Pakistan Army pays 1/2 mill dollars to Al Qaeda in Bazarre Deal

[donsu]

http://www.satribune.com/archives/200502/P1_deal.htm


Pakistan Army has publicly admitted paying Al Qaeda over half a million dollars in the most bizarre deal it has ever made with militant Waziristan fighters, battling the Army and the US forces in the rugged terrain bordering Afghanistan for months .

The announcement of the payment was made in Peshawar by none other than the Corps Commander of Peshawar Corps, the man incharge of military operations in Waziristan, Lt Gen Safdar Hussain, who said Rs32 million (US$540,000) had been paid to to help four former wanted tribal militants in South Waziristan "to settle debts with al-Qaeda."

General Hussain said the the payments were part of a peace deal signed on Monday with tribesmen, but the public admission that money had been paid to be transferred to Al Qaeda stunned analysts and diplomatic observers in Islamabad.

But the main militant rebel, an ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoner who was released some time back, refused to accept the deal.

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think about all that for awhile

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According to The Daily Times, which the deal with Baitullah Mehsud was negotiated by anti-US religious political leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman of JUI-MMA who had been a stronger sponsor and supporter of the Taliban. The "peace deal" ceremony ended with shouts of “Death to America”, The Daily Times reported.
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spiders in Afghanistan weave beautifully complicated webs

[ck4829]

1. Our ally...

[neweurope]

2. LOL

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[htuttle]

3. Since they probably paid for 9/11, no huge surprise

cf. Lt.General Mahmoud Ahmad, director of ISI, and a $100,000 transfer via Saeed Sheikh to Mohammed Atta.

http://www.satribune.com/archives/apr11_17_04/P1_pepe.htm

[Oreo]

4. In the real world...

That would solidify the fact that Pakistan is harboring terrorists. In the Bush world... it's a small "oversight"