Reply #37: You're on the right track, starroute. Excellent post! [View All]

[robertpaulsen]

Great links and analysis. Dawood Ibrahim is a Mafiosi in league with ISI, much like Sam Giancana was in league with the CIA in the 60's. Your analogy with The Enterprise is very apt; I recently finished reading The Iran Contra Connection, which had a chapter dealing with that history and how the underworld of former Bay of Pigs veterans metastasized into the drug-dealing, arms-dealing cesspool in Central America in the 80's.

You make an important point about "post-Enterprise international criminals with CIA associations but not CIA control". That ties in with the point I was making about the Vulcans having their cake and eating it too: they have plausible deniability when terror attacks occur, but because they have set so many of the dominoes in place through their associations (like the CIA-ISI-Saeed Sheikh links brilliantly illuminated by Thompson) they reap the benefits through the military-industrial complex. Bottom-line, the motivation is because these acts are, as you say, "good for business".