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2006-01-26 Terror Networks

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Posted by tipper 2006-01-26 10:56|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is just an excerpt... tipper's teasing us.

Go to BugMeNot for a Spectator (http://www.spectator.co.uk) login. This puppy's 5 pages long - and well worth the read.

"It is almost four years since I mooted that the bin man had gone to the virgins. If he hasnt, then I wonder what he makes beyond the desperate truce gambit offered as a cynical enticement to Democrats and Europeans of the way things are going. Afghanistan will never be his again. The House of Sauds double-game is a lot more one-sided these days. And, as the visit of General Musharrafs Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to Washington made plain, the prospect of Talebanising Pakistan has slipped beyond Osamas grasp: the AQ Khan network has been busted up, there are said to be American observers at the nuke facilities, and the ISI, the countrys deeply duplicitous intelligence service, is on a tight leash. President Bush underlined to Shaukat Aziz this week that America intends to continue exercising its right of hot pursuit and either send choppers into Pakistan to seize suspects or cut to the chase and blow up their homes. On the whole, Musharraf is cool with that: if someone has to incinerate remote villages, hed rather it was the Great Satan. For his part, Bush is happy for the General to be as co-operative as he can without getting assassinated. Eighteen people died in the attack on Damadola, and OK, some of them were women and children, but others were men Osama can ill afford to lose, and at one of the three houses reduced to rubble his Number Two, al-Zawahiri himself, is known to have swung by for dinner from time to time. Sorry, but thats war: you have the enemy round for cocktails, your pads on the target list from then on. And yes, it means your wifes sister, whos never been terribly political and indeed didnt utter a word all night, gets incinerated with the al-Qaeda mastermind. Message: I dont care, as George Bush Sr might say."

Posted by .com 2006-01-26 12:05|| 2006-01-26 12:05|| Front Page Top

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