While Musharraf assures us that Al-Qaeda has been neutralized in Pakistan. Does even he believe what he says? How long will Pakistan, an international center of jihad, continue to enjoy the perks of being a US ally? From AP, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) -- Police said Monday they were searching for five Pakistani men in their widening investigation into Egypt's deadliest terror attack, which killed scores of people, including an American, at this Red Sea resort.Egypt sacked its two security chiefs for the Sinai peninsula after the Saturday bombings in their region. The Health Ministry said 64 people were killed but local hospitals put the toll at 88, saying the ministry count does not include sets of body parts....
Police at checkpoints around this resort also were circulating photographs of five Pakistanis who apparently were among a group of nine Pakistanis who arrived in Sharm el-Sheik from Cairo on July 5, according to two investigators who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the probe's sensitivity.
The five were identified as Mohammed Anwar, 30; Rashid Ali, 26; Mohammed Aref, 26; Musaddeq Hussein, 18; and Mohammed Akhtar, 30. The pictures, which gave the men's names and passport numbers, also were on posters put up in Cairo, apparently out of concern they were in the capital either before or since the attacks.
If any involvement of Pakistanis is confirmed, it would suggest that those behind Saturday's bombings belong to a much wider terror network than previously believed.
Anyone in the UK. Watch BBC 2 now(9:00pm) because a new series called "the new alqaeda" is starting.
Yes, saw most of it, listened to the rest. It started with the presenter saying what a lot of nonsense the previous programme on the subject, The Power of Nightmares, was. Am I being naively optimistic in thinking that suddenly the BBC has realised that there is a war on and perhaps they ought to be on the winning side?
This was all about the internet, as the main weapon of jihad, but how the ycan be tracked.Next week should be interesting. Madrid.
I'm afraid "naively optimistic" sounds about right. On the front page on the BBC web this evening is a link to a page presenting Tarik Ramadam as someone misunderstood by 'american right-wingers'
Are only right wingers able to tell right from wrong?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4714101.stm
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Pakistan. Our "ally"...our "friend"...
Uh huh...
Isn't it amazing that everytime a terroist attack happens Pakistan is mentioned somewhere in the article lately, but islamofascism is dead in Pakistan, riiiiight...10k
Granny:
I cannot remember where I read an account of Polly Toynbee's assessment of the London bombers, but as I recall, it was anything but sympathetic to them. I don't like making predictions, but we may just be seeing a sea change among some of the usual suspects. And if I'm right about that, I also suspect we're going to see a massive amount of amnesia set in regarding where they stood prior to 7/7 and 7/21.