Twirp: Terrorist Wahabi Islamic Rep Pakistan 5

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Nightwatch's insightful comments on 10/12/09

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The larger question, pointed out by many commentators, is the integrity of the Pakistan Army.</b>  Rawalpindi is a military garrison town. <b>Any attack that comes close to the residence of a general officer, not to mention Army Headquarters itself, requires complicity and active cooperation by garrison guards from the Army itself.</b> 

<b>Multiple attempts to kill senior officers during the past several years </b>have made it obvious that <b>guards at military cantonments in Rawalpindi are not dependable.</b>

Army Headquarters is not easy to breach. <b>A succession of guards and higher NCOs had to cooperate in this attack, willing to risk the lives of fellow guards.</b> The enormity of the security breach is difficult to overstate, especially in light of the history of assassination attempts against Musharraf when he was Chief of Army Staff and President. 

Yet even under Musharraf, no attack so daring had so much success. <b>This is a major failing of General Kayani’s management of the Army. If the Army cannot protect itself, how can it be expected to protect the nation….that is the message the anti-government forces intended and succeeded in sending.</b>

For the rest of the world, <b>the surest conclusions are that the Pakistan Army cannot be trusted to protect itself; the enemies of the government can attack at will anywhere; the Army is so penetrated by Islamists that it is not reliable; no major operations in South Waziristan will succeed…the Army cannot be trusted to fight its own citizens.</b> More later.

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He doesn't address the bigger security of nukes question.

Its still not clear who did it? The Paki Taliban aka TTP or a self inflcited drama to get uncle's attention?