Here is another example of how Musharraf was playing into the hands of Bush Administration. John Judis, senior editor at the New Republic writes in his article Pakistan for Bush: July Surprise?that the White House was pressuring Pakistan to produce a “high value target” in July during the Democratic convention.
John Kerry delivering his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston last night. Just hours before his address, Pakistan announced the arrest of a top al-Qaeda suspect that made headline news across the world.
The man, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, is a key suspect in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa that killed more than 200 people, including 12 American citizens. He is the most senior al Qaeda operative caught in Pakistan since the arrest in March 2003 of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11. attacks.
The most disturbing revelation in the said article is that the Pakistan held the guy for several days before making the announcement just hours before John Kerry was going to deliver his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
In the July 19 edition of The New Republic, several unnamed Pakistani security officials said the Bush administration has been privately bearing down on the Pakistani government to capture Osama bin Laden, his deputy, Ayman Al Zawahiri, or the Taliban’s Mullah before U.S. elections in November. One source in the report said a White House aide suggested to Pakistan"s intelligence chief that the first three days of the Democratic convention would be the “best” timing.
These kind of, I would dare to say, criminal acts on the part of our agencies make people say that our military is for rent.
