Who was affected by the bunker busters on Iran?

 The Alamo Girl had many worries. 

In a whimsy, the Indian authorities had granted her an intelligence supremacy which was not based on facts or reliable data. 

In college, the Alamo Girl's exam results were so abysmal, she would regularly lose her coveted single-room and be shoved off to some dingy, dark corner of the hostel. On her request, Antara held the better single-seater room for the Alamo Girl, for Antara's exam results allowed her to get the best rooms in the hostel. 

"Hold it for me, at least I could visit it," the Alamo Girl would say. 

Brabourne's hostel allocated rooms based on academic performance. It must have cost Antara as well, the hostel matrons and even the hostel superintendent would remind Antara, "You know, the Alamo Girl was not eligible for that room, why were you allowing her to spend time there?" 

But the Alamo Girl was insistent, and Antara didn't know her narrative and hence the implications. 

ii. Both the Alamo Girl and Swaha-Swaha were distrusted within Brabourne hostel. Lady Brabourne was a college where girls with high academic grades, the studious sorts, went to pursue their undergraduate studies. There were exceptions, of course, but mostly it was quiet, with girls bent over their textbooks in their individual rooms, till the late hours of the night. 

Antara's batchmates often approached her, "It should be the Alamo Girl and Swaha-Swaha who ought to be close friends. Both studied Economics, they'd be roommates and a pair. Antara as a close friend of the Alamo Girl, it just didn't make any sense."

After exam results were out, toppers from other Honours subjects, in case they were hostel residents, would seek out Antara, "You topped English Honours, right? No matter what, we have to maintain our positions."

Thus, it was quite the challenge to maintain the credibility of the Alamo Girl within New Delhi. The rest of the country knew better.

iii. The Alamo Girl had always relied on the fact that as we got closer to the lease-signing, German intelligence would be publishing endless details on the lease, from European royal sources, under the guise of some journalistic research or another. 

The reason German intelligence was hesitant was that Antara would also read them, and such details always brought her closer to deeply-embedded German operatives who wanted to help the United States and finish off the Tagores. 

In fact, if Antara's life had evolved into that of a journalist based in New Delhi, it was because of the antipathy towards the Tagores among westerners. 

How were such westerners punished by the bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities?

iv. The Alamo Girl's anti-STAVKA attitude didn't come out of nowhere. It was the steel town where she came from, which tended to recruit employees closer to Dwarkanath's agenda. As it happened, it included the later Tagore decision to keep attacking the Oppenheimer-Friedman family in the US, including its loyalists in India, and one didn't know how the Iranians got assistance on technical knowhow for their nuclear facilities.

That was not all.

The Alamo Girl's steel town offered the best hospitals, clinics and therefore the best British intelligence support to a wide swathe of eastern India, not merely the steel town itself. It had its own airstrip/airfield, and was the first to offer air-ambulance services in eastern India. 

Such British intelligence outfits dispersed nothing but Mahalanobis wisdom, hardly would you find any information that owed its origins to Nusserwanji himself.

And Mahalanobis's wisdom was always to trust Iraq, an endless faith in that country if Bengalis were to conquer the Middle East. That's what eastern India would believe, after decades of training, why would it cooperate with the Americans? Did the Americans offer them medical facilities when it was needed?

To that end, the Pentagon was used to first reduce Iraq to rubble, in the first decade of the 21st century. It could be regarded as the beginning of the Pentagon coup, its gigantic intelligence failure when it came to Mahalanobis. 

The Alamo Girl's game was thus a long one, so would be that of her politician friends in India and abroad.

June 23, 2025.