Michael Vickers and Mumbai terror attacks

Is he the mastermind of Mumbai 26/11 ?

http://bengalunderattack.blogspot.com/2008/12/michael-vickers-and-mumbai-attacks.html

HISTORY:

Vickers was the principal strategist for covert CIA operations in Afghanistan that resulted in the defeat, and subsequent break up of the Soviet Union. If there is one man who can be credited for the break up of Soviet empire - it is Vickers.

His greatest influence was in the precise way he reassessed the potential of Afghan guerrilla forces and prescribed the right mix of weaponry to attack Soviet weaknesses. (According to me, he is simply an asset of platinum class for any country to have - period.)

At the height of Afghan operation, he was giving strategic and operational direction to 300 unit commanders, 150,000 full time and 500,000 part time fighters ("mujahideens"). He co-ordinated the efforts of TEN countries and oversaw an annual budget of US $ 2 billion.

From 1973 to 1986, Mr. Vickers served as an Army Special Forces Non-Commissioned Officer, Special Forces Officer, and CIA Operations Officer. During this period, Mr. Vickers had operational and combat experience in Central America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Central and South Asia. His operational experience spans covert action and espionage, unconventional warfare, counterterrorism (including hostage rescue operations), counterinsurgency, and foreign internal defense.

CURRENTLY:

Michael G. (“Mike”) Vickers was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict & Interdependent Capabilities) on July 23, 2007. He is the senior civilian advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense on the capabilities and operational employment of special operations forces, strategic forces, and conventional forces. He is also the senior civilian advisor on counterterrorism strategy, irregular warfare, and force transformation.

Special Operations Command (SOCOM) which is part of the portfolio that Vickers handles is based in Tampa, FL. It's annual budget is US$ 8 BILLION and more than 60,000 covert and overt personnel are on its payroll. Vickers also sits on 3rd floor of Pentagon "C" Ring.


WHY AM I WRITING ABOUT HIM HERE?

Mr. Vickers is the co-author of The Quadrennial Defense Review and U.S. Defense Policy, 2006-2025 (QDR) in which he states Pakistan and terrorism is the near term threat to USA. The longer term threat to US are CHINA, INDIA and RUSSIA. (INDIA - a serious economic threat to US, specially after the economic meltdown)

Hence, in the immediate term, Vicker's attention will be on PAKISTAN & AFGHANISTAN - an area he knows well. After all he created many of the mujahideen cells and was its paymaster. All the major Taliban leaders, who fought the Afghan jehad against the Soviets, have deep respect for Vickers and all of them are on "FIRST NAME" basis with him.

He controlled them (ex- Mujahids and today's TALIBAN etc) at one time - hence the question is - how does he "control them" today?

This will have a bearing on "incidents" in India to drive the goal which Vickers has in mind. With a budget of US$ 8 billion and 60,000 assets (most top of the line special ops), it is in India's interest to embed its interests with Vickers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/27/AR2007122702116.html

http://www.cfr.org/publication/11834/military_strategies_for_unconventional_warfare_rush_transcript_federal_news_service.html

http://bengalunderattack.blogspot.com/

Mumbai Mystery: American Designs on Pakistan and India – Part One
Mumbai Mystery: American Designs on Pakistan and India – Part Two
Mumbai Mystery: American Designs on Pakistan and India – Part Three
Mumbai Mystery: American Designs on Pakistan and India – Part Four

Any black helicopters?

Great pic, Rey!

tin foil is highly overrated.

"This sorry state of affairs is the brainchild of new world order geniuses like Zbigniew
Brzezenski, who hatched the idea of reviving Islamic jihadism and turning it into a
political weapon, inspiring a generation of Islamic insurgents armed and trained with
modern weaponry and demolition skills. The idea was to indoctrinate millions of devout
Muslims with militant Wahabi doctrine, dispensed in Saudi madrassas in the mountains of
Afghanistan and Pakistan's badlands (utilizing radical Islamist textbooks printed for
the CIA in the USA), is bearing fruit today. The new generation of thirty-something
Taliban leaders, like 34 year-old Baitullah Mehsud (accused of assassinating Benazir
Bhutto), are products of the madrassa indoctrination. The University of Nebraska-Omaha
jihadi textbooks began arriving in the Saudi/Pakistani madrassas when Mehsud and his
pals were about ten years old."


