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India-Pakistan
Pakistani AF officers tried to kill Musharraf
2006-11-06
Several young officers from the Pakistan Air Force with access to President Pervez Gen Pervez MusharrafÂ’s innermost security circle were among 50 people arrested for trying to assassinate him soon after he returned from a visit to the US and Britain in late September, according to a report published in The Sunday Telegrph on Sunday.

The rocket strike was aimed at the presidentÂ’s high-security personal residence-office in Rawalpindi.
About 50 people are being held on suspicion of involvement in the September attack, which involved a battery of Russian-made 107 m projectiles launched by a signal from a mobile phone.
“About 50 people are being held on suspicion of involvement in the September attack, which involved a battery of Russian-made 107 m projectiles launched by a signal from a mobile phone,” Pakistani intelligence sources were quoted as saying by The Sunday Telegraph.
No one in Pak-land's any good at knife work anymore?
“Alarmingly, many are understood to be young officers serving in the Pakistan Air Force, some of whom have access to high-security zones of the presidential offices, parliament and the intelligence service,” they said.

The report said that although interrogations had not revealed any of them to have links with Al Qaeda or the Taliban, they were none the less believed to have acted out of growing anger at MusharrafÂ’s alliance with America in its war on terror.
Posted by:lotp

#9  Air force colonels: Why do they hate us?
Posted by: Flea   2006-11-06 09:31  

#8  Why didn't this guy just post at the 'burg that he needed some help?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-11-06 09:18  

#7  But, but...they're being tortured! Call Amnesia International! Notify the UN to form a committee to draft a memo!
Posted by: Spot   2006-11-06 07:59  

#6  no idea.
Posted by: Moammar Qaddafi   2006-11-06 07:40  

#5  Generals are either implicated in the regime or figure they don't have a shot at power. Colonels are high enough to have troops that will follow them and junior enough to have ambitious plans for advancement.
Posted by: lotp   2006-11-06 07:39  

#4  Are the youngsters colonels or the equivalent? There seem to have been a lot of stories from insecure places of colonels getting feisty. I wonder why that is?
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-11-06 07:12  

#3  Historically, air forces have been the major source of coups in third world countries. That is a major impetus behind the gelding of most air forces in Africa : if they don't have the ability to overthrow the government, they are tolerated. Of course, that tends to render them combat-ineffective against anything other than dirt farmers with bolt-action rifles.
Plus, the old Soviet command structure that most third worlders fob off on their militaries reduces that danger, by reducing any sort of freedom of movement for the air force.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2006-11-06 03:26  

#2  They'll be singin' before they're swingin'. Wouldn't want to be any of those 50 conspirators right now, or their families.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-11-06 02:04  

#1  Will they be join allen in hell soon?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-11-06 00:02  

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