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.
Because, like the Mullah mafia in Iran, they are everywhere, intertwined throughout the public, in the police depts, government, down to the local basket weaver. He's have to gun down half the population to get rid of (most) of them. The best time to do that is when they gather in the streets by the thousands in a noisy protest shouting 'death to America".
that wouldn't go over very well though. media would brand him as another 'Slobidan'. The next thing you know, democrats would be in power again, and go bomb the wrong side.