Musharraf has good reason to be desperate

[lovuian]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20680408-2703,00.html

THE attack by Pakistani army helicopters on a religious school shows that President Pervez Musharraf is running out of options to control his lawless western border.
There seems no coherent plan, as he switches from peace deals with the frontier tribesmen to attacks on them.

The US and Britain are increasingly alarmed at his struggles to get out of his predicament.

more...
I wonder what will happen if the Bush's puppet fails and Alquaida have control over a HUGE Nuclear Arsenal

[acmejack]

1. Most reports now state the raid was carried out by US Predator UAVs

This blog is an intersting take however...

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Was madrassa raid the "October surprise?"

News reports this morning that the Pakistani military had leveled a madrassa without the help of U.S. forces seemed suspect. For starters, why go after such a politically sensitive target as a madrassa if no "high profile targets" were inside, as Pakistani officials insisted there were not.

Now it turns out there may have been good reason to be suspicious. Over at The Blotter, Alexis Debat is reporting that the madrassa raid was not only carried out by a U.S. Predator drone, but that Ayman al-Zawahiri was the target.

Maybe taking out Al Qaeda's Number Two was supposed to be the October surprise? Debat reports that Pakistani intelligence sources say they have Zawahiri "boxed" in a 40-square-mile area in Afghanistan, and he should be dead or captured in the next "few months."

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/2110

edit, I wish I could spell(or learn to use the spell check button)