Nice Words, But What's He Saying In Arabic?

Submitted by gary sack (United States), Sep 20, 2005 at 14:20

Not to automatically and totally discount Musharraf's comments, but one thing we should have learned by now is to pay more attention to what the Muslim leader says to his own people, or to other Muslim leaders, in Arabic. Mr. Pipes, you're far too savvy not to be aware of this "good cop/bad cop" routine. I'll be interested in what follows and in what Mr. Musharraf says to the likes of Abbas.

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