Posted on 07/25/2005 6:35:07 AM PDT by Srirangan
25 July 2005: Britain and Pakistan have got into a stand-off situation in respect of three imams linked to the London bombings who have gone into hiding in the Binori madrasa in Karachi, the training ground of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, and the Lashkar-e-Toiba headquarters in Muridke outside Lahore.
Diplomatic sources said British prime minister Tony Blair insisted on Pakistan raiding these places and arresting the imams, who are said to have masterminded the bombing, but General Parvez Musharraf refused, saying the government had no firm indication of their presence there, and the UK did not share a level of relationship where it could seek such action.
Sources said that in anger, Blair asked Musharraf to make his refusal public, which the general declined to do, whereupon he sought US intervention, and the American secretary of state, Condoleezaa Rice, spoke to the Pakistani president, but without moving him.
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State sponsored terrorism from a nation that has the a-bomb.
I wouldn't go that far just yet.
Musharraff is ticked off that Pakistan is being blamed for the terror attacks in London and rightly so. They were homegrown terrorists not Pakistani's.
They'll get it worked out. Watch.
It’s probably time to take out their weapons program.
I’d be more confident of that if they would work with us to sweep the border for OBL and friends.
If a military dictatorship like Pakistan is afraid of a muslim backlash, I wonder how a new democracy like Iraq will react when its mosques start spewing venom and hiding terrorists.
I fear that democracy is a puny challenger to Islam.
"The UK is giving Pakistan two weeks to smoke out the three imams, and it wants its own forces to raid the suspected premises..."
Oh yeah? Really??
And just what is the UK planning to do if Pakistan dosent comply? Give them Eurofighters I suppose.
That’s like saying good is a puny challenger to evil. Democracy’s power is broader than force and tyranny. It captures the imagination and energies of the people, believing that they actually can get something done through the system. Don’t be afraid.
it may or may not be true, i suspect a fair amount of disinformation about helpful muslim governments is disseminated by the west to try to give them cover for helping us.
They are working with us on that.
Problem is it has to be done very very covertly or there will be a civil war on Pakistan.
You're just not going to hear about it on the news, but Musharraff has a vested interest in getting rid of Islamists.
The Pakistanis no doubt know where Bin Laden is, if he's actually alive. They are obstructionists. I think Bush's courting of India, a true friend, was smart. PAkistan, with its harboring terrorist mentality, is working on its own anniliation.
"If a military dictatorship like Pakistan is afraid of a muslim backlash,"
I don't doubt that they are afraid, given how many attempts on Mussharaf's life there have been.
They were of Pakistani descent, though, at least some of them.
What's interesting is that NONE of them were Iraqi. Using the liberals' own 911 litmus test, it then appears that Iraq had nothing to do with the London bombings. Yet, the liberals insist that Iraq was the direct cause of the bombings.
Lech Walesa, Rev. Dr. ML KIng, Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi have shown us that people seeking freedom from oppression can succeed.
I agree. That infidel, Democracy, may well be forced to ride in the back seat and will certainly be barred from showing her face in public if the Imams continue to rein unchecked.
What happened to going after Terrorists AND any countries that harbor them?
OBLaden first met Afghanistan's Sheikh Mohammad Omar at the Banuri town mosque near Karachi. Banuri is the home of an infamous Deobandi madrassa, an ultra-Islamist religious school that achieved fame under Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, author of more than 2,000 fatwas -- most predictably reactionary. The Government of Pakistan, and Musharraf in particular, seems afraid to attack this nest of vipers.
My point is that Islam is not a government...it is the religion of evil. The only thing that can stand up to "evil" is indeed good. Evil is far to great to be threaten by any government structure no matter how divine in origin.
Perhaps, but I suspect that very very covert reforms from those fearful of backlash have a way of stagnating while their proponents continue to sell them and buy time.
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