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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (19799)	2/24/2002 5:16:17 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (4) of 281500

The lawlessness of Karachi that helped cost Pearl his life is the result of a decades-long, losing struggle by the country's tiny, highly sophisticated and essentially secular upper class to run a country founded as an Islamic state. I thought the founders of Pakistan aimed at a secular state. Zia ul-Haq was the one who turned it in the fundamentalist direction. Which upper class is he talking about? Those who decided to throw in with Zia back when and use the Islamic movement as a vehicle to steal the country, as opposed to the secular theives who were running it under Bhutto? The difference is not minimal. Zia had the curriculum of the military academy changed to have a large Islamist component. As a result, under successive military regimes the country is run by militarist adventurers who will promote the islamist expansionist ideology. Hence the Pakistan ISI's patronage and guidance of the Taliban. Pakistan's military budget is about 35% of GDP. The U.S. assumption is that Musharraf wants to and can stabilize the collapsing system he inherited. This abduction-murder and its bungled investigation are more signs of how tenuous those assumptions -- and Musharraf's grip -- really are. This guy is finally getting to what we were discussing here over a month ago. I think he's still behind the play. Mushareff is part of the club. Mushareff is doing what he did right after 9/11. Stalling while the bad guys get away. He's trying to keep the more extreme parts of his regime from the attention of the American media. It's one thing to support a terrorist regime in Afghanistan and quite another to get caught out supporting, even indirectly, a terrorist organization working in the US. Pearl was onto a very big story and that's why he was murdered - his Jewishness and nationality and the shocking method of execution, are smoke screens to obscure what he was doing. web.nps.navy.mil paknews.org washingtontimes.com nationalreview.com denverpost.com

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