Rights Groups Tie Pakistan to Militants’ Disappearances

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/world/asia/30disappear.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=disappearances%20tied%20to%20Pakistan%20are%20worr%20to%20U.S.&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 9:03 AM
Subject: re: Rights Groups Tie Pakistan to Militants’ Disappearances
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To the Editor:

    Since it was proclaimed nine years ago the "Global War on Terror" has provided carte blanche to governments around the world to liquidate annoying opponents.  If it is only in Pakistan that these make news, perhaps it is because we don't have reporters in Chechnya, Tibet, Xinjiang, Peru...A few governments joined the U.S. in the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan. A rather different list has found it convenient to embrace the "Global War on Terror" to bolster their own repressive regimes at home.

Barry Levine