Posted on 09/11/2001 11:15:55 PM PDT by duck soup
Musharraf, Bin Laden and the Lashkar Contrary to Pakistan's assesrtions, the military regime in that country is deeply involved with Islamist international terrorist networks including the one run by Osama bin Laden The report on the Patterns of Global Terrorism during 2000 released by the Counter-Terrorism Division of the US State Department in April had made detailed references to Pakistan and the Taliban and to the activities of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM) and the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET). It had also, for the first time, identified the HUM as a member of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the US and Israel. Subsequently, during a daily press briefing, a spokesman of the State Department had, in response to questions from US pressmen, tried to soften the blow to Pakistan by saying that the details regarding Pakistan and the Taliban given in the report were the assessment of the Clinton Administration and that, since the beginning of this year, the Bush Administration had not come across any fresh evidence in this regard.
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