heard about this on the way home from work. the radio/npr said al qaeda, but like iraq, al qaeda has no love for musharef. of course probably less for a woman, but if I had to put money on it, I'd say CIA doing a favor for musharref.

of course the CIA may have used some of their field agents/al qaeda members.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/world ... istan.html

Musharraf Declares State of Emergency, Pakistani Media Report


yep, that war against terrorism must be really working, when perhaps our most important chip decides to play for the other team.

New York Times wrote:Ms. Rice personally intervened twice in the past four months to try to keep General Musharraf from imposing emergency rule, telephoning him at 2 a.m. Pakistani time in August. On Saturday, while traveling to Turkey for an Iraq security conference, she reinforced that message, saying, “I think it would be quite obvious that the United States wouldn’t be supportive of extra-constitutional means."

Not as obvious as it should be, Condi. Physician, heal thyself. The hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy has always been substantial, but this administration has taken it to such heights, all rhetoric and any of its potential leverage is just so much farting into the wind.

Lead barbed-wire could be nasty.

Nope. I'm worried about the lead in the barbed-wire.

Ty Webb wrote:

New York Times wrote:Ms. Rice personally intervened twice in the past four months to try to keep General Musharraf from imposing emergency rule, telephoning him at 2 a.m. Pakistani time in August. On Saturday, while traveling to Turkey for an Iraq security conference, she reinforced that message, saying, “I think it would be quite obvious that the United States wouldn’t be supportive of extra-constitutional means."

Not as obvious as it should be, Condi. Physician, heal thyself. The hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy has always been substantial, but this administration has taken it to such heights, all rhetoric and any of its potential leverage is just so much farting into the wind.

That Rice quote makes me want to set my house on fire. Jesus Shit, you have got to be fucking kidding me. Double fuck you in a fuck you.

Rick, obviously I care. I just don't care to discuss it with you.

I obviously have much more faith in the people of Pakistan than you do.

The threat there is not that the entire state will fall under a Taliban-like rule. I just don't think the Pakistani people will stand for that. I do worry that a significant and violent internal struggle will take place. It only takes a fraction of the population to create that kind of internal disruption.

And it's possible that in the course of that nuclear waste material or the like could be stolen/captured/passed-on and used for a dirty bomb there or elsewhere.

Now grow up and stop being such a troll.

I thought I'd mentioned this on here before - and I may have done but can't remember where so here it is again. A link to an article about a former CIA agent who tried to blow the whistle on various neo cons helping Pakistan get the bomb.
His life subsequently ruined as a result.

It's interesting but v depressing.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Stor ... e_continue