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Certainly Washington continues to appreciate Musharraf's decision to side with the U.S. after 9/11. That meant breaking ties with the Taliban, which Pakistani authorities had nurtured; assisting the U.S. in changing the regime in Afghanistan and in running down remnants of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda as they fled their sanctuary there; and restraining Islamic extremists in Pakistan. Says a U.S. official of the Pakistanis: "We're certainly better off with the level of partnership we have with them than if we had none...
...Indian Airlines flight who demanded his freedom as a condition for peacefully abandoning the plane in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. As Levy points out, Sheikh operated freely in Pakistan, living openly with his wife and son, even though he worked with Jihadist groups who may have had connections to Osama bin Laden. Through these and other associations, Levy also infers that Sheikh was connected to the ISI. And he questions why Pakistani officials announced Sheikh?s arrest only a week after he had actually turned himself in - at about the same time that Pakistan?s President Pervez Musharraf was visiting Washington...
...vacation? and another who had ties to a secretive Islamic charity operating in Afghanistan. A month before his abduction, Pearl had co-written an article in the Journal alleging that Dr. Bashiruddin Mahmoud, one of the fathers of the Pakistani bomb, had discussed nuclear weapons with Osama bin Laden. Pearl didn?t break that story; it had been widely reported. Nonetheless, Levy writes: ?One can imagine that (Pearl) was establishing the list of ISI superior officers who...were willing to close their eyes to a technology transfer to terrorist groups...
...Cheney for doing fuzzy math of a different sort. He accuses Cheney of engaging in a less than immaculate collaboration with Enron when creating an energy plan. He excavates an embarrassing connection between the defense-contracting Carlyle Group, of which George H. W. Bush is an employee, and the bin Laden family. And he exposes Harken Energy’s fake profits and hidden losses, noting that George W. Bush had not only heavily invested in the company, but sat on its board of directors and its audit committee. Why, asks Krugman, was $70 million poured into the Whitewater investigation...
...document, labeled “Top Secret and Urgent” and dated Feb. 19, 1998—the day after President Clinton gave a major Pentagon speech on the danger posed by Saddam—contains a letter outlining a proposed visit by a bin Laden operative to Iraq from Sudan. Baathist officials hoped the trip would allow them “to gain the knowledge of the message from bin Laden and to convey to his envoy an oral message from us to bin Laden.” And what would that “oral message?...