"Civilians flood Pakistani hospitals; Flee fighting in Taliban-held Swat Valley" by Associated Press | May 10, 2009
A Pakistani girl, injured in fighting yesterday between security forces and Taliban militants, rested at a hospital in Mingora. (Associated Press)
MINGORA, Pakistan - Civilians cowered in hospital beds and trapped residents struggled to feed their children yesterday, as Pakistani warplanes pounded a Taliban-held valley in what the prime minister called a "war of the country's survival."
Warplanes and troops killed dozens of entrenched militants yesterday in the assault on northwestern Swat Valley, the army said. The offensive has prompted the flight of hundreds of thousands of terrified residents, adding a humanitarian emergency to the nuclear-armed nation's security, economic, and political problems. Desperate residents looted United Nations supplies in one camp, taking blankets and cooking oil.
A suspected US missile strike killed nine people, mostly foreigners, in South Waziristan, another militant stronghold near the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The identities of the victims remained unclear.
You verify they were foreigners, MSM?
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani directed millions of dollars to help the residents of a region where faith in the government is shaky, saying the army "can only be successful if there is support of the masses."
Reading Mao's Red Book again?
Encouraged by Washington, Pakistan's leaders launched the full-scale offensive on Thursday. Pakistan's army is fighting to wrest Swat and neighboring districts from militants who dominate the adjoining tribal belt along the Afghan frontier, where US officials say Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is probably holed up.
There they go again; jewpress has gotta slip the dead guy in there.
Sigh. Why I am so sick of AmeriKa's newspapers.
Witness accounts indicate that scores of civilians have already been killed or injured in the escalating clashes in the Swat, Buner, and Lower Dir districts. Even the medics are gone: Only three doctors remained yesterday at the hospital in Swat's main town, Mingora - all of them working flat out.
One of the patients, Omar Ali, said a mortar shell had crashed through the roof of his home near Mingora on Wednesday, killing his 8-year-old son. Ali, his wife, and four more children were injured. Neighbors pulled them from the rubble and brought them to hospital.
"We are in pain. We are helpless and homeless," the tearful 45-year-old government worker said. "Even here, we are scared because we keep hearing explosions, gunfire, and the noise of planes."
At this point, I would ask you to read this: Thoughts On The War Between The USA And Pakistan
Thank you.
Nisar Khan, one of the three doctors left, said about 25 war-wounded were among the 100 patients. It was unclear how many people remained in Mingora, but one resident too scared to try to flee said he was running short of food for his three children. "We have no electricity, no running water, and we are almost out of food, milk, and other things," said Ikramullah Khan. "We do not know what to do."
Taliban militants seized much of the area under a peace deal, even after the government agreed to their main demand to impose Islamic law in the region. US officials likened the deal to a surrender. Pakistani leaders said the agreement's expected collapse had opened the eyes of ordinary citizens to the extremist threat.
Sigh. I'm tired of responding to government propaganda and lies.
The army accused militants of causing civilian casualties with indiscriminate mortar fire.
Can you verify that?
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Civilians took advantage of the lifting of a curfew to flee military operations in the Swat Valley. The Pakistan government is organizing camps for the rising number of refugees. (Daniel Berehulak/ Getty Images)
MINGORA, Pakistan - Tens of thousands of civilians, many on foot or donkey-led carts, took advantage of a lifted curfew to flee Pakistan's embattled Swat Valley yesterday, while the army said it had killed 400 to 500 militants in its battle against the Taliban.
The hemorrhaging of residents from a scenic valley that once attracted hordes of tourists threatened to greatly exacerbate an existing internal refugee crisis for a nuclear-armed nation already facing economic, political, and other woes.
The army offensive has garnered praise from the United States....
Not from me!!!!!
As they left Swat's main town of Mingora, some residents cursed the situation and condemned the Taliban, while others blamed Pakistani leaders for bowing to the West. "Show our picture to your master America and get money from him," some taunted.
Yeah, they know.
The jew media here in Amerika gives us this distorted picture of poor Muslims, as if they are all dumb, blood-drinking, wife-whipping, dirt-eaters, but we know better now (thank you, blogs).
