AFGHAN VIOLENCE - An Afghan policeman stood guard in Kabul yesterday. Gunmen kidnapped a French aid worker yesterday and shot dead an Afghan driver for the national intelligence agency who tried to stop the abduction, a senior police officer said. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)
Here is what I think about all that: Millions of Afghans Face Starvation
And why the Zionist MSM hiding that AFGHANISTAN photograph in and article on PAKISTAN?
"Pakistanis decry US airstrikes to Petraeus; Say attacks drive wedge; General to visit border area" by Jane Perlez, New York Times News Service | November 4, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - In his new position as head of the US Central Command, General David H. Petraeus met top Pakistani officials for the first time yesterday and heard one message wherever he turned: American airstrikes against militants in the tribal areas are unhelpful.
Ahem: "Pakistani officials have made clear that they regard the Predator attacks as a less objectionable violation of Pakistani sovereignty"
I'm tired of bullshit fooleys posing as "news."
Petraeus, the former commander of American forces in Iraq, arrived in Pakistan as missile strikes from drone aircraft against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal areas have escalated. There were two separate missile attacks by American drones Saturday. In retaliation, a suicide bomber killed eight Pakistani paramilitary soldiers in South Waziristan Sunday.
After the meeting with Petraeus, President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan said in a statement, "Continuing drone attacks on our territory, which result in loss of precious lives and property, are counterproductive and difficult to explain by a democratically elected government. It is creating a credibility gap."
More like a CHASM, puppet!!
Petraeus, who has been consulting in recent weeks with a wide range of people on the efforts by the Pakistani military to quell the insurgency in the tribal areas and on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, on Friday took over Central Command, putting him in overall charge of the American-led military operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
The general's visit came as the Pentagon and the White House are completing reviews on policies toward Afghanistan, and as Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, has made clear that Pakistan and Afghanistan would be more of a foreign policy focus if he were to win the election. In an interview on CNN broadcast this past weekend, Obama said he believed it was necessary to convince Pakistan that the main threat to its security came from the militants, and not India, its historical enemy.
That's why Obama is such a disappointment: he wants to escalate the slaughter of people who never did anything to us!
During his round of calls with the Pakistani government yesterday, Petraeus met with the commander of the Pakistani military, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, and the defense minister, Ahmad Mukhtar. The American missile attacks in the tribal areas were generating "anti-American sentiments" and creating "outrage and uproar among the people," Mukhtar said in a statement.
No kidding? How would you feel if some brutal military power was laying bombs on your houses, women, and children, Amurkns? Knowing you guys, you'd probably justv take it.
A senior Pakistani military official said the army wanted to "bring home the point that the missile strikes are counterproductive, and that this is driving a wedge between the government and the tribal people." Pakistani officials have consistently complained about the airstrikes that have been aimed at Arab fighters and Pakistani militants connected to Al Qaeda.
Sick of the BS, folks, and that goes for "Al-CIA-Duh," too!!!
But the statements against the airstrikes have been couched in less dramatic language than Kayani's declaration after an American ground raid in September in which he said Pakistan would defend its borders at "all costs." There have been no known ground raids in the tribal areas since.
On a more positive note, the senior Pakistani military official, who declined to be identified by name because of the sensitivity of the subject, said that the United States had started to "listening to us" and had moved toward sealing the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the area of Bajaur in the tribal area.
How about SEALING the U.S.' SOUTHERN BORDER FIRST!?
Also see: The Greatest Refugee Crisis You Never Heard Of
Funny how the Muslim-hating, Zionist AmeriKan MSM continuously overlooks that refugee crisis, huh, readers?
The Pakistani Army is fighting Taliban militants in Bajaur and has criticized the United States for what it says is the failure of American troops in Afghanistan to stop Afghan militants crossing into Bajaur and joining the battle. The Americans had moved some of their forces to the east of the Kunar river last week and this had helped curb the flow of militants into Bajaur, the Pakistani military official said. "It is bearing positive results," he said.
Easy to curb the flow when they are your agents, isn't it, U.S.?
In an effort to show Petraeus the hard terrain that the Pakistani forces face against the insurgents in the tribal areas, the military planned to fly him over some of the terrain today, the military official said. That way, the general would get an idea of the long porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"It will be a glimpse of the Tora Bora from the other side," he said, referring to the area in Afghanistan near the Pakistani border from where Osama bin Laden is believed to have escaped in late 2001. --more--"
Oh, excuse me, I went across the border for a while:
"French aid worker is abducted in Kabul" by Carlotta Gall, New York Times News Service | November 4, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan - Gunmen kidnapped a French aid worker in central Kabul yesterday and shot dead an Afghan bystander who tried to thwart the abduction, police and witnesses said.
First of all, you can't believe much of what the French or AmeriKan MSM reports about Afghanistan. Secondly, see: Friendly Fire Killed French in Afghanistan and Fogging Up Friendly Fire in Afghanistan
The kidnapping was the latest of a series of occurrences spreading alarm among foreigners in the capital. It was carried out just after 9 a.m. on a busy street of shops and homes.
Last month, a British aid worker with dual South African citizenship, Gayle Williams, 34, was killed in Kabul and the Taliban said it had executed her for spreading Christianity. No one has taken responsibility for yesterday's kidnapping and the Taliban denied involvement.
You know what I'm thinking, readers. I'm smelling a MOSSAD STINK!!
Read Memory Hole: Must Read For Women and The Lovely Ladies of Pakistan before believing Zionist shit, readers.
Two French aid workers were making their way from their residence to their office when three gunmen armed with assault rifles tried to seize them, shopkeepers and bystanders said. One French citizen from the group AFRANE, or French-Afghan Friendship, escaped when an Afghan working as a driver in the intelligence service tackled one of the kidnappers and grabbed his gun.
The gunmen killed the driver, pushed the other worker into a car, and drove off, witnesses said. News reports in Paris said the abducted man was a French citizen and education expert who had been in Kabul for only a week. He had been staying with colleagues from French-Afghan Friendship, which also specializes in education projects, but worked for a different French nongovernmental organization.
One now wonders if he wasn't some sort of intelligence agent working under cover.
The news reports identified the kidnapped man as Dany Egreteau, 32, but did not specify the organization he worked for. The slain man was identified only as Malik, 26. His uncle, Ghulam Hazrat, 50, said the kidnappers were dressed as security guards. "They looked ordinary, they were young, 30 to 35," Hazrat said. "They aimed their Kalashnikovs at me and Malik's father, warning us not to approach."
I'm NOT LIKING IT at all!!! WHO wants MORE TROOPS and MORE WARS in Afghanistan? I mean, EVERYONE ELSE is TALKING PEACE!!!
See: Peace Talks in Pakistan
Truce Talks With Taliban Underway in Saudi Arabia
CUI BONO?
Nothing further on the earthquake, either, Zionist MSM? If that doesn't tell you they hate Muslims, nothing will.
There has been a string of kidnappings in the capital and neighboring provinces recently involving foreigners and prominent Afghans. Many of them have been blamed on criminal gangs seeking ransom. A relative of the royal family, Homayun Shah, and the son of a banker were kidnapped recently but were freed by the intelligence service, the National Security Directorate. --more--"
Was it a set-up like in Colombia?
