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2009-03-16 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2009-03-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Good article as it proves to me what i always thourght that Saudis were the financial backers and Pakis the training ground for Jihadis!!!!

Posted by Paul2 2009-03-16 11:19|| 2009-03-16 11:19|| Front Page Top

#2 It appears that the headquarters of global jihad has moved from Saudi Arabia to Pakistan

Appearances can be deceiving.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-16 11:21|| 2009-03-16 11:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Paul2, the Saudis also financed the Pakistani bomb.

Benazir Bhutto, then Prime Minister, was denied access to Kahuta because of national security concerns (she being non-military). Saudi Prince Turki had no such problem touring the nuclear facility.

The Pakistanis got the Saudis to buy a bunch of Al-Khalid tanks to equip a regiment. The Saudis have the best tanks (M1 Abrams) and have so many that they are mothballed. They do not need Pakistani made copies of Chinese copies of obsolete Russian equipment.

That regiment is manned by Pakistanis. Now the Paks aren't exactly the first choice as mercenaries. And a single regiment won't stop the Iranians. So what are the Paks doing in Saudi?

Guarding Pak "assets". Guess what those assets are that justify an armored regiment to protect them.

Posted by john frum 2009-03-16 14:47|| 2009-03-16 14:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Seems to me that shutting down the ISI and rebooting the Pak government is pretty much the same thing.

Posted by SteveS 2009-03-16 21:40|| 2009-03-16 21:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Always funny how "nation building" in Afghanistan or Iraq evokes sneers from so many, but "fixing" Pak or KSA is "just what the doctor ordered." Feh...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2009-03-16 22:51|| 2009-03-16 22:51|| Front Page Top

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