US makes gesture to appease Pakistani militants?

Remember that one of the main demands of the Pakistani militants who took credit for the execution of Israeli-American journalist, Daniel Pearl, was the sale of the promised F-16’s to Pakistan. Is this a move by the US to coax the cooperation of the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), Pakistan’s equivalent of the FBI, into diminishing support for Islamic militants who have been successfully disrupting the fledgling, pro-US puppet government of Afghanistan?

  1. US to sell F-16 aircrafts to Pak, Rumsfeld told Advani : HindustanTimes.com
  2. ‘ISI, FBI met Taliban to work out Afghan solution’
  3. Feb. 26, 2002: Pearl a victim of Pakistan’s grim legacy
  4. Journalist’s killing ‘link to Pakistan intelligence’

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2 comments

  1. susan
    6/18/2003 at 3:54 pm

    This French intellectual/celebrity guy wrote a book about how the Pakistani government was really behind the Pearl murder. I read a weird interview with him at: http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,977498,00.html

  2. susan
    6/19/2003 at 3:12 pm

    Oh, and it’s “gesture”.