"Pakistani Taliban leader reportedly killed in missile strike; Commander was wanted in attack on US Consulate" by Rohan Sullivan, Associated Press | February 26, 2010
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani Taliban commander wanted in the deadly 2006 bombing of the US Consulate in Karachi was killed in a suspected CIA missile strike in northwest Pakistan, officials said yesterday - the latest blow in a crackdown on militants in the region.
Mohammed Qari Zafar was among at least 13 people killed Wednesday when three missiles slammed into a compound and a vehicle in the Dargah Mandi area of the North Waziristan tribal region on the border with Afghanistan, two Pakistani intelligence officials said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
It was the latest strike in an intensified US campaign to take out Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders believed to be sheltering in the lawless border region with missiles fired from unmanned drone aircraft. At the same time, Pakistani intelligence forces have cracked down on Afghan Taliban in the country, arresting more than a dozen top leaders in the past few weeks.
Related: Arresting Taliban To Cover America’s Ass
Yeah, I'm getting tired of the revolving door of CIA cut-outs being resurrected from the grave or intelligence assets being outed as "victory."
Meanwhile, Pakistan has arrested the fourth leader of the Afghan Taliban in three weeks, Afghanistan’s government confirmed yesterday, a further sign Pakistani security forces are cracking down on the insurgent movement.
Authorities in northwest Pakistan detained Maulavi Abdul Kabir, who is a member of the Taliban’s leadership council, said Siamak Herawi, the deputy spokesman for President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. Kabir was deputy prime minister in the Taliban government that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, and briefly as acting prime minister.
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate supported the Taliban as a proxy force in Afghanistan in the 1990s, and Taliban guerrillas still use Pakistani border areas as bases for their attacks on US-led forces backing Karzai’s government.
Ever notice it is okay for the Empire or CIA to use proxy forces (overtly or covertly), readers?
Related:
"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."
The TALIBAN was established under U.S. AUSPICES?
Oh, yeah, the AmeriKan MSM omitted that, yeah.
Pakistan also will extradite the Taliban deputy leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar, to Afghanistan, Zemarai Bashary, Afghan interior minister, said in a phone interview. “We hope this is the start of large-scale Pakistani operations’’ against the Afghan insurgents, Bashary said.
Also see: The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: Top Taliban Captured
The increased pressure on the Taliban in Pakistan is occurring as US-led forces fight their biggest offensive of the eight-year-old war in neighboring Afghanistan in what Western officials hope will be a turning point in the conflict.
Zafar, a senior member of the banned Al Qaeda-linked militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, is one of Pakistan’s and Washington’s most wanted men.
So he WAS WORKING for the CIA!!!
That's how they knew where to find him!!!
The US government alleges Zafar was a key figure in the March 2006 suicide car bombing of the US Consulate in the commercial metropolis of Karachi that killed US diplomat David Foy and three Pakistanis, and has posted a $5 million dollar reward for information leading to his capture.
Yup, a CIA-SPONSORED TERRORIST like all the rest!
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Also see: The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: Silent Missile Strikes in Pakistan
Brief Mentions of Missile Strikes in Pakistan
Yeah, add those numbers to Obomber's blood count.
And then the Pakistanis themselves (shame!) get in on the act:
"12 killed in Pakistan suicide attack" by Associated Press | March 6, 2010
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan Army helicopters destroyed a hide-out of a key Al Qaeda-linked militant leader, Maulvi Faqir Mohammed, killing 25 insurgents.
However, it was unclear whether Mohammed was present at the time, according to an army and intelligence official.Oh, so the CIA CUT-OUT wasn't there and 25 INNOCENTS NOW LAY DEAD?
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And the MSM buries the missile coverage as Pakistanis bury bodies:
"Blast in Pakistan’s heartland shatters a recent calm; Interrogation area targeted; 13 killed" by Babar Dogar, Associated Press | March 9, 2010
The United States has applauded Pakistan for its military operations and is also suspected of pummeling militants in the tribal areas with dozens of drone missile strikes, including one yesterday that killed three people, said Pakistani intelligence officials.
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"US aid group attacked in NW Pakistan; 6 dead" by Munir Ahmed, Associated Press Writer | March 10, 2010ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistani government has fought back against militants in the northwest with a series of military operations, and the U.S. has pummeled the insurgents with dozens of drone strikes near the Afghan border, including two Wednesday that killed at least 15 people....