""Al Qaida" is a CIA fabricated enemy, created as an opponent for the CIA-created
"neocon" supermen, intended to embed an invisible terror army amongst the people, in
order to perpetually justify waging war upon the people. 9/11 was a declaration of war
by the CIA conspirators upon the people of the United States and the military forces
that defend us. The US Army should be hunting the real CIA terrorists."


"Before Kangas died, he produced a lengthy report titled, "How the CIA Created a Ruling,
Corporate Overclass in America" that may have gotten him killed.

"The US war on terror has been, in reality, a machine for sowing terror, intended to
force the people who are inclined to self-defense, to become terrorists. Kidnappings,
targeted assassinations, military attacks, and the making of entire populations into
refugees, are tactics intended to alienate individuals and drive them to vigilantism.
Terrorists are defined as those who take up arms to defend against US attacks and
occupation. The driving purpose of the war on terrorism has been to uncover would-be
terrorists (those who would resist America), by forcing radicalized men to violently act
upon their beliefs. The use of "death squads" and militias to instigate conflicts is a
plot to flush-out the hidden commitments to family and country that would drive angry
young men to oppose America's violent designs upon their property."

http://groups.google.com/group/total_truth_sciences/browse_thread/thread/245c75a42e6a30fa

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8001

The Gladio-centered US foreign policy, which was so successfully played-out in Europe, effectively countered the Soviet expansion at a high cost to European democracy. The application of that policy to Islamic countries facing a Soviet threat, such as Afghanistan, helped to roll-back the Soviets, but at a terrible cost. The training of Islamic paramilitary forces to carry-out terror attacks for political reasons, evolved into the unfolding nightmare known as the war on terror.

In Afghanistan, the CIA armed, trained and supported Islamic "Gladios" who carried-out Brzezenski's plans for staging terrorist attacks upon popular local Afghan tribal leaders, as a means to instigate the widespread tribal warfare which eventually lured the Soviets to intervene in December 1979. (July 3, 1979, President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.) Reagan whole-heartedly supported the new terror politics as a weapon for attacking the Soviet empire, even expanding the Islamic militant form of Gladio to all member states of the Soviet Union and their allies, when he signed National Security Decision Directive 166 in March 1985. In Central America, his Gladio-like duplication trained paramilitary armies and death squads. This policy became known as the "El Salvador option," when George W. Bush embraced it in Iraq, making it the centerpiece of his strategy for the "war on terrorism."

If the mercenary Gladio paramilitary forces could not provide a sufficient level of violence to satisfy the Company's needs, then the agency could rely on its own paramilitary units, or on special troops from Defense Intelligence under the 30-31B provision. If the work required an extra layer of "plausible deniability" then there were always criminal organizations for hire and the super-secret network of "rogue operators"

hey rey, it seems you are so smart and so 'in'.

now all the aussie and pom kids on the forum will come and congratulate you for your effort. You are so like them aren't you .. hopefully you shall be accepted into that club

I don't trust USA either and they kept Pakistan pitted against India long enough to reap from the seeds of instability they laid in the sub-continent to keep USSR and India at bay. I wouldn't be surprised if the deep rooted covert operations USA sponsors to keep such conflicts is working at cross purposes with the administration for some long term goal just the way ISI does. There are enough spook organizations with further subsidiary shadowy and covert batches in there and it is possible even the USA President knows much of what really goes around and what lies hidden underground.

The USA right now needs India for as long as they need co-operation to rein in Jihadis based in Pakistan for short term. The way the entire Nuclear Deal has been pushed through in suspicious circumstances and the financial commitment India has made to achieve it is certainly in the direction of investing long term in a direction where our economy and cash reserves will be tied up massively. We are siiting on a stockpile of un-mined Uranium deposits in Jharkhand, Orrisa, AP, Chattisgarh, HP, Manipur and Rajasthan enough to last 50 years and yet instead of spending on modernization of armed forces and defence we are committing a massive amount of money to buy nuclear stocks from the American-EU controlled international nuclear market.

