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| Mirza Aslam Beg: Paks protecting Talib "assets" |
| 2006-10-23 |
| Former chief of army staff Gen Mirza Aslam Beg has said he was one of a group of army officers trained by the CIA in the 1950s as a “stay-behind organisation” that would melt into the population if ever the Soviet Union overran Pakistan. Gen Beg was interviewed by Elizabeth Rubin for a report headlined ‘In the land of the Taliban’ in the New Work Times’ Sunday magazine. Rubin writes that “one thing you notice if you visit the homes of retired generals in Pakistan is that they live in a lavish fashion typical of South America’s dictatorship-era military elite. They control most of the country’s economy and real estate, and like President Musharraf, himself a former general, they do not want to relinquish power.” She notes that although there is a secularist strain in the Pakistani military, it has been aligned with religious hard-liners since the army’s inception in 1947. She quotes Najam Sethi, editor of the Daily Times, who told her that military officers often have “a degree of self-disgust for selling themselves” to the Americans, and they still bear a grudge against the United States for abandoning them after the Afghan jihad and, more recently, for sanctioning Pakistan over its nuclear programme. The standard army phrase about the Americans was, he said, “They used us like a condom.” |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 joe m has stocked up ill buy some from him you cant stop me soros |
| Posted by: .com 2006-10-23 17:11 |
| #7 Ha! Your softpore corn doesn't work on me .commy boy. You'll be lucky to see a cap for the next three months. |
| Posted by: Soros Shiftkey Cartel 2006-10-23 17:09 |
| #6 :-) we have a punctuation gap lol so many posts recently prove the point i fear for our children will there be none left for them i blame the nea and prez shrub of course everyone knows they have conspired and stuff like this isnt radical its mainstream and i was a flower of the mountain yes when i put the rose in my hair like the andalusian girls used or shall i wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the moorish wall and i thought well as well him as another and then i asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would i yes to say yes my mountain flower and first i put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes i said yes i will yes |
| Posted by: .com 2006-10-23 16:50 |
| #5 lol .com, take it easy. I'm starting to think I broke a rib when I fell the other night. It hurts on the first line. True pain on the internet question mark deficit. Now gas is under $2.00 but we're out of question marks and exclamation points are off the shelves like TP before a wild hurricane flies. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-10-23 16:40 |
| #4 C'mon, that's trolling to repetively post the same stuff on multiple threads. And now we have an Internet question mark deficit. This must stop - before it's too late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She---eee---eee---eee---sh, already. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-10-23 15:57 |
| #3 http://www.iwpr.net/?p=arr&s=f&o=260014&apc_state=henh A must read for everyone to press their politicans on why is this allowed to continue????!!!!! |
| Posted by: Choluque Grens1160 2006-10-23 15:46 |
| #2 Another article showing that Perv is playing a double game supporting the Taliban but arresting a few al qaeda to appease US. Bush- Pakistan needs to be held account of their support of Taliban/Al Qaeda etc |
| Posted by: Choluque Grens1160 2006-10-23 14:14 |
| #1 "Assuming that Afghanistan will prove to be the AmericansÂ’ Vietnam..." This is one of the biggest problems that arises when people substituted cant for thought. Afghanistan was the Soviet Union's "Vietnam". Vietnam was America's Vietnam (whatever the heck that is supposed to mean). |
| Posted by: Flea 2006-10-23 08:23 |