Musharraf caves.
Not suprising, but still disappointing.
via Echidne and Broadsheet.
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That is really too bad and quite infuriating. Muscharaf cares more about his precious colleagues than half of the population. What a gip.
Oh, don't get it confused. He doesn't give a fuck about his colleagues. What he cares about is being overthrown by them the way he got rid of the last guy.
West responsible for extremism: Musharraf
“Whatever extremism or terrorism is in Pakistan is a direct fallout of the 26 years of warfare and militancy around us. It gets back to 1979 when the West, the United States and Pakistan waged a war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan,� Musharraf told EU lawmakers. “We launched a jihad, brought in mujahideen from all over the Muslim world, the US and the West…We armed the Taliban and sent them in; we did it together. In 1989 everyone left Pakistan with 30,000 armed mujahideen who were there, and the Taliban who were there,� he said, adding that Pakistan had “paid a big price for being part of the coalition that fought the Soviet Union.�
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