"Pakistani Taliban chief dodged US missile strike, officials say" by Munir Ahmad, Associated Press | June 25, 2009
ISLAMABAD - The head of Pakistan’s Taliban had joined a funeral procession targeted in a suspected US missile strike, but left before the attack that killed 80 people mourning those struck down by an earlier barrage on a militant training camp, intelligence officials said yesterday.
Mr. Obama, sir, that is MASS-MURDER and YOU, sir, are a WAR CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!
A top Taliban aide denied Baitullah Mehsud was anywhere near the missile strike - among the deadliest in an ongoing campaign - and said all but five of the dead were civilians. The intelligence officials, however, said several senior Taliban militants were killed.
ABOUT the CIA ASSET Mehsud: He ALREADY DEAD!
Want to find Mehsud? Good luck!
Is U.S. Trying To Save Agent Mehsud?
Also read: Nabbing Baitullah alive
Mehsud, accused of plotting suicide bombings and the assassination Tuesday of his chief rival, is the target of a looming offensive by Pakistan’s military in the South Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan.
After a while, you get tired of the same repeated war-prop s***-slop.
Suspected missile strikes killed several people at a purported Taliban training center early Tuesday, then another barrage rained down on a funeral procession for some of those killed in the first attack.
THIS is MONSTROUS!!
Oh, the U.S. EXCELS at RAZING WEDDING PARTIES and FUNERAL MARCHES!!!
Oh, MAY GOD FORGIVE US because I NEVER WILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two intelligence officials said yesterday that although Mehsud had visited the village where the funeral took place, he left before the drone-fired missiles killed 80 people and wounded dozens more. The two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media, said it was unclear how long before the attack Mehsud left.
Where did he go? BACK to his GRAVE?
Intelligence officials had said Tuesday that militants lost contact with Mehsud for a while. Media reports suggested he had a very close call.
It's NOT FUNNY considered the 80 DEAD INNOCENTS (oh!), but the PAPER'S OUTRAGEOUS, UNSUPPORTED, PROPAGANDISTIC CLAIMS are RIDICULOUS!
But Qari Hussain, a close associate of Mehsud, denied those reports.
Dozens of air strikes have been carried out in the tribal regions over the past year, drawing criticism from Pakistan’s leaders that they jeopardize the military operation by firing up an already raging anti-Americanism.
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge:
"Pakistani officials have made clear that they regard the Predator attacks as a less objectionable violation of Pakistani sovereignty"
And those "anti-AmeriKan people?"
It's what they call "Taliban" whoever they are.
You kill my whole family, I may pick up the gun.
Meanwhile, Islamabad police chief Kalim Imam said yesterday that police are holding 25 suspects on suspicion they were planning acts of terrorism or were behind bomb attacks across the country. “We got hold of them through good intelligence,’’ Imam told reporters.
They "Al-CIA-Duhs?" And WHO GAVE YOU the "intelligence?"
AmeriKa? Ha-ha-ha-ha!
Yeah, that's GOOD INTELLIGENCE!
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said two of them were arrested three days ago on suspicion they wanted to attack Parliament and an elite intelligence agency.
So WHICH INFORMANT was PRODDING THEM?
Two senior security officials said other potential targets of the 25 included the office of Pakistan’s main spy agency and some embassies. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to media.
EL STINKOLA!!!!!!!!
Ahead of an impending military operation, clashes continued yesterday in the volatile northwest, with a rocket attack at a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Peshawar killing three officers, local police chief Yasin Khan said. Three rockets were fired at a military base in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan, triggering a shootout but no known casualties.
The upcoming assault will focus on Mehsud, who reportedly has up to 12,000 men under his control, entrenched in the lawless tribal areas. The campaign has been preceded by aerial and artillery bombardment, and Malik, the interior minister, said 65,000 displaced people have already moved from South Waziristan to North Waziristan, where they are living with friends and relatives.
I don't know why (actually I do; because the U.S. has CAUSED it) they keep LOWBALLING the MASSIVE NUMBER of REFUGEES!!
