Frontline Ally - Pakistan still breeding terrorists

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Bush administration should have concentrated on Pakistan instead of Iraq, if they really wanted to curb terror.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/15/AR2005071501617.html

...London on 7/7 shows that analysis was deadly wrong. Jihadi extremism is still propagated at radical madrasas in Pakistan. These religious schools still preach an insidious doctrine that foments the sectarian violence that is increasingly a threat to the stability of Pakistan. And now, it seems, the hatred these madrasas breed is spilling blood in Western cities as well.

Musharraf's promises came to nothing. His military government never implemented any program to register the madrasas, follow their financing or control their curricula. Although there are a few "model madrasas" for Western media consumption, the extremist ones account for perhaps as many as 15 percent of the religious schools in Pakistan and are free to churn out their radicalized graduates...

http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20050725&fname=London+Blasts+%28F%29&sid=3

...For long, Pakistan has been the nerve-centre of the jehadi culture, providing terror ideologues, masterminds of spectacular attacks, and those inscrutable footsoldiers. It's also here most terror conspiracies are busted. London's 7/7 may prove no different. ISI sources say information extracted from two incarcerated Al Qaeda operatives—Naeem Noor Khan and Zeeshan Siddique—indicate that two militant outfits, Hizb-ut-Tehrir and Al Muhajiroun, could have been involved in the London bombings. Al Muhajiroun is a splinter group of Hizb-ut-Tahrir, and was formed by Omar Bakri Mohammed on February 16, 1996....