Pakistan Air Force officers tried to kill Musharraf

[TexasLawyer]

Monday, November 06, 2006

PAF officers tried to kill Musharraf: UK paper

LONDON: Several young officers from the Pakistan Air Force with access to President Pervez Musharraf’s innermost security circle were among 50 people arrested for trying to assassinate him soon after he returned from a visit to the US and Britain in late September, according to a report published in The Sunday Telegraph on Sunday.

The rocket strike was aimed at the president’s high-security personal residence-office in Rawalpindi. "About 50 people are being held on suspicion of involvement in the September attack, which involved a battery of Russian-made 107 m projectiles launched by a signal from a mobile phone," Pakistani intelligence sources were quoted as saying by The Sunday Telegraph.

"Alarmingly, many are understood to be young officers serving in the Pakistan Air Force, some of whom have access to high-security zones of the presidential offices, parliament and the intelligence service," they said.

The report said that although interrogations had not revealed any of them to have links with Al Qaeda or the Taliban, they were none the less believed to have acted out of growing anger at Musharraf’s alliance with America in its war on terror.

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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\11\06\story_6-11-2006_pg7_1

[TexasLawyer]

1. Twinkies

I guess this is what happens when you go on the Daily Show and eat Twinkies with the Americans.

[David__77]

2. Too bad the dictator was not overthrown.

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[TexasLawyer]

3. dictators tend to be overthrown by

other dictators over there, so this may not have been so great. Pakistan has nukes, and it is very troubling to see instability there.

War in Iraq and Afghanistan is NOT helping matters.

[David__77]

4. He needs to go.

He's sold his country out to foreigners. There are indeed progressive military coups. They could hand power back to the People's Party that was overthrown by Musharraf's gang.

[Pavulon]

6. A nuclear nation

run by radical islamists. His politics are a better option..

[independentpiney]

7. A "progressive" military coup in Pakistan? Not likely

The military and ISI are dominated by Islamists, many of whom support a Taliban-like ideology. A coup will come, and hopefully it will be by more rational Jamaat-e-Islammi types, or we'll be even more screwed than we are now.

[AlCzervik]

5. when does he move over here? Don't bring that shit with when you do Perv.