Der Mord an General Alavi und die Taliban
Am 18.11. wurde der pakistanische General i.R. Faisal Alavi ermordet (er ist der Schwager des Literaturnobelpreisträgers V.S Naipaul). Bereits drei Jahre zuvor war er aus der Armee entlassen worden, vermutlich aus folgendem Grund:
Alavi believed he had been forced out because he was openly critical of deals that senior generals had done with the Taliban. He disparaged them for their failure to fight the war on terror wholeheartedly and for allowing Taliban forces based in Pakistan to operate with impunity against British and other Nato troops across the border in Afghanistan.
Folgendes soll er der Times Journalistin Carey Schofield mitgeteilt haben:
He told me how one general had done an astonishing deal with Baitullah Mehsud, the 35-year-old Taliban leader, now seen by many analysts as an even greater terrorist threat than Osama Bin Laden.
Mehsud, the main suspect in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto late last year, is also believed to have been behind a plot to bomb transport networks in several European countries including Britain, which came to light earlier this year when 14 alleged conspirators were arrested in Barcelona.
Yet, according to Alavi, a senior Pakistani general came to an arrangement with Mehsud “whereby – in return for a large sum of money – Mehsud’s 3,000 armed fighters would not attack the army”.
The two senior generals named in Alavi’s letter to Kayani were in effect complicit in giving the militants free rein in return for refraining from attacks on the Pakistani army, he said. At Hereford, Alavi was brutally frank about the situation, said the commanding officer of the SAS at that time.
Die legt die Vermutung nahen, dass dieses Mal nicht die Islamisten selbst, sondern ihre Partner am Werk waren.
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