Bharat Rakshak

Yagnasri wrote:Already Kerry said India is a challenge in this talks and we have reacted very strongly even for such statement. So we all got a taste of things to come in Paris.

Thanks. A truer word you never spoke.

we don't need the amreki baggage that comes along with it.

TSJones wrote:I think Modiji fully intends to make use of alternative energy especially as new technologies come to the forefront. Alternative energy can't be the base but it can sure help ease the toll on the environment. As new tech arrives even the use of coal can cleaned to certain level further slowing the effect on the environment. Thus, I think Modiji is sincere about it and is more than willing to accommodate these measures as they become economically viable leading ultimately to reduced energy dependence upon the Arab states.

TSJones wrote:I think Modiji fully intends to make use of alternative energy especially as new technologies come to the forefront. Alternative energy can't be the base but it can sure help ease the toll on the environment. As new tech arrives even the use of coal can cleaned to certain level further slowing the effect on the environment. Thus, I think Modiji is sincere about it and is more than willing to accommodate these measures as they become economically viable leading ultimately to reduced energy dependence upon the Arab states.

Bhurishrava wrote:IMHO, it is not necessarily environment concern that is driving the PM. Major chunk of Forex goes in buying oil from jihadi states. If we use solar and wind energy and get somwhere with it, we will be able to cut down imports of crude.
That will leave sunshine deficient NATO states to fund ISIS, Nusra, LeT etc.

JE Menon wrote:^^habal that is not a topic for this thread. Please take it to the appropriate thread.

Mort Walker wrote:How come the Obama administration isn't advocating nuclear energy? It just goes to show how disingenuous and un-serious the Obama administration is about climate change.

Y. Kanan wrote:all adds up to a track record of scandalous perfidy and should serve as a wakeup call to misguided Indians eager for US friendship at seemingly any price.

Y. Kanan wrote:No, the Iraqi experience is indeed relavant to US-India relations.

JE Menon wrote:^^and that is why it's not a subject for this thread, which is the only one specifically about Indo-US ties. Or you can replace Iraq with any country and start discussing their relations with the US on this thread. Take it to the appropriate thread.

Please.

Man held at Guantánamo for 13 years a case of mistaken identity, say officials

Mustafa al-Aziz al-Shamiri was low-level Islamist foot soldier, not al-Qaida courier and trainer as had been believed
US military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison at the Guantánamo Bay US naval base. Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP

David Smith

Wednesday 2 December 2015

A man who has spent 13 years in the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was arrested partly in a case of mistaken identity, US officials conceded Tuesday.

Officials admitted that Mustafa al-Aziz al-Shamiri, 37, was a low-level Islamist foot soldier and not an al-Qaida courier and trainer as previously thought, during a Guantanamo hearing.

Wearing a beard and voluminous white T-shirt, and accompanied by a linguist and two personal representatives, the Yemeni appeared before a panel assessing whether he can be released.

A profile published by the Department of Defense maintains he fought in Afghanistan and mixed with members of al-Qaida. But officials concede that they wrongly believed he had a more significant role because he was confused with others who had a similar name.
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“Mustafa Abd-al-Qawi Abd-al-Aziz al-Shamiri (YM-434) fought in several jihadist theaters and associated with al-Qaida members in Afghanistan,” the unclassified detainee profile said. “It was previously assessed that YM-434 also was an al-Qaida facilitator or courier, as well as a trainer, but we now judge that these activities were carried out by other known extremists with names or aliases similar to YM-434’s.”

The profile added that fragmentary reporting links al-Shamiri to fighting in Bosnia in 1995, and he told interrogators that he fought in Yemen’s civil war in 1996 and in Afghanistan for the Taliban from 2000 to 2001 – including against the Northern Alliance and US forces – before his capture near Mazar-e-Sharif. He has since been an indefinite detainee, considered too dangerous to release but without adequate evidence to bring to trial.

A statement from al-Shamiri’s personal representative described him as very cooperative, enthusiastic and supportive in the preparation for the board hearing. “From the onset, he has demonstrated a consistent positive attitude towards life after Gitmo,” he said. “He has a strong desire to obtain an education in order to provide for a future spouse that his family has already located for him.

