The people in Pakistan elected a new leader, but Bush is trying to pressure the country into keeping Musharraf in power: The Bush administration is pressing the opposition leaders who defeated Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to allow the former general to retain his position, a move that Western diplomats and U.S. officials say could trigger […]
Ok this is an interesting statement: The director of national intelligence said Tuesday he is concerned that al-Qaida in Iraq is shifting its focus to attacks elsewhere in the region. “They may deploy resources to mount attacks outside the country,” Mike McConnell told a Senate hearing, although he also said that fewer than 100 terrorists […]
Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terror That according to our President. Bush made these remarks at a speech in the Middle East. The funny part is that every time this administration tries to tie Iran to terrorist activities, it backfires. The big navy ship incident this week turned out to be as […]
Bet you didn’t know that Pakistan’s eastern border was with Afghanistan – did ya? People who questioned my view of foreign policy probably need go back and read the speech that i delivered back in Washington in September. … We have seen what happens in the Musharraf government. He has told us he does not […]
Pakistan has just taken another turn for the worse: Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack after a rally in the city of Rawalpindi on Thursday, her party said. “She has been martyred,” said party offical Rehman Malik. MSNBC is reporting that the bomber went up to Bhutto and […]
I am sure everyone has heard the news that the Taliban bombed a U.S. base in Afghanistan, where Dick Cheney was staying. The Taliban then released a statement that they were targeting Cheney. With all this news, there is a key question that isn’t gaining that much attention. Take this line: “This shows how much […]
Cheney made a surprise visit to Pakistan to tell them to get tough on al Qaeda. What is interesting is exactly what he said to them: Vice President Dick Cheney made an unannounced trip to Pakistan on Monday to deliver what officials in Washington described as an unusually tough message to Gen. Pervez Musharraf of […]
With the White House working hard to pin everything on Iran, it should come as no shock that Iran would turn the tables and do the same to us: The Iranian Foreign Ministry charged Sunday that Sunni insurgents from Iran used Pakistan as a base to plan a bombing that killed 11 people and wounded […]