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...potential end of Musharraf's tenure has raised alarm bells in the international community, particularly in the United States, where President George Bush has often called Musharraf his best ally in the war on terror. Many saw Musharraf - then a general, as well as President, until he gave up his army post late last year - as a one-stop shop for fighting terrorism in the lawless tribal areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan that are thought to harbor senior members of al-Qaeda. In neighboring Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai offered cautious congratulations to the new Prime Minister in a statement...
Leaders of the new government have decried Musharraf's overly militaristic approach toward fighting Islamist insurgents, calling for a review of the country's role in the U.S.-led war on terror, and saying that Musharraf's methods have only made things worse. The Urdu daily newspaper Islam echoed their statements, observing in an editorial on Monday that the "Pakistani nation got nothing except suicide attacks and destruction everywhere in the country from the military operation in tribal areas," and called for a new policy more compliant with ground realities...
...coalition partner, the PML-N, has pushed for the Supreme Court judges dismissed by Musharraf last year to be reinstated - a direct threat to the President's rule. But a showdown with the man U.S. President George Bush calls Washington's key ally in the war on terror may distract the country from its fight against the Islamic extremists who have launched a wave of attacks against military, government and civilian targets over the past year. Last week the incoming government said it would try to sit down and negotiate with the militants, a policy that is causing consternation...
...Leaderless Jihad, the latest book by the author of 2004's Understanding Terror Networks, forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman attempts to unravel the psychological profile of Islamist terrorists. Like his earlier book, Leaderless Jihad discredits conventional wisdom about terrorists by eschewing anecdotes and conjecture in favor of hard data and statistics. And statistically, the enemy...
...racial breakdown of inmates reminded me why our prison system has deservedly earned us the contempt of the world [March 17]. We incarcerate a larger percentage of the population than any other nation, and the government puts away harmless souls under the guise of fighting its two "wars" on terror and drugs. It's a tragic irony that freedom is now a mere buzzword in a land once regarded by many as a beacon to the world. Gordon Wilson, LAGUNA NIGUEL, CALIF...