“… from a tactical perspective al-Balawi deceived the CIA, the Jordanian intelligence agency and the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) at the same time. It is unthinkable that MIT or police intelligence were not aware of the communication between al-Balawi and Bayrak. Bayrak reveals that her husband always said that he was planning to come and build his career in Turkey. Perhaps al-Balawi put emphasis on his plan to come to Turkey to distract the CIA and Jordanian intelligence”

“… if the starting point for fighting terror is only the terror attacks themselves and the societies from which they emanate, without a fuller acknowledgment of the wider cycle of political violence that also includes sustained aggressive policies by the US, the United Kingdom, Israel, Arab governments and others in the region, we will only perpetuate the current insanity mentioned earlier: the simultaneous proliferation of terrorism, American armed forces, Israeli assassinations, and other elements of the full cycle of political violence in the Arab-Asian region.
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via Asia Times Online.

Takeaway: the weakness of the regime in Islamabad