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2003-01-11 Afghanistan

News from the Other Side: Peace offer to Mullah Omar?

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-01-11 01:15 pm|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 As Lileks would say, the bullshit meter's redlining right about now...

Posted by Raj 2003-01-11 13:33:15|| [angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-01-11 13:33:15|| Front Page Top

#2 More Colin Powell mischief. Powell argued for military integration with the dictatorship of the terror state of Pakistan, notwithstanding their extermination of 3,000,000 Hindus and Muslim opponents in the early 'seventies. Powell agitated for Northern Alliance restraint, before they ignored him and attacked and captured Kabul. Powell coerced the Northern Alliance into making ersatz peace with the Pashto jihadis, by status quo armistice. Powell engineered the placement of Karzai's ethnocentrist Pashtos into the Pakistan Presidency. Powell engineered the restoration of Sharia perversity in Afghanistan, prior to the Saudis restoration of aid. Powell agitated for elections in Pakistan, during Islamic Revolutionary (inqilab) conditions, with predictable results. Powell engineered Paul O'Neill's November trip to Pakistan, where the then Treasury Security announced aid continuity, notwithstanding the jihadi party - MMA - control of the frontier provinces, and 19% of U.S. aid to Pigistan. Powell exhonerated the Wahabi al-Haramain Foundation after that child of the ibn Baz and the Crown Prince was caught red-handed in financing terror. Powell is arm-twisting for "containment" of Iraq, in spite of its dictators threats. Powell is a mouthpiece of all the twisted third world rhetoric that has polluted the earth since WW2. Powell is a dependent of the evil-horde, and he has to go.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-01-11 15:45:27|| 2003-01-11 15:45:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Uh...ok...what about his wife Alma? Should she be put to death too?
jeeeeez

Posted by Frank G 2003-01-11 17:34:26|| 2003-01-11 17:34:26|| Front Page Top

#4 The tone and subject of this person's "Anonymous" post makes me think/guess that they are justifibly fed up with Pakistan's jihadi behavior in Kashmir.
Fair enough but let's not forget that Powell is the Diplomatic Face of US foreign policy and as such has to play "good cop" to Rumsfeld's "bad cop". "Good cop" has to act sympathetic and solicitous but isn't necessarily "soft on crime".
At the end of the day, the cops (I gotta believe) are on the same side and working together to put away evil doers.
Anyway, it's just a thought. Keep up your spirits, Anonymous. We're gonna win this.

Posted by JDB 2003-01-11 21:33:12|| 2003-01-11 21:33:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Frank G:
The price of liberty is eternal vigilence.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-01-11 23:31:03|| 2003-01-11 23:31:03|| Front Page Top

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