As best I could, dear readers. I do this as a service to you, and to expose once again the lying dog shit media of AmeriKa.
The original post was titled Pakistan Battles Back!
What would you do if they were ganging up on you?
"Property records give new insights into bin Laden" by Zarar Khan and Nahal Toosi, Associated Press | May 5, 2011
Pakistan stepped up its attempt to convince the world that it didn't know where bin Laden was located. They maintain that the al-Qaida leader's ability to hide in Abbottabad, an army town just two hours drive from the capital, was the result of an oversight by the government, not double dealing.
Most of the world did not know what hillside he's been buried in all these years.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Wednesday that anyone who claimed his country hid bin Laden was "color blind."
During a visit to Paris, Gilani said that Pakistan shared intelligence with numerous countries in the fight against terrorism and had "excellent cooperation" with the United States. He said that "if we have failed, it means everybody failed," and an investigation would be ordered.
Many countries have expressed disbelief that bin Laden could have holed up under the Pakistani army's nose, and some U.S. Congressmen have said the U.S. should consider cutting billions of dollars in aid to the country....
I'm sure the Pakistanis would be just fine without our increasing worthless currency as long as we just left them alone.
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And this is the kind of insulting stuff that has me disbelieving everything the war-promoting, agenda-pushing AmeriKan paper says:
"Globe Editorial: After raid, US and Pakistan confront a moment of truth
May 5, 2011
PAKISTAN’S MILITARY leaders and their all-powerful Inter-Services Intelligence branch (ISI) confront a humiliating either-or question in the aftermath of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in a high-walled compound next door to Pakistan’s West Point. Either they knew about the safe house and its notorious occupant, or Pakistan’s military and intelligence chiefs have been shockingly incompetent.
Yeah, it is the SAME QUESTION the U.S. GOVERNMENT FACES over the OFFICIAL yet PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLEVERSION of 9/11!
The only realistic conclusion for US policy makers is that some of the Pakistani officials who have long insisted that bin Laden is either dead or hiding out in Afghanistan, Yemen, or elsewhere were knowingly peddling lies....
Oh, like the WAR LIES the AmeriKan media PEDDLED on their FRONT PAGES leading to the INVASION of IRAQ?
Related:
"the truth lies buried in the murky world of spies."
Also see: They Don't Want Your Blood Money
Yeah, the "murk" gets pretty damn thick in the Boston Globe.
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And speaking of the "murky world" of spies:
"Pakistan identifies top CIA officer; Leak angers US, escalates tension following raid" by Jane Perlez, New York Times / May 10, 2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For the second time in five months, Pakistani officials have angered the CIA by tipping the news media to the identity of the US station chief in Islamabad, a deliberate effort to complicate the work of the spy agency in the aftermath of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, American officials said.
The leak demonstrated the tilt toward a near-adversarial relationship between the CIA and the Pakistani spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISI, since the bin Laden raid. It appeared to be intended to show the leverage the Pakistanis retain over American interests in the country, both sides said.
You see what is coming, right?
In an address before Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Yousaf Gilani made clear that Pakistani officials at the highest levels accepted little responsibility for the fact that bin Laden was able to hide in their country for years.
Instead, Gilani condemned the United States for a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and called the Al Qaeda leader’s presence in Pakistan an intelligence failure of the “whole world.’’
He said it was “disingenuous’’ for anyone to imply that the ISI or the army was “in cahoots’’ with bin Laden, something American officials suspect but for which they acknowledge they have no proof.
Reminds me of a certain war daily I purchase nearly every day.
The prime minister’s statements, along with the publication of the name of the CIA station chief, signaled the depths of the recriminations and potential for retaliation on both sides as American officials demand greater transparency and cooperation from Pakistan, which has not been forthcoming.
Just remember that the CIA-CONTRACTED AGENT DAVIS was TRYING to GIVE nuclear bomb and biological weapons material to "Al-CIA-Duh" next time a BIG BOOM GOES OFF, America!!!
The Pakistani spy agency gave the name of the station chief to The Nation, a conservative daily newspaper with a small circulation that is supportive of the ISI, American and Pakistani officials said.
Look at the AmeriKan media rip the credibility of that paper!
Talk about pot hollering kettle. What nerve!
The name that appeared in print was misspelled but close enough to send a clear signal, the officials said.
