And the striptease continues in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. I have seen these conspiracy theories a lot and don't forget that ''Three years ago, Pakistan was one of the few countries in the world that recognised the Taliban regime, and Al Qaeda was active and recruiting in Pakistan without serious opposition.'' The present fact is that heads of terror are being cut that what matters..
B.Raman needs to appreciate that, however I do see his point of view, from where he sits 'Mush' past credentials must be a pain in the butt and rightly so, but such is global change of events that one needs to grow up with them, if they freeze in time that is not helpful, the analysis in my opinion becomes stale instead of being objective. In present global war on terror what counts important for me is have definite change of hearts taken place if that is so we are on a good trough. If not than B.Raman is right, from his stand point and that relates to Indian strategic interests this present war on terror has really marginalised Indian importance as key player of South Asia, that I do concur, but overall as far eradication is concerned two country matters in this Saudis and Pakistanis, those two countries have been firmly with Bush on this war. The tentacles of terror are being cut and that will definitely help in long term..
Many terror attacks have been foiled in Saudi Arabia, and those that have taken place were less severe and only a fraction of those that were thwarted, the interior minister said on Sunday. "I can say, confidently, that what happened does not exceed five or six percent of what was foiled," Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz was quoted as saying by the official SPA news agency.
Some of the foiled attacks were potentially stronger than the deadly wave of bombings that have rocked the kingdom over the past 15 months. "Numerous, more severe events were about to take place, using stronger explosives... but security men uncovered these (plans) and foiled them," said the minister. Some 90 people have been killed and hundreds wounded, many of them foreigners, in a spate of attacks in the kingdom and which have been blamed on al-Qaeda sympathisers.
A one-month royal amnesty, offered on June 23 to suspected al-Qaeda extremists, resulted in only six militants turning themselves in, only one of whom figured on a most-wanted list, issued in December. Eleven suspects on the 26-strong list remain at large. The others were either killed or arrested by security forces or surrendered. Saudi authorities, who have rounded up hundreds of suspects, have warned that suspected Islamist militants who do not give themselves up will be crushed.
Intelligence agents and police have arrested three men suspected of involvement in two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf, a security official said on Sunday.
The suspects were arrested in a raid on a house in a remote northwestern village early on Sunday, he said. "We have arrested three suspects allegedly involved in two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf," the security official, who asked not to be named, told AFP.
The suspects have been identified as Omar Rehman, his father Muhammad Rahim and another man named as Abdul Qayyum, he said. A machine-gun, two AK-47 assault rifles and some other weapons were seized during the raid in Matta, a village about 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Peshawar, the capital of North-West Frontier Province. The raid was launched following a tip-off from other suspects arrested in Punjab province, the security official said. |
