Yeah, he's allowed the Taliban to control a few areas in Pakistan....
Terror Central
By Kyle Dabruzzi
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Within the past three weeks, the United States was dealt one of its greatest defeats to date in the war on terror. This defeat, however, was not courtesy of al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or any other terrorist organization. Rather, this setback was delivered by one of our allies in this fight, Pakistan.
In order to understand why Pakistan has done this, it’s important to have an understanding of its past record in combating terrorism. Additionally, this insight might shed some light on the likely future of Pakistan’s counter-terrorism efforts and determine whether Pakistan can save itself.
In the Counterterrorism Blog, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross has provided a continuing analysis of the current situation in Pakistan. As he indicates, the Taliban and al-Qaeda won a significant victory recently when the Pakistani government yielded North Waziristan to the Taliban and their militant allies. According to Pakistan’s English newspaper Dawn, the 3 page agreement calls for the Pakistani government to pledge not to undertake any ground or air operations against the militants in the region.
For their part, the militants have pledged to halt cross-border raids into Afghanistan. This is unlikely, however, for two reasons. Under the agreement, foreign militants are allowed to reside in the region, so long as they “keep the peace.” Allegedly, Osama bin Laden and many of his lieutenants are among those militants living in the Waziristan region. Furthermore, the recent assassination of the governor of the Paktika province on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, perpetrated by Taliban members, only amplifies fears that cross-border incursions will likely continue.
noi ,Will post some more information later. Yes, 2020, you are winning the discussion, errrr, so far that is.
Pakistan's Khan backs call for Musharraf to quit
Posted 13 minutes ago
Pakistani opposition leader and former cricket star Imran Khan has called on President Pervez Musharraf to step down following Benazir Bhutto's assassination.
Ms Bhutto was killed yesterday in a suicide attack after a rally in the northern city of Rawalpindi.
Mr Khan says a consensus caretaker government should be set up and a judicial probe should be launched to investigate Ms Bhutto's death.
interesting comment that last one.He also says elections, which are due to be held on January 8, should be postponed in the wake of the violence.
"I do not understand how you can have elections on January 8. It makes no sense at all," he said.
"Who's now going to go in a public rally? It's very easy to palm any killing [off to]... Al Qaeda, or the Taliban, or terrorists, but who is to know what really happened?"
The inference is that Musharraf is now a lame duck as well.... Any public support he had is gone / vanished apparently.Yesterday, former Pakistan prime minister and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif called for Mr Musharraf to resign immediately to "save Pakistan", after the death of Ms Bhutto.
Mr Sharif says Mr Musharraf is a threat to the stability of Pakistan and the source of "all the problems confronting the nation."
"I demand that Musharraf quit power, without delay of a single day, to save Pakistan," he said.
exactly !!!!Her final moment videos (there are a few better ones that appear to be held, at the moment, by Youtube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1rH1SmvGyU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi_o8Vr2Kk8
Babar Awan, Bhutto’s lawyer, said: “The surgeons confirmed that she has been martyred.”
Bhutto was killed in the army garrison town of Rawalpindi.
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Party officials dismissed the government's new theory about Bhutto's cause of death and said a proper investigation was needed.
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"I personally saw the body," said Babar Awan, a leading member of the party who was at the rally. "That is a false claim. It was a targeted, planned killing."
The people's anger was overwhelmingly targeted at the government, particularly President Pervez Musharraf, blamed by most people for being directly or indirectly responsible for Bhutto's death. Many questioned why security precautions had not been stepped up after a previous suicide attempt on Bhutto, which killed 140 people the day she returned from exile 10 weeks ago.
Bhutto's supporters say it is unlikely any of them will believe the government, whatever officials say in the coming days to try to stem the violence.
Witnesses say Bhutto died while waving from a sunroof at supporters after a political rally in Rawalpindi and was shot at least twice just before a suicide blast killed at least 20 people, less than two weeks before upcoming parliamentary elections.
But Friday night, Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said Bhutto died not from gunshots, but because she ducked when shots were fired, and the force of the blast knocked her head into the lever of the sunroof, crushing her skull. The government also blamed the suicide blast on the militant leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, who lives in the remote and lawless tribal areas near the Afghan border.
Party officials dismissed the government's new theory about Bhutto's cause of death and said a proper investigation was needed.
"I personally saw the body," said Babar Awan, a leading member of the party who was at the rally. "That is a false claim. It was a targeted, planned killing."
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? mayk, I disagree - a couple of those 3 bullets killed her (as per the original theory / report of her wounds),.... And ultimately death was caused by the explosion directly or indirectly. Hence she was killed. The people who murdered her should be caught and brought to justice...
The death of Bhutto has far-reaching implications. Some say it means the end of her political party, the most popular in Pakistan, because there is no clear successor. Others ventured to say it could mean the end of Pakistan, if the violence continues. In Bhutto's ancestral home, where she was buried, people shouted not only slogans against Musharraf but against the nation. "We don't want Pakistan," they yelled.
Across the country, people attacked anything to do with Musharraf's ruling
Why would her corrupted husband not allow a full post martum ( autopsy ) to clarify the cause of her death?
Al Qaeda militant did not kill Bhutto: spokesman
Posted Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:31pm AEDT
Updated Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:35pm AEDT
Al Qaeda-linked Pakistani militant Baitullah Mehsud was not involved in the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, his spokesman says.
"I strongly deny it. Tribal people have their own customs. We don't strike women," Mehsud's spokesman Maulvi Omar said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
The Pakistan Government said on Friday that Mehsud was responsible for Ms Bhutto's killing as she left an election rally in Rawalpindi on Thursday.......
Bhutto's party rejects Govt 'lies' over death
Video has been released showing someone waving a gun near the vehicle just moments before the explosion, but the interior ministry says the body had no gunshot or shrapnel wounds.
Senior members of Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) have dismissed the Government's version of events as "lies" and "nonsense".
Ms Bhutto's spokeswoman, Sherry Rehman, was in the former prime minister's motorcade at the time of the gun and suicide attack and was then part of the party that prepared Ms Bhutto's body for the funeral.
Ms Rehman said she saw a bullet wound in Ms Bhutto's head as she bathed her body after her assassination.
"There was a bullet wound I saw that went in from the back of her head and came out the other side," she said.
"We could not even wash her properly because the wound was still seeping. She lost a huge amount of blood."......
mayk, mmmI will take any advise from someone who is not a professional doctor with a grain of salt, she has to gain some political mileage out of this scenario. They were saying that a bullet hit her chest as well, now she is saying that a bullet only hit her head, they have also changed their position, just like government ..
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