Musharraf rumoured to be mulling move to New Mexico

[seafan]

Musharraf rumoured to be mulling move to New Mexico

Elana Schor in Washington
August 19, 2008

The Shah of Iran went to Italy. Benazir Bhutto went to London. Now that Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has resigned to ride out his country's political storm, could he be headed to New Mexico?

The famously laid-back US state, where former UN ambassador Bill Richardson serves as governor, is a most unlikely destination for the former Pakistani army chief. But Shuja Nawaz, a veteran Pakistani journalist and former International Monetary Fund official, said yesterday that Musharraf may head to the American west.

"This is my understanding, based on conversations with people in Pakistan, that he's likely … to leave the country, and that a possible immediate destination may be Dubai, and then eventually may be New Mexico in the United States," Nawaz told the PBS NewsHour programme yesterday.

If Musharraf does settle in Richardson's state, it would signify a marked détente between the two men. Richardson, who was America's UN representative under Bill Clinton, called Musharraf a "terrorist" during a January TV appearance - before correcting his characterisation to "tyrant" - and called for the Pakistani's resignation in late 2007.
A US state department spokesman told reporters today that Musharraf has so far not asked for asylum in America but added that the resigned president "has a right to live wherever he wants".

Let's see, there's Orlando Bosch, Luis Posada Carriles, Manuel Noriega, now Pervez Musharraf.

All Bush family pals.

[sharesunited]

1. Well he needs to haul ass out of Pakistan ASAP. New Mexico is nice.

Mountainous and arid like Pakistan, too.

[SteelPenguin]

4. Yup

He knows if he stays there someone will kill him sooner rather than later...better to get out. New Mexico's climate would suit him just fine. I know a number of people who have moved out of that region and they prefer to live in dryer areas genearlly.

[Virginia Dare]

5. I hear Area 51 is nice...n/t

[SheilaT]

8. Area 51 is in Nevada,

not New Mexico.

[Virginia Dare]

10. It's mountainous and arid too, isn't it?...n/t

[rurallib]

2. Why not a wing on the new Bush mansion in Dallas?

That would be appropriate.

[Trajan]

3. Does New Mexico have much brush to clear ?

Perhaps Paraguay has more ? ...

Just wonderin ....

[DustyJoe]

6. Oh please Gawd NO !!!!

Please Richardson, close that border. :hide:

[Junkdrawer]

7. Maybe he can share a condo with Osama....

Perhaps we could make a reality TV show...

"Twenty former dictators / CIA operatives....
Ten grants of asylum....
Welcome to The Covert Life."

[bdamomma]

9. what will be our new motto

criminals welcome

[Adsos Letter]

11. How about "America: The New Argentina!"

[gratuitous]

12. Wants to spend more time with his family

Who knew that his family wants to spend more time in New Mexico?

[KamaAina]

13. Don't forget Ferdinand Marcos

he lived out his last days in a mansion in the posh Makiki Heights section of Honolulu.

It is conceivable that the collapse of the Hawai'i economy in the early '90s is directly attributable to the collapse of the retail shoe industry after Imelda moved back to the Philippines. :P