Batman wrote:We are siiting on a stockpile of un-mined Uranium deposits in Jharkhand, Orrisa, AP, Chattisgarh, HP, Manipur and Rajasthan enough to last 50 years

where did you get this from?

The One wrote:

Batman wrote:We are siiting on a stockpile of un-mined Uranium deposits in Jharkhand, Orrisa, AP, Chattisgarh, HP, Manipur and Rajasthan enough to last 50 years

where did you get this from?

India has sufficiant raw uranium deposits, so much that we don't need to spend on importing any nuclear fuel at all. Even now new deposits have been identified in Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Jharkhand. This was discussed by opposition last year when the US Nuclear Deal was leading to a floortest. There were media reports as well. I had reported the same in one of the threads we had here where we discussed the issue. But this month the COMPTROLLER And AUDITOR GENERAL OF INDIA[CAG], came up with a damning report on the same as well. The Atomic Energy of India in the 90s was aware that these deposits could be mined and plans were put in place to start the operations. But as is expected in Indian bureaucracy, it was not initiated with the urgency such an important task demanded. The Atomic Energy Dept. was complacant due to high amount of reserve stocks and went about the proposal lazily, given that the process of setting up of mines asnd operationability itself would have taken 10 years. The Govt. went on adding new reactors without setting up the supply chain and then suddenly came a time this last decade when we exhausted the reserve stock and had all reactors running at half the capacity. The Atomic Energy had lost all independent corporate working capability as well, no doubt due to out rascal politicians and their interference.

Had the Govt started work on the mines in 90s urgently, we would today have had an established supply chain and would not have needed this white elephant of a nuclear deal at all. It has been criminal negligance on account of all Congress/UPA/NDA/BJP and Third Front Govt.s since 1990, all involved in trying to win elections instead of focussing on Nuclear and Defence infrastructure. It is a shame that we the tax payers now pay in terms of taxes and expensive power for the ways of the corupt and the inefficient.

Here To:

Link 1 - CAG pulls up DAE for failing to utilise uranium resources!

New Delhi, Feb 21: The Department of Atomic Energy has been pulled up by the CAG for failing to exploit the country's uranium resources for running atomic power plants and denying the nation "full benefits" of nuclear energy valued at nearly Rs 6,000 crore.

The Comptroller and Auditor General lashed out at the DAE for basing the fuel needs for its 15 Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR) on availability of uranium rather than actual demand for running the atomic power units at maximum capacity.

"... formal demand on nuclear fuel cycle was based more on the availability of uranium rather than on the requirement of the fuel for the PHWRs at its maximum capacity, to enable it to generate optimum nuclear power," the CAG said.

The auditor noted that though nuclear power plants operated with greater efficiency in 1999-2003 at 80 percent of installed capacity, power generation dipped significantly as the number of reactors increased leading to fuel mismatch.

Thereafter, due to constraints in fuel supplies, the average capacity factors of PHWRs as a whole were consistently brought down from 80 percent in 2002-03 to 72, 67, 64, and 50 percent respectively during 2003-08.

"This had resulted in the PHWRs operating at lower capacity and denying the nation, the full benefits of clean nuclear energy to the extent of 21,845 million units corresponding to Rs 5986 crore calculated at an average tariff of Rs 2.74 per unit," the CAG said.

The DAE also told the auditors that though nuclear reactors were being constructed fast currently, development of uranium mines had got delayed primarily due to "factors external to DAE."

The Department said that government was putting in "best efforts" to open new mines, initiatives that are facing law and order issues, and requisite clearances from the environment and forests departments.

The explanation of the DAE did not find favour with the CAG, which termed the "best efforts" as "belated" and which have not yielded the desired results.

"The DAE, as the implementing department of the government of India for the nuclear power programme, needs to effectively address these factors referred by them as being external to them," it said.

The CAG also indicted the DAE for seeking approval of four new PHWR despite having knowledge that there was an impending shortage of uranium fuel.

"DAE had not linked or ensured availability of fuel to fully address the needs of PHWR programme upto 2020. Inspite of knowledge of an impending shortage of uranium fuel, DAE went ahead and sought approval for four new PHWRs at the cost of Rs 6,354 crore," it said.

Terming this a "significant deficiency" in the planning process, the auditor said that the DAE should have addressed the issue at the time of planning for these new reactors.

