As is already well known, the Mossad was close to the movement that launched the “terror attacks” in Mumbai last year. Close connections between Mossad and the Hindu nationalist Hinduvtvadi have been noted repeatedly in the globe’s press, all except the mainstream press in America and England. As the shooting began in the Israeli Chabad center in the city, by shooters wearing the Hindu nationalist saffron arm bands, suspicion in the freer areas of global journalism was immediately apparent. Not to mention the other rather inconvenient fact that the shooters did not speak a Pakistani or Indian dialect whatsoever.

But the Indian relations to Mossad are complicated. Mossad seems to be courting India far more than the reverse, and the reason for this is that India is the “wild card” of global politics. It should also be noted, and rarely is, that India and Iran also have had good relations in the past, as has India and Russia. Mossad’s involvement, given these facts, is to prevent an Iran-China-India pipeline project that would cut out both the Israeli and the American elites.

In 1968, the Congress dominated government led by Indra Gandhi commissioned her intelligence agency (now called RAW) to cultivate ties with Israel. Further, in the late 1970s, General Moshe Dayan visited Indian intelligence and military operatives with the aim of destabilizing Pakistan. Like always the purpose was to eliminate only moderate anti-Zionists, hoping then to increase the support for militant Islamists, which then would justify Indian or Israeli military intervention.

Author Tariq Saeedi has claimed recently that this method is still being carried out in Indian relations to Pakistan. For some time now, Mossad/RAW/CIA has infiltrated Pakistan. But that is old news. What is more interesting is that it was the Moderate Islamic leadership that came under attack, hoping to embolden more radical elements to take action against India, hence, again, justifying Israeli and Indian military action. Furthermore, in 2000, the Indian news magazine The Week reported–and was nearly alone in the Indian media–that Mossad had penetrated “Islamic terror cells” throughout the subcontinent.

In 2000, Indian counter terrorism police arrested 11 members of a purported Islamic terror cell, held them for some time, and then, finding out they were Israeli nationals with ties to Mossad, permitted them to fly to Bangladesh. Apparently, all 11 were Israeli’s (or at least traveling on Israeli passports) and had spent time both in Iran and Afghanistan. Oddly, it was this same RAW that quickly identified the 9/11 hijackers as belonging to this same cell. Mossad, in response to the Mumbai shootings more recently, said that it had “positive fallout” in that Indians, convinced of Pakistani involvement, were more mobilized against he “Islamic threat” than ever.

Not surprisingly, India purchases nearly as much military equipment from the Israelis as it does from the Russians. This has even reached the point where the Indians have launched a Polaris spy satellite for the Israeli intelligence apparatus.

What makes matters more complicated now is India’s growing relationship with Russia, including the plans for a Russia-India cooperation in building nuclear power plants. Russia is a strongly anti-Zionist power active in Iran, hinting that India is doing an excellent job in playing both sides.

The fact that India’s two largest arms suppliers are Israel and Russia places India in an odd place in world politics. Apparently, the anti-Islamic movements in both countries are what is keeping them together. Traditionally, the Russians have supported secular-nationalist Arab states like Iraq and Syria, though ties with Iran interrupted this policy tradition, opening up a new model of cooperation with Islamic regimes that are both anti-Israel and anti-US. At the same time, India and Iran also have a history of excellent ties, making the picture more and more complex.

A possible understanding of all this is the complex politics of natural gas, a huge, multi-billion dollar industry that has deep political overtones. Since the Russians are involved in building and maintaining Iran’s lucrative natural gas sector, if the Indians want natural gas from this region–as they have publically state they do–they need to deal with both Iran and Russia. At the same time, the Iranians have been in favor of sponsoring a peace conference including Iran, Pakistan, Russia and India, which would smooth the way for both Iran and Russia to place pipelines through south Asia and into China.

The Iranian peace overtures are not unpopular in Pakistan. If India, Pakistan, Iran and Russia form a natural gas consortium, then the New World Order has just received another major blow. If China, as would be likely, would also join, the isolation of the United States and Israel in this huge, strategic industry would be complete.

Israel is only anti-Islamic when Islam threatens Israel. The Mossad was involved with the training of Bosnian Islamic movements against Serbia along with US Army Intelligence. It is not Islam, but the interruption of the power chords of the New World Order that bother Israel. Israel sponsors terrorism in India to be blamed on Pakistan largely to prevent the Iranian peace plan from coming to fruition, and hence interrupting a major “pipeline peace,” as it is called, that would create a massive, regional and largely anti-Zionist gas consortium in southern Asia.

Even worse, both the US and Russia are competing in India to be the builders of civilian-use nuclear power stations. The recent tilt towards Russia in this respect also alarmed Mossad, and hence, needed to distract India from this alliance through terror tactics that would turn India to the US rather than Russia. Therefore, it is reasonable that the Mossad was involved in the Mumbai shootings primarily to eliminate and possible peace between Pakistan and India and to interrupt the development of an essentially natural Gas “OPEC” to develop, which would be led by Russia and Iran.