onal aspirations that would calve off all of Northern Pakistan &
southren Afghanistan into a new Pushtustan.
-Original Message-
From: Devine, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 9:56 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [PEN-L:20602] RE: Taliban scr
Frank G. writes:> I´ve been wondering about stability in the middle east.
When the war on Afghanistan began, there were reports of widespread
resentment in Muslim countries over the attack, massacres in Nigeria,
Musharraf was trying to prop up a house of cards, powerful ISI staff were
pro-Taliban
tell me if I'm wrong in my impression that the most important thing that the
US did in its war against Afghanistan was to convince (cajole, strong-arm,
threaten, bribe) Pakistan to abandon the Taliban.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -Original Message---
My understanding was that the fundamentalists made up only about 15 percent of
the Pakistani population, but they had a great deal of influence in the
military. There is supposedly a great deal of concern in Pakistan over the
bombings, but Musheref still commands considerable respect.
> I´ve be
>From: Steve Diamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [PEN-L:20580] Taliban screwed it up?
>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:56:32 -0800
>
>Or they were just called off by Pakistan - how else to explain the
>relatively orderly retreat from Kabul and the
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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