo-Pak Samjhota express train; and the November 2008 ‘seaborne invasion of Mumbai by twelve ‘Pakistani terrorists’who were supposed to have sailed 500 miles through the roughArabian sea in a small fishing boat before landing in Mumbai in a plastic dinghy and then going on a 3-day long killing spree, under TV lights, in an armed confrontation with more than a thousand bumbling Indian army commandos and Mahrashtra state policemen.
The Interpol (an international organization whose primary crime area, among other things, is Public Safety and International Terrorism) has now, repeated last Sunday, its December demand, that India MUST cooperate with INTERPOL and provide details of DNA profiles they had obtained in their investigation into the Mumbai ‘terror attacks’. Pakistan had agreed last December to provide similar details to the global agency.
According to a report from its Islamabad corresponded, Nirupama Subramanian, India’s leading newspaper HINDU, the respectedAmerican secretary-general of INTERPOL, (LINK) Mr. Ronald K. Noble, (on his second visit to Pakistan since the Mumbai attacks) lavished praise on Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency’s investigation into the Mumbai ‘attack’and said it had set an example for police cooperation the world over. “He also showered praise on the Pakistani leadership for its ‘courage’ in carrying out the investigation and in admitting that the attacks may have been partially planned in Pakistan. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad last week, Mr. Noble said that, “Pakistan had agreed to share the DNA information it had obtained during its investigation. This DNA data would be compared with the Interpol global database of 83,000 DNA profiles. Information exchanged through the Interpol data could not only result in potential breakthroughs in the Pakistani and Indian investigations, but will also help other police forces protect their citizens from terrorist attacks. In order for these comparisons to be completed, India will be required to send Interpol the DNA profiles they have obtained in their investigations as well.”
According to another Islamabad-datelined report by the Press Trust of India news agency, headlined, ‘Interpol asks India to give DNA details,’published in the Hindustan Times of 9 March, 2009, the Interpol secretary general also said that his agency, “was working to uncover links to the Mumbai strike in seven countries including India, the others being in Europe and the Middle East but did not give details. The Interpol plea came even as Pakistan pressed India not to delay its reply to the 30 questions by Pakistan seeking more information on the Mumbai attacks so that it could successfully prosecute the Pakistani suspects saying that ‘only 13 days are left in the remand of four Pakistani suspects under arrest.’The Hindustan Times report went on to say that, “Information exchanged through the Interpol data could not only result in potential breakthroughs in the Pakistani investigation but will also help other police forces protect their citizens from terrorist attacks”. Mr. Noble also revealed in the press conference that, ‘India has failed to provide its Mumbai report to Interpol’. Readers may recollect that none other than the Russian ambassador to India had ridiculed the theory that Mumbai was invaded in a seaborne invasion by ten ‘Pakistani terrorists’ after traveling five hundred miles across the Arabian Sea, in a small fishing boat. The Russian diplomat suggested to the media, in November last year, that ‘elements of the Indian criminal mafia in Mumbai had organized the November Mumbai attacks’.
Interestingly the Daily Times of Lahore, whose correspondent attended Mr. Noble’s press conference in Islamabad (Pakistan), carried a report which said that, “Visiting Interpol General Secretary Richard K. Noble on Sunday called on India to take the lead in investigations into the Mumbai attacks, saying that Indian authorities had so far failed to provide any report to Interpol.” Mr. Noble was quoted as saying that, “For the first time, (LINK) we have detailed information on telephone numbers, bank accounts used in terrorist financing as well as internet addresses and the equipment and materials used to perpetrate these attacks.” The Interpol chief further said that his organization “has sent key leads and information received from Pakistan to all of Interpol’s 187 member countries so that they could better protect their citizens and provide valuable information to Pakistan. Mr. Noble also said that cooperation of the Pakistani authorities, following the Mumbai attacks, had been nothing short of extraordinary, adding that Islamabad had shown integrity by publicly admitting that the Mumbai attacks had been partly planned in the country.” According to the Daily Times, Interpol secretary general Noble told the press conference that seven countries, including India and some European states, were used for perpetrating the attacks.
INTERPOL, (correct full name is ‘The International Criminal Police Organization) as readers may know, was created in 1923. It facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime. It is the world’s largest police organization. INTERPOL’s mission is to assist law enforcement agencies in each of its 187 member countries (including India and Pakistan) to combat all forms of transnational crime including terrorism. Guided by four core functions, INTERPOL provides a high-tech infrastructure of technical and operational support to enable police forces around the world to meet the growing challenges of crime in the 21st century. The Interpol General Secretariat in Lyon, France, is operational 24 hours a day, seven days a week, providing a central contact point for the National Central Bureau (NCB) in every member country (187 members) for assistance or information on cross-border investigations. INTERPOL’s six priority crime areas are; Countering terrorism, which threatens public safety and world security; Tackling the growing problem of drug abuse and trafficking, often linked to other crimes; Financial and High-tech Crime; Tracing fugitives, who threaten public safety and undermine criminal justice systems; Trafficking in human beings; Fighting abuse and exploitation of people, which breach human rights and destroy lives; and lastly, working together towards a corruption-free world by promoting and defending integrity and justice.
