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Our troops will die for as long as Bush and Blair allow it
By Ahmed Rashid Faced with mounting pressure from Nato over Pakistan's alleged harbouring of the Taliban, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf's response was not to arrest Taliban leaders residing in Quetta, but to bomb a religious school hundreds of miles to the north. European and Nato tolerance levels for Musharraf's two-track policy of hunting down al-Qa'eda, while allowing Afghan and Pakistani Taliban to recruit, plan and arm themselves in Balochistan province, is now at an all-time low. advertisement Yet George Bush and Tony Blair still refuse to call the military's bluff, with the result that Nato troops continue to die every day in Afghanistan. Posted by: john 2006-11-03 |
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