"Blast kills 18 at Pakistan police residences" by Salman Masood, New York Times | September 8, 2010
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A powerful blast ripped through a residential compound for police officials and their families in Pakistan’s restive northwest last evening, killing at least 18 people, including children, officials said.
Related: You Have to Get Up Pretty Early in the Morning to Fool a Pakistani
AmeriKan MSM Chooses War Over Water in Pakistan
Sure seems that way.
It was the latest in a wave of attacks at a time when the Pakistani government is trying to ward off unrest stemming from widespread anger and despair over the devastation from monsoon-driven flooding, the worst in the country’s history.
Fifty people were wounded in the bombing, several of them critically, and rescue workers were searching for several dozen others trapped under the rubble of collapsed homes. The explosion occurred around the time that Muslims observing the holy month of Ramadan break their daily fast with an evening meal.
And that makes me suspicious right there.
Police officials said they were investigating whether the blast had been caused by a suicide bomber or a planted device. The Pakistani news media reported that it had been a car bomb. There were no immediate claims of responsibility.
The attack occurred in Kohat, a garrison town, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province. It lies near the semiautonomous tribal regions that have long served as a haven for Taliban militants. The attack was the latest in a string of lethal militant strikes on security and police targets in Pakistan’s northwest.
Just a day earlier, a suicide bomber killed 19 when he struck a police station in Lakki Marwat, in the same province. Last week, militants attacked Shiite Muslims in the eastern city of Lahore and in the southwestern city of Quetta.Related: Who is Killing Pakistan's Shi'ites?
It's not Taliban?
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What's up with that flood?
"Pakistan to charge 3 in attempted Times Square bombing" by Asif Shahzad, Associated Press | September 9, 2010
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan will soon bring terrorism charges against three men alleged to have helped the failed Times Square bomber....
The three to be charged were identified as Shoaib Mughal, Shahid Hussain, and Humbal Akhtar. All three are educated, relatively wealthy Pakistanis.
An intelligence officer said an unspecified number of other suspects were still under investigation, but confirmed that two people previously held had been released. He identified one of those as Salman Ashraf, the co-owner of a catering company the US Embassy accused of terrorist ties....
He did not give specifics, but terrorism crimes can be punished by death in Pakistan. It was unclear if the men had been appointed lawyers yet. Terrorism trials in Pakistan are always behind closed doors and often last for many months, if not years.
You know, like AmeriKa's military tribunals.
Yamin described them as having “militant minds’’ and a strong hatred for America.
Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad has pleaded guilty to terrorism and weapons charges in the United States in connection with the botched bombing.
After they tortured him and threatened his parents.
Yamin said the three men had close ties to the leadership of the Pakistani Taliban, a militant group that has claimed responsibility for the plot.
He said the three helped Shahzad travel to the northwest and meet militant leaders there.
They also sent him $13,000 in the United States when he ran short of money, he said.
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Related: The Amerikan MSM Blackout of Israel's Times Square Connection
Flood?
"Missile strike kills five alleged militants in Pakistan; Insurgents also stepping up attacks in region" by Ishtiaq Mahsud, Associated Press | September 10, 2010
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suspected American missile strike killed five alleged militants in northwestern Pakistan early yesterday, an intelligence official said, the fourth such attack on suspected insurgent targets there in 24 hours.
The barrage was one of the most intense since the attacks were stepped up more than two years ago in a bid to keep pressure on Al Qaeda and its allies. Most are believed to be fired from unmanned, remote-controlled planes that can hover for hours above the area.
Also yesterday, separate explosions — one near the Afghan border and another in the country’s southwest — killed 13 people, officials said, while Britain said a UK journalist had been released from months of militant captivity close to the Afghan border.
US officials do not publicly acknowledge the missile strikes but have said privately that they have killed several senior Taliban and Al Qaeda militants and scores of foot soldiers in a region largely out of the control of the Pakistani state. Critics say innocents are also killed, fueling support for the insurgency.
Related: 60 drone hits kill 14 al-Qaeda men, 687 civilians
Cutting a lot of bone there, 'bomber!
The latest attack took place before dawn on a house close to a disused match factory a little more than a mile west of Miran Shah town, a hub for local and international militants in the North Waziristan region, an intelligence official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with the policy of his agency....
