Unless the US learns the right lessons from the Damadola incident and frees itself from the fatal attraction of Musharraf, it will be facilitating the execution of bin Laden's threatened second strike in US homeland, the count-down for which has already begun. The sequel to the missile strike on a cluster of houses at village Damadola in the Bajaur Agency in the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in the early morning hours of January 13, 2006, which has been attributed to a Predator aircraft of the US' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), could prove to be as significant as the sequel to...