You Can Fool
the People Some Time …
By Bashir A. Syed
Retired Physicist
US
This is in response to the
article entitled ‘Beg Sahib, You Can Fool
the People Some Time. . .” by Wajid Shamsul
Hassan, in Pakistan Link, page 26, December 22,
2006 . It’s very easy to point fingers on
others by people who think that the world has
no knowledge about their doings. The author served
as Pakistan ’s High Commissioner in the
UK during Benazir’s tenure, and played an
active role in the transport and handling of some
rare exotic paintings shipped to him for Benazir’s
Surrrey Palace.
I am not a politician but a scientist who has
been away from Pakistan since 1959, and have no
axe to grind by writing this response. First,
let me state again that having observed American
democracy for more than forty-six years, it can
be stated that the majority of politicians double-speak,
and do not serve the interest of a common person,
other than their own and those of special interest
groups, and use military officials as advisors.
Even in the world’s largest democracy, politicians
don’t throw the dirty laundry of their nation
as is being done in this commentary, except with
one aim to serve a vested interest.
First Mr. Hassan uses A Q Khan as his case for
argumentation and talks about the "nonsense"
learnt from Gordon Corera’s book, which
has a lot of rubbish published to serve the cause
of those who want to put an end to the pursuit
of nuclear know-how by Muslims: it was clearly
stated by two New York Times reporters in their
book “THE ISLAMIC BOMB: The Threat to Israel
and the Middle East” that Z. A. Bhutto was
given a threat by Henry Kissinger to drop the
Chashma facility otherwise a horrible example
would be made of him. Well, indeed Kissinger’s
threat like that was also given to the Taliban
on July 17, 2001 in Berlin, “Accept our
offer of carpet of gold, otherwise we will bury
you under a carpet of bombs.” And indeed
both threats were carried out.
Moreover, how can Benazir Bhutto be called a leader,
when she told Bush that “if I were the Prime
Minister of Pakistan, 9/11 wouldn’t have
occurred.” What a statement coming from
a leader! He forgets that the Zionists have left
no stone unturned to get rid of the two leaders
(Z. A. Bhutto and Saddam Hussein) and scared the
hell out of the third, Muammer Qaddafi, to deliver
all his nuclear toys to George Bush to stay alive
and in power, and they are now going after Iran.
Their power has impregnated American institutions
engaged in Foreign Policy making. The Neo-cons
will not rest till they shed more blood. They
are busier than ever in writing books on terrorism,
which contain cock-and-bull stories of suitcase
bombs to scare American public in order to get
the Big Brother on their side to do their bidding.
According to Seymour Hersh (New Yorker Magazine,
October 29, 2001), after 9/11 the elite Israeli
counter-terrorism unit Sayeret Matkal arrived
in the US and began training with US Special Forces
in a secret location, to attack Pakistan’s
military bases and remove its nuclear weapons,
lest they fell in the hands of mullahs (a fear
created by Hussein Haqqani, and a few others)
who will use their magic Alladin’s lamp
to deliver it to New York and blow up the New
York City.
To reinforce this fear, a movie to this effect
was also made by Hollywood, in which Senator Kay
Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) played a role to scare
American people about such a nasty suitcase bomb.
Also, a book, “Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate
Preventable Catastrophe,” by Grahmam Allison,
founding dean of John F. Kennedy School of Government,
and director of Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, to instill more fear in
the minds of Western people was also written before
Corera attempted to write his horror story. What
can be worse than the debris of depleted uranium,
thousands of tons left in Kuwait, Iraq, and Balkans,
to let the people die with cancer and tumors for
20 billion years to come, compared with the stupid
imaginary suit-case bomb.
Thus it appears that the author has no concept
of the international intrigues in which he is
being used as a small tool.
Also, he must know that unfortunately A. Q. Khan
was afflicted with prostrate cancer. My next-door
neighbor, in spite of receiving the best treatment
in one of the top-most cancer hospitals (M. D.
Anderson Cancer Hospital) succumbed and died.
Moreover, the protection of A. Q. Khan now is
very much needed. There is a proven record of
the kidnapping of several individuals in addition
to Adolf Eichman from Argentina and Mordechai
Vanunu from Rome, Italy.
Thus Mr Hassan is reminded of a famous proverb:
“Those who live in glass houses must not
throw stones.” The whole world is familiar
with the record of his associates in two terms,
which cannot be erased by such commentary.
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