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	Asia Times: Bush hid Musharraf's Al Qaeda links

masbury

8-21-2008 12:29 AM

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bush, war, pakistan, al qaeda

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al-Qaeda "was a creation of the jihadist culture of the Pakistani army; Bush whitewashed connections to nuclear technology sales.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7825815f-5f02-4855-b054-70422a64ed6b/1840DBE1-2732-4360-97ED-8BF6B288D096/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JH21Df02.html" href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JH21Df02.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.atimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JH21Df02.html"><STRONG>Bush buried Musharraf's al-Qaeda links</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JH21Df02.html"><DIV>
																	What has not been reported is that the Bush administration</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JH21Df02.html"><DIV>
																	covered up the Musharraf regime's involvement in the activities of the Abdul 
																	Qadeer Khan nuclear technology export program and its deals with al-Qaeda's 
																	Pakistani tribal allies.
																	</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JH21Df02.html">
																	the Pakistani military, over which Musharraf presided, was the real terrorist 
																	nexus with the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
																	</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JH21Df02.html">
																	al-Qaeda "was a creation of the jihadist culture of the Pakistani army</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JH21Df02.html">After 9/11, the White House created the political myth that Musharraf, faced 
																	with a clear choice, had "joined the free world in fighting the terrorists". 
																	But</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JH21Df02.html">on September 19, 2001</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JH21Df02.html">Musharraf gave a televised speech in 
																	Urdu in which he declared, "We are trying our best to come out of this critical 
																	situation without any damage to Afghanistan and the Taliban."
																	</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JH21Df02.html">The Bush administration also gave Musharraf and the military regime a free ride 
																	on the Khan network's selling of nuclear technology to Libya and Iran</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1840DBE1-2732-4360-97ED-8BF6B288D096/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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