More significantly, President Bush's praise for Pakistan's leading role in the war against terror may just give General Musharraf the opportunity to wriggle out of a periloussituation on the question of Iraq.
The Call from Paris is intended to draw attention to the periloussituation of these archives, to get the support of the United Nations General Assembly and to demonstrate the solidarity of archivists and users all around the globe, says FIAT.
The media have reported relatively little about NATO's trials in Afghanistan, and the public seems surprised to learn how perilous the situation there has become.
And perilous his situation duly becomes as his pilfering brings him into contact with insurance investigator Catherine Banning who turns out to be more than his match.
Obama said the "situation is increasingly perilous" in the region in and around Afghanistan, where the United States has been fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban for more than seven and a half years after it was attacked in New York and at the Pentagon.