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Hindustan Times:  Sept. 27, 2003:  Bush, CIA share blame for failure to nab Osama: Musharraf

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[Karl:  Here is the news from India:

Admitting that wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden was "freely moving" between Pakistan and Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf said that besides himself and the ISI, US President George W Bush and CIA should equally share the blame for failure to capture the Al-Qaeda leader.

So what else is new. The top guy is always responsible for the failures of his group, and there will many more.

I would not be surprised if the story below is quite accurate.
 
What is not well understood, I think, is just how primitive many parts of Pakistan really are.
 
It is called a "nation" but it is a hunk of land, many parts of which have no control from the central government.

There are many such around the planet -- probably even in the US!!
 
The "evil powers" in these areas are careful to keep a low profile and not enrage the central government -- so we let them alone to "do their thing."  It is like putting a cover over the mess -- in hopes that no one will see the mess.  It is there!
 
The world is a far more barbaric place than people believe.
 
Bush spoke, at the UN the other day, about slavery, and the selling of women and children into sex slavery.  Surely that goes on within the very boundaries of "comfortable government control"  -- but hidden enough and paying enough in "protection" to continue without stop.
 
The world is a primitive hunk of real estate in terms of morality, and morality must be improved before much technical modernization can take hold.

So violence and poverty will continue until morality takes hold.

Bush, CIA share blame for failure to nab Osama: Musharraf
Press Trust of India
Islamabad, September 27
Admitting that wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden was "freely moving" between Pakistan and Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf said that besides himself and the ISI, US President George W Bush and CIA should equally share the blame for failure to capture the Al-Qaeda leader.

"If I am to be blamed, President Bush is equally to be blamed. If the ISI is to be blamed then the CIA is equally to be blamed," he said in an interview to Canadian newspaper 'The Globe and The Mail' on Friday.

Musharraf, who was on a tour to Ottawa, said that despite a $25 million reward, Osama's arrest may take years as he appeared to have been benefited by a groundswell of anti-American passion in the region since the war in Iraq.

He said Osama is alive, has been moving freely between Afghanistan and Pakistan and doubted reports that suggested the Al-Qaeda leader needed dialysis.

He said he was not aware of how many Al-Qaeda members were going back and forth between Afghanistan and Pakistan, but admitted that Osama might have ventured into major Pakistani cities such as Rawalpindi.

Musharraf compared the pursuit of Osama to that of Che Guevara, the Latin American Communist revolutionary who was chased through the jungle and shot dead in 1967 by Bolivian troops working with the CIA.
         
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