Blair Approves £480m For Anti-terrorism Deal With Pakistan

"Pakistan is not a banana republic," President Musharraf reportedly told the German magazine Focus last week.

"We have an extremely loyal and disciplined army. The secret service is made up mainly of military men."
Independent Online

We hear you Musharraf. And may I also add that Pakistan is not a rogue state.

I support the increase in the British aid to Pakistan for counter-terrorism, because the war on terror is the battle for our survival. The al- Qa'ida would probably be getting more than £480m from Iran, Syria and other backers in the Islamic world. The Talibans make so much money from the drug trade, which they have been using to finance their terror network and warfare. And if we do not fund our allies in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Jordan, we would be at the receiving end of the grave consequences.

In fact, I think the £480m will not be enough for the next three years if Britain really wants to fund the control and prevention of Islamic terrorism. Because, the Pakistani Government will need more short term funding to control their "moderate" schools so that the Islamists won't be using them as the booth camps of their terror network. The hard-line Madrassas are engaged in a life long programme to brainwash Muslim pupils and students in their global goal for the Islamization of the world. Therefore, counter-terrorism is a life long warfare to save us from the lunatic fringe elements being sent on suicide missions by the al-Qa'ida.

Book World: Orikinla Asks Robert Kagan An Interesting Question

Robert Kagan
Author, "Dangerous Nation"
Tuesday, October 31, 2006; 3:00 PM

Lagos, Nigeria.: Was America not safer during the Cold War than during this current War on Terror?

-Orikinla Osinachi

Author of the "Scarlet Tears of London".

Robert Kagan: That's an interesting question, and not so easy to answer. Obviously, we did not suffer the kind of attack that we suffered on 9/11. And we certainly seem to be vulnerable to other such attacks in the future, and perhaps on an even more horrific scale. When we look back on the Cold War, it seems to have been safer, but that's partly because we now know that nothing horrendous happened. At the time, however, there were often significant fears of nuclear war. Needless to say, the damage that would have come had there been a nuclear exchange between the US and the Soviet Union would have dwarfed what we have experienced in the 21st century. In the early 1960s, I recall, people were building fall-out shelters in their backyards. It now appears as if, precisely because of the possibility of planet-wide destruction, both sides were deterred from conflict. What is so frightening about our present situation is that those who wish us harm seem to be undeterrable.
Book World On Washington Post

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Saddam Hussein And Other Stories And Worries

As the captured Al-Qaida operative Dhiren Barot was facing life imprisonment for pleading guilty to planning more catastrophic terrorist attacks on London, Tony Blair was doing his best defending the ID card project and indeed as he said, the ID card project would help combat illegal immigration and fraud. But I doubt if it would help combat terrorism, because the terrorists are already bona fide British citizens with British passports and will be given the British ID cards. If the British passports cannot prevent terrorism, then the British ID cards cannot.

Tony Blair also hailed the conviction of Saddam Hussein as Bush already applauded the Hussein Verdict on Sunday. But Tony Blair said Britain is against death penalty.

As millions of Americans are going to vote, Leaders Say They Endorsed Republican to Wake Democrats. But what do you think?
For more on the American Elections for the Congress, read my current post on Nigerian Times with the letter from the politically correct Michael Moore of Fahrenheit 9/11 fame.

Then a female Muslim terrorist suicide bomber blew up herself in Gaza in the midst of Israelis.

Beware Of Terrorists As We Approach The 2012 Olympics

The worries of the British government should not be over the resignation of Jack Lemley, the chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority for the London 2012 Olympics, but over the shortcomings of the British Intelligence in preventing the spread of terrorism in the UK.