[milkncookies]

Anybody see Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan on Greta last night?
She made the statement that OBL is Mushariff's insurance, implying that without the threat of OBL and AQ Mushariff would lose one of his major justifications for military control of the government. The other, more sinister implication is that perhaps Mushariff is protecting OBL. She said that currently in Pakistan the popular response to the question "Where is OBL hiding? is "Look in Mushariff's home" or something to that effect.

[StillProud2BeFree]

And in the "how in the heck do you manage THAT category" goes this article:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-02/10/content_1307979.htm

790 Pakistani pilgrims missing in Saudi Arabia

www.chinaview.cn 2004-02-10 19:04:44

ISLAMABAD, Feb. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- About 790 Pakistani pilgrims are reported missing in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, during Hajj-2004, the official Associated Press of Pakistan reported Tuesday.

The "lost and found" section set up in the Hajj Directorate, Makkah, and mobile teams have started survey of buildings to ascertain their exact position.

According to information received here Tuesday from the Saudi Hajj directorate in Makkah, as many as 132 Pakistani pilgrims haveso far died owing to various illnesses, stampede and road accidents during the Hajj season.

Over 80 pilgrims died due to different ailments, 40 in the stampede at Mina while 10 died in road accidents.

A control room set up in the Hajj Directorate, Makkah, is also facilitating Pakistani pilgrims round the clock.

Meanwhile, about 11,770 Pakistani pilgrims have returned from Saudi Arabia after performing Hajj by 36 flights since the start of post Hajj operation from Feb. 5. The post-Hajj operation will continue upto March 6. Enditem

[Domestic Church]

"Look in Mushariff's home"

Good thing I wasn't drinking my tea...I would have ruined the keyboard. No wonder we are going into Pakistan this spring. The sooner the better before someone opens the door and lets him out again (I wonder if that is the gameplan.)

[TexKat]

Musharraf acting like Yahya Khan: Benazir

ANI[ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2004 07:29:44 PM ]

WASHINGTON : Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is acting like the country's erstwhile military dictator Yahya Khan, claimed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto over the weekend.

Addressing a news conference here, Bhutto demanded the formation of a six-member commission that should include two nominees each of her Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and two nominated by General Musharraf to probe the nuclear leak..

"Unless our nominees are part of any probe commission, we will not accept it as independent as we have seen many official investigations which distort and deform the truth and punish the innocent while protecting the guilty," she was quoted by the Daily Times, as saying.

Bhutto said it was a pity that when the nation's nuclear program and security was under threat, the people of Pakistan were not being taken into confidence.

General Musharraf's decision to "go it alone would never work. All individual decisions are neither democratic, nor Islamic nor in the national interest," she warned.

She said she did not believe that what A Q Khan had said on television was of his own volition. "He could have been threatened with total ruin," she added.

When asked why he would have agreed to implicate himself, she said he could have been coerced. She said the need of the hour was to save Pakistan 's nuclear program, and indeed, Pakistan itself.

She said this was the moment to forge national unity and it was time she and Nawaz Sharif were allowed to return home.

Benazir said the somersaults taken on the nuclear issue had revealed a lack of coherence and leadership.

She said Pakistan needed a transparent system of government where the public's right to know should be completely unfettered.

Referring to the position taken by General Musharraf, she said, "If you tell one lie, then you are obliged to tell 10 more lies to justify the first one."

Benazir also denied that she had received any assurance from any quarter that she was welcome to return to Pakistan whenever she chose.

When the Daily Times drew her attention to the rumour circulating in Pakistan that US government representatives had conveyed such an assurance to her, she said: "I wish that was so and I could return to Pakistan , but there is no truth to these rumours."

[swarthyguy]

>>"Where is OBL hiding? is "Look in Mushariff's home

That's an old joke from India, Sept/Oct 2001.