Not Good for Pakistan

One of the biggest fears of the CIA is that Al Qaeda is going to attempt to get it's hands on the nuclear weapons that Pakistan has in it's arsenal. The Taliban is closely aligned with Al Qaeda as they both want destruction and chaos since it's easiest for them to rule if no organized government exists. So when a bunch of anti-Taliban tribal elders organized a meeting to discuss what can be done to fight the Taliban...that was a good thing. Similar to what happened in Iraq during the Sunni uprising when all the tribal leaders decided to turn on Al Qaeda. So it is NOT GOOD that the Taliban was able to blow up the meeting and kill 40 of these tribal leaders. Certainly it was a good day for the Taliban and certainly it was a bad day for civilized man.

Read the full story here; http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/world/asia/11pstan.html?ref=world