Al-Qaeda trying to influence political policies through assassination? Don't they know jihad is an inner spiritual struggle? From AP, with thanks to DC Watson:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network may have been behind the failed attempt to assassinate the country's prime minister-designate, a senior Cabinet minister said Saturday, though investigators are still poring over the evidence.The death toll from the suicide bomb attack Friday against Shaukat Aziz, meanwhile, rose to eight, with about three dozen injured, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said. Among those killed was Aziz's driver, who had not yet closed the bulletproof door on the car when a man approached and detonated a bomb.
"Al-Qaida may be behind it," Ahmed told The Associated Press, before adding that there is no hard evidence linking the group to the attack.
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has said he believes al-Qaida was involved in two attempts to kill him in December, the last of which killed 17 people. He was unharmed.
Ever moved a dead carcass of an animal and seen the infested body full of maggots? yeah? this is Pakistan.
Close the Zombie schools of hate murder and Jihad and that may slow the putrid mass being eaten away, one day soon one of these maggots will lake sure he has his finger on the button aof a nuke.
Again I say: the civilized free world “powers” that allowed Pakistan or India to develop Nukes should probably re-think that decision, and take steps to put that cat back in the bag, so to speak.
Joe Bananas,
Those maggots will morph into flies pretty soon , reach for the spray and every liberal newspaper you can find.
Let India takeout Pakistan.
They certainly have been waiting to do this for a long time.
Pakistan is the West's PET COBRA. At the moment this snake rises when the SNAKE CHARMER plays music, receiving applause and banknotes. Just remember though that the COBRA'S venom is DEADLY...
Delighted to strike at any target of opportunity that exposes itself, tactically, Osama bin-Laden’s twin, priority ambition, nonetheless, is to take over Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Both are viewed as eminently “do-able” by el-Qaeda, teeming as they are with armed, hydrophobic Islamists who idolize the “Shiekh” and despise their corrupt, “irreligious” governments.
Thrilled as it would be to gain the millions of Pakistanis in direct support and to grab the wealth of the House of Saud, el-Qaeda’s PRIMARY interest nevertheless lies in the fifty to sixty nukes in the former country and the enormous international political leverage of being able to switch off the planet’s largest oil-deposit, of the latter - placing each of these formidable instruments at the disposal of advancing the contemporary “Grand Jihad”.
Should el-Qaeda succeed, unquestionably, the ramifications’d be horrendous. Thus, though it’d be so nice if there were peaceable, pro-Western democracies in those two lands, pro-tem, it must be seen that however bad the incumbents are (and they’re TRULY appalling), whatever follows them is guaranteed to be far worse: “Talebanization” and escalated terrorism.
The rulers of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are fully aware of this and USE it to stay in their seats; they’ve gotten a handy cop-out from ever having to make irrevocable, non-mock reforms in their nations (highly unpopular domestically), knowing that - at a pinch - the Americans’ll indulge them, as for decades, out of a well-founded dread of the next pack of leaders there.
At this point, sadly, Washington finds itself with no choice except to hold its nose and prop up the authorities in Riyadh and Islamabad, since there are, dismally, no better candidates available, nor even any on the horizon. The rulers there, the execrable, shifty, feudal House of Saud and the “benevolent despot”, the Dictator “guiding” Democracy in squalid, ultra-violent Pakistan, President General Pervez Musharaf (who COULD himself be not a Kemalist progressive, as advertised, but a tool of the Islamists, as had been a previous military tyrant there, General Zia el-Huq), are “Our Bastards”, uncomfortably stuck with one another, at least for the moment.
However, the day WILL dawn when they fall, and it’s unlikely that Jihadism will have departed from the scene before they do. Therefore, if it proves that their inheritors are NOT amenable to becoming “Our Bastards”, then more radical contingencies will indubitably need to be addressed.
Among these could be temporarily detaching Saudi Arabia’s oil-bearing Hasa Province from the Kingdom and its transformation into a Western protectorate, until it’s either pumped dry or a friendly, trustworthy administration can responsibly re-assume sovereignty over its sands.
As for Pakistan, despite the utopian (plus ignorantly pro-Arab) rhetoric spilling from the new, socialist Congress-Communist Party Government in New Delhi - busily sucking up to the Non Aligned Movement (of which it was once the luminary) and its cynical master, the Arab League-dominated Organization of Islamic Conferences - if Pakistan moves into the control of Jihadis (as possible at any time), then the problem arrives, first and foremost, squarely on the door-step of INDIA.