A little confirmation on bombing PK back to the stone age
juan cole reaches into the archives and pulls out one of his old emails...
meanwhile, george, who never seems to know anything about anything, claims he never heard of any such thing, and the first he'd heard of the musharraf "60 minutes" claim was reading the newspaper... and armitage, of course, immediately issued a denial...
seems to me that saying pakistan can choose between the stone age and the 21st century could easily be interpreted as a bomb threat, wouldn't you agree...? Submit To Propeller
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 07:19:48 -0400 (EDT)
To: gulf2000 list
Pakistan About-Face
From: Juan Cole
The United States demanded last week that Pakistan close the borders with Pakistan, cut off fuel to the Taliban, open its air space to the US for an attack on Afghanistan, and indicate a willingness to have US and allied troops stationed on its soil.
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Dawn [a Karachi daily English-language newspaper, 9-17-01] quotes Pakistani officials as saying, that "Pakistan has the option to live in the 21st century or the Stone Age' is roughly how US officials are putting their case."
meanwhile, george, who never seems to know anything about anything, claims he never heard of any such thing, and the first he'd heard of the musharraf "60 minutes" claim was reading the newspaper... and armitage, of course, immediately issued a denial...
Bush said he was "taken aback by the harshness of the words" attributed to Armitage but had no knowledge of such a threat. He said the first he heard of it was in the newspaper Friday.
Armitage categorically denied it. "I've never made a threat in my life that I couldn't back up," he told CNN, "and since I wasn't authorized to say such a thing and hence couldn't back up that threat, I never said it."
seems to me that saying pakistan can choose between the stone age and the 21st century could easily be interpreted as a bomb threat, wouldn't you agree...? Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
9/23/2006