The desperate Swat residents were trying to leave any way they could - on motorbikes, animal-pulled carts, rickshaws, or foot. A ban on civilian vehicles entering the valley complicated the exodus for those without cars. Some chided an Associated Press reporter for slowing them down by asking questions.
"We are going out only with our clothes and a few things to eat on the long journey," said Rehmat Alam, a 40-year-old medical technician walking out of Mingora with 18 other relatives. "We just got out relying on God because there is no one else to help us."
Fighter jets and helicopter gunships have pounded Swat and surrounding districts over the past few days. The army's nine-hour suspension of the curfew yesterday could signal a more intense operation....
The death tolls could not be confirmed independently, and some of the army's figures could not immediately be reconciled. In the northwest district of Mardan, government official Khalid Umerzai said more than 100,000 displaced Pakistanis were expected yesterday, on top of 252,000 already there.
"Vehicles loaded with people are coming down bumper-to-bumper from Swat, and we are expecting a huge crowd of people and organizing two more relief camps in Mardan and Takhtbai," Umerzai said.
Before the latest operation, some 550,000 people were registered as displaced from past offensives in other parts of Pakistan's northwest, including the semi-autonomous tribal belt, according to the United Nations.
Related: The Greatest Refugee Crisis You Never Heard Of
The international aid agency World Vision said its relief workers were finding "intolerable" conditions at some camps due to soaring temperatures, overcrowding, inadequate toilets, and a lack of electricity....
That's the GOVERNMENT taking care of the people it is ATTACKI...., 'er, SERVING!!!!
All for YOU, and YOUR 9/11 LIES, 'murka!!!!!!
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Family members carried remains yesterday of a bombing victim in Peshawar, where a suicide bomber killed 10 people. (Ali Imam/ Reuters)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani security forces killed 52 Islamist fighters in the Swat Valley yesterday, officials said, and the country's prime minister told Parliament the army had to take on Taliban forces in the northwest because "the very existence of the country" was at stake.
Sigh. I'm so tired of agenda-pushing alarmists and their murderous lies.
Intense fighting continued in many areas of the Malakand region occupied by the Taliban, and thousands of civilians continued to flee. The number of displaced people has swelled to 270,000 in newly built camps in peaceful areas of North-West Frontier Province.
Yeah, shit camps!!!
Also see: What Didn't Make My Boston Sunday Globe
Interior Minister Rehman Malik told journalists in the capital that the army operation will continue "until the last militant is flushed out of the area," but he also appealed for more international assistance in the fight, saying, "We have the will, but we don't have the capacity" to defeat the violent Islamist forces....
So how long until U.S. forces are occupying the place?
Notice how governments are never violent in the AmeriKan jewsmedia -- unless they are an "enemy?"
The tough language from senior Pakistani officials was in sharp contrast to the government's position just a few weeks ago, when officials were promoting a peace accord with the Taliban and portraying its movement in the northwest as an effort to give poor, powerless Pakistanis a better justice system.
That's what U.S. THREATS WILL DO!!!!!
Even as public and political opinion coalesced around the ambitious army operation, several opposition parties spoke out against it yesterday.
Oh, so WE ARE BEING LIED TO when we are told the Pakistani public supports this mass-murdering spree at our behest, 'murkn.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who visited several refugee camps, said the nation should rally to the support of the displaced, but other officials in his party complained that the government had not consulted them before launching the military offensive.
Ummm, THAT AIN'T NO FRINGE GROUP, readers!
That is the SECOND-LARGEST POLITICAL PARTY in the country!!!!!
Leaders of the country's two major religious parties also protested the operation, saying the government was only fanning the flames of Islamist militancy and acting at the behest of the United States rather than in Pakistan's national interest.
Yeah, EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT!!!!
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Isn't it a SHAME, AmeriKa, that the "terrorists" are the ones TELLING the TRUTH -- while your Muslim-hating jewspaper lies to you?
And WTF?
No report from Pakistan in my Zionist War Daily today?
I guess this is why: Another Drone attack kills 10 more in S. Waziristan
