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Maharashtra's Home Minister R. R. Patil knows more than he is disclosing. As per media reports, Karkare had already reported to him about the Saffron threats. He must go public with the whole truth and should not play games with people's lives. India's internal security is under serious threat and R. R. Patil is playing politics, even against their own coalition partners in Maharashtra. There cannot be any appeasement of terrorists, if they happen to be 'our own people'. That is a very short sighted purchase of peace that will cost big to the nation.

Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai

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Wed, 5 Jan 2011

Call records in hand, Digvijaya wants apology

Express news service
Tags : Congress, Digvijaya Singh, conversation with Hemant Karkare, 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks
Posted: Wed Jan 05 2011, 03:42 hrs

New Delhi:

Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday produced call records to validate his claims about his conversation with slain Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare shortly before he was killed in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. He also demanded a public apology from Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil for questioning his claims.


“I expect from those who had called me a liar and traitor and put question marks over my integrity that they should apologise or at least express regret,” Singh said at a press conference at the Constitution Club here.

He clarified that he had not held the press conference at party office because it concerned conversation between two individuals.

In a letter to Patil on Monday, Singh referred to their telephonic conversation on December 31 in which the Congress leader had raised objection to the Home Minister’s statement in Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha without collecting proper information that the state police had no record of his conversation with Karkare.

“Because of your statement and that of Maharashtra police, an attempt has been made through the media in the country to prove my statement false. Mediapersons also called me a liar,” Singh said in his letter stating that had the Home Minister got an inquiry done, he would not have made the statement.

“I request you to offer apology publicly or express regret,” said Singh in his letter, attaching with it a copy of the BSNL call records that showed that there was a call from Maharashtra ATS office landline number (022-23087336) to his mobile (09425015461) at 5.44 pm on November 26, 2008.

On Tuesday, Patil refused to respond to Singh’s demand for an apology, saying he will study the Congress leader’s statement first.

The call records released at Singh’s press conference on Tuesday showed that the purported conversation between Singh and Karkare had lasted for 381 seconds. Asked how it could be proved by call records whether Karkare had told him about the threat to his life due to his investigation into Malegaon blast case, Singh said, “I believe in ethics. I do not tape any phone nor do I recommend so.” He, however, asserted that he had categorically said that Pakistani terrorists were involved in 26/11 attack.

He said he had never met Karkare. According to him, after the accused in Malegaon blasts were arrested, he had called him up to congratulate him because they were the same people whose activities had drawn his attention when he was the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.

Karkare murder and the wider international perspective - "What Digvijaya lent weight to: Mumbai attacks an RSS, Mossad, CIA conspiracy" - Pradeep Kaushal - THE INDIAN EXPRESS

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Tue, 4 Jan 2011

What Digvijaya lent weight to: Mumbai attacks an RSS, Mossad, CIA conspiracy

Pradeep Kaushal
Tags : That 26/11, RSS, Mossad and CIA, Digvijaya Singh, Rashtriya Sahara (Urdu)

Posted: Tue Jan 04 2011, 01:51 hrs
New Delhi:
Digvijaya Singh may love stirring the pot, but guess what lies at the centre of the book to which the Congress general secretary has lately lent his weight and voice? That 26/11 was a conspiracy hatched by the RSS, Mossad and CIA.


This is one of the many points that Aziz Burney, group editor of Rashtriya Sahara (Urdu), puts forth in his book, “RSS ka shadayantra, 26/11”. It was at the launch of this book on December 6 that Singh claimed he had talked to Hemant Karkare before he was killed, and that he appeared concerned about threats to his family from saffron activists.

Burney calls Digvijaya a “like-minded person”. “When two like-minded people talk, you can’t say who has influenced whom, but yes, we both benefit from each other,” he says.

Since the December 6 speech, Burney has brought out a fresh edition of his book, incorporating Digvijaya’s remarks and the “expected furore” it generated.

The book is a collection of Burney’s writings in Rashtriya Sahara (Urdu), besides contributions from some ideological fellow-travellers, one of whom is Amareesh Mishra. “I have incorporated them because they reinforce what I feel,” Burney says. He says they are important because they have been authored by someone who is “Amareesh” and “Mishra” — in an obvious reference to the writer’s religious and caste identity.

Some of the theories propounded in the book include:

“Communal forces under the patronage of foreign agencies want to destroy India. America wants to destroy Pakistan and encircle China. Therefore, it wants India to get into the influence-zone of America and Israel. That is why Americans, British and Israelis were targeted. The Nariman House, according to eyewitnesses, was a centre for unknown Israelis. It is possible these people may have been involved in the attacks and may have killed their own people.”

“Was the Israeli Rabbi actually killed in the attack?,” the book asks, seeking to know if anybody had seen a photograph showing him injured. Burney adds the building had a hidden CCTV camera at the entrance. Shopkeepers apparently said they were unaware of the arrival of any strangers at the building. “How could nanny Sandra Samuel save a child? Why was she flown to Israel though she was an important eyewitness to the attack?”

For those who may be surprised by the thesis that Jews were killed with the help of Mossad, the book offers a counter-question: “Why not?” Zionism, it is argued, is known for killing ordinary Jews just as Hindutva is known for killing Mahatma Gandhi.

As for the “US link” to 26/11, the proof is David Headley, “who might have been an agent of al-Qaeda or Lashkar-e-Toiba, but who came to India in his capacity as an American”. “When he was inducted into LeT, he was taken in as an agent of FBI,” the book argues. “Whenever he was released after arrest for drug trafficking, he was let off only when he consented to be used by the FBI.” “The forged passport on which he came to India had been made at the instance or FBI or CIA.”

According to another article, “Basically the RSS has lost control of the organisation it had created. In the form of (Narendra) Modi, this organisation has forged a nexus with Mossad, which is in league with the ISI, engaged in destruction.” “Do remember the remote control of many jihadi groups active in Pakistan, Afghanistan and central Asia is in the hands of Mossad or CIA. Recently a group in Yemen was found to have been established by Mossad. Therefore, it is possible the terrorists who attacked Mumbai may have used Pakistan as their base, but they may have been drawn from different countries... At least one of them them, it has been learnt, belonged to Mauritius. It is emerging now that a Saudi (being described as Maulana Bedi) may have gathered these jihadis there and sent them here. It is essential to find out who provided money to him.”