Bull's Eye

Max Boot from America's Council of Foreign Relations has drawn attention to a PLA publication, Unrestricted Warfare. The publication recommends use of all means to subvert and subjugate America. It supports Al Qaeda. Is the PLA the mastermind behind global terrorism? Consider these facts.

For decades Afghanistan and Myanmar supplied over 80 per cent of the world's poppy to fund terrorism. Both are immediate neighbours of China. Coincidence?

Pakistan is the centre of global terrorist training. But Musharraf admits he cannot control sections of the ISI and army which abet terrorism. What power backs these sections? CIA director Peter Goss said he had a good idea of where Osama bin Laden was hiding. But he could not act because friendly nations were involved. Is he inhibited by Pakistan or China?

Yossef Bodansky, director of the US Congress anti-terrorist task force, has recorded that terrorist strikes against India by Pakistan in the mid-1990s were funded by China. Coincidence?

Mossad director Meir Dagan said China had manufactured the explosives used in the recent London subway bomb blasts. He pinpointed the exact location of the factory—40 miles south of Beijing. Coincidence?

In December 2001, weeks before he was beheaded by Pakistani terrorists, The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl wrote an article. He disclosed that in late August 2001, days before 9/11, a top Pakistan nuclear scientist, Bashiruddin Mahmoud, met Osama in Kabul. Mahmoud headed the Khusab plutonium factory built with Chinese help. According to French investigative journalist Bernard-Henri Levy, Dr A.Q. Khan, father of Pakistan's N-bomb, was a member of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, an outlet of Al Qaeda. The New York Times reported that in the early 1980s, Dr Khan visited Beijing where the Chinese gave him blueprints for an N-bomb. Coincidence?

On the fateful 9/11 day, a high-level PLA delegation met the ruling Taliban. It signed the contract that Osama had asked for. The PLA provided the Taliban with missile tracking, state-of-the-art communications, and air defense systems. Coincidence? On July 11, 2005, a highly respected intelligence website, G2 Bulletin, reported that two nuclear suitcase bombs have been smuggled across the Mexican border into America. Thousands, including terrorists, have infiltrated that border.

On July 14, 2005, PLA General Zhu Chenghui threatened the US with a nuclear strike that could "destroy hundreds of US cities." Osama is credited with an "American Hiroshima" plot to do the same. Coincidence?

Before 1962, India slept. It paid a heavy price. Today America sleeps. It could pay a fatal price.

(Puri can be reached at rajinderpuri2000@yahoo.com)