Comments on: Safe Havens: Both a Broad and Narrow Counterterrorism Focus http://washingtonindependent.com/38112/safe-havens-both-a-broad-and-a-narrow-counterterrorism-focus National News in Context Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve Hynd http://washingtonindependent.com/38112/safe-havens-both-a-broad-and-a-narrow-counterterrorism-focus/comment-page-1#comment-35765 Steve Hynd Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:29:56 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=38112#comment-35765 "It [Al Qaida] then assassinated former Pakistani President Benazir Bhutto and blew up the Islamabad Mariott"<br><br>That's a massive stretch of conflation, since both were attributed to Baitullah Mesood's TTiP. You know better than that the various factions can be treated as a homogenous monolith, so it looks like you're stretching to make your case. “It [Al Qaida] then assassinated former Pakistani President Benazir Bhutto and blew up the Islamabad Mariott”

That's a massive stretch of conflation, since both were attributed to Baitullah Mesood's TTiP. You know better than that the various factions can be treated as a homogenous monolith, so it looks like you're stretching to make your case.

]]> By: Steve Hynd http://washingtonindependent.com/38112/safe-havens-both-a-broad-and-a-narrow-counterterrorism-focus/comment-page-1#comment-25508 Steve Hynd Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:29:56 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=38112#comment-25508 "It [Al Qaida] then assassinated former Pakistani President Benazir Bhutto and blew up the Islamabad Mariott"<br><br>That's a massive stretch of conflation, since both were attributed to Baitullah Mesood's TTiP. You know better than that the various factions can be treated as a homogenous monolith, so it looks like you're stretching to make your case. “It [Al Qaida] then assassinated former Pakistani President Benazir Bhutto and blew up the Islamabad Mariott”

That's a massive stretch of conflation, since both were attributed to Baitullah Mesood's TTiP. You know better than that the various factions can be treated as a homogenous monolith, so it looks like you're stretching to make your case.

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