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Cueball
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posted 30 March 2004 12:51 PM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
South Asia Times

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KARACHI - The 12-day Pakistani army operation in the South Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan frontier is winding down following the release on Sunday of 12 government officials and soldiers seized by alleged al-Qaeda fighters and tribal allies. Similarly, a number of tribal suspects held by the army have been set free or will be released soon.

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skdadl
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posted 30 March 2004 02:59 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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The meeting concluded that the army had destroyed 84 houses in its search for fugitives, and that claims that the fugitives had used long tunnels to escape were nonsense. In fact, these are trenches that have been used for many years to carry water. Now the army has destroyed them - and with it the region's water system.

Oh, great.

That meeting -- in Wana, South Waziristan -- included members of the Pakistan National Assembly, btw.

So now South Waziristan is even more angry and alienated than it was before, if that is possible.

I assume that people noticed this morning's related news from Uzbekistan. Bombs in the capital and the second-largest city have killed nineteen, wounded many more. The bombs in Tashkent were carried by two young women suicide bombers.

What is happening in Central Asia is threatening to all of us, more threatening even than the also-related confrontations in the Middle East. American support for the worst dictators and incompetents in the region cannot help making things worse. Much worse.


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Cueball
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posted 31 March 2004 02:51 AM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Yes the war on terrorism is working very well. Now we have it in Uzbekistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Whereas last year it was only in Afghanistan.
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skdadl
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posted 31 March 2004 10:46 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Isn't it interesting, Cueball, that developments this central to the future of all humankind are not drawing the attention of the people who repeatedly charge that discussions of international affairs on babble are suspect in their narrow focus?
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Rufus Polson
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posted 31 March 2004 04:21 PM      Profile for Rufus Polson     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Heh.
There's a related take on the question in
this counterpunch article

It goes so far as to suggest that the repercussions from this could in the end topple Musharraf's regime.

[ 31 March 2004: Message edited by: Rufus Polson ]


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Cueball
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posted 31 March 2004 05:24 PM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
There is some more on this theme on this thread The OBL Lottery.

It is worrisome that there is fighting along the Durrand line, and I agree this is the hot spot that is really getting underplayed.


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skdadl
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posted 31 March 2004 05:38 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thanks for the link, Rufus -- a terrific brief reading of the situation, and I suspect Lind is right.

He doesn't talk about the spread of this war to all the -stans, which is already happening. I honestly don't see how any of this can be checked now. Damn Bush. Damn him.


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