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Shameful Beating of Pakistan Lawyers | 19 comments (19 topical)

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My Understanding As Well (5.00 / 1) (#17)
by squeaky on Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 05:56:02 PM EST
That he uses the 10 billion US counterterrorism money for himself. Just like the Neocons, Mushareff needs a healthy and vital group of extremists in order to maintain control, so why should he waste the money on combating extremists.

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I think Musharaff's healthy, vital (none / 0) (#18)
by oculus on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 01:36:20 AM EST
group of supporters consists of the army and Pakistani's who fear an Islamic theocracy.  Well, and the Bush administration.

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His Support (5.00 / 1) (#19)
by squeaky on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 01:57:56 AM EST
From the army is not so great.
Meanwhile Musharraf sent his police to arrest lawyers, liberal politicians, and human rights activists, while doing virtually nothing against those Taliban in their scary turbans, who are taking over Swat:

Why is this happening? Because an illegitimate military regime could not motivate the security forces it has trained for jihad in defense of Islamic Pakistan to fight against domestic jihadis, even if it really wanted to.

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Pakistani troops and police are surrendering rather than fight the militants at the behest of a dictator beholden to the U.S.

Worth a read. Barnett Rubin sums up the situation in Pakistan and surprise surprise it is a different story than the MSM is feeding us.

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