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Benazir Bhutto, the exiled former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), joined the fray. In a challenge to Musharraf, Bhutto was prepared to cast aside her pro-Western views and instruct her party to back the Islamic religious parties' candidate for Prime Minister, Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Musharraf moved fast. First, his aides released Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari from his hospital jail, where he had been held on charges of corruption, and allowed him to visit his dying mother in Karachi...
...first blow against Musharraf was a long-distance punch from Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), living in exile in London. Apparently out of spite against the President, Bhutto was prepared to cast aside her moderate, pro-Western views and tell her PPP to back the candidate of the alliance of Islamic parties for Prime Minister, Maulana Fazlur Rehman?a firebrand preacher who wants the U.S. forces kicked out of Pakistani military bases. Having Rehman as Prime Minister would have been tough to explain to Washington, so Musharraf moved fast. His political...
...really agree with what he was saying,” Tasic-Nikolic said. “If you look at the election that’s coming up in a few days, Djindjic represents the pro-Western [and] modern...
...beyond the reach of an administration openly disdainful of international consensus on so many other issues. The administration's stance on issues ranging from the Kyoto protocol to the International Criminal Court have led even NATO allies to view the Bush Administration as a delinquent global citizen, and pro-Western Arab governments make the argument that when the unconventionally-armed country defying U.N. resolutions is Israel, the U.S. responds with a nod and a wink...
...Tanzania in 1998; and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in October 2000. The enormous media impact of these operations was designed to demonstrate that America was not invincible and to renew popular support for militant Islam. But the attacks had only limited consequences and did not destabilize pro-Western regimes to any degree or permit radicals to seize power...