Friday, September 22, 2006
Musharraf : US threatened to bomb Pakistan 'back to stone age' after 9/11
The United States threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" in 2001 unless it cooperated in the US-led war on terror, President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview.
IMO: So now we know, apparently via Musharraf's own mouth, why Pakistan is so happy to 'co-operate' with UK, apparently by torturing UK citizens to get to any kind of claptrap statement about plane bombings on Rashid Rauf to confuse the issues, annoy airline passengers and waste UK money. But you can't help feeling sorry for the poor guy, he has to play two ends (USA and his electorate) against the middle (staying alive). And as I have often said, for Pakistan, Musharraf is probably the best they can find and in practice mistakes are certainly not all down to him.
IMO: So now we know, apparently via Musharraf's own mouth, why Pakistan is so happy to 'co-operate' with UK, apparently by torturing UK citizens to get to any kind of claptrap statement about plane bombings on Rashid Rauf to confuse the issues, annoy airline passengers and waste UK money. But you can't help feeling sorry for the poor guy, he has to play two ends (USA and his electorate) against the middle (staying alive). And as I have often said, for Pakistan, Musharraf is probably the best they can find and in practice mistakes are certainly not all down to him.
# posted by uv : 7:56 AM
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