'US paying Pak $70-80 million a month' - Musharraf

[donsu]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2038420.cms

A British analyst has stirred a hornet's nest by revealing that the United States is bankrolling Pakistan's military ruler Pervez Musharraf to the extent of $70-80 million a month, adding fuel to the dictator's incendiary visit to the West this month.

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While much attention has been drawn to the analyst's contention that Pakistan's spy agency ISI is supporting terrorism, the portion about the payola for Musharraf, as reported by BBC, has embarrassed Washington, which is already chafing from Musharraf's own disclosure that the US paid bounty money to the Pakistan government for handing over wanted Al Qaida terrorists.

"Musharraf knows that time is running out for him...at some point the US is likely to withdraw funding (and possibly even protection) of him estimated at $70-80 million a month," the analyst wrote, adding, "Without US funding his position will become increasingly tenuous."

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He would also join the list of Third World dictators Jordan's late ruler Hussein, Iraq's Saddam Hussain, Panama's Noreiga, Dominican Republic's Trujillo among them who were reported to be on CIA rolls at one time of the other.
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[acmavm]

1. Just think what the people here could do with 70 - 80 million

a month.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. I could buy a lot of solar panels

and we wouldn't need anyone's fucking oil.

[indepat]

3. $70-$80 million a month: shit, that's chicken feed

[acmavm]

4. Really? How many hungry could that feed? How many people

could have health insurance? How many people could come in off the street? How much help could we give vets or mentally ill persons?

Chickenfeed? I don't think so. Multiply it by 12 and then again by however many years we've been paying it.

Or do you mean to someone in your tax bracket it's chickenfeed?

[indepat]

5. Chicken feed in 'pukes' eyes: they have hundreds of billions to sprinkle

on favored contractors to keep us "safe."