> > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Bonobashi <[email protected]> wrote: > Shiv, >> >> I think this particular incident deserves greater amplification. Alavi was >> cashiered and thrown out of the Army, and was stunned at the way it was >> done, after a travesty of a court-martial, rigged by the generals who were >> afraid of exposure at his hands. He then wrote the matter up into a note for >> the Army Chief. Days before his death, he showed the note to close friends, >> including the BBC journalist, who advised him not to send it, in fact, to >> destroy it immediately. His reply was that he had already sent it. BTW, you >> have reported this in reverse: the original was to the COAS, the copy to the >> BBC friend, not the other way around. > > Here's the letter: http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/letters.pdf
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