‘Hoax’ call almost took nuclear powers to war: Officials

Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story
Monday, Dec 08, 2008

During the recent terrorist assault on Mumbai, India, an alleged ‘hoax’ phone call to the Pakistani government had the two countries on the razor’s edge of war.

According to reports Sunday, a man posing as India’s foreign minister called Pakistani President Asif Zardari on Friday, Nov. 28, and threatened military action if Islamabad did not hand over those behind the attacks, Pakistani newspapers reported on Saturday.

“I had made no such telephone call,” Mukherjee said in a statement explaining how India rushed to clarify that the call was a hoax.

“I can only ascribe this series of events to those in Pakistan who wish to divert attention from the fact that a terrorist group operating from Pakistani territory planned and launched a ghastly attack on Mumbai.”

Some in the Indian media, however, placed blame directly at the feet of Pakistan’s intelligence service, the ISI.

While refusing to comment on the claim, the thinking within the Indian Foreign Office is that such disinformation stories could only mean that the Inter-Services Intelligence’s dirty tricks department is very much at work,” reported The Hindu. “The ISI and the Army are trying to divert internal and external attention from their complicity in Mumbai terror and thereby clawing their way into public acceptability in Pakistan.

Pakistan’s public stance on the incident has been quite to the contrary.

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Wajid Hasan, Pakistan’s ambassador in London, told UK’s Guardian that the call was traced directly to the Indian government.

“They did it,” he said. “It was not a hoax call, but an instrument of psychological warfare. They were trying to scare Pakistan, test the waters for our reaction.”

The US sent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to India and Pakistan last week to keep a lid on tensions between the neighbours, who have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947.

Pakistan has repeatedly called for ” concrete proof ” from India, which says the only gunman captured alive has admitted that all the attackers had come from across the border.

The following video is from CBS News, aired Sunday, Dec. 7.

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7 Responses to “‘Hoax’ call almost took nuclear powers to war: Officials”

1. new world war Says:
   December 8th, 2008 at 7:19 am

   This seems just like the one gunshot that launched world war one. After the previous great depression they launched world war 2. It seems clear thats what they want to do after this depression or maybe while still in this depression.

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3. SeaBottomDweller Says:
   December 8th, 2008 at 8:29 am

   Second attempt to promote the story?

   Here’s a challenge…

   Try and get the Foreign Minister of your country or ANY country on the phone and post here your result…

   My bet: You won’t get him/her on the line…

   Now, this story is already several days old…are there any reports about the success of tracing this prank call to the caller? If the call really happened it’s more severe then the physical attacks in Mumbai, yet, apparently it’s investigation and follow-up seems unimportant and even non-existent.

   I said it before, I say it again…it’s a non-event…never happened other then in the vivid imagination of some provocateur…

   /HTH…

4. mythicshadow Says:
   December 8th, 2008 at 8:39 am

   and on and on goes the agenda….

   http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=UQIAwjcc5GY

5. Robert Sutter Says:
   December 8th, 2008 at 10:36 am

   Good, someone is probing security weaknesses internationally. Looks like a move towards sovereignty. India and Pakistan will secure their borders in a move against the New World Order. God bless Israel!

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   December 8th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

   Looks like someone’s determined to get these two nations into a fight.

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7. mark Says:
   December 8th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

   no ruler would risk launching a nuke over there. too much opium profit. a nuke would screw it all up