Pakistan foils coup plot

[lovuian]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HJ14Df02.html

KARACHI - A plot to stage a coup against Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf soon after his recent return from the US has been uncovered, resulting in the arrest of more than 40 people.

Most of those arrested are middle-ranking Pakistani Air Force officers, while civilian arrests include a son of a serving brigadier in the army. All of those arrested are Islamists, contacts in Rawalpindi, where the military is based, divulged to Asia Times

The conspiracy was discovered through the naivety of an air force
> officer who this month used a cell phone to activate a high-tech rocket aimed at the president's residence in Rawalpindi. The rocket was recovered, and its activating mechanism revealed the officer's telephone number. His arrest led to the other arrests
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This is one guy who has to look over his soldier

[Igel]

1. I recall reading some analysis in the past month

that dogmatically and definitively asserted that there was no threat or possibility of an Islamist government taking over in Pakistan.

Apparently this is still a valid analysis, since this particular coup failed.

Curse ul-Haq, in so many ways and for so many things.

[grasswire]

2. Jon Stewart was talking about the heavy, heavy security...

...when Musharaff was on the TDS. Dogs, snipers, etc. More than for any other guest, he said.

[Justice Is Comin]

3. Mush's days are numbered.