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...government. Yet when firebrand clerics such as Mullah Fazlullah, a militant leader who spews antigovernment diatribes from his pirate radio station, calls for jihad, threatens girls who go to school and boasts squadrons of suicide bombers ready to detonate explosives, the moderate mullahs stay silent. Virtually unhindered, al-Qaeda has regrouped in the ungoverned tribal areas along Pakistan's long border with Afghanistan, and a newly unified militant group is hounding the military with devastating success. Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the group and al-Qaeda's viceroy in the region, has been blamed for last December's suicide-bomb...
...Forming a new government will take time, though, and its first business is far more likely to be in Islamabad than in the lawless mountainous areas where al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are based. If the coalition plan announced Thursday by leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led by ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is implemented, there is even a chance Musharraf will be impeached...
...sure to push for a continuing military role as well so Islamabad can negotiate from a position of strength, says Bruce Riedel, a former top CIA and NSC South Asia analyst. "If you get a credible government," says Riedel, "it'll be better positioned to move against al-Qaeda. All the atrocities that al-Qaeda has been conducting in Pakistan in the last several months, these bombings and the murder of Bhutto, could produce the kind of backlash that Pakistan could use against al-Qaeda...
Bhutto treats the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as a personal affront, one that "twisted the values of a great and noble religion and potentially set the hopes and dreams of a better life for Muslims back a generation." Muslims, she says, "became [al Qaeda's] victims too." For the first half of the book, Bhutto attempts to reclaim Islam from the perversion of fundamentalists that would use it for political advantage, explaining how the concept of jihad, meaning a personal struggle "to follow the right path," had been adulterated for the purposes of fighting the Soviet invasion...
...officials are hoping Iraqi security forces are able to accomplish on their own what volunteer fighters have against the insurgency in places like Anbar Province, where a confederation of tribesmen turned against al-Qaeda in Iraq and began fighting alongside U.S. troops. An estimated 9,000 Iraqi army troops are in Mosul working with some 1,400 American soldiers. Additionally, about 9,000 Iraqi police are in the city as well. But so far Iraqi security forces have yet to make a significant display of force in Mosul...