Link 2 - No crisis, enough nuke fuel for 40 years: CAG!

In what could trigger a fresh war of words between the government and the Left parties, an independent official survey on the country's
estimated uranium reserves has revealed that the nuclear fuel stocks are enough to meet India's fuel supply for the next 40 years.

An audit on the management of fuel for Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) — conducted by the Comptroller and Auditor General in light of reports of serious fuel crisis — has revealed that India has enough uranium reserves which were left unexplored due to "significant deficiencies in the strategic planning" by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).

The report says that as of September 2007, the estimated uranium reserves were about 1,07,268 tonnes while the fuel requirement of the 10,000 MWe PHWR programme, as planned by DAE till 2020, required around 1,01,600 tonnes for the entire lifespan of 40 years of these plants.

The report has pulled up authorities in DAE for their laxity in exploring identified mineral blocks. Most of these identified uranium blocks were left unexplored despite being handed over to the department concerned for mining 10 to 38 years ago, says the CAG report which was tabled in Parliament on Friday.

The CAG findings, incidentally, are on the lines of what the Left parties had been arguing all along in their opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal.

CPM general secretary Prakash Karat had in his objection to the nuke deal alleged that the nuclear fuel crisis as projected by the UPA government was artificial and deliberately done to enter into a pact with the US.

The Left leaders had then sought explanation on the initial plan of the DAE's programme for generating 10,000 MWe with indigenous fuel supply and what led to the shortage when the country was still producing below 5,000 MW.

The CAG review has delved deep into the cause and found that mines in Meghalaya, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka at Domiasiat, Lambapur and Gogi respectively, had better grade deposits and were expected to deliver significant quantity of yellow cake per annum. However, there were "significant delays in opening of these mines which had adversely affected the timely supply of nuclear fuel to the PHWRs".

"Due to constraints in fuel supplies, the average capacity factors of nuclear plants were consistently brought down to 50% during 2003-08. The denial of the plants running at full capacity resulted in an estimated loss of about Rs 6,000 crore," the report says.

Link 3 - Atomic energy could have lit 40 million homes!

There is a great irony lurking behind the highly secretive doors of India’s atomic energy establishment.

Even without the Indo-US nuclear deal, at least 40 million more homes could have been lit up for an entire year in power-starved India if the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) had mined and used the extensive uranium reserves lying untapped for years.

On Friday, the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India hammered home that point in a damning audit report that peels off the DAE’s sheen. It faulted the all-powerful department for the fuel crisis that is causing India’s nuclear reactors to run at half or less of their capacity.

This “denied the nation the full benefits of clean nuclear energy to the extent of 21,845 million units corresponding to Rs 5,986 cores,” the report said. One person uses an average of 553 units of electricity in India every year.

“This (estimation of financial losses) can only be a theoretical exercise which leads to misleading conclusions,” the DAE told the auditor in response. It accepted the facts stated by CAG but added: “Due to (the) mismatch in demand and supply of fuel for (reactors) since 2003-4, these were being operated at lower levels to conserve fuel.”

But the DAE itself is responsible for that mismatch.

On Friday, DAE chief Anil Kakodkar’s office did not respond to HT’s queries on the issue, sent through fax and e-mail.
HT first reported in June, 2008 on the country’s Great Uranium Sham: As India went knocking on the doors of the US and other countries for uranium to create energy for its economy — for which PM Manmohan Singh risked his government — a bitter truth hidden from the nation was also unravelling.

India has long been sitting on much of the uranium it needs – enough to produce 10,000 mw of electricity for the 40-year life span of its reactors. It was just not excavated.

The ore was buried under the surface — over 1 lakh tonnes across Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu – with tens of thousands of tonnes of new deposits already identified elsewhere in the country.

India’s nuclear bosses also knew since 2000 that a massive energy crisis was coming the country’s way.

But the DAE did little to mine the uranium, depriving millions of cheap electricity. Worse, the Uranium Corporation of India Ltd did not use a lot of the Uranium it had mined. And the DAE misled the Cabinet by getting new reactors approved when it knew that there was no fuel to run them, the CAG said.

Atomic energy could have lit 40 million homes- Hindustan Times