'If it suits America tomorrow, they would start a jihaad inside India'
Pakistan's former Inter-Services Intelligence chief Hamid Gul in this exclusive telephonic interview tells Harinder Baweja that the US is just looking for a pretext to enter the subcontinent, and that it would be bad for India as well.
New Delhi, September 14 [2001]
What is your response to the terrorist attacks in America? And do you think that Osama bin Laden is behind them?
I said that it was a horrible/horrendous picture that one could see. But, you see, they haven't reached any conclusion. So it is prejudging the involvement of. Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan. It is a convenient bogey to divert attention, and I think that the Israelis would be very pleased about it. And so would the Indians. But that is not the real thing.
I think it is a sophisticated job: the radar jamming and the piloting of the aircraft because there are no errors. Four aircraft, two airlines were involved, and from 8.45 am - that is when the first (aircraft) hit the north tower (of the World Trade Centre) - to the crash at the Pentagon, there was a gap of one hour. In this one hour, everything seemed to be quiet. It seemed like it was a coup-like situation.
One knows that after the Florida fiasco of the Presidential election, there is a big rift between the Jewish lobbies and George Bush and his Administration. He has not taken a single Jew in his Cabinet. So (Ariel) Sharon (the hawkish Israeli prime minister) and company are very upset with George Bush.
They (the Jewish lobbies) have been told to indulge in acts of terrorism in the past. Why can't they do it now? If you would recall, after the Wye River accord when (President) Clinton went begging (Israeli prime minister Binyamin) Netanyahu to accept peace, Netanyahu said over the CNN that we (the Jews) will set Washington on fire, and they (the CNN) had quickly switched off the telecast.
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