Comments on: Pakistan Raids LeT Training Camp – Mumbai Mastermind Captured?

By: Bithead

Bithead — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:12:54 +0000

I'm not convinced that's accurate, in total.
It strikes me what we're seeing is enforcement via a wink and a nod, in many cases. Let's not make the mistake of suggesting that the Pakistani government, or for that matter any government, including our own, is all of one mind.

By: tom p

tom p — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:21:06 +0000

The Pakistani Gov't are between a rock and a hard place. They have to show (to the US, to India) that they can take control of the various situations they are faced with, with out actually being able to...

Sucks to be them.

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Nightly Ramble:COLD!;Oil;Unions; Buyer’s remorse, more | BitsBlog — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:03:11 +0000

[...] that I wonder if that “prank phone call” didn’t light a fire under Pakistan to find and arrest someone they say was involved with the Mumbai attacks. Don’t go reading too much into this; I’m [...]

By: Bithead

Bithead — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:30:25 +0000

It does, however, appear that Pakistan is going to have to take action regardless of whether they had anything to do with the attacks.

That's a point that should not be underestimated. I'm not convicned that those in power there are really taking action because it's the right thing, and instead rather taking action so as to simply make a show of taking action. If someone's offering you money (incentives?) to make a show of taking action....