Tuesday, November 07, 2006

OOPSI, those pesky pakis pick at prez, plot pell mell

Air force officers held for attempt to murder Musharraf with rockets

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A cabal of Pakistani military officials with access to President Pervez Musharraf's innermost security circle has been arrested after trying to assassinate him in a rocket attack.

The strike, aimed at the president's high-security personal residence-office in Rawalpindi, took place shortly after he returned from Britain and the US in late September.Although the president was not hurt, the attempt demonstrates the political instability engulfing his nation, which was heightened last week by his government's bombing of a madrassa in north-west Pakistan killing 80 suspected militants.

With hardline religious parties orchestrating strikes and demonstrations, fears are growing that Gen Musharraf's opponents may make further attempts to remove him by force, creating a power vacuum in the Islamic world's only nuclear-armed state.

Gee....I imagine the ISI might have known something, right?
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah !

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The British security services are also getting worried about being infiltrated and subverted: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article1961446.ece

von Schlichtningen said...

Epa, those are terrifying news. Imagine not just the fighting around the big red button marked with capital A, but also who might get hold of the button eventually...

Bin Laden, for one, is supposedly hiding in Pakistan.

Epaminondas said...

Pakistan = Florida in November 2000, and I don't like the odds.

Anyone who has followed the history of deobandi islam from the last century to this must be concerned. This pernicious set of beliefs, fused now with the Muslim Brotherhood's metastasizing qutbite principles does not allow room for optimism.

I do not see a good ending for Pakistan in this.

It's the, god takes a partner christians, the running to do evil juze, and the polytheist hindus vs. XXXXX.

von Schlichtningen said...

It is literally a bomb waiting to explode.

I wonder what India intends to do? I can hardly imagine a worse neighbor than Islamists.