Il Pakistan nella Lotta al Terrorismo
8/12/2005Un articolo di Syed Shahzad su Asia Times ripropone il difficile ruolo di Islamabad nella “War on Terror”.
Arrests and operations have invariably preceded all of Musharraf’s foreign trips, especially to the US. His present visit to the Middle East was also preceded by a major crackdown on militants in Pakistan.
The most interesting was the alleged killing of Hamza Rabia, said to be a senior al-Qaeda commander. Though the US doubted his killing and al-Qaeda denied it, the Pakistani interior minister termed Rabia’s death “100% fact”, while the minister of information said it was “200% correct”. Not to be outdone, while in the Middle East for an extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference in Mecca, Musharraf said it was “500% certain” that Rabia was dead.
With such fluctuating odds, who’s betting on Pakistan producing the goods for the US?
