Tuesday, March 4th, 2003
FALLING OUT: Gaddafi thinks the Saudis are corrupt reactionaries. The Saudis think Gaddafi is nuts. They’re both right.
FALLING OUT: Gaddafi thinks the Saudis are corrupt reactionaries. The Saudis think Gaddafi is nuts. They’re both right.
EMPIREWATCH: Incredible silliness on HNN with the added attraction of groveling apologetics for the lunatic Communist regime of Kim Jong Il.
PAKISTAN FRIEND OR FOE ? PART II. An interesting piece by Peter Chalk of the RAND corporation written ten days before 9/11 on Pakistani involvement in Kashmir. No, the information is far from new but it illustrates the depth of the Saudi-financed Islamist movement.
PAKISTAN, FRIEND OR FOE ? The capture of No. 3 al Qaida terror master Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is quite a coup for the Bush administration and an affirmation of the reliability of Pakistani military dictator Musharraf. Worrisome however is that Mohammed had a safe house in Rawalpindi, the stronghold of Pakistan’s military elite and HQ. It is unlikely that al Qaida could operate a network so close to Pakistan’s dreaded ISI unnoticed. Does Muhammed’s arrest mean that Musharraf now has dislodged the radical Islamists from his intelligence and military services or that his faction merely had the upper hand ?