Saturday, October 24, 2009

Taliban Taking It to Pakistani Army

Related: Taliban Take Round One

Looks like they also won Round Two. Read the articles carefully.

"Pakistan is slowly advancing on Taliban" by Zarar Khan and Ishtiaq Mahsud, Associated Press | October 23, 2009

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Residents fleeing a 6-day-old Pakistani Army offensive in a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border reported yesterday that the insurgents are digging in for a fight and travel the roads freely.

Tired and dusty refugees arriving in this northwestern town yesterday from different parts of South Waziristan reported intense army bombing by jets and helicopters but said they had seen no ground troops. The accounts by a dozen refugees are a sign of just how much fighting remains before the military can even hope to clear the area....

The military say its troops are progressing steadily and retaking land on three fronts. But officers have made it clear that the campaign will be long and bloody and acknowledged resistance is tough.

So we get LIES from the GOVERNMENT and MSM, huh?

As the army presses into their heartland, the militants are trying to bring the war to the rest of Pakistan.

Oh, yeah? See: Pakistanis See Conspiracies

Whosat bringing the war to Pakistan, cui bono??

Over the past 20 days, they have killed more than 170 people in a series of suicide bombings and raids on Western, civilian, and security force targets across the country. In the latest attack, suspected insurgents on a motorbike shot and killed a senior army officer and a soldier yesterday in a residential part of the capital, Islamabad.

The slain officer, Ahmed Moinuddin, was on leave from his job as deputy commander of the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan.

Why would they kill HIM, of all people? Someone HELPING OUT ARAB MUSLIMS?

Of course, ANY ATTACK in the LYING, WAR-PROMOTING PAPER is now assumed to be a FALSE FLAG OPERATION the press is either BRAGGING ABOUT or COVERING UP! "Suspected" insurgents?

The attack was carried out despite ramped-up security nationwide.

Oh, STINK, STINK, STINK!!!!!!

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"Pakistani Air Force targeted; Suicide bombing at research hub, killing seven" by Jane Perlez, New York Times | October 24, 2009

Despite ramped-up security, huh?

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A suicide bombing at Pakistan’s premier aeronautical manufacturing complex killed seven people yesterday morning, the ninth attack on major government installations this month.

The bomber blew up himself at the checkpoint at the entrance to the complex, 40 miles northwest of Islamabad, as workers arrived for the morning shift, said a district police official, Fakhur Sultan. Two men guarding the checkpoint and five civilians were killed, Sultan said. The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex at Kamra is the country’s main air force maintenance and research hub, where engineers and workers build and overhaul fighter jets and radar systems.

So WHY is the MSM covering up the fact that the place is a nuclear weapons site?

The relentless pace of assaults against sensitive and prominent targets in Pakistan comes as the army is conducting a major offensive against Taliban and Al Qaeda militants in the remote tribal area of South Waziristan. The attacks are seen as reprisals for the campaign against the militants in their tribal heartland.

On Thursday morning, a senior army officer, Brigadier Moinuddin Haider, was assassinated by two gunmen who attacked his jeep during rush-hour traffic in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital.

"Gunmen," huh?

See:

The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: Blackening Out Blackwater Assassins

The Boston Globe Bucks Up the CIA

Pakistan's Death Squads

So WHICH TEAM was it?

The Taliban had warned before the start of the campaign in South Waziristan that they planned to unleash attacks against Pakistan’s military assets. The Taliban attacked the headquarters of the Pakistani Army, in Rawalpindi, in a commando-style raid Oct. 10. The insurgents took more than 40 civilians and soldiers hostage for 20 hours, and more than 20 people were killed in the siege.

All false flags if the MSM is boasting about them, or REAL and the Pakistani Army is TAKING IT in the SHINS then!!!

Either way. I "win" when it comes to my lying, distorting, agenda-pushing, war-promoting MSM -- and the PAKISTANI PEOPLE LOSE!!!!

With the military nearing the end of its first week of fighting in South Waziristan, some military reports said yesterday that soldiers had captured the strategic town of Tor Ghundai.

You mean, LIKE the OTHER ONE they "captured" before being DRIVEN OUT?

How do INVISIBLE TROOPS hold a town, anyway?

Elsewhere, at least 16 people were killed when a minibus hit an antitank mine yesterday in the tribal area of Mohmand, bordering Afghanistan, district officials said. Six people wounded in the minibus explosion were brought to Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, where there was another attack yesterday. Militants exploded a car bomb in the parking lot of a banquet facility, wounding 10 people, district officials said.

Then the "TALIBAN" are "WINNING," huh?

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Related:

"Video: Refugees flee heavy fighting in South Waziristan

(Blog editor was in tears after watching that 2-minute clip; what beautiful people!)

Blackwater has arms warehouse in Islamabad Private US security firm Blackwater has a warehouse located in the industrial area of Islamabad that is reportedly involved in illegal arms trading. The warehouse, Kestral Logistics, is working as the subcontractor of Xe Worldwide or Blackwater, The Nation reports. According to sources, the company has arms deals with Blackwater and is importing heavy arms and ammunition for the US company for its ongoing illicit operations in Pakistan.Related: The Rumors of Pakistan

"Drone Assassinations Are Only Making Things Worse Jane Mayer, author of the great book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, was interviewed yesterday on NPR on the CIA’s drone attacks in Pakistan. She discussed the morality and legality of those attacks as well as their adverse consequences.

Also see: Taliban I Told You So

Earthquake in Pashtunistan