Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterTerror suspect is victim of Pakistan geopolitics: lawyer (AFP)
Published 1/5/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AFP - A refugee in Britain accused of calling for terrorist attacks on Pakistan was a "casualty of geopolitics" due to the West's backing for former president Pervez Musharraf, a London court heard Monday.
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