Mr. Ronald K. Noble, an American citizen, was elected Secretary General by the 69th INTERPOL General Assembly in Rhodes, Greece, in 2000, and was unanimously re-elected to a second five-year term by the 74th INTERPOL General Assembly in Berlin, (LINK) Germany, in 2005. He is also is a tenured Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, on leave of absence while serving as INTERPOL’s Secretary General. Mr. Noble previously served as the United States Department of Treasury’s first Undersecretary for Enforcement (1993-1996), where he was in charge of some of the US’s then-largest law enforcement agencies, including the Secret Service, Customs Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and Office of Foreign Assets Control. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant US Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the US Department of Justice (1984-1989). A former member of INTERPOL’s Executive Committee, Mr. Noble was also President of the 26-nation Financial Action Task Force, the anti-money laundering organization established by the G7 in 1989. Mr. Noble served as a Law Clerk for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, from 1982-1984, where he received the highest evaluation ever given to a Law Clerk by Judge Higginbotham. Under Mr. Noble’s leadership, INTERPOL has reorganized its activities around four core functions, transformed its technology and revitalized its databases and operational police support services. We repeat the question we asked in the Khalistan Calling of 31 December, 2008 about the Chanakyan rulers of India. Who is better qualified than Interpol Secretary General, Ronald
K. Noble, to investigate the socalled amphibian ‘invasion’of Mumbai on 26 November, 2008, by ten armed ‘terrorists’who India claims are Pakistanis? Were the ten ‘invaders’ all Pakistani or was it an Al Qaida attack in which nationals of many countries took part? Or did India (as a Daily Times of Lahore editorial on March 9 has suggested) stage manage the Mumbai attack, to put Pakistan under Western and American pressure?
K. Noble, to investigate the socalled amphibian ‘invasion’of Mumbai on 26 November, 2008, by ten armed ‘terrorists’who India claims are Pakistanis? Were the ten ‘invaders’ all Pakistani or was it an Al Qaida attack in which nationals of many countries took part? Or did India (as a Daily Times of Lahore editorial on March 9 has suggested) stage manage the Mumbai attack, to put Pakistan under Western and American pressure?
Commenting on the attack, the other day, on the Sri Lankan Cricket team ambush in Lahore, Pakistan, (which Colombo now thinks had LITTE - Tamil - finger prints on it) India’s Foreign minister, Pranab Mukherjee, is reported in the media as having snorted that it clearly showed Pakistan’s lack of will or capability to tackle terrorism. This is some hypocrisy coming from a country which has been engaged in state terrorism for the past sixty years against its own minorities – like the Sikhs, Muslims and Christians - and acts of terror which target India’s smaller neighbors. It is indeed baffling that Mukherjee, and others of that ilk, among the Indian rulers, are least troubled by the apparently unending terrorism by Naxalites, who are hyper-active in a swath running across rural India in several states (from the Indo-Nepal border to the Andhra coast) where the writ of the Indian government does not exist in nearly 250 (yes 250) districts. Just this weekend, on two days running the armed Naxalites targeted two railway stations in Bihar, vandalising and burning them. Ironically, the second attack took place barely 15 minutes after five eastern states had started a bandh in protest against the first outrage. These two attacks may not be so dastardly as some other Naxalite crimes such as brazen slaughter of special police inside their camps in Chhattisgarh or the massacre of Andhra’s “greyhounds” (police commandos) sailing on Chilka lake on the way back home after completing a counter-terrorism mission in Orissa, but they cannot be dismissed lightly. They underscore that Naxal ‘terrorists’ or cadre are operating with impunity in rural India. No matter how brazenly heinous their crimes, none of them has even been arrested, leave alone being punished. This is so despite the thundering announcements of “massive manhunts” to bring the guilty to book. Many people other than the victims seem to be indulgent to these Maoists because their violence has socio-economic-caste overtones. Some Indians even see them as protectors of tribals who are usually exploited and oppressed by forest contractors and others enjoying official patronage. But, doesn’t this run counter to the fundamental doctrine, trumpeted by the Indian ruling elite, (like the ‘Deputy’ Prime minister and Foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee) when preaching about terrorism that no cause can be a justification for terror?
Commenting on the delaying tactics of New Delhi to reply to the thirty questions Pakistan is asking about the Mumbai attack, the India-friendly Daily Times newspaper of (LINK) Lahore, Pakistan, has yesterday, in an editorial, headlined, “India should make up its mind”, said that, “The time India is taking over the thirty questions is denting its credibility at the international level and causing suspicion to creep into the universal sympathy India had won after the Mumbai attacks. This suspicion will sooner rather than later cause reaction inside Pakistan too, resurrecting the charges made earlier about India stage-managing the attacks to put Pakistan under pressure. Who were the other eight (now dead) attackers? Were they from Pakistan or were they from India or came in from countries other than Pakistan to take part in the “operation”? More lethally, India’s refusal to share information will strengthen the hands of those who believe that Lahore’s March 3 ambush of the Sri Lankan cricketers too was orchestrated by India.”