That's gonna come back and bite that puppet U.S. government on the ass!
Related: Pashtun Hospitality
--more--"Also see: Holbrooke's Hubris
And after what I posted above (wink, wink, nudge, nudge), can you BELIEVE THIS BS?
"Pakistan seeks end to drone attacks; Leaders assured of US support" by Ryan Lucas, Associated Press | June 26, 2009
ISLAMABAD - President Obama’s national security adviser reiterated the United States’ strong support for Pakistan in its battle with Taliban militants during talks with senior Pakistani leaders yesterday.
Islamabad, meanwhile, called for an end to US missile attacks on its soil, two days after a suspected drone strike killed 80 people in the country’s northwest.
I'd say TWO DAYS TOO LATE, morons!!!!!!
General James Jones, the national security adviser, discussed Washington’s revamped strategy for the volatile region during talks with Pakistani military chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, and President Asif Ali Zardari during his two-day visit to Islamabad.
He stressed that the two nations face a common battle against extremists. “Terrorism is not simply the enemy of America - it is a direct and urgent threat to the Pakistani people.’’
Then we will PULL the CIA TEAMS OUT and STOP FOMENTING IT, General?
Gonna get MOSSAD and INDIA to PULL OUT THEIR TEAMS?
The White House has made the region a focus of its foreign policy, and it is deploying an additional 21,000 troops to Afghanistan in an attempt to tame a growing Taliban insurgency.
THAT DOES IT!
I can ONLY HOLD MY TONGUE SO LONG!
Now, I KNOW this is NEXT DOOR, but the LINE is a BRITISH FABRICATION and the SAME PRINCIPLES APPLY!!
WHO are the TALIBAN?
"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 AmeriKan MSM and its bullshit!
As for the Pakistani help with the Taliban:
Of course, NOTHING about the U.S. SETTING the WHOLE THING UP:
"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 WHAT ever happened to those PEACE TALKS?
Gilani, meanwhile, voiced concern that the beefed up US presence in Afghanistan could send a new wave of Afghan refugees across the border. Islamabad is already grappling with its own internal refugee problem and would probably be ill-equipped to handle a new influx of people. Some 2 million Pakistanis have been forced from their homes by the army’s offensive against Taliban militants in the Swat Valley.
It is MORE like 3 MILLION -- and GROWING EVERY DAY as PAKISTAN'S ARMY and U.S. MISSILES try to bring down the mountains!
With the operation in Swat winding down, Pakistan’s military is gearing up for a new campaign in South Waziristan, where heavily armed tribesmen hold sway and Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding.
Notice how they link the "Al-CIA-Duh" and "Taliban."
Hey, you don't know, Amurkn -- or aren't supposed to know.
All I know is it means MORE DEAD INNOCENT PEOPLE that NEVER DID ANYTHING TO US because 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB!
And the Pakistani paymaster patsies to Atta is a PATSY SET-UP of PAKISTAN because the JOB was OBVIOUSLY a CIA/MOSSAD PRODUCTION!
Suspected militant hide-outs in South Waziristan have been pounded for more than a week with bombs and artillery.
Think of it as a QUIET BARRAGE -- as opposed to those LOUD SUICIDERS, 'eh?
Washington strongly supports both campaigns, viewing them as a test of nuclear-armed Pakistan’s resolve to confront a growing insurgency after years of half-hearted offensives and peace deals with militants.
Yup, Pakistan's government is being TESTED!
The test?
HOW MUCH PAKISTANI BLOOD they can present to the NEW EMPEROR of AMERIKAN EMPIRE!
The battle in the tribal region could also help the war in Afghanistan because the area has been used by militants to launch cross-border attacks on US and other troops.
Says the U.S. MEDIA and MILITARY with FINGERS CROSSED!!!
Of course, the PAKISTANI SAW IT DIFFERENTLY, but hey, what is ONE MORE DISTORTION from the agenda-pushing papers!?
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