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Karzai – Beyong Karakul


Less than 2 weeks after Mike Mullen named and (tried to) shame the Pakistanis for their role in supporting terrorism, Afghanistan has got in the act too. Harmid Karzai – he of the karakul hat fame – has now said the “Pakistani Islamic government” has not cooperated with Afghanistan in combating terrorism. Karzai has blamed Pakistan for Islamic terrorist troubles in Afghanistan.

For all of Greg Mortenson‘s alleged scandals, he did bring to light the issues of education in Pakistan and the consequences of bringing ammunition instead of books into the region and how the prevalence of madrasahs will often mean a continuing flow of militant Islamic fanatics.

Good on you, Karzai – it’s good to see you still there fighting away. It isn’t just your famous sense of fashion that’s keeping the attention of the world press on you.

 

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Mullen Names ISI (Pakistan)


The big wig in the US military is Admiral Michael Mullen. He’s become the first military top dog to publicly name Pakistan as an ally of Islamic terrorists. There has to be a catch as traditionally Pakistan is an “ally” of the west including the US. I guess there is, in the form of Mike Mullen’s impending retirement. He retires next week, and that statement was made in his final congressional testimony.

Why didnt he say something the world already knows, much earlier in his tenure? Perhaps that would complicate his job. He probably had to rely on the Pakistani ISI for all sorts of stuff, regardless of their support of the likes of the Taliban.

I guess sometimes you need to refrain from stating what would have been the obvious, just to preserve the efforts made for the “greater good”. I suppose for all the professed alliance the US never fully trusted the Pakistanis, as the assassination of Bin Laden quite clearly showed.

Perhaps Mullen is simply doing Martin Dempsey, his successor, a favour.

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Pakistan and Osama


It has emerged that US Navy Seal personnel flew in from Afghanistan into Pakistan (Abbotabad) to apprehend/kill bin Laden. they flew under the radar of Pakistan, obviously not trusting the Pakistanis to deal with Osama. Some senior Pakistani military guy was at the compound of the kill, as recent as 23 April but apparently had no intelligence of Osama’s presence there. One only has to wonder what has been Pakistan’s role in protecting Osama all these years.

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