*The few hopes I had for Iraq and Afghanistan rested with one woman, Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated. Any hopes of peace anytime soon in the Pakistani-Afghani border conflict, died with her. I will be including the entire Parade article that came out on Janurary 6, 2008 intact. By that time, Bhutto was already dead and the theories about how she died were being circulated through the news. She died December 26, 2007, the day after Christmas.
Notes from that period, the wonderful (and bloody) period when I wrote these notes:
Is Bhutto an apostate (as Islamists call it) ruler, the epitome of a pro-Western pawn in the game of the U.S. and their allies (who wish to suppress Muslims in the M. East)?
read for yourself if you like & view images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto
Let's see if I can find you a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=4UccnhaAgis&v=Y_vXFN3SViY
Notes: Her return to power (as an incumbent) was followed by a scheming method of pro-Western pro-Democratic rhetoric, which was only a facade. In actuality, she initiated a program to consolidate the Islamic bloc's (Iranian led) power, along with Trans-Asian axis, which was dominated by People's Replublic of China, & stretching from Mediterranean to Northeast Asia, intensifying strategic cooperation with North Korea and Iran. Pakistan would play the role of center for military developments and production for the bloc for hard currency obtained through the drug trade, also acquiring sophisticated Western technologies/industrial systems, nuclear weapons production technol. held West at bay (relax) while acquiring necessary items
Bhutto supported decisions of Sheikh Turabi's PAIC conference in Khartoum aimed at aimed struggle against the West she promised not to attack Islamism or Islamic law, & Islamabad's committment to cause (even anti-Indian jihad in Kashmir) *unalienable tenet of Pakistan
Bhutto's Islamabad would continue to pursue the Islamist policies
Afghan camps were under control of ISI Prince Turki bin Faisal of Saudi intelligence offered a deal to Bhutto - in exchange for their lobbying in Washington and financial assistance - if the ISI contained the Saudi Afghans, while Saudis worked to repeal Pressler Ammendment (which imposed sanctions including cessation of all military assistance/deliveries because of its military nuclear program), public relations blitz of Pakistan's crackdown just ISI limiting ability of Saudi "Afghans" to travel to MidEast Islamabad had no intention of honoring bin Laden was at subsequent PAIC meeting in Khartoum
(Benazir, Zinbabd) Long...live...Benazir!) Twice ruled, twice overthrown
picking up on the videos (few weeks earlier a blast kills 170 of her supporters atop a truck - she smiles serenely
campaigning uprotected (in hindsight that probably wasn't a good idea)
late father, Zulfikar Bhutto populist reformer, first democratic prime minister, hanged when Bhutto was 25, overthrown by military in 96 because he pledged a terrorism crackdown
military (rule) or militancy - or democratic rule under PPP Bhutto - allegedly siphoned funds from U.N. Oil-For-Food Program.
*U.S. now works to suppress the ISI - which CIA helped with support - Bhutto tried to break ISI in reemergence to power "America has awakened to what we were already flighting - Islamic jihadis" Bhutto said.
{Broke promise} not to return to Pakistan until after national elections returned to country Oct. 18, 2007 - first suicide attempt - bomb wired to an infant that a man had been trying to hand her - another blast followed - bits of brain and flesh and fingers from 20 members of Benazir's Brigade (so-called) young guards wear red shirts proclaiming - "I give my life for Bhutto" - reminiscent of Trash Can Man in King's The Stand.
-no investigation mounted by Musharraf gov't after bombing "We must be out on the streets, or the terrorists win" Bhutto attack by Islamic extremists
"We don't want a dead Benazir on our hands. She'd be just another unlikely martyr we don't need"
American's strongest anchor - Bhutto??
**********"I now think al-qaeda can be marching on Islamabad in 2-4 years"
Most likely Baitollah Mehsud, believed to be behind 19 suicide bombings in Pakistan - behind Bhutto assasination
-black-bearded, slow talking tribal leader, Mehsud clan
-mountainous badlands northwest corner of Pakistan an al-qaeda, Afghan Taliban & outlawed Pakistani jihadists
-snookered Musharraf out of hundreds of thousands of dollars - peace deal reneged
-travels in convoy of pickups protected by 2 dozen heavily armed guards
-nomad - never in same bed twice
face never photographed
-Mullah Omar - is his role model / Baitoulla & Zawahri had dispatched bombers to Karachi, Peshawar, Lahore, Islamabad & Rawalpindi - she was killed in Rawalpindi
-Zawahri yearns to disrupt (destabilize) Pakistan & destroy Turkey & Indonesia's democracies
-promoted after predator drone killed Nek Mohammad
-named Baitullah head of newly formed Taliban movement in Pakistan
-runs nationwide network of trucking & transfer reaching into borderlands (cities like Karachi - allowing him to move men & weapons through Pakinstan)
SEGWAY
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(Frontline Program Entitled Bush's War Mar. 25, 2008)
Notes take: "In the face of thug's and assassins" - Bush
"My answer is bring it on" - B
March 17, 2003 - Final Warning - his word
2 days later - invasion
George Tenet - Darafur - Saddam intelligence gotten on a tip - Bush gave his word, Bush overruled Tenet's - attacked city - to east/west side of city
"we've got 'em" - initial reports were that Saddam Hussein was dead
after LIBERATION - THERE WAS NO AUTHORITY - two days of looting
John Burns Bureau's chief
Ahmed Chalibi - Wolfowitz - Interrim gov't - ING - "operation crescent rising" - leader operation (Chalibi)
Went from looting to carjacking, big crimes
Pentagon U.S. State Dep.
Rumsfeld wants Pentagon & him to run the war
always kept in mind - "how will we leave?" - soldiers (110,000) were told that they should be prepared to go home
Garner - Chalabi meeting - had diff't thoughts about gov't in Iraq - Garner had begun to install Baathists in gov't (fact check)
"Power vacuum"
L. Paul Bremer - replacement for Garner - for peacekeeping so we could go home
****De-Baathification - extirpation of Baathist (30-50,000) & to recall Iraqi military
BANG - suicide bomber - Airport Rd. - 2 military police killed - spellls trouble
decision to dissolve army - w/out approval from Rice & Powell
entire leadership of Franks, McKean, & Sen. Military retired
Ricardo Sanchez - Jr. Officer promoted from * to ****
Steve Coll Ny Post
Muqtada al-Sadr - a plan of force against him w/cold feet every time
"SUBTERRANEAN INTELLIGENCE" - MY WORDS - that the intelligence that dwelt within swampy caves
sniping grenades off bridges - $500 offered to bombers - "Bring 'em on" - negligence & air of denial
insurgency bloomed in the Sunni triangle
**Jordanian embassy - Aug. 7, few days later U.S. embassy police stations, Red Cross
(visited) 17 Globemaster "wrapped up" - Rumsfeld-Sanchez replies he has no intelligence - hee hee no intelligence
"no intelligence" "intelligence in the knew"
document can be read online - rounded up suspects & shipped to Abu Grhab - Rumsfeld decided - harshest techniques used - phobias, light, 20-hr. interrogation, all used at Abu Grahb
Saddham's Capture did not quell
4 contractors - murdered in Fallujah; mosques on fire -
2004 - Marines were ordered.
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Iraqi National Resistance
National Resistance & Religious resistance
al-Sadr entered the frame April/May 2004
Gen. Casey - **** - never led troops into combat
Iraqi's stand up - we stand down
w/no military strategy to defeat insurgency
al sadr replies "no
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