Thank you, Mr Obaid for asking me (Sep 15) to send more as quoted in my letter (Sep 11) to end up your confusion of some sort: War-connected quotations etc do have a problem. They can move one or either side of the confusion, often depending upon who are you and in what situation. “I am quite unable to see why heaven or any other power should object to our telling Muslims what they ought to think,” said British top politician and a cabinet minister long go, but read in a newspaper on 25-2-03. The challenge has not been accepted by Muslim leaders yet, with a few exceptions. “He (Pervez Musharraf) is a stand-up guy when it comes to dealing with the terrorists,” said Bush, read on 1-1-04. “We have got a right man, at the right time, at the right place for a right job,” said the then everybody of the State Department Mr Richard Amritage referring to Musharraf, read on 9-11-04. Within five weeks, on 17-12-04, I read, “Of the 44 military operations launched by Pakistan in the tribal belt of South Waziristan, based on US intelligence reports, only three were correctly identified.” “We just want to occupy Pakistan’s tribal territory, insists Pentagon”, read on 20-6-08. “General Suharto killed 10 million of his own people with a list provided by the CIA”, read on 7-4-04. “The FBI in Pakistan is now going to keep track record of three million Pakistanis”, read on 24-1-03. “If the US policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we can’t feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned,” said Ward Churchill, Professor at the University of Colorado, US”, read on 13-2-05. “America produces more serial killers and mass murderers than any other nation on earth,” writes Elliot Leyton in his book ‘Hunting Human’, read on 11-11-04. “The Pentagon and the State Deptt have joined hands to chalk out a programme to counter tens of millions of real and potential jihadis”, read on 26-4-05. “During his farewell visit to Karachi, US Ambassador Ryan C Crocker said, “US and Pakistan are fighting terrorism and nowhere is this fight more important than here in Karachi”, read on 20-3-04.
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