What the PRINTED PAPER CUT:
The suspected U.S. missile strikes that occurred Wednesday hit the Mazer Meda Khel area of the North Waziristan tribal region, said local government official Sabir Khan.
In the first attack, drones fired four missiles at a house and a nearby truck, killing six people, said Khan.
Yeah, they wouldn't want us to know about the mass-murdering overkill.
As locals were trying to recover the bodies from the attack, drones fired two more missiles at the group and another nearby vehicle, killing nine people, Khan said.
Oh, now I see the WHY of the CHOP!!
The identities of those killed in the attacks were not known.
Then it is the MURDER of INNOCENTS, isn't it?
The U.S. refuses to discuss publicly the drone program in Pakistan, but officials say privately it has killed several senior al-Qaida and Taliban commanders.
And HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of CIVILIANS!!
Strange how that part gets left out, huh, readers?
More:
"US aid group attacked in Pakistan; Shooting, bomb at World Vision office kill 6 locals" by Ismail Khan, New York Times | March 11, 2010
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Elsewhere in Pakistan, two drone strikes since Monday in North Waziristan have killed at least 21 people, residents and a Pakistan security official said.
Of course, it is multiple missiles in those strikes, but the NYT apparently didn't have time or space to elaborate on that.
It's all about pushing the agenda.
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So how many dead did you come up with, readers?
I counted near 60, plus or minus.
Oh, I'm sorry, readers.
There is ANOTHER WAY the U.S. says IT LOVES YOU, Pakistan!
"Clinton’s poor diplomatic scans
AT THE State Department, they call it public diplomacy. This is a term used to describe outreach to average citizens and lawmakers in other societies. Such efforts assume that even the most wary foreigners may be brought around to like, or at least understand, America. That alluring hypothesis was found wanting when a group of six Pakistani legislators took umbrage at being asked to undergo a full-body scan last Sunday at Ronald Reagan National Airport.
Did they get their GENITALS FONDLED?!!!
I mean, I HOPE THEY GOT the FULL TREAT!!!!
And I THINK THEY UNDERSTAND US QUITE WELL NOW, thank you very much to you and those of your ilk, Glob.
The offended lawmakers from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas — where most Taliban and Al Qaeda forces are based — protested the body-scan request as an insult to their dignity, cancelled a planned trip to New Orleans, and flew home to a hero’s welcome.
Ah, they were "terrorists."
One Pakistani newspaper, indulging in patriotic hyperbole, called the incident “a dishonor of the whole Pakistani nation.’’
Well, it's better than the Zionist hyperbole that passes for them over here.
It called for a review of Pakistan’s alliance with the United States and disparaged the “alien war on terror in Afghanistan.’’
Oh, war-promoting papers can't have that!
And ODDLY, this is the FIRST I HAVE READ ABOUT THIS INCIDENT in the Globe and I READ EVERY DAY!
American diplomats know that this kind of suspicion is rife in Pakistan, particularly among members of the Pashtun ethnic group from the autonomous tribal areas.
You know, Americans; the innocent people Obomber and company is obliterating over a damnable lie. No biggie.
The legislators’ resentment at being singled out for a full-body scan — Pakistan is one of 14 countries whose nationals are subjected to special airport security checks — ought to have been foreseen. It would have been easy for the State Department to arrange special screening.
Hey, lookit!!! You had the names and the skin color so they had to! Gotta keep the show going.
As for whitey me here, I don't go to the airports anymore. I stay as far the hell away from them as possible. Don't ever, ever, book an American flight ever again, readers. Bin Laden could be on board next time, 'murkn, and where would that leave you?!
Whassat about the airline industry?
Screw them!!
We are talking terrorists here!!!
There was nothing wrong with the original invitation extended to the six Pakistani politicians during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s October trip to Pakistan. But if the aim of such public diplomacy is to counter Pakistanis’ anti-American paranoia, then it is a grave mistake to underestimate how deep-rooted that wariness can be. Before we can get them to understand us, we must understand them.
Coming from the lying, anti-Muslim, Zionist War Daily I'm at a loss for words.
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I would LIKE to think that I HAVE HELPED "them" UNDERSTAND Americans, dear readers!
Oh, yeah, about UNDERSTANDING those "Taliban!"
Hey, I do the best I can.
That is why THOSE NUMBERS of DEAD CLAIMED IRRITATE ME SO!
STOP MURDERING INNOCENT and BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE over LIES!!!!
That is the HIGHEST RESPECT YOU CAN OFFER!
Then make REPARATIONS!!!!
