Pakistan arrests army officer linked to Times Square bomb suspect

[Robb]

Source: LA Times

Investigators have arrested a Pakistani army major linked to the prime suspect in the botched attempt to bomb New York City's Times Square early this month, Pakistani law enforcement sources said Tuesday.

The major's involvement with suspect Faisal Shahzad, who was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to fly to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, remains unclear. Law enforcement sources said the major had met Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, in Islamabad, the capital, and was in cellphone contact with him.

The major's arrest marks the first time someone in Pakistan's military establishment has been directly linked to the case. The sources would not say when the alleged meeting and phone calls between Shahzad and the major took place, or what was discussed. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the investigation.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pakistan-major-20100519,0,1667275.story

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ISI promptly denied, saying the major was canned for administrative reasons.

[cosmicone]

1. First time the military is directly linked? hahahahaha

Pakistani military has been directly linked in almost every terrorist attack in India and Indian government has provided incontrovertible evidence of this since 1993.

Pakistani military and ISI ARE the main terrorists and are reluctant to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure which is their only hope of attacking India and controlling Afghanistan. Those ambitions persist due to a punjabi control of the PK military as every general wants to be the one to win a victory over India starting with Ayub Khan, then Yahya Khan, then Zia ul Haq and then Musharraf.

The reason we cannot win in Afghanistan is the PK ambition of controlling Afghanistan as a "strategic depth" policy.

Sadly, the policymakers in Washington don't understand this.

We should weaken the Pakistani military and Punjabi influence by demanding autonomy for Baluchistan and Sindhudesh in exchange for the handouts otherwise we will continuously fund our own enemy (i.e. Taliban) indirectly through support of the PK military.