The Young Turks

I'm not ordinarily interested in Pakistani politics but the country has a couple of interesting features about it that may have mild ramifications in the "war on turror". 

Osama bin Laden (not Obama) lives there now.  

(He owns a very successful video editing business there called "Marginalized Video Services" that produces jihadist videos with enhanced graphics and digital explosions for reasonable prices.  Their motto is "Marginalized but never compromised".  His good bud Zawahiri handles the marketing end of the business for him.  Omar, ex-leader of the Taliban of Afghanistan fame, works in the packaging section filling the shipping boxes with styrofoam peanuts.  Their last video "72 Virgins" was a huge success in the fundamentalist world.)

Sorry about the digression.  Osama has a hobbyist's interest in politics on the side.  He likes to promote Islamic Jihad (it sells videos) and he's been stirring up the tribes in Pakistan for some time now, urging them to wage war on the government of Pakistan.

Now of course we all know that Pakistan, unlike Iran, which dreams nuclear dreams, actually has working flesh and blood nuclear warheads. The people of Pakistan seem unhappy with President Musharraf, and there seems to be questions about his authority to do the things he is doing.  Sound familiar?  Anyway I just kind of wondered with that kind of turmoil going on if there isn't at least some small chance that things could start to go out of control there and allow extremists groups to gain headway and additional recruits to their cause, especially since there are as many fundamentalists there as there are in Kansas.

Not to worry though, the Pakistani Army is fully in control of the arsenal, and probably doesn't have anything to worry about since the fundamentalists are not heavily armed yet, so it's probably barely worth mentioning here.  And who's to say they would pick Bin Laden as their champion if they did manage to stage a coup?  Also there's no indication that they wouldn't be responsible stewards of Pakistanis nuclear inventory.  Come to think of it I'm feeling kind of silly about bringing it up.

Now back to Iraq, where we are "fighting the turrorists over there so that we don't have to fight them over here".