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Topic: Musharraf left counting the cost
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skdadl
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Babbler # 478
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posted 30 March 2004 02:59 PM
quote: 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.
From: gone | Registered: May 2001
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