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To: CarrotAndStick
I said it wouldn't take too long for India to START a war with Pakistan.

Well isn't that great - How would starting a war with Pakistan be helpful at this time (if India couldn't win it without the need of American assistance - Which at this time we aren't completely able to give?)

While there are many within Pakistan that our terrorists or terrorists supporting...the fact is since Sept 11th Musharraf has done about as good a job as we (America) can expect from him. From the leadership of a Gov't perspective (with Pak) That is the bottom line (India doesn't have to like it.....Just like we didn't like that India didn't step up and fight with us in Iraq).

Musharraf is in an extremely difficult situation. That is the reality. Like him or not. Trust him or not (which I don't completely) - But regardless the man is in an extremely difficult position.

Furthermore the border region (where many of al Qeade / taliban hide - going back and forth into Stan) is mostly autonomous from the Pak Gov't (and has been that way for nearly a century).

51 posted on 07/25/2005 8:34:32 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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To: DevSix
I don't know how good a job Pakistan has done. Neither can you. Only time can tell. Meanwhile...

Britain gives Pakistan list of London bombing suspects

http://p102.news.scd.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050715/wl_uk_afp/britainattackspakistan/nc:732

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - British police have given Pakistan a list of terror suspects with possible links to the London attacks, officials said, as two religious schools denied they had hosted one of the bombers.


Authorities are pursuing information on 22-year-old British suicide attacker Shehzad Tanweer, who reportedly studied at a religious school in Pakistan last year, according to security officials on Friday.

"They provided us with names of certain individuals for information following the London bombing. We are checking the linkages here," a senior security official told AFP.

"We have asked the British government to provide specific information regarding the movement of suspected bombers in Pakistan," added the official, speaking anonymously because of the sensitive nature of the investigation.

Pakistani authorities are also investigating whether Tanweer had links to two militant groups, understood to be Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba, both involved in fighting Indian forces in Kashmir.

Both are known to have ties with Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.

Jaish is loosely linked with the Jamia Manzoorul Islamia school in the eastern city of Lahore, which denied British press reports that Tanweer had studied there.

"We have no knowledge that anyone with the name of Shehzad Tanweer was enrolled in our madrassa. Our records do not confirm this name," Asadullah Farooq, son of madrassa leader Pir Saifullah Khalid, told AFP.

"The allegation is baseless. We do not entertain foreign students, we only have Pakistani students," he added.

Lashkar-e-Taiba also denied that Tanveer visited a campus formerly linked to the group in Muridke, near Lahore.

"We have checked our records, no one with this name and with British nationality ever stayed there. We do not have a policy of carrying out suicide attacks on civilians," a spokesman for the group told AFP from Lahore.

Lashkar-e-Taiba was blamed for sheltering Al-Qaeda fugitives who fled Afghanistan after the collapse of the hardline Islamic Taliban regime in late 2001.

Security officials said Jaish teamed up with Al-Qaeda to carry out several attacks in Pakistan, including a bombing which killed 11 French engineers in the southern city of Karachi in 2002.

It was also involved with an assassination attempt on Pakistan's military ruler President Pervez Musharraf in December 2003, officials said.

Musharraf telephoned British Prime Minister Tony Blair late Thursday to to pledge his full backing for the inquiry into the bombings, state media reported.

"The President assured the British Prime Minister of Pakistan's fullest support and assistance in the investigation of July 7 terrorist acts in London," the Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

"Prime Minister Blair thanked the President and the Government of Pakistan for their unequivocal support. He appreciated the crucial role Pakistan has played in the international fight against terror," the report said.

Separately, Pakistani investigators said Friday they were questioning a British man arrested on suspicion of ties to terror groups but he has no known links to the London attacks.

Zeeshan Siddique, 25, was arrested on May 18 near the northwestern city of Peshawar after sneaking into Pakistan on fake documents, and is being held at the city's central jail, the officials told AFP.

The New York Times reported Friday that British authorities probing the carnage in London were focusing on Siddique and trying to determine if he had connections to the bombers.

"The suspect has no intelligence value in connection with the London attacks," a senior interior ministry official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

A foreign ministry official also dismissed reports in local newspapers that a team of British police were flying out to Pakistan to interrogate Siddique.
52 posted on 07/25/2005 8:42:35 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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