15 top Pakistani leaders have links with Osama

[cosmicone]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1324562.cms

NEW DELHI: At least 15 members in the senate, national and state assemblies of Pakistan have not only met Osama bin Laden, but had a close relationship with him.

No Indian propaganda this. Mohammed Amir Rana, a journalist with Pakistani newspaper 'The Friday Times' has made this and several other startling revelations in his new book "Seeds of Terrorism".

Rana quotes the example of Maulana Samiul Haq of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) who is supposed to have sworn allegiance on the hands of Osama along with Maulana Fazlur Rehman.

The author digs deep into the origins, assesses the strengths and importantly trails the sources of funding of the jihadi movement in his latest book, which was launched here by Jaipal Reddy, Union Minister for Urban Development and Culture. ,The book is a sequel to 'Gateway to Terrorism' released in 2003 that looked at the origin of Taliban, Lashkar and Jaish-e-Muhammad among a host of other organizations who are headquartered in Pakistan.
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Why does Bush play skinflute with Pervaiz Musharraf?

[tabasco]

1. Yeah, but the Bu$h cabal trusted them to "guard the border."

Every American should be outraged that the Bu$h corporate cabal let the people who planned the attack on NYC just walk away.

The Bu$h corporate cabal was focused on Iraq and the oil from day one.

Enriching the super-rich is more important to Bu$h than capturing the people who attacked us.

I was a military planner. I thought at least two US divisions to guard the far end of Tora Bora.

What we got was a joke of an operation, with hired warlords and the Pakistanis to guard the border.

It would be like if the Chinese invaded West Virginia and asked people from Kentucky to guard the border.

Every American should be outraged at the sham operation in Afghanistan.

[pdurod1]

4. Also if I'm not mistaken, the people who attacked the WTC in 1993

are in prison. Hunted down during the so-called "softie" Clinton administrations tenure.

[rodeodance]

5. the vast majority do not know and will not know--as the media will not

report stories such as these. or if they do, it is l liner and poof--gone.

[AlamoDemoc]

2. hhmmmm "No Indian propaganda this"

This is a textbook example of how certain states use the "media" in order defame their counter "terror" state

[keta11]

6. I suspect so, too

In the times after 9-11, to advance your agenda just come forwward and tell the Americans what they want to hear and you are good as gold.

Knowing how impoverished those countries are, $25 million is a big chunk of change even for big buraucrats. If at least 15 of Pakistani leaders know where Bin ladin is, the location would have been revealed a long time ago.

[pinniped]

3. The * crime cabal has ties to OBL.

I have no doubt * also swore allegiance to Lord Osama.

[Skidmore]

7. I have always thought it fishy that the one country * struck a

"strong alliance" with was Pakistan, where the madresehs are the educational system and there is as firmly entrenched religious legal system and a handy dandy strong man. * has been paying Pakistan to babysit Bin Laden until he is needed again. They are in cahoots.

[AlamoDemoc]

8. Pakistan is a Nation which prides itself with their religion

After all, Pakistan was founded with religion after their separation from India...that said...the cabal is not with only Pakistan, but with Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, and many, many more....

[Media_Lies_Daily]

9. I could say the same thing about the top NeoCons and OBL.

[Igel]

10. The MMA organized and was elected as the opposition

party after 9/11 and the hunt for UBL began. They are religious in nature: they control the government in the NW Provinces, the Pashtun-majority area adjacent to Afghanistan. They have been instrumental in driving out NGOs in the area, or so limiting what the NGOs can do that they up and leave. The MMA has also blocked madrasseh and educational reform.

They are Musharraf's sworn enemies, at least politically and religiously: some have denied that AQ exists, and AQ 'leaders' have been captured in regional MMA leaders homes. Musharraf is fairly secular.

It's not as if other countries don't also have internal politics, or that their politics must fit with exactly what American politics considers important.