“Mustafa will show you today that he is not a continuing significant threat to the United States of America. He is earnestly preparing for his life after Gitmo. During his time in detention, he has attended English and art classes, in addition to acquiring carpentry and cooking skills. During the last feast, Mustafa generously took the time to prepare over 30 plates of pastries for his fellow detainees. When I asked him why he would make pastries for his fellow detainees, he said it’s because it makes him feel like he can give back and share with people.”
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The statement added: “Mustafa does have remorse for choosing the wrong path early in life. He has vocalized to us that while he cannot change the past, he would definitely have chosen a different path. He wants to make a life for himself. He is aware that Yemen is not an option and he is willing to go to any country that will accept him.”

The 17-minute opening of the hearing was broadcast via video link to journalists in Arlington, Virginia. They were then required to leave before classified details were discussed.

Al-Shamiri has been held as an enemy combatant without charge at Guantánamo since 2002. He is one of 107 prisoners at the controversial base, 48 of whom have been cleared for release. It is not certain when he will learn if he is to become number 49.

Mort Walker wrote:How come the Obama administration isn't advocating nuclear energy? It just goes to show how disingenuous and un-serious the Obama administration is about climate change.

t was early in the morning of July 4, 1999 and President Bill Clinton was convening his national-security team in the Oval Office. Pakistan and India were at war and Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, was across Pennsylvania Avenue at Blair House asking for Clinton’s help.
Samuel Berger, the president’s national-security adviser, opened the discussion. This is the most important day of your presidency, Mr President, he said. Two nuclear-armed states are at war and locked in an escalation ladder that could end in Armaggedon. You have one shot at stopping the spiral. You must convince Sharif to back down and withdraw his troops behind the old ceasefire line.
It was Sandy at his best. He cut through the complexity of the situation to grasp its essence and to propose a clear solution. It reflected his conviction that the Office of the Presidency came with a power and authority to get hard things done and a moral responsibility to do them.Earlier that spring, Pakistan had secretly sent hundreds of troops across the line of control in Kashmir to occupy mountaintop posts looking down on a key highway that linked Kashmir together around a town named Kargil. When India discovered the Pakistani ploy, it launched a furious counterattack with air and ground forces. Sandy met his Indian counterpart in Europe in June. Brajesh Mishra told him that India could not stay restrained for long; it would escalate if Pakistan did not withdraw behind the line of control. Sandy told Clinton the war threatened disaster. If India expanded the war, Pakistan would probably lose and inevitably turn to its nuclear arsenal.

The morning of the Fourth, the CIA wrote in its top-secret Daily Brief that Pakistan was preparing its nuclear weapons for deployment and possible use. The intelligence was very compelling. The mood is the Oval Office was grim.Berger urged the Clinton to hear out Sharif, but to be firm. Pakistan started this crisis and it must end it without any compensation. The president needed to make clear to the prime minister that only a Pakistani withdrawal could avert further escalation. Sandy knew Clinton better than anyone, his natural inclination was to find a deal. This time, no deal was possible, it must be an unequivocal Pakistani climbdown.It worked. Sharif agreed to pull back his troops. It later cost him his job: The army ousted him in a coup and he spent a decade in exile in Saudi Arabia. The risk of a nuclear exchange in South Asia was averted.It was Berger’s finest hour. He had grasped the peril of the situation early and directly discussed the matter with the Indians. He fully understood the stakes and articulated them succinctly. His advice on how to run a meeting with a foreign head of government was spot-on.

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Y. Kanan wrote:all adds up to a track record of scandalous perfidy and should serve as a wakeup call to misguided Indians eager for US friendship at seemingly any price.

Are you sure they are misguided? I would argue that they are very well guided and focussed on what they want for themselves out of this relationship. Of course, there's a plethora of factors behind this "motivation"

Y. Kanan wrote:No, the Iraqi experience is indeed relavant to US-India relations.

Our Pakistani experience is far far more relevant to Indo-US relations, because this is where we have been maximally affected, threatened, stymied and hampered.

If that hasn't been enough to realign these "misguided" folks, then what makes you think that Iraqi experience will fare any better?

Jhujar wrote:Mass shooting in San Bernardino in CA, over 20 causalities per CeeNN. Hope not the Paris copycat.
Police responding now and gunman still active.

saip wrote:Syed Raheel Farook, definitely a Paki.