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Benazir Bhutto: Pakistan Thursday
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Harry has a legitimate point - not about LP, because he is using this as a cheap shot - and that is that Benazir was a threat to the Islamists and their sponsors, the mullah-military intelligence nexus in Pakistan. What Harry will not admit ... is that in their lust to do the Soviets in the eye, the Yanks created the mujahadeen monster which was ran via the Pakistani IIS. Now the chooks have come home to roost in that the relationship is strongly cemented by mutual need and even survival. In a sense, Benazir is a victim of US foreign policy.
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Beneath the theatrics Bhutto uses to such effect is an ominous reality. “She’s the No. 1 target of the terrorists right now,†says Humayun Gauhar, a confidant of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
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The idea that Bhutto alone can reverse this descent is imaginary. The most that can be hoped is that she will stop peddling illusions that the war against militant Islam in Pakistan can be won according to an American script, led by an unpopular President and enforced by an army that, in the tribal areas, is seen as an alien and mercenary force. It will require a "collective, national strategy," says Hoodbhoy, unserved by the facile American taxonomy of "moderate" and "extremist."
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Because of the conspiratorial nature of the assassination, it cannot be unequivocally determined at this point who was behind Bhutto's murder. But a large segment of the Pakistani population considers the Musharraf-run military-security establishment responsible. Of course, during the past couple of months in which the US had accelerated its efforts at imposing on Pakistan the Benazir-Musharraf "marriage of convenience" - to borrow Tariq Ali's term - in order to supposedly render an iota of legitimacy to a deeply unpopular Musharraf regime, members of al Qaeda and various other groups did vow to target Bhutto. But this does not necessarily prove that some type of an Islamist group conducted this operation or, even if they did, that it was not spurred on by sections of the military-security establishment.
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[T]he overstretched U.S. military and intelligence services could do little in helping to protect Bhutto beyond hectoring Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf to give his political rival more security. Musharraf, who himself has dodged multiple assassination attempts, either couldn’t or wouldn’t ensure Bhutto’s safety.
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The throngs reflected Bhutto's enduring political clout, but she has made enemies of Islamic militants by taking a pro-U.S. line and negotiating a possible political alliance with Pakistan's military ruler, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
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