The three attacks Wednesday also took place in North Waziristan, a lawless region home to Al Qaeda leaders plotting attacks in the West, insurgents battling foreign troops just across the border in Afghanistan, and extremists behind bombings in Pakistan....
So which "Al-CIA-Duh" would that be, huh?
The made-up "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Related:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Oh, AmeriKa's MSM KNOWS ALL ABOUT and yet STILL PUSHES the CHARADE, huh?Pakistani intelligence officials working from army bases in North Waziristan have a network of spies who inform them of the attacks. Sometimes journalists are able to speak by phone to villagers who witness them. Pakistani security agencies are believed to cooperate with at least some of the strikes, but there is very little independent reporting of them because the region is so dangerous for outsiders.
Really a round-about way of admitting the false flags.
The names of those killed are rarely released, and allegations of civilian casualties are not publicly investigated.
The militants have stepped up their own attacks in Pakistan in recent days, just as the army focuses on helping millions of victims of the worst floods in the country’s history. Four big bombs have killed at least 135 people in less than a week.
The flood gets less than a sentence?
Yesterday, 10 people were killed close to the Afghan border in Kurram region when a roadside bomb hit the bus they were traveling in, said local government official Noor Ahmed. It was unclear if the vehicle was targeted.
Another explosion took place outside the house of a provincial minister in Quetta, the capital of the southwestern Baluchistan Province, killing three people, said Police Chief Abid Hussain Nothkani. He did not speculate on who might be responsible.I will.
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Related: U. S. Delivers Massive Missile Aid to Baluchistan
Also related:
"[Pakistanis of a military mind-set like to accuse me of getting all my information from Indian sources. The following message will surely bring the same passionate denunciations, but it is a message that the world must hear, and one that no Pakistani writer could ever write without leaving the country first.
It should serve as a rallying cry to all those international activists who defend human rights, to see that the Iron Curtain which keeps Balochistan and Pakistan's Tribal Regions is torn down, just like the real "Iron Curtain" over the Soviet Union.
Pakistan, all of Pakistan, needs the world's help now, like never before in its entire history. The fact that particular areas are denied a fair share of the help, because of the religious or ethnic majorities they contain, speaks volumes about the bigoted militaristic policies of the Pakistani Army. Reports of widespread discrimination in aid distribution reflect sectarian policies which Pakistan and the US government have assured the world are a thing of the past. The shorting of aid to Shia dominant communities in the north, or the complete cutting-off of Balochistan to foreign aid workers, is stark testimony of Pakistan's divide and rule politics at work once again. This is the purposeful strangulation of foreign aid to turn the freely given aid into political advantage over the Army's internal enemies.
The fact that the world is shrinking because of the growth of technology means that the military cannot seal the electronic frontier. It cannot hide the cries for help that are reaching out to the world; the world hears the millions of voices that the Army wants us to ignore.
Such policies say to the world that if you risk sending money or food to Pakistan, you may be supporting a state which treats entire classes of people as "kafirs," infidels, traitors to either God or state. The good people of the world may understandably refuse to provide adequate aid if a good portion of it is likely to go to criminal politicians, or provide material support to a vicious Army which is more and more seen as the real power behind both the politicians and the "Islamic" militants which bedevil Western troops in Afghanistan and justify military operations in Pakistan's own Tribal Regions.
The jihadi ideas which are the essence of all Pakistani militant belief originated in the Pakistani military, sown there by CIA and ISI trainers. They served as the core beliefs of that contemporary phenomenon known as "al Qaida," all unbelievers are the enemies of Islam. Eliminating any or all of them is therefore the jihadi's highest goal, whether that jihadi is civilian or military. This mutant Deobandi/Wahabbi ideology which once permeated the entire Pakistani military is the enemy of the entire world. The American partnership with Pakistan in the "war of terror" is based on the assumption that such militant behavior is a relic from Pakistan's past. To give the impression that the Army is following policies which promote this sectarian hatred, or any element of the jihadi ideology is flirting with unprecedented disaster.
