Good ? Bad? What now?

[bawanajim]

These people have nukes.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,318510,00.html
Benazir Bhutto killed
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated today as a suicide bomber killed at least 14 of her supporters, a spokesman for her party and other officials said. Bhutto suffered bullet wounds, TV networks are reporting. developing story[/align][ul][*]Bhutto a political giant [*]Bhutto had turbulent history[/ul]

[Aught Six]

I think it's relatively good, at least in the short term. Not only will this further infuriate thePakistanis and harden their will to fight against al Qaeda, but it has removed one of the most vocal challengers of Musharraf. Stability is what the country needs most right now. The politicians need to stop fighting each other rhetorically andinstead go after the Islamic nutjobs in the northern regions. As bloody as this assassination was, perhaps it will end up improving the situation.

[falcon]

Musharaff is never going to do anything serious about Islamic terrorists hiding in Pakistan.He is going to continue to prevent US special operations forces from going after terroristsin Pakistan. Musharaff recently released 24Islamic terrorists including the one that was caught as a publicity stunt on the day of Cheney's visit."

"Pakistani lawyers, human-rights activists and opposition-party members can scarcely ignore the irony of their situation: while thousands of them are being beaten and locked up under President Pervez Musharraf's newly declared state of emergency, his government has just let more than two dozen militant Islamists out of jail. Protesters might be even angrier if Musharraf disclosed the names of some of those freed militants. Taliban sources tell NEWSWEEK that the top man on the list was Mullah Obaidullah Akhund"”the highest-ranking Taliban official ever captured by the Pakistanis. As one of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's closest confidants and his defense minister until the post 9-11 invasion of Afghanistan, Obaidullah was No. 3 in the group's hierarchy and a member of its ruling 10-man shura (council).

His arrest on Feb. 26 seems to have been anything but a coincidence. That was the very day that Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Islamabad on an unannounced visit to demand a crackdown on Taliban operations in Pakistan.

[bigtim6656]

those people will not stop trying to kill us and muslims that do not belive there way untl there al dead either us or tem vote they all die

[Aught Six]

We've already gone over this. If Musharraf rocks the boat too hard and ends up getting killed, al Qaeda will make it's move to seize the government. The situation over there is ugly as hell because it's an ugly country. We have to make the most of what little advantage we have and not blow it being too gung-ho. Pakistanis don't want to die for the benefit of America anymore than we want to die for them. We need to try to ride this out. The only other plausibleoption is a coup and possbily a civil war.

Cultural bigotry isn't going to help anything here...

[bigtim6656]

i saw today if musharraf does not get things under control soon the army will remove him from power they said on fox that pakastain has never had a president leave office willingly so he better get things going right before he his wonting back i like the bhutte

ORIGINAL: Aught Six

We've already gone over this. If Musharraf rocks the boat too hard and ends up getting killed, al Qaeda will make it's move to seize the government. The situation over there is ugly as hell because it's an ugly country. We have to make the most of what little advantage we have and not blow it being too gung-ho. Pakistanis don't want to die for the benefit of America anymore than we want to die for them. We need to try to ride this out. The only other plausibleoption is a coup and possbily a civil war.

Cultural bigotry isn't going to help anything here...

[falcon]

To his credit Musharaff did try toroot out terrorists in a couple of the thetribal regions of Pakistan: He had over 1,000 troops killed and thousands wounded in a very short period of time, so he gave up. Best thing the US could do is to nuke one of the tribal areas and turn the place into adumping groundfor hog waste.

[bigtim6656]

he should have finished the job he knows if he pushed to hard to root them out there kill him
they said bhuute did not die from getting shot but when they shoot at her and she went todrop down in her car and hit her head and died from a crushed skull

ORIGINAL: falcon

To his credit Musharaff did try toroot out terrorists in a couple of the thetribal regions of Pakistan: He had over 1,000 troops killed and thousands wounded in a very short period of time, so he gave up. Best thing the US could do is to nuke one of the tribal areas and turn the place into adumping groundfor hog waste.

[Pat Curtis]

Do you think he examined the body? He's a puppet.

[bigtim6656]

do you mean masharife or they Guy that killed Bhutto

ORIGINAL: Pat Curtis

Do you think he examined the body? He's a puppet.