[Mb-civic] Just Another General

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Just Another General 
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January 9 2005

On Sept. 11, 2001, the main protector of the Taliban — and Al Qaeda — outside Afghanistan was the government of next-door Pakistan. But by the next day, President Pervez Musharraf had responded to Washington's "with us or against us" ultimatum by throwing in with the United States. Sort of. 

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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-pakistan9jan09,1,701709.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials 

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