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| India-Pakistan |
| Musharraf angrily rejected Osama hideout tip and physically threatened Afghan spy chief Saleh |
| 2011-05-06 |
| Their intelligence became more precise in 2007 when they believed he was hiding in Manshera, a town a short distance from Abbottabad where the NDS had identified two al-Qaida safe houses. But the former spy chief said that Pervez Musharraf, then president of Pakistan, was outraged at the suggestion that Bin Laden was hiding in such a prominent part of the country. In a meeting with Musharraf and Hamid Karzai the Pakistani president became furious and smashed his fist down on the table. "He said, 'Am I the president of the Republic of Banana?'" Saleh recalled. "Then he turned to President Karzai and said, 'Why have you have brought this Panjshiri guy to teach me intelligence?'" He said Karzai had to intervene as Musharraf got increasingly angry and began to physically threaten Saleh. Afghanistan's former top spy -- who has long been a hate figure in Islamabad among officials who believed he was implacably anti-Pakistani -- also said he had no doubts that Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban movement, was hiding in a safe house owned by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Pakistani spy agency, in the city of Karachi. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #5 Whoa. The Artic = former Spy El Hefe infers that PAKISTAN = ISLAMABAD GOVT + espec its ISI AGENCY controlled BOTH OSAMA = AL-QAEDA, + MULLAH OMAR = TALIBAN. Lest we fergit, MSM-NET > OSAMA'S ["core"]AL-QAEDA + OMAR'S TALIBS were repor FEUDING OR OTHERWISE NOT GETTING ALONG??? MORE US QUESTIONS FOR ISLAMABAD. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-06 20:41 |
| #4 Actually, having dealt with lots of people from Pakistan and India, and, being married to an Indian it is far more likely that he said "...Republic of Banana." In Hindi, Urdu and many of the languages spoken in that part of the world, the verb comes last. And while both Republic and banana are nouns, word ordering can be difficult for non native English speakers. Even my highly educated wife says the most amazing things when she is speaking English. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2011-05-06 19:08 |
| #3 Mush's original line was probably "Am I the president of a banana republic?" which got mangled being translated two or more times from the original. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-06 11:41 |
| #2 "He said, 'Am I the president of the Republic of Banana?" - as he was juggling a few coconuts. |
| Posted by: Gleregum tse Tung1512 2011-05-06 09:29 |
| #1 "He said, 'Am I the president of the Republic of Banana?'" A different word than "Banana" came to mind, but I'll refrain. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-05-06 00:31 |