Was It Newsweek or Iran and Pakistan? Speculation about the violence in Afghanistan that resulted in 17 deaths and that the administration insisted was caused by a small item in the news magazine, Newsweek, indicates there is good reason to believe that Iran and Pakistan were actually behind the demonstrations and the hightened level of violence.

Operatives from both countries are heavily involved in the country, and both countries have good reason to provoke such volitile demonstrations. Both countries want the U.S. out of Afghanistan so that they can each have far more influence in the region. Iran is concerned about the U.S.'s military encirclment of their nation, and Pakistan has long considered Afghanistan little more than a province. The U.S. has changed that factor by its presence and influence.

The "university" from which the "student" led demonstrations came is little more than a group of shacks with a permenantly locked "librar" and the "medical students" have little if any materials with which to work. The so called "school" it appears is nothing more than a gathering place for Iranian and Pakistanian opperatives to recruit Aghans.