Global Center of Terrorism

Interesting inverview done by the German Der Spiegel of Pakistani Scholar Ahmed Rashid.
He was interviewed after the July 7th bombings in London.

He is quoted as saying that Pakistan is just playing lip service in stopping the Global Jihad against the West.

This quote really pissed me off:

Rashid: He is certainly in Pakistan because Pakistan has traditionally had the best infrastructure for al-Qaida. I don't think the Pakistani military knows where he is, but they aren't looking very hard either because they fear the military support they get from the United States would disappear as soon as bin Laden is caught.


The big fear is the US is leaning towards their traditional enemy: India. Of course if Pakistan stopped supporting terrorists who attack India, then the two countries wouldn't be (nuclear) enemies - but we can't have that because Pakistan must deflect attention away from their own internal problems by creating an outside enemy.

Pakistan's fear is the US will repeat what they did when the Soviet Occupiers of Afghanistan were sent home with their tails between their legs; leave Pakistan again.

Until the Middle East undergoes their own 'Enlightenment', the world is precarious close to a Nuclear exchange. It doesn't help that Russia and China do not have the backbone to stand on the right side of the issue, and help the West in the UN.