MSNBC: The ‘airlift of evil’ "
Nov 19: The United States took the unprecedented step this week of demanding that foreign airlines provide information on passengers boarding planes for America. Yet in the past week, a half dozen or more Pakistani air force cargo planes landed in the Taliban-held city of Kunduz and evacuated to Pakistan hundreds of non-Afghan soldiers who fought alongside the Taliban and even al-Qaida against the United States. What’s wrong with this picture?
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These reports must be true, but may also be understandable, given that Musharaff has been warning repeatedly that his position will collapse if we didn't do this or do that. Now, he thinks OBL is dead!
We may be getting screwed here! I Think we've been putting too many baskets on one egg!
As I recall (and I don't have the time now to research this) there were several articles on FR back before Konduz fell that stated that the Paks were flying Al-Querdos out of the beseiged city. Some of those reports, if I'm not mistaken, actually came from (gasp) DEBKA. There 's fertile ground here for a freeper with an afternoon to kill...