See: Peace Talks in Pakistan
Truce Talks With Taliban Underway in Saudi Arabia
CUI BONO?
Nothing further on the earthquake, huh, Zionist MSM? If that doesn't tell you they hate Muslims, nothing will.
"Suicide blast kills eight in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Eight paramilitary soldiers were killed and five were wounded yesterday when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into a security checkpoint in the restive South Waziristan tribal region, officials said.
Also yesterday, General David H. Petraeus, the new chief of the Central Command, made his first visit to Pakistan for talks with top political and military leaders. The US-Pakistan relationship has worsened in recent weeks after a string of American strikes in Pakistan on militant hide-outs.
SOMETHING is going on!
Petraeus, credited with turning around the war in Iraq, was accompanied by Richard A. Boucher, the assistant secretary of state for South Asia. The truck bombing took place around 9:30 a.m. yesterday at a post near Fort Zalai, a base for the paramilitary Frontier Corps near Wana, South Waziristan's capital.
Please read these posts:
Taliban Suicide Bomb Own School
Who Benefits From the Pakistan Attack?
Videos of Pakistan Attack
Who Were the "Terrorists" That Bombed the Marriott?
Another Terrorist Attack in Pakistan by U.S and India
Because You'll Believe Anything: Unknown Terrorist Group Claims Responsibility For Marriot Bombing
The attack, apparently retaliation for deadly missile strikes reported Friday, may affect an accord between militants and Pakistan's government. "The attack could be a warning call to Islamabad from Maulvi Nazir," said Arif Rafiq, a political analyst, referring to a local militant. Nazir, the Taliban's top commander in South Waziristan, was reportedly the target of a missile strike on Friday. --more--"
Who are the Taliban, anyway?
"Something of a catchall term for loosely affiliated insurgents without a singular command structure. Often, the Afghan government favors the phrase 'enemies of the state' (New York Times July 24, 2007)."
"The Taliban is growing and creating new alliances not because its sectarian religious practices have become popular, but because it is the only available umbrella for national liberation," says Pakistani historian and political commentator Tariq Ali. "As the British and the Soviets discovered to their cost in the preceding two centuries, Afghans never like being occupied."
Also see: Afghanistan's Other Government
And today, readers?
"More and more, people here look back to the era of harsh Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, describing it as a time of security and peace."
Oh, oh, oh!!!! I'm so offended by the New York Times and its bullshit!
Oh, one more thing:
"The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban's reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997."
And look at what the printed paper chose to CENSOR!
"Brother of Afghan minister kidnapped in Pakistan" by Rahim Faiez, Associated Press Writer | November 2, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan --Gunmen in Pakistan kidnapped the brother of Afghanistan's finance minister as he was returning to his mother's home from prayers, Afghan officials said Sunday.
"Gunmen," huh?
He was at least the third person with ties to the Afghan government to be abducted in Pakistan's lawless border region, used by al-Qaida and Taliban militants as a base to attacks U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Zia ul-Haq Ahadi was visiting his sick mother in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and was abducted on Friday as he returned to her home from a neighborhood mosque, said Abdul Razaq, an assistant to the finance minister. The kidnapped man's brother is Finance Minister Anwar ul-Haq Ahadim.
No demands had been made, and the kidnappers have not contacted officials or the Ahadi family, said the Finance Ministry spokesman, Haziz Shams.
STINKS!!
In Afghanistan's south, the U.S. military said in a statement that one of its spy planes, a Predator, crashed Sunday. The statement did not specify the location of the crash, but said it was under investigation.
That is WHY they didn't PRINT IT!
U.S. troops with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force shot and wounded five Afghan army soldiers in eastern Kunar province Sunday. The troops had fired on what they thought were militant forces, a NATO statement said. --more--"
OOOPS!!!!
