From the director’s desk: INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE

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20 October 2007 12:24 update: 20 October 2007 15:33

Pakistan: Minsa; Abu Hafs, spokesman of the Red Mosque, warned Benazir Bhutto about Musharraf hours before her return home, rejecting suppositions that she faced risks from Afghans, Arabs and those tied to the Red Mosque. Abu Hafs was quoted by the online ’Pakistani newspaper’, that “only great desperation, disorganization and demoralization would have been able to convince anybody to attack such an insignificant political personality”. Hours after the attack, a statement from Asif Ali Zardari, husband of the prime minister, given to Dubai’s ’Ary One’ channel, suggested that the Pakistani secret service is behind the attacks in Karachi: “this attack was not the work of Islamic combatants but of an espionage plot”.-

Of course most of the media has focused on the Islamic threat " and the typical political ’Al-Qaida’ sound bite such as the one pronounced by Australian prime minister John Howard. Musharraf spoke in terms of "a plot against democracy", but exactly where is the democracy against which the plot was carried out? The one cooked up by Washington through an unlikely and imposed alliance between a general leading by coup and a former prime minister who is still facing corruption charges.-

Whoever is trul;y responsible for the attempt to kill Benazir Bhutto, secret services of terror groups, it is rather evident that the innocent Pakistani vitims in yesterday’s attacks would still be alive were it not for the messes and intrigues of the powerful of various extractions that brought back home a Paksitani woman who has left a husband, three children and a sick mother in Dubai.[AB]