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2004-02-15 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-02-15 12:05:17 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gul is a Muttahida-Majlis-e-Amal agent, who wants Paki nukes to be put under the control of jihadis.

Posted by Anonymous 2004-2-15 12:11:25 AM|| 2004-2-15 12:11:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#2
Indians have strong fissiparous tendencies, which is absent in Pakistan

Fissiparous: Reproducing by fission.

Fission: Biol. The divison of an organism into new organisms as a process of reproduction.

Fission: Physics The splitting of the nucleus of an atom into nuclei of lighter atoms, accompanied by the release of energy.

Fissirostral: Having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-2-15 12:52:48 AM|| 2004-2-15 12:52:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 will no one rid us of this islamist dwarf air burglar--we need black ops -- a car bomb or armed pakistani donkey with rpgs--i'm sure many midget houris and pearl-like youths are waiting for him in paradise-- puhleeze give him an early checkin!!

Posted by SON OF TOLUI 2004-2-15 3:17:46 AM|| 2004-2-15 3:17:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Whether Pakistan has proliferated or not is not an issue at all
Maybe when Iran has nukes & you realise they aren't all aimed at Israel it may become more of an issue...
We are not afraid of the Americans, they canât fight on the ground.
Except in Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea...
About 5% to 6% Brahmins dominate India. Where are the lower classes?
Let's see, India's had a dalit President (K.R. Narayanan) & it's current President's a Muslim & low caste politicos have run Uttar Pradesh & Bihar recently (Mulayam Singh Yadav's still Chief Minister of UP.) Doesn't Pakistan still have a wee problem with the influence wielded by the old feudal classes BTW?
India will have to break.
Just like we broke when we lost Bangladesh & when we had the uprising in Balochistan... despite all that there are no centrifugal tendencies in Pakistan - perish the thought!

Posted by Dave 2004-2-15 3:59:01 AM|| 2004-2-15 3:59:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Dave's right! The guy is a phantasist. And eriely reminiscent of Marxist/socialist phantasies.

Posted by phil_b 2004-2-15 5:47:35 AM|| 2004-2-15 5:47:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Gul was a welcome visitor to the Second Popular Arab and Islamic Conference held in Khartoum in December 1993. There he melded with PAIC founder Hasan al-Turabi, and other Islamist visitors including Bin Laden and Zawahiri. In sum, he has been, and remains, a dangerous jihadist.

Posted by Tancred 2004-2-15 7:32:18 AM|| 2004-2-15 7:32:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Islam is moderate, Islam is progressive. Islam is everything that man needs

Sounds like the lyrics of a forgotten Gilbert & Sullivan piece.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-15 8:38:03 AM|| 2004-2-15 8:38:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Dave, excellent analysis. India did have serious fissiparous tendencies, by no longer. In the 1980s the Punjab seemed headed for seccession (ever see a "Free Khalistan" bumber sticker?), but it is now at peace. Earlier, when India was pushing Hindi as a common national language, the entire south was restive. But then India settled on English (much to the country's economic benefit), and that issue ended. Today its just the northeast fringe (Nagaland, Manipur, etc.), that remains trouble, but no big deal. Gul evidently hasn't noticed the change. With a name like Gul, I assume that he is Pashtun -- is he?

Posted by closet neo-con 2004-2-15 1:51:51 PM|| 2004-2-15 1:51:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Shipman, perhaps you are thinking of the al-Gilbert and Suleiman song that starts out "I am the very model of a modern ISI Lieutenant General"?

Posted by SteveS 2004-2-15 1:57:50 PM|| 2004-2-15 1:57:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 He went to Khartoum and with Turabi, bin Laden and Zawahiri he had a little rape party on some captured Khafir women and boys.

Posted by JFM 2004-2-15 1:57:59 PM|| 2004-2-15 1:57:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Yes! That's it SteveS.... now I've got an evil ear-worm.

If I had only a little ambition.... rewriting the lyics from the al-Gilbert & Suleiman POV would shake the world. LOL

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-15 5:28:50 PM|| 2004-2-15 5:28:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Dunno what Hamid's ethnicity is, but yeah, isn't Gul pashto for flower/petal or somesuch thing? Not really very macho is it - hasn't the poor man heard of deed polls?
Re: Turabi - Sic transit gloria mundi! I almost feel sorry for him, it can't be very nice to have your protege & your (supposedly) tame dictator gang up on you like that. IIRC even his former Islamist friends have turned on him for not being mad enough, a tragic end for the guy Janes once described as the 'Philosopher Prince' of militant Islam - get a goblet pleeze!

Posted by Dave 2004-2-15 6:08:28 PM|| 2004-2-15 6:08:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Dr (A Q) Khan is our hero. Nobody can dare touch him.

Wrong about that too- poor fella.

Posted by B 2004-2-16 8:09:20 AM|| 2004-2-16 8:09:20 AM|| Front Page Top

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