Local Pakistani Militants Boost Qaeda Threat

The Qaeda network accused by Pakistan's government of killing the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is increasingly made up not of foreign fighters but of homegrown Pakistani militants bent on destabilizing the country, analysts and security officials here say.

In previous years, Pakistani militants directed their energies against American and NATO forces across the border in Afghanistan and avoided clashes with the Pakistani Army. Full Story »

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Marty Heyman
2.4
by Marty Heyman - Oct. 1, 2008

This piece relies on reporting from other media and anonymous sources for the "facts" supporting its argument. The piece works hard to appear objective but repeats an unsupported allegation of a single sinister organization guiding violent opposition to the situation in Pakistan. It also strongly supports the theory that the Bhutto assasination was a terrorist act in spite of the failure of the government to provide in-depth security support for the candidate(s). Between the weakness of the material and the obvious pro-government (US and Pakistani) bias, it is not very good journalism.

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