US Ambassador Call Indian Evidence in Mumbai Terror Case "Credible"

One looks in vain in this article for precisely which parts are credible.

The most damning bit of their evidence is that Pakistan officials must have known of the coming Mumbai massacre:

India confronted Pakistan on Monday with a detailed dossier that it said showed that "elements from Pakistan" were behind the November terrorist assault on Mumbai and said it was inconceivable that no one in the Pakistani government knew of the plans.
India's moves added pressure to the already tense relationship between the nuclear-armed rivals over the assault, in which some 170 people died.
The evidence handed to Islamabad included the lengthy confession extracted during the interrogation of Ajmal Kasab, the only gunman caught during the attack. McClatchy reported Dec. 6 that Kasab had come from Faridkot, a village in Pakistan's Punjab province.
Also in the dossier were telephone intercepts between the assailants and their alleged handlers in Pakistan, data retrieved from recovered GPS and satellite phones and details of "recovered weapons and equipment," India's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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Shiv Shankar Menon, India's foreign secretary, the top bureaucrat in the Foreign Ministry, said it "beggars the imagination" that no one within the Pakistani state knew about the preparations for the attack, an accusation that appeared directed at the Pakistani army and its intelligence agencies.

Note that that, however, isn't positive evidence per se, but circumstantial evidence. The first-cited article does not mention that belief specifically, but the outgoing US ambassador seems full of implication:

He sought to counter the perception that Americans, critically dependent on Pakistan for the success of their fight against Taliban, will not lean hard on Pakistan. "Americans have different ways of skinning a cat," he said in a remark that could be seen as a reference to the American efforts to open parallel logistic routes to Afghanistan through Russia and Central Asia as well as the belief that they continue to have leverage on important state actors in Pakistan.

If the evidence is "credible," the implications from that evidence are credible as well.

Thanks to Guarav.

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Wow. We've got Putin shutting off the gas to the Ukraine and by extension the rest of Europe, India basically accusing Pakistan of being complicit in the Mumbai attack or being too stupid to have good intelligence that would've found out about it, protests across Europe against Israel turning increasingly violent and anti-semitic, the protests in the US ramping up to turn into the same, financial collapses globally of major companies, just to name the tip of the iceberg of the state of the world this January.

Congratulations on your election Obama, way to bring hope and change to the globe. Have fun sorting out the shitload of bad things about to land on your doorstep at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The rest of us will be practicing leaning over and kissing our asses good-bye.

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3 I have a sinking feeling that war between Pakistan and India is inevitable.

Posted by: Techie at January 07, 2009 12:26 PM (906oR)

4 Umm... statements given by a captured participant in the attack are "circumstantial evidence"? Phone intercepts between participants and controllers in Paki are "circumstantial evidence"?

Hello? Anyone home?

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yeah, this post seems to have dipped into the kos/huff po level of reasoning (not to mention a complete lack of understanding of the term 'circumstantial'

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7 Weird fact: The brother of Nadira Naipaul, the second wife of Nobel Prize for Literature winner V.S. Naipaul was assassinated in November. Major General Amir Faisal Alvi (Ret.) was formerly the Paki Special Forces commander and had publically said he was going to reveal links between Pakistani army commanders and the Taliban.

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Well, the painful truth is, there is not a whole lot the US can do for India here. Our logistic train for Afghanistan is through the Pakistani port of Karachi, and overland routes through Russia and Central Asia, assuming they would play ball with us, really depend on the condition of roads that are almost all lousy in winter weather as far as I know.

That said, India has every right in the world to retaliate. This is an act of war pure and simple. India should either demand the ISI turn over all personnel responsible for this, or let Paksitan bear responsibility for what happens.

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