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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | March 18, 2002 issue

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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was the patron of the Taliban until he was paid a fortune to stop. He was the protector of Al Qaeda until he was paid another fortune to stop that, too. His nuclear program was found to be harboring several senior bin Ladenites until his entire foreign debt was handsomely rescheduled. Then it was found that his army was using Al Qaeda fighters as a proxy in Kashmir, at which stage he won golden opinions and further praise for asking them, in a shocked mode, to cease and desist. Most recently, the ISI was discovered to have flown some 2,000 Taliban and Al Qaeda members out of Afghanistan around the time of the fall of Kandahar and Kabul.

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MUSHARRAF, Pervez; TALIBAN; ISLAMIC fundamentalists; NUCLEAR weapons; DEBTS, External; TERRORISM; PAKISTAN
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