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To: Road Walker who wrote (237130)6/14/2005 10:42:56 AM
From: Alighieri  Respond to of 1576605
 
Last fall I wrote about Mukhtaran Bibi, a woman who was sentenced by a tribal council in Pakistan to be gang-raped because of an infraction supposedly committed by her brother. Four men raped Ms. Mukhtaran, then village leaders forced her to walk home nearly naked in front of a jeering crowd of 300.

On Thursday, the authorities put Ms. Mukhtaran under house arrest - to stop her from speaking out. In phone conversations in the last few days, she said that when she tried to step outside, police pointed their guns at her. To silence her, the police cut off her land line.

These are characteristic of the folks to which we aim to bring democracy?

Al



To: Road Walker who wrote (237130)6/14/2005 11:30:01 AM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1576605
 
I think your article rightly points out the problems of doing business with a dictator. So how would you make the decision? Is the alliance with Musharraf worth it to find Osama and get intelligence about radicals in the region? Or is it more in our short and long term interests to sever all support and relations with Musharraf because he is a dictator?


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