Axis of Logic, January 7, 2007 - According to news reports, it appears that Washington plans to invade Pakistan with U.S. troops and covert CIA operations this new year. In 1999, the U.S. violated Pakistan's sovereignty by supporting Pervez Musharraf when in a military coup d'etat, he overthrew the government of Nawaz Sharif, the elected Prime Minister. At least since then (possibly earlier), the U.S. government has supported Musharaff, primarily as a reward for his support for the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

Writing for the BBC (Dec, 2004), Aamer Ahmed Khan (Musharraf thrives on US support) stated,

"Gen Musharraf's role in the US-led war on terror was the only area that earned him unqualified praise from President George W Bush during a recent visit to Washington."

Khan's statement can easily be documented, not by references in his article alone, but also by the history of Washington's behavior toward Musharraf since his 1999 military coup when he became dictator of Pakistan.

Musharaff's Record in a nutshell

On November 3, 2007, only days before a bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan was to decide on a petition challenging the constitutional validity of his re-election as president in the controversial October 2007 elections, he, as Chief of Army Staff, suspended the constitution, jailed several justices and lawyers of the supreme court including Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, ordered the arrest of political dissidents and human rights activists, and shut down all private television channels. He declared an emergency. On November 24, 2007, the Pakistan Election Commission confirmed his re-election as President."

Pakistan is the final gate to lock on Iran. (source unknown)

New York Times: For years, Washington and the corporate media have been conditioning to believe that is represents a serious threat. Unlike Iraq, where the U.S. ruse was WMD, in Pakistan its al-Queda who escaped from Afghanistan and now spawn terror along their northwest border.

"In part, the White House discussions may be driven by a desire for another effort to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri."

"Mr. bin Laden is generally believed to be hiding in the wilds of the Waziristan region of Pakistan, occasionally issuing new threats against the United States."

"Many observers feel the only thing that has carried this relationship through is the Musharraf government's success in containing what was a developing relationship between militant sectarian outfits operating out of Pakistan and senior figures within al-Qaeda."

'Over the past year, key militants in almost every sectarian organisation have either been killed or driven out of action .... President Musharraf himself was lucky to survive two assassination attempts within the space of a fortnight last year."

"Had their links matured and prospered, it would have taken the war on terror into the country's streets and back alleys, making it impossible for the government to control the situation."

"Pearl's killing brought attention to Pakistan's al-Qaeda problem" (BBC quote and photo)

In a December, 2004 report, the BBC used the killing of WSJ reporter", Daniel Perle, to prove the danger of al-Queda in Pakistan. They stated that Pearl's killing "brought attention to Pakistan's al-Queda problem." Perle's captors/ executioners believed Perle, an Israeli citizen, was working for Israel's Mossad. He was also involved, at least to some extent, with Pakistan's spy agency - Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). In a Muslim nation used by a foreign country to launch a war against fellow-Muslims, Perle's death should not have come as a surprise to anyone. But to say Perle's death "brought attention to Pakistan's al-Queda problem" is self-serving at best.   

On December 28, 2007, Robert Fisk suggested that Daniel Perle was either a victim of, or in collusion with the ISI when he was captured by the Pakistani Resistance and killed:

"And let us remember, by the way, that Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter beheaded by his Islamist captors in Karachi, actually made his fatal appointment with his future murderers from an ISI commander's office. Ahmed Rashid's book Taliban provides riveting proof of the ISI's web of corruption and violence. Read it, and all of the above makes more sense." 

Historically, the U.S. has always villified any person or group who objected to its "foreign policy" or one of its client governments simply by calling them another name. Washington and its media arm converted Colombia's FARC into drug runners, kidnappers and murderers. The Iraqi, Afghan and Palestinian resistance armies are "insurgents, gunmen, suicide bombers, radical Islamists, etc." The resistance in Pakistan to their U.S.-backed dictator are "al-Queda" and the Osama's ghost is "a greater threat than ever to the security of the United States" (as we heard the candidates for U.S. president say over and over last night in the debates). "Osama" -the one they credit for the 9/11/01 attacks - What more frightening name could they evoke to justify their new invasion of Pakistan. But one must wonder if that particular fear is beginning to wear thin with the U.S. public.

"You see the problem? Yesterday, our television warriors informed us the PPP members shouting that Musharraf was a "murderer" were complaining he had not provided sufficient security for Benazir. Wrong. They were shouting this because they believe he killed her."