Bush, Pakistan, and the "war" on terrorism.

[SherEPunjab]

Bush. Musharraf. Osama Bin Laden. Al Qaeda. The "war" on terrorism. Lies, nothing more than lies and deception. Who are they really fooling? Is Pakistan going to milk this for all its worth? Are we going to keep feeding them?




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[conjur]

What disappeared from the news

Musharraf's version of "wag the dog" - call it "wag the terrorist" - may have served to divert world attention from the tragedy in Iraq to the real "war on terror". It was great public relations for Washington, as the hunt for the invisible "high value target" buried the fact that two Iraqi journalists working for the al-Arabiya network were killed by the US military; it buried Amnesty International reminding everyone that 10,000 Iraqi civilians have died because of the war; and it buried weekend protests against the war in the US and Western Europe.

Musharraf himself has a lot to answer for. Why did his government and the Pakistani army not arrest al-Qaeda jihadis after Tora Bora in December 2001, when everybody knew they were in the tribal areas? It could have been only a matter of military incompetence. But the word in Peshawar is different: then, this was part of an American-organized covert ops destined to keep the al-Qaeda leadership alive, the main reason for the "war on terror". Today, the "war on terror" still has no credibility in these parts because it allows civilians to be terrorized - just as has happened in Wana.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

You guys are getting me in the mood for some old X-files reruns.