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India-Pakistan
Perv sez al-Qaeda’s trying to kill him
2004-01-23
President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday that Pakistan was investigating a "definite possibility" that al Qaeda ordered or carried out two attempts to assassinate him last month. Musharraf survived two attempts on his life in the space of two weeks last month. The second, on December 25, killed 15 people and wounded 45. "We have unearthed a lot. We have in fact netted all the people directly involved in the action but we are trying to see who was behind them, the real links, as they say," Musharraf told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Does that mean Perv's going to jug Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar? Didn't think so.
"We think that yes, there is a definite possibility of some al Qaeda in the rear," he added. "We are now trying to see the linkage with our (Pakistani) extremist organisations, we need to establish that still."
I guess they're only visible from the outside, huh?
The president told politicians and business leaders that fighting sectarian and religious extremism in Pakistan was, alongside economic development, the toughest challenge he faced.
There's no difference between sectarian and religious extremism. And if you killed them, your economic development would come along much more politely.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#6  Bad as Perv is as an ally, he's infinitely better than what would likely replace him.
Posted by: mojo   2004-1-23 12:15:41 PM  

#5  Ahh,Mikey.Seems to me(from hearing the news)that the tribals in the NWFP have been commming down pretty hard on Al Q and thier suppoters.Must be those Paki troops that are set to sweep through the area.
Maybe you should get you news from more sources than just DU.

DPA,throw soe popcorn im the nukker,grab a beer and enjoy the show.
Posted by: raptor   2004-1-23 6:28:31 AM  

#4  NotMikeMoore - I realize the Left has to conclude that those who support the right are basically dumb but the evidence is directly to the contrary and that the intelligent are somewhere between generally and over-whelmingly right wing. A casual stroll through the blogosphere clearly demonstrates this. Academic studies are few and far between, but the subject is political dynamite in Left dominated academia. And note that academics are noticeable by their general absence from the blogosphere. All the high traffic sites are written by ordinary people.

My final argument is that I have yet to find a left-wing site that is even remotely funny, yet there are many right wing sites that are often hilarious. Rantburg being a case in point. And there are solid academic studies that show being funny is strongly correlated with intelligence.

So how do you react to the contention that being intelligent and being right wing are more or less synonomous?
Posted by: Phil B   2004-1-23 5:47:44 AM  

#3  notmike moore, you don't pay much attention to the news comin outta the NWFP do ya?
Posted by: Damn_Proud_American   2004-1-23 2:13:35 AM  

#2  A-Q, A-Q, look out! BTW I've been blessed with an old CD, 'Then Play On', by Fleetwood Mac. Man is good string work fun or what?
Posted by: Lucky   2004-1-23 1:21:12 AM  

#1  Yup Yup! I'm your ally--just no peekin' in what's going on in the al Qaeda Northwest territories and everything's cool! Dubya sez "Rummie, Condi you sell that myth to the American sheeple!"
Posted by: NotMike Moore   2004-1-23 1:18:13 AM  

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