Musharraf Declares State of Emergency
"The Pakistani leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, declared a state of emergency tonight, blacking out all independent news media and confronting Supreme Court justices who are deliberating on the recent vote to re-elect him.
Witnesses said that police forces had surrounded the Supreme Court building, with justices still inside. Earlier, the justices were ordered to sign a provisional constitutional order enabling the emergency decree, with the government leaving implicit that any failing to do so would be dismissed. Still, a panel of 6 of the court’s 11 justices rejected the order, according to Pakistani news reports before the blackout.
The six, including the chief justice, gathered at the Supreme Court building. Cellphone transmissions were blocked around the building.
The police also blocked access to the Parliament and to the homes of Supreme Court justices. Cellphone transmissions were also blocked at the justices’ homes.
General Musharraf was expected to make a statement on state-run television this evening.
The declaration came in direct defiance of warnings by top American officials."
Riiiiiiiight! That's what they say PUBLICLY!
C'mon, people! Fallon gave him the GO-AHEAD!
"Signs that a state of emergency would be declared started to emerge just after 5 p.m. All television stations were blocked as news media were reporting a meeting of General Musharraf and his top aides in the president’s office.
A Pakistani intelligence official said that a list had been prepared of prominent Pakistani journalists and opposition politicians who would be detained."
That's why Bhutto left; she was tipped off!
C'mon, MSM, you ain't fooling anyone!
The more things change...
"Missile Kills 5 in Northwest Pakistan; U.S. Denies Attack" by ISMAIL KHAN
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 2 — A missile fired from an unmanned aerial drone killed five militants and wounded six other people in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas on Friday, according to a Pakistani security official and a local resident.
The United States has used drones to carry out attacks on militants in the area in the past, but in Washington, a Pentagon spokesman denied that the American military was involved in a strike, Reuters reported. A spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency, which operates drones as well, declined to comment.
We never admit to shit! The only one worse is Israel!
The missile killed the militants inside a compound near a large madrasa, or religious school. Villagers said the drone had fired two missiles, one that exploded inside the compound and another that failed to detonate.
American officials have denied operating drones inside Pakistan, but after previous strikes, local residents and militants have produced missile fragments with American markings. Some strikes have killed senior militants, while others have killed large numbers of civilians."
The Times has many more words for the politics, but I'll cut it down for you:
"Musharraf Warned Not to Impose Emergency Rule" by JANE PERLEZ
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 2 — A senior American commander, Adm. William J. Fallon, warned Pakistan’s president on Friday not to impose emergency rule, saying that doing so would jeopardize American financial support for the military here.
Pakistani government officials said Friday that emergency rule could be justified because of clashes in the past week between security forces and Islamic militants in the Swat Valley, in the North-West Frontier Province, and because of the increasing number of suicide attacks against military and police installations.
One consequence of emergency rule, which is one step short of martial law, would be restricting the power of the courts.
In his meetings with General Musharraf, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the new vice chief of the Pakistani military, and other military leaders, Admiral Fallon urged the Pakistanis to improve counterinsurgency efforts in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan, and in Swat, a more settled region, diplomats said.
The United States has provided Pakistan with about $10 billion in assistance since Sept. 11, 2001, almost all of it in military aid. One of Admiral Fallon’s messages was that it would be difficult for the Bush administration to persuade Congress keep up the level of military aid if emergency rule was imposed, a Western diplomat said."
But you never needed that $10 billion here in America!
And this whole thing about the "terrorists" in the hills.
YOUR ISI created them, Mushy!
I'm sick of this bullshit double-game!!!!
