Reply #5: In addition, this is a strategic defence location

[jmatthan]

for the Indian Navy and Air Force.

Allowing aid workers to enter this zone would lead to a compromise of Indian Security.

In a separate thread I had copied my letter to both the Indian President and the Prime Minister on this issue, which is NOT an Aid issue but a Security one. It is like allowing "aid workers" to freely have access to the Pentagon!!

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Those who are familiar with the region will understand that getting the Aid workers there, looking after them and moving them about would in itself lock up valuable military personnel, both in time and effort. The Indian military is carrying out the aid and reconstruction effort. They are extremely competent to do this without assistance from outside aid workers who neither know the territory or know the complexities of mobility in the region.

In my opinion it is mainly the US military that is egging some of the "aid workers" to get access to this region for reasons which are self-evident. They want to plant certain tracking devices in the region. They want to fly in these aid workers on US military helicopters, etc. which are surveillance aircraft.

There are enough examples of this in the Iraq affair where the US spy network (an extremely incompetent one, no doubt) was planted everywhere - amongst the inspectors, amongst the human shields with spying gear, etc.

Sadly, let us be honest. Nobody in the Indian administration trusts ANY American official who is part of the maladministration or their "plants" who come in the form of aid workers, etc. - they are not deserving of trust.

Jacob Matthan
Oulu, Finland