For the government of Pakistan to allow or encourage individuals to promote policies which give the world the impression that there is no space between the Pakistani Army and "al Qaida," is to risk its own lifeline while struggling to reach solid ground.] -- SOS FROM KHYBER PAKHTUNKWA, BALOCHISTAN & GILGIT-BALTISTAN[Of course the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) are going to attack aid workers, justifying the importation of Western troops to protect them as they go about their work. The monsoon floods have forced open doors for American planners that they have been scheming to get through for years. Does this suggest that God has abandoned the people of Pakistan, throwing His weight behind the Empire builders, or does it suggest something else, far more sinister? Time will tell.] -- UN reviews security after Pakistani Taliban ‘threat’
And finally some flood coverage:
"Pakistanis say joy will end quickly; Impact of floods felt during festival" by Associated Press | September 12, 2010
A flood victim drank tea from a pan at a relief camp at Sukkur in Pakistan’s Sindh Province yesterday. (Akhtar Soomro/ Reuters)
MUZAFFARGARH, Pakistan — Millions of Pakistani flood victims celebrated Islam’s most joyous festival in donated tents and makeshift shelters yesterday as the country’s leaders, criticized for an inadequate response to the disaster, pledged more aid.
Related:
"The mood was glum in Pakistan as millions of flood victims did their best to celebrate in donated tents and makeshift shelters yesterday as the country’s leaders — criticized for an inadequate response to the disaster — pledged more aid.
Yeah, and the floods have mostly been forgotten here. They didn't even get an aid appeal.
Charities sent bags of gifts such as shiny plastic wrist bangles and candies to children displaced by the floods, which have affected 18 million people.
Appreciate the effort, but that just ain't getting it done for aid.
How is the CHOLERA SITUATION that was becoming DIRE going, huh?
The water has receded in many places, but remains head-high in others. “We don’t have the happiness of Eid. What is the happiness?’’ said Amana Bibi, 25. “We don’t have homes.’’
Imho, the coverage here is woefully lacking.
The water has receded in many places, but remains head-high in others, forcing victims to stay outside their villages in camps or alone on roadsides.
Girls gathered at one camp near a power plant in the city of Muzaffargarh, sitting on a rug unfurled on the ground near the road as aid workers decorated their hands with intricate henna designs.
Their mothers, hovering behind, said even this small pleasure would soon be gone. “We don’t have the happiness of Eid. What is the happiness?’’ said Amana Bibi, 25. “We don’t have homes.’’
Charities sent bags of gifts such as shiny plastic wrist bangles and candies to children displaced by the floods, which have affected 18 million people.
Wow, deja vu again.
The three-day Eid al-Fitr festival is celebrated at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. The festival begins when the first visible crescent of the new moon is spotted in the skies. Eid started Friday in Pakistan’s northwest and yesterday in most other parts of the country.
During Ramadan, the faithful are supposed to abstain from food and drink in a dawn-to-dusk period of self-sacrifice to commemorate the revelation of the Koran to the Prophet Mohammed.
The Pakistanis probably haven't had much trouble with those requirements.
Eid includes morning prayers at mosques before visits, gift-giving, and meals at relatives’ and friends’ homes....
“We will provide you financial help for rebuilding homes,’’ Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told survivors at a camp in southwestern Baluchistan Province, one of the hardest-hit regions. He also distributed gifts.
I hope none of them were missiles.
Related: Pakistan President Steps Around the Puddles
Amazing how some people never get wet.
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Follow-up photo:
"FLOOD RELIEF -- Pakistan flood victims swam toward the roof of a building where the army was dropping aid from a helicopter yesterday in Dadu, in Sindh Province. About 21 million people have been affected by the floods (Boston Globe September 14 2010)."
The photograph is mind-boggling. Water around the top of a building and people swimming towards it!
And if you just read the web version you would never have known it.
Back to the war:
"Suspected US strike kills 5 in Pakistan" by Associated Press | September 13, 2010
MIR ALI, Pakistan — A suspected US missile strike yesterday killed at least five associates of warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur, who is fighting Western troops in Afghanistan, officials said.
Bahadur struck a truce with the Pakistani military last year as it waged an offensive in the South Waziristan tribal area against the Pakistani Taliban, a group dedicated to attacking the Pakistani state, among other targets. He has focused instead on battling US and NATO troops across the border in Afghanistan.
Pakistan intelligence officials said two missiles targeted a home in Datta Khel in the North Waziristan tribal area where Bahadur’s associates were believed to be staying. They said five people were killed and three were believed to be wounded.
Because they were not authorized to talk to the media, the officials spoke on the condition of anonymity.
