Per comments in the LongWarJournal.com website: “Pakistan has been and still is providing 60,000 US and NATO troops a main supply route into Afghanistan. (Karachi to Islamabad to Pashawar to Jalalabad to Kabul). Half of all supplies to Afghanistan go this route. Air transport alone cannot replace it and all other land routes are poor in comparision.”

Peshawar is in grave danger and the Pakistani army has been ignoring Baitullah Mesud’s men that threaten to take it. Where is anything in the MSM.

the ruling Zanu (PF)

Its Zanu-PF. They’re two different orgs joined together. Geez come on The Times, make an effort.

Last night Zimbabweans, many of whom work far from home, were returning to their villages and townships after receiving threatening summonses from the ruling Zanu (PF) to report before the vote. Farm workers in Chegutu, southwestern Zimbabwe, said that they had been told to arrive at polling stations at 6am, an hour before voting begins, and stay there until after the results were posted.

“If there is one MDC vote they will find that person and cut off his or her head,” Ben Freeth, a white farmer quoted his workers as telling him. “ ‘It is a serious threat’ were the words that they used to tell me.”

The same message was delivered to voters in Chiredzi, in the southeast of the country, who were handed serial numbers of their ballot papers and told that their votes would be traced and punishment meted out if they were found to have voted the “wrong way”.

Let’s hope Tsvangirai was right when he said that “The people’s victory may be delayed but it won’t be denied.”

Years ago, I read about an African tradition of the “empty chief”. When a village decides that a chief no longer should lead and the chief refuses to accept that decision, the people simply depart the village, leaving the chief in charge of himself and humiliated before the world. The people of Zimbabwe are trying to give us the modern equivalent of this tradition.

The same thing seems to be happening here in The US of A. What was the percentage of people that voted in the last election?

HARARE, Zimbabwe – Marshals led voters to polling stations and bands of government supporters harassed people in the street Friday as Zimbabwe held an internationally discredited, one-candidate presidential runoff marked by intimidation.

When will the world act in solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe?

When we stop tossing around fluffy notions like “the world” taking “action” then perhaps we can start thinking seriously about what is involved.

oh yeah we don’t want to be accused of racism…

Voters are being led to the polls – like lambs to the slaughter….