Thursday, October 14, 2010

News

A few links I thought worth a look. Puzzle pieces?
Probe launched into 500 missing Nato vehicles
By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA: Pakistan Customs has launched a probe into disappearance of 500 oil tankers and containers carrying supplies for Nato troops in Afghanistan.
  • www.dawn.com

  • Pakistan accuses the White House of exaggerating Al Qaeda terror threat
    By Daily Mail Reporter
    The U.S. has been accused by a top Pakistani diplomat of exaggerating the terror threat from Al Qaeda for political ends.
    Intelligence officials also suggested the White House has tried to 'stitch together' rumours of attacks to ramp up security fears.
    The U.S. warned last weekend of an increased risk of terrorist attacks in Europe and possibly an assault on transport infrastructure.
  • dailymail.co.uk

  • China's Pipelineistan 'War'
    by Tom Engelhardt and Pepe Escobar
    Future historians may well agree that the twenty-first century Silk Road first opened for business on December 14, 2009. That was the day a crucial stretch of pipeline officially went into operation linking the fabulously energy-rich state of Turkmenistan (via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) to Xinjiang Province in China's far west. Hyperbole did not deter the spectacularly named Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan's president, from bragging, "This project has not only commercial or economic value. It is also political. China, through its wise and farsighted policy, has become one of the key guarantors of global security."
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