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...them blurt out what they're really thinking almost simultaneously, as George Bush and Pervez Musharraf did this week - and on a topic as touchy as U.S.-Pakistani cooperation against terrorism. Asked by CNN on Wednesday if he'd order U.S. military operations inside Pakistan to capture Osama bin Laden if there was solid intelligence on his location, Bush said "absolutely." The next day CBS released portions of a 60 Minutes interview with Musharraf, to be aired Sunday, in which he claims that in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage threatened Pakistan...
...military would go in chasing Bin Laden or other al-Qaeda leaders inside Pakistan is a sensitive subject that American commanders would prefer not be given too much air time. Pakistan-U.S. relations are tense at the moment, particularly on the question of how deeply committed Musharraf is to rooting out al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists and capturing Bin Laden, who's believed to be hiding in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has complained that Pakistan's tolerance of extremists operating from its territory has helped them gain a stronger foothold...
...emerged to tell reporters they were still joined at the hip when it comes to fighting al-Qaeda and the Taliban. And, as his military commanders prefer, Bush danced around the question of whether he'd ask Musharraf's permission to send U.S. troops into Pakistan to grab bin Laden, insisting that both leaders are still "on the hunt together." Musharraf insisted the agreement he struck with the tribal leaders is not a deal with the Taliban. "This deal is against the Taliban," he claimed. And Bush said: "I believe...
...cash-for-fatwas" scandal has also led to a renewed debate on what constitutes a fatwa, and who has legitimate authority to issue one. Fatwas - like the one passed by Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini in 1989 against the novelist Salman Rushdie, or those issued by Osama bin Laden in 1996 and 1998 against America - have come to epitomize the intolerance of Islamic fundamentalists. Yet many Muslims argue that the purpose of fatwas has been misunderstood: A fatwa is, technically speaking, a ruling on a point of Islamic law made by a recognized Muslim scholar in response to a question...
...directing is also unable to establish consistency. De Palma has never been famous for conversation laden-"My Dinner with Andre"-style films (“Snake Eyes,” anyone?) but in such an intensely stylized and confusing adaptation, his lapses as a director are blatantly apparent...