A series of suspected US missile attacks have occurred in North Waziristan, a lawless region home to Al Qaeda leaders plotting attacks in the West, insurgents battling foreign troops in Afghanistan, and extremists responsible for bombings in Pakistan.
Four air strikes pounded the area over 24 hours this past week, the last killing five suspected militants early Thursday, officials said.
There were at least four other attacks earlier in the week. Most are believed to be fired from remote-controlled planes that can hover for hours.
Pakistan has condemned the American missile strikes as violations of its sovereignty, warning that civilian casualties deepen anti-US sentiment and complicate the fight against terrorism. But many suspect the nations have a deal allowing the attacks.They have been helping supply locations to bomb. That is why the government is hated.
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"US drones strike areas on Afghan border" by Associated Press | September 15, 2010
ISLAMABAD — Drone aircraft unleashed two missile attacks in a lawless tribal region on the Afghan border yesterday, making September the most intense period of US strikes in Pakistan since they began in 2004, intelligence officials said.
Obama is just throwing them around a shattered nation, huh?
What an a**hole!
The stepped-up campaign is focused on a small area of farming villages and mountainous, thickly forested terrain controlled by the Haqqani network, a ruthless American foe in Afghanistan, US officials said.
Oh, the HAQQANI NETWORK, huh?
"Haqqani.... credited with introducing suicide bombing to the region.... cultivated as a "unilateral" asset of the CIA and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work.... He may have had a role in expediting the escape of Osama Bin Laden.... In July 2008, CIA officials confronted Pakistan officials with evidence of ties between Inter-Services Intelligence and Haqqani. Haqqani has been accused of involvement in the 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul...."
Are ALL the TERRORISTS working for US, America?There is some evidence the network is being squeezed as a result, one official said.
CIA turn on 'em?
US officials said the airstrikes were designed to degrade the Haqqanis’ operations on the Pakistani side of the border, creating a “hammer-and-anvil’’ effect as US special operations forces carry out raids against their fighters across the frontier in Afghanistan.
Anvil has blood all over it.
Related: What Works for AmeriKa in Afghanistan
That is the only thing we are good at anymore.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
The missiles have killed more than 50 people in 12 strikes since Sept. 2 in the Pakistani region of North Waziristan, according to an Associated Press tally based on Pakistani intelligence officials’ reports.
I wonder how many of them hit water.
Many of the missiles struck around Datta Khel, a town of about 40,000 people that sits on a strategically vital road to the Afghan border.
I'm sure we are winning over those people.
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And look who adds insult to injury:
"US envoy warns Pakistan of shortfall in funding for flood recovery efforts" by Sebastian Abbot, Associated Press | September 17, 2010
KARACHI, Pakistan — The world will be able to fund only around 25 percent of the tens of billions of dollars needed to rebuild Pakistan after the floods, and its government will have to make up the shortfall, the US envoy to the country warned yesterday.
Richard Holbrooke said America would place no conditions on its assistance to the country, but warned that Congress might not be generous if it felt that Pakistan was not taxing its own citizens enough.
That's OUR CONGRESS, all right!
Related: Holbrooke's Hubris
Yeah, he is a real piece of work. Did he just top himself?
Pakistan’s rich have traditionally not paid much tax on their income or their property, either because they evade taxes or are exempt. The country’s collection rates are among the lowest in the world.
Oh, so Pakistan is just like AmeriKa.
Critics have pointed to this shortage of revenue in recent weeks as Pakistani leaders have sought international aid. The country’s economy is surviving on international assistance, and the floods are expected to slow economic growth further.
“I don’t want to withhold money they need, but I think we have to be clear that the Congress is going to be reluctant to give money if the money is filling in a gap because people are not paying taxes,’’ said Holbrooke during a visit to Karachi.
But if Israel asked the check gets cut right away.
Monsoon rains triggered massive floods six weeks ago that spread across the country and still continue in parts of the south.
MSM fooled you into thinking it was over, didn't they?
Some 8 million people have been made homeless in what Pakistani and UN officials have said is one of the largest humanitarian disasters in living memory....
You would think it would get more coverage and print.
America has given more than $260 million for flood relief and has provided 30 military helicopters to evacuate people and deliver food and supplies.
As we continue to missile and bomb.
Flood victims prepared yesterday to board a Pakistani Navy rescue helicopter evacuating them from Faridabad. The flooding has left about 8 million people without shelter. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images)
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