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| Ties Between Iraq And The Taliban? | |
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| ivorythumper | Jun 12 2006, 11:37 PM Post #26 |
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No need to pander, Jon -- it's a free discussion forum. Saudi severed ties with Talib two weeks after 9/11 and deported the diplomats. It was a show of solidarity with the West. Pakistan did the same thing. I don't recall Iraq making a public showing of solidarity with the West after 9/11 -- did I just miss it? |
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| ivorythumper | Jun 12 2006, 11:39 PM Post #27 |
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If you insist that you don't think Bush lied, I'll certainly take you at your word. I retract, with apologies. |
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| jon-nyc | Jun 12 2006, 11:48 PM Post #28 |
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Thank you. To add some color here, that is not to say that I don't think they stretched the truth here and there when making their case. But, in general, I think their motives for going to war were more-or-less what they said they were. Now do you have any thoughts about ties between Pakistan and the Taliban and how they might have compared to those with Iraq? I've scoured FOX News' website and came up dry. |
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| jon-nyc | Jun 12 2006, 11:53 PM Post #29 |
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THat article isnt really about the 8 weeks between 9-11 and the fall of the Taliban, now is it? Nor was my question. What was the relationship between Musharraf's inner circle and Islamic terrorists? Is there any evidence of a cooperative, operational relationship agreed to at the highest levels of the Pakistani government and the Taliban? How about Saudi Arabia? |
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| ivorythumper | Jun 13 2006, 09:41 AM Post #30 |
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I have no real information. I would guess that Paki and Tali were diplomatic pre- 9/11 -- though the increasingly miltant actions of the Talib in their own country posed serious concerns for Paki and they'd have been concerned about that sort of militancy threatening their own precarious stability. After 9/11 there was no choice, and perhaps even a welcome relief for Paki to side with the West and the Afghan Northern Alliance. |
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