Adding on to post no.3984...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1047880/posts "1.5 million fingers on trigger" By Arnaud de Borchgrave (must read)
washtimes ^ | By Arnaud de Borchgrave
Posted on 12/28/2003 7:34:18 PM PST by dennisw
Commentary: 1.5 million fingers on trigger
By Arnaud de Borchgrave UPI Editor at Large
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- It was the eighth assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf since he seized power in Pakistan in October 1999 -- and the second in 11 days.
By his own reckoning, an estimated 1 percent of Pakistan's 150 million people are extremists, which is local patois for Islamist fanatics who would love to see Musharraf dead and the country in chaos.
For this militant minority, Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted terrorist, is the second most popular man after the Prophet himself. Out of the ashes, they believe a nuclear-tipped Islamist phantasmagoria would rise to merge with a post-monarchy Saudi Arabia. Oil plus nukes is the vision the crazies share to level the playing field with the world's only superpower.
Two months ago, bin Laden's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri's voice was heard on an audiotape that appealed to all Pakistanis to overthrow Musharraf.
Swiss banking contacts have told this writer in the past two weeks that tens of billions of dollars have moved into Swiss accounts from the Gulf, mostly Saudi money that no longer felt safe at home. Nor does it feel secure in the United States. Which may account, at least in part, for the spectacular fall of the dollar vis-à-vis the euro."