Good article. There is no doubt that Musharraff in a box and the Pakistani Intelligence Agency is totally infiltrated with Al Queda sympathizers. I think Musharaff's work is cut out for him but his tenure is short at best.
Tough situation but we need him.
This story was published and posted a couple of days ago under a different title. The earlier posting I think was a little longer, although I didn't make a detailed comparison.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1096580/posts Any AP story that begins with the word "Despite . . . " is probably designed to be a hit piece. In this case the U.S. military had just formally announced the obvious, that a new, and major operation was under way along the border. Dear Ellen Knickmeyer, the writer of the "story" just had to do something to blunt the news.
That's not to say that there are not difficulties in the campaign. I've posted a few items from the Pakistan press that show the dithering that is going on in some quarters, but we've also seen that there have been some successes as well.
This AP story reminds me of all the stories we saw early in the war against the Taliban and AQ when the opposition leaders couldn't miss an opportunity to bad-mouth the U.S. military, until the Taliban regime collapsed.