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...During the trial, French justice officials produced cell phone records that showed the suicide bomber, Nizar Nawar, had called Ganczarski shortly before the attack to receive a blessing - a benediction prosecutors say was the go-ahead sign for the strike. Nawar made a similar call to Pakistan to speak with al-Qaeda terror maestro Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, currently held in Guantanamo as the self-proclaimed architect of 9/11. (Sheikh Mohammed will be tried in absentia by France as the plotter of the Tunisian attack this spring...
Although it is unclear whether Pakistan's new civilian government had a hand in his release, Khan offered thanks to President Asif Ali Zardari for lifting the restrictions imposed on him by his predecessor, Pervez Musharraf. Zardari may have been averse to the international criticism likely to come from restoring Khan's freedom of movement, but it was a government clarification that was key to the court's decision. A government lawyer told the court some weeks ago that Khan was not under formal house arrest but merely kept under tight security for his own protection. Seizing on that admission...
...India to resolve Kashmir. But Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is unlikely to play ball. India is intractably opposed to any outside mediation on Kashmir, and lobbied successfully to have the matter removed from Holbrooke's mandate. Especially after last November's terrorist attacks on Mumbai--blamed on a Pakistan-based group with long links to Islamabad's intelligence services--any hint of a concession to Pakistan would be hugely unpopular in India. The U.S. has some cards to play: it can offer India nuclear technology under a deal signed by the Bush Administration, closer cooperation on counterterrorism, and military...
Should that happen--and Pakistan's democrats continue their fractious, venal ways, while its soldiers pocket aid and dream of fighting India--the U.S. would be back where it started. It would be limited, once again, to lobbing missiles at terrorist camps in Pakistan, inevitably killing civilians in the process, while uniting all Pakistanis in hatred of the U.S. for sullying their nation's sovereignty...
Give and Take. Fixing Pakistan will require doing deals with the key players. See a chart of the key players...