[Assam] Intentional Spinning?

[Rajib Das]

Actually Armitage's threat of bombing Pakistan to the
stone ages was very much in the news. So I am
surprised Mr. Bush feigns surprise on this one.

There were - if I remember right - long articles about
Armitage's wrestling achievements and much ballyhoo
about him using Musharraf for bench press. That
combined with glowing words about India, sure enough
not just our media but politicos were - as usual -
swooning over him. 

Oh yes, he did help India on extraditing Abu Salem.

--- umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Some years ago when my father saw Armitage's photo
> in
> a defense weekly (of United Services Institute of
> which he is a life member) --he commented "Now thats
> what a professional 'leather-neck' American soldier
> looks like --tough!! --good for  brow-beating toughs
> in other nations"  I think Armitage is an
> ex-wrestler
> though --more used to using hands than brains.
> 
> Umesh
> 
> 
> --- Dilip/Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Look at the following news reported in the Assam
> > Tribune and see how a simple transformation of
> "had"
> > to "has" in the last paragraph, has led to a
> totally
> > different kind of news. Is this intentional
> > spinning, or an unintentional mistake in using a
> > foreign language - English?
> >   The allegation of Armitage using the threat
> > "bombing to stone age" was made by Musharraf
> several
> > days before Bush's press conference. Also the
> > alleged threat was said to have been made right
> > after 9/11/01. The newspaper linked that
> allegation
> > to Bush's willingness to send troops to find Bin
> > Laden, that spun the news to make USA look like a
> > bully.
> >    
> >   Now back to the first part of the news. If
> > Pakistan has given shelter to Bin Laden and
> Pakistan
> > does not have the will or the capability to
> capture
> > him, should US forces move in and capture him? How
> > long should USA wait for Pak action?
> >   Dilip
> >  
> >
>
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> >    
> >    
> > Guwahati, Friday, September 22, 2006  
> > ---------------------------------
> >     US troops may go to Pak
> >  WASHINGTON, Sept 21 – In a rare face off, US
> > President George W Bush has threatened to send
> > American forces in pursuit of Osama bin Laden,
> > inviting a firm refusal by President Pervez
> > Musharraf who said his troops were capable of
> doing
> > the job themselves, reports PTI. Responding to a
> > question if he would order US forces to go after
> bin
> > Laden in Pakistan if he received good intelligence
> > on the fugitive al Qaeda leader’s location,
> > President Bush in an interview to CNN said
> > yesterday, “absolutely”. 
> > 
> > “We would take action necessary to bring him (bin
> > Laden) to justice,” said Bush, who is meeting
> > Musharraf at the White House next week. 
> > 
> > Later addressing a press conference, Musharraf
> said
> > that he would not allow the sovereignty of his
> > country to be breached by the US. 
> > 
> > Meanwhile, President Pervez Musharraf said in an
> > interview released today that the United States
> has
> > threatened to bomb Pakistan ‘‘back to the stone
> > age’’ unless it cooperated with the US-led war on
> > terror, a late night AFP report stated. Musharraf
> > said the threat came from Armitage.
> > 
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