Similarly, last December, the cover of the station chief at the time was deliberately revealed by the ISI, again by a close approximation of the name, American officials said. As a result, he was forced to leave the country.
The new station chief has no intention of leaving Pakistan, US officials said. The New York Times generally does not identify American intelligence operatives working undercover....
Then WHY BOTHER READING the REST?
It's ALL GARBAGE LIES, DISTORTIONS, and OBFUSCATIONS, folks!
This is the state of AmeroKa's PROPAGANDA PRESS these days!
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Related:
(I had not included this in the original post; however, now I will)
"As Carl Bernstein documented decades ago, the CIA "ran a formal training program in the 1950s to teach its agents to be journalists. Intelligence officers were 'taught how to make noises like reporters,' explained a high CIA official, and were then placed in major news organizations with help from management. 'These were the guys who went through the ranks and were told, 'You're going to be a journalist,' the CIA official said. Relatively few of the 400-some [media] relationships described in Agency files followed that pattern, however; most involved persons who were already bona fide journalists when they began undertaking tasks for the Agency."
By way of an initiative called "Operation Mockingbird," the CIA built a large seraglio of paid media courtesans. This was carried out through the Office of Policy Coordination, which was created by Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner – the latter being the official who went on to organize coups (and the attendant propaganda campaigns) against governments in Iran and Guatemala. (Wisner's son and namesake, incidentally, was a vice chairman at AIG – the CIA's favorite global insurance conglomerate – until 2009; more recently he was tapped by the Obama administration to serve as a back-channel contact with Hosni Mubarak and Omar Suleiman.)
The tendrils of "Operation Mockingbird" extended through every significant national media organ, from the Washington Post and Newsweek to the Time-Life conglomerate, from the New York Times to CBS. As a result, according to former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, the Fourth Estate "has been captured by government and corporations, the military-industrial complex, the intelligence apparatus." It is, in everything but name, an appendage of the Regime. This is clearly seen every time the Regime decides the time has come to mount another campaign of humanitarian bloodshed abroad.
Having "learned nothing from the horrors that they cheer-led like excitable teenage girls over the past 15 years, these bohemian bombers, these latte-sipping lieutenants, these iPad imperialists are back," sighs a wearily disgusted Brendan O'Neill in the London Telegraph. "This time they're demanding the invasion of Libya."
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Also see: Operation Mockingbird
Six Jewish Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
You know, all of a sudden the agenda-pushing, ax-grinding shit pile put out by the AmeriKan media all makes sense!
"Military warns against US raids; Admits failures in intelligence" by Karin Brulliard, Washington Post / May 6, 2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s powerful army yesterday broke its silence about the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden, acknowledging intelligence “shortcomings’’ in its failure to find the terror mastermind but warning the United States against carrying out another such operation.
Related: General Kayani Is Wrong In Admitting Failure
Because the dead guy was never there.
In a combative statement, a group of top generals known as the corps commanders said any similar US raid would prompt Pakistan to review its military and intelligence cooperation with the United States.
Already, the statement said, the army had decided to reduce the number of US military personnel in Pakistan “to the minimum essential.’’ That was an apparent reference to demands made in Washington two weeks ago by Pakistan’s spy chief, who asked for a drawdown in CIA personnel and US special forces soldiers following the shooting of two Pakistanis by a CIA contractor.
That's all lost in the "murk" somehow.
At the same time, the statement cited Pakistan’s “own shortcomings in developing intelligence on the presence of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan,’’ and said an investigation had been ordered. Hours earlier, Pakistan’s foreign minister denied that an investigation was planned or even needed, saying questions about bin Laden were “for historians.’’
And WE ARE HERE ANSWERING THEM RIGHT NOW!
The conflicting statements came as Pakistani officials faced rising domestic and international backlash about the helicopter-borne assault on bin Laden’s compound by US Navy SEALs.
Related:
"there are no signs of panic in Islamabad"
I love AmeriKan media lies, don't you?
Also see: Ahmed Quraishi: CIA Creating Confusion After Pakistan Helped Kill Bin Laden
Yeah, I'm reading one of their papers now.
Yesterday, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir appeared to question the legality of the US operation....
Though clearly directed at the United States, the suggestions that the operation might have breached international law also appeared to be a warning to Pakistan’s archenemy and nuclear-armed neighbor, India, which has been targeted in terror bombings and attacks by Pakistani militants.
On Wednesday, India’s army chief said his forces were capable of carrying out a raid similar to the successful US operation....
Now WHY SAY THAT NOW?
Related: Chirps of Peace From Pakistan
Oh, we can't have any of those!
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And you know what talking back gets you from the empire:
"Suspected US drone attack kills 15 in first strike in Pakistan since raid" by Karin Brulliard and Karen deYoung, Washington Post / May 7, 2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suspected CIA drone strike targeted a militant stronghold area in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan’s borderlands yesterday, killing 15 people, according to news reports.
Basically a big flip of the finger to Pakistan by Obama and the U.S. government.
Missiles pounded the town of Datta Khel, near what US officials believe is the headquarters of the Haqqani network, an Afghan insurgent force that has staged deadly bombings in Afghan cities and regularly attacks NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan.
Oh, Haqqani again, 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.... The Haqqani Network is based in Pakistan and is believed to have links to Al Qaeda."
Yeah, ONCE YOU REALIZE that the "terrorists" are ALL CREATED, DIRECTED, and FUNDED by WESTERN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES and that 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB carried out primarily by CIA and MOSSAD reading this slop really starts to suck!!!!!!
The Associated Press, quoting Pakistani intelligence officials, said the strike targeted a vehicle suspected of carrying foreign militants and damaged a nearby restaurant and home.
Officials reported that at least one of the dead was a civilian.
Yeah, AT LEAST ONE which means it COULD HAVE BEEN MORE!
And, of course, they are ALL INNOCENT when you consider the OSTENSIBLE REASON for showering the place with missiles!!
Yesterday’s strikes — the first since the US helicopter raid on the compound of Osama bin Laden in northwest Pakistan on Monday — are likely to further stoke tensions between the two allies.
CIA drone strikes in the past year frequently have struck North Waziristan, home to a stewpot of Islamist militant groups that the United States has long pressured Pakistan’s army to clean up.
An AmeriKan media stew that smells like s***!!!!!!!
Pakistan calls the strikes violations of its sovereignty, though the nation tacitly allows them.
That's why Pakistanis hate their government.
As relations with the United States soured this year, Pakistani military officials have demanded a decrease in the strikes, depicting them as a “unilateral’’ tactic that no longer depends on shared intelligence.
On Thursday, Pakistan’s military also criticized the bin Laden raid as a violation of the nation’s sovereignty, warning that further such operations would prompt Pakistan to reconsider its alliance with the United States....
Also yesterday, religious parties held gatherings in various cities to protest bin Laden’s killing and to call on the government to cut ties with the United States.
By midday, however, the rallies had attracted few people. Though Pakistan is the hub of many Islamist extremist groups, including Al Qaeda and the Taliban, bin Laden’s death has spurred little public reaction here....
That's because the Pakistanis know it's a bunch of bs just like the rest of the world. Only in AmeriKa are we being shoveled this shit.
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And since you didn't get the message the first time:
"US drones kill 3 in Pakistan border regionAssociated Press / May 11, 2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — US missiles killed three alleged Arab militants yesterday in a tribal region along the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
The officials said two drone-fired missiles hit a vehicle in the Baghar area of South Waziristan, an area that has been used by militants to cross into Afghanistan, where many are involved in fighting US, NATO, and Afghan forces.
The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. The officials said local informants and intercepted satellite-phone conversations indicated that the militants killed were Arab.
But they can't find these Taliban spokesman who call in?
Yesterday’s strike was the second drone attack since US Navy SEALs conducted a raid on May 2 that killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a garrison city that also lies in the country’s northwest.
The American raid on bin Laden’s hideout heightened tensions between the two nations, but the United States has generally continued missile strikes even during sensitive times.
Also yesterday, a morning explosion outside the district court in Nowshera killed a female Pakistani police constable and a civilian, and wounded several other people, said Liaqat Ali Khan, a regional police chief.
Preliminary reports indicate that a homemade bomb was planted at a police checkpoint situated at an entrance to the court where women are scanned and searched.
Oh, does THAT EVER REEK of a FALSE FLAG ATTACK!
Khan said he believes the court in northwest Pakistan was targeted because of its proceedings against suspected terrorists and their accomplices.
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Also see: Pakistani lawmakers call for president to resign
Pakistan president told to quit party role
Assault team was prepared to fight Pakistani forces
I'm sure they will be getting their chance real soon.
Updates in the interim:
"Pakistan army chief said to resist US demands" May 13, 2011|By Jane Perlez, New York Times
ISLAMABAD — Despite mounting pressure from the United States since the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan’s army chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, seems unlikely to respond to US demands to root out other militant leaders, according to people who have met with him in the past 10 days.
Still hasn't gotten the message?
While the general does not want to abandon the alliance, he is more likely to pursue a strategy of decreasing Pakistan’s reliance on the United States and continuing to offer just enough cooperation to keep US aid flowing, said a confidant of the general.
I wouldn't count on that flowing for long.
Such a response is certain to test US officials, who are more mistrustful of Pakistan than ever. Emboldened by the May 2 raid that killed bin Laden in Pakistan, US officials say they now have greater leverage to force Pakistani cooperation in hunting down Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders so the United States can end the war in Afghanistan.
Oh, is THAT WHAT this STAGED CONTRIVANCE was ALL ABOUT?
Same old NEO-CON PROPAGANDA and GEOPOLITICAL BULLSHIT!!!!!
The United States will now push harder for Kayani to break with other militant leaders who US officials believe are hiding in Pakistan with support of the military and intelligence service, a senior US official said. The leaders include Mullah Muhammad Omar, the spiritual leader of the Afghan Taliban, the official said.
Pakistani officials, meanwhile, are anxiously waiting to see if any new intelligence about Al Qaeda in Pakistan spills from the US raid that could be used to exert more pressure on the group.
But those who have spoken with the army chief recently said that demands to break with top militant leaders may be too much for Kayani, who is scheduled to address an unusual, closed-door joint session of Parliament today to explain the military’s lapses surrounding the US raid.
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You know what that gets you, right?
"Police doubt Taliban claim of suicide attack; 82 Pakistani cadets killed, 150 people hurt" by Jane Perlez, New York Times / May 14, 2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Senior police officials said yesterday that a suicide attack that killed 82 cadets from a government paramilitary force was probably retaliation for an army offensive in Pakistan’s tribal areas and not for the death of Osama bin Laden, as the Pakistani Taliban claimed...
What offensive? First I've read of it in my "newspaper."
But the Pakistani Taliban have recently issued several statements claiming responsibility for attacks they did not initiate, police officials said, adding that they doubted that the suicide bombing was carried out by the group or that it was in revenge for the raid.
They said the attack was probably the work of a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban that has been fighting the Pakistani Army in the nearby tribal region of Mohmand....
Or it could be someone else entirely:
You Have to Get Up Pretty Early in the Morning to Fool a Pakistani morning
Yeah, me, too, because I'm usually up before dawn.
Update: CIA has created own Taliban to wreak terror havoc on Pakistan
Insurgents in Mohmand have been able to force the Pakistani Army into a lengthy campaign by seeking refuge in sanctuaries across the border in Kunar Province in Afghanistan. NATO forces in Afghanistan have been helping Pakistan by going after the militants as they escape across the border.
Yes, violating Pakistan's sovereignty is "helping."
Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao, a member of the provincial assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, said, “Basically, in the last one and a half months, a new military operation has been started in Mohmand, as the army is going against militants. So this attack can be seen as a retaliation to the Mohmand operation.’’
Maybe.
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The death toll was so high because the men were told to wait for their transportation outside the gates, which provided the opportunity to attack them in a cluster, a provincial security official said.
WHAT?
WHO ORDERED THAT?
“There are two occasions in one’s life to celebrate: wedding and going home on vacations at the end of six months of training,’’ said Mohammad Sardar, in his mid-20s, who was admitted to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar with a head injury. “So we were all happy, celebrating the occasion, with bedrolls on our heads, thinking of home, when the first explosion occurred, followed by a second.’’
The Frontier Constabulary forces who were the target of the suicide attack are not involved in the fighting in Mohmand. They are security guards at checkpoints in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, but their graduation, officials said, provided an accessible target for the militants to drive home their message.
Yeah, WHICH MILITANTS would those be, huh?
Think the CIA GOT ITS MESSAGE ACