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...termed sensationalist reporting, Musharraf launched a crackdown on the press two weeks ago. Live coverage of rallies related to Chaudhry have been banned, as have live talk shows on the issue. Opposition party organizers are routinely detained prior to planned antigovernment demonstrations. Outspoken activists have been charged with terrorist acts and others have simply disappeared. Qazim Bugti, mayor of a small town in the insurgency-wracked province of Baluchistan, was picked up in November. His is one of 99 abductions documented by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan last year...
Obviously, 9/11--when the U.S. was attacked from Afghanistan, a terrorist-infested basket case--changed things. But while the Bush Administration turned its attention to the Middle East, it kept the same basic prism seeing terrorism as the product of (allegedly) rising, threatening powers like Iraq and Iran...
...hero (on his album of reconciliation, The Rising) seldom does. But by then Manzoor has already showed us how to live as something more than just a Briton, a Muslim or a Pakistani. At a concert in New Jersey once, an American fan, taking him for a terrorist, challenges Manzoor to name his favorite Springsteen songs. As he starts to reel off the numbers that speak to him - one after another - the clash of civilizations suddenly begins to sound remote, and we're in the midst of a mass sing-along in which white and black and "other" hardly make...
...This sort of deceptive behavior seems a recurring flaw in the Administration's anti-terrorism efforts. The current prosecution of suspected terrorist and U.S. citizen Jose Padilla, for example, almost collapsed because of Padilla's claim that his guards' abuse made him incompetent to stand trial; as with al-Marri, the government has changed its legal approach against Padilla, initially branding him an enemy combatant and then, when it seemed that it might lose its case before the Supreme Court, deciding to charge him criminally. Lederman says the improper reason for declaring al-Marri an enemy combatant will probably doom...
...having to be dragged, reluctantly, into saving the world and dominating it. And Bush's Administration turned out to be inept at both the military part and the utopian part: it failed at the strategy and logistics of the Iraq war and flirted disastrously with the idea that terrorist groups like Hizballah and Hamas are simply good citizens waiting to happen...