http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100521/REVIEW/705209992/1194/FOREIGN
Pakistan is not the reason for Faisal Shahzad
by Mosharraf Zaidi
May 21. 2010 | This article appeared in The AD Review of The National
With each new piece of information revealed to the press in the ongoing investigation of Faisal Shahzad, the failed Times Square bomber, more and more scrutiny has turned to the state of Pakistan – where Shahzad was born and raised in an elite, secular environment, and to whose loosely governed tribal areas he returned last year. There, apparently already under the grip of religious radicalism, he sought training in the dark arts of bomb-making…
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Full article at The National here: http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100521/REVIEW/705209992/1008/FOREIGN
Thank you for saying what a lot of us feel and would like to say but are unable to articulate so elegantly.
Posted by raana | 27. May, 2010, 1:20 pmExcellent article – and a nice rebuttal to Tavernise’s recent grossly simplistic analysis, although I believe you posted this before her article came out.
Posted by Wajiha | 27. May, 2010, 10:45 pm