not just israel, Musharraf wants fence too

Humanity is going down a very ugly path led by israel's paranoid, schizophrenic apartheid example.

He accused Afghanistan of failing to police its own border, saying Pakistan had about 1,000 posts along the 1,510-mile frontier, while on the Afghan side there were less than 100.

He announced Pakistan had begun preparations to fence seven or eight locations - a total of 22 miles - along its northwest border. They would not use land mines because of concerns from the international community, Musharraf said.

However, he said plans for a second phase foresaw using both fencing and mines to secure 150 miles of the border further south in Baluchistan province.

"No one has the right to criticize unless they come up with an alternative solution," Musharraf said.

I have a novel idea. Why not 'live in peace with your neighbors'?

Or, perhaps, you can 'stop bombing them'?

Or, maybe just 'stop collaborating with the zionist enemy against them'?

Arsallah Jamal, governor of Afghanistan's eastern Khost province, which borders Pakistan, said the decision would just divide people and not stop terrorism.

Afghan federal government officials could not be reached for comment.

The United States, meanwhile, gave eight Cobra attack helicopters to Pakistan on Friday to help it combat Taliban and al-Qaida militants in the border regions. The U.S. Embassy said another 12 Cobras were to be delivered later in a military aid package worth $50 million.

Wow - sounds oddly familiar . . .

Three weeks after Soviet tanks rolled into Kabul, Carter's secretary of defense, Harold Brown, was in Beijing arranging for a weapons transfer from the Chinese to the ClA-backed Afghani troops mustered in Pakistan.

The Chinese, who were generously compensated for the deal, agreed and even consented to send military advisers.

Brown worked out a similar arrangement with Egypt to buy $15 million worth of weapons. "The U.S. contacted me," [then-Egyptian president] Anwar Sadat recalled shortly before his assassination [in 1981]. "They told me, 'Please open your stores for us so that we can give the Afghans the armaments they need to fight.' And I gave them the armaments. The transport of arms to the Afghans started from Cairo on U.S. planes."

By February 1980, the Washington Post reported that the mujahideen was receiving arms coming from the U.S. government.

The destination changes but the source of both weapons and conflict remains the same.