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To: JPR who wrote (12219)	6/10/2002 2:23:47 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 12475

The US morphing of Pakistan has paid off. Musharraf needs to be commended. I hope the US and the Eu intelligence will provide him with adequate protection to his life. We can hopefully breathe a sigh of relief and start to see peace on the distant horizon. Bush can also start to see the value of his efforts. Leading Pakistani newspaper report. Militants vow to defy curbs on movement: Parties plan to overthrow Musharraf govt: paper By Masood Haider NEW YORK, June 9: With Pakistani soldiers blocking Kashmiri fighters from crossing into the Indian side of the Valley, the militants maintained that they would defy any such orders and many fundamentalist parties have sworn to oust President Pervez Musharraf. A report in the June 17 issue of Newsweek quotes militant leaders as saying "our men manage to sneak past the Indians, so how can the Pakistanis stop us?", adding "we will continue to fight. God always creates ways for us." The weekly said that Gen Musharraf's order was conveyed to two dozen commanders by a major-general from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency during a meeting at a Pakistani army base 25 miles from the front lines. But one commander of militants told Newsweek that the commanders denounced President Musharraf by name. "After ditching the Taliban, Musharraf has now betrayed the Kashmiri cause," shouted one commander. "How can we accept this?" The New York Times in a similar report said that the Kashmiri leaders maintained the Pakistani government appeared to be fulfilling a key condition laid down by Indian leaders, who have threatened to launch a strike into Pakistan unless infiltration into Kashmir is halted. "We have not sent anyone across for the past month," Hussein Rizvi, leader of Hizbul Momineen, one of the groups battling Indian rule in Kashmir told the New York Times. "Now we have two armies against us, the Indian and the Pakistani. Our problems have doubled." Rizvi, who claims that his group has hundreds of fighters in both parts of Kashmir, said he was able to send a small group of activists across the border in early May, just as the Himalayan passes had begun to clear of snow, but now he has given up even trying. "We are trying to devise a new strategy," he said in an interview with the Times on Sunday. The Times said that the claims of difficulties by the Kashmiri militants fit into recent assurances by President Musharraf and statements from Indian leaders, who acknowledge a reduction in the number of fighters coming from across the border. The paper noted that with the threat of Indian military action looming, the Pakistani government had begun to press the militants to declare a ceasefire inside occupied Kashmir, militant leaders said. But some groups, including Hizbul Mujahideen, have vowed to carry out new attacks against India. The shift from the armed struggle comes at a great personal risk to Gen Musharraf, who has already inflamed the passions of a large segment of the population by joining the United States in its campaign against the Taliban and Al Qaeda and vowing to lead his country to a more moderate path. Next week, the country's largest fundamentalist party is planning to lead a rally in Azad Kashmir that some people here believe is intended to mark the beginning of a campaign to oust Gen Musharraf, the paper said. The Kashmiri militants themselves say they feel betrayed by the new efforts to block their movements into India. "People are angry," Sher Khan, a senior leader of Harkat Mujahideen, told the paper. "We have reason to be angry." The paper said that this week, Gen Musharraf summoned Kashmiri leaders to his office to reassure them that he was not walking away from the Kashmiri cause, a deeply-felt issue for many Pakistanis. One of the Kashmiri leaders who attended that meeting said the president appeared concerned about the possibility of a takeover by fundamentalists. "It will be difficult for him to survive," Altaf Qadri, leader of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference, which represents 23 Kashmiri groups, was quoted as saying by the Times. dawn.com

To: JPR who wrote (12219)	6/13/2002 1:05:34 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

The new phenomenon now for the US to look out for is the American Taliban and Alqaeda who have the potential to cause more damage than the foreign-born terrorists. It appears that they come from the fringes away from the mainstream of the American Society. There is no particular racial or ethnic profile. Alienation, indoctrination, misguided ideology, little-David-against-US-Goliath mindset, sense of perversion, fascination with morbid ideology of the terrorists etc are some of the common factors. If they can't excel in noble endeavors, terrorism is a cheap way of attaining false glory and notoriety. They are programmed in their genetic and personality make up to seek perverted glory and unnatural death, just like a moth has an urge to dive into the flame, a deer is transfixed by the headlights, a honeybee drowns in the sweet sap in the flower, a fish wants bite the bait, a wild teenager engages in drag racing and a wild elephant in musth rushes to a trained she-elephant and falls into a pit.

To: JPR who wrote (12219)	6/14/2002 2:13:40 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Pakis pine for a target for their nukes- no takers I understand that the pakis have spent inordinate sums of money at the expense of eradicating poverty to build these nuclear warheads and delivery systems. Some desperately want to use them, simply because all that money otherwise will be wasted; they are looking for a target: Lo and Behold, they have a nice sumptuous target in India which seems to be the logical choice.Since the Indians don't lend themselves for such magnanimous offer, the pakis will be scrounging around for a sucker who will take the load of their itchy hands and enjoy the free fireworks Tamasha. Before that benevolent act takes place, I think the west should make sure that the pakis are not given that morbid satisfaction. The west should put an extraordinary effort --that they are putting in the antimissile systems now -- to find ways and means to skunk and fry the electronics and systems in the nukes and delivery systems so that they are disabled without a shot being fired. Once they are junked, it is too late for the assholes to do any damage. They will be left with nice expensive toys.