Category Archives: War on Terror

The Intelligence Intrigues that Preceded the Islamabad Bomb - Brig-Gen Shaukat Qadir

September 23, 2008 – 2:30 am

Whenever the terrorists succeed, whenever an atrocity is of a scale to hit the front pages of the world’s newspapers, there is always an inquest into the failures of intelligence that allowed it to happen.
After the slaughter at the Marriott hotel in Islamabad on Saturday, the intelligence agencies of a dozen or more countries will [...]

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Islamabad Bombing Shakes Pakistan - Eric Margolis

September 23, 2008 – 2:21 am

The one ton truck bomb that ripped apart Islamabad’s Marriot Inn last Saturday was both a warning to its pro-American elite and a revenge attack against Pakistan’s new government
At least 56 people - a probably many more - were reported killed and some 250 injured by the huge explosion that tore off the front of [...]

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Why Would ‘Terrorists’ Want To Decapitate Anti-US Leadership In Pakistan? - Paul Joesph Watson

September 23, 2008 – 12:54 am

After several weeks of international bad press because of drone planes being piloted by 19 year olds with joy-sticks in California, blowing up families in Pakistan willy-nilly, after all that, the “terrorists” in Pakistan decide to blow up a second rate hotel there, killing civilians, and making them the bad guys once again? How’s that [...]

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The Real Story Behind Marriott Attack - Asif Haroon Raja

September 23, 2008 – 12:48 am

10,000 Indian troops are stationed in Afghanistan under the garb of supervising construction of road Jalalabad-Port Chahbahar project that has now been completed. Whereas India has officially declared 14 Indian consulates in Afghanistan, on ground they have 107 in which 20 intelligence units are burning their midnight oil to destabilize Pakistan
After 9/11 CIA bought the [...]

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Bush Attacks Pakistan

September 22, 2008 – 1:28 am

So many events in the news, so little time to write about them. Global warming deserves a look, politics never ends, the Russia/Georgia thing gets more intractable all the time. Iran is always fun, the Russians are going to sell them new anti-aircraft missiles, as if to say to Bush “Nyah, nyah, nyah.” Still,  today’s [...]

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Pakistan Mourns

September 21, 2008 – 11:11 am

This first appeared in the Toronto Sun (I think) when Benazir was assassinated. It fits today also.

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An Interesting Cartoon

September 21, 2008 – 10:37 am

With all the rumors and discussion flying around in the media, this cartoon is a great representation of today’s Pak - US relations.

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If Only The Roles Reversed - Pakistan Invades America

September 18, 2008 – 4:37 am

I spotted this online today and thought… if only the roles reversed…
The U.S. State Department lodged a sharp protest over ongoing Pakistani missile strikes and ground raids today, saying the Islamic Republic was violating American sovereignty.
“We will try to convince Pakistan…to respect [the] sovereignty of the United States - and God willing, we will convince,” [...]

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Parties of God: The Bush Doctrine and the Rise of Islamic Democracy

August 30, 2007 – 10:41 am

Another story picked up from the March issue of Harpers that is interesting (and very long reading) about how the US and Bush have given rise to a different democracy in Muslim countries.
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Among the precepts of the “Bush Doctrine”—as loyalists to the current president call the set of foreign-policy principles by which they, and no [...]

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The America We Used To Know

July 14, 2007 – 1:33 pm

A sad commentary on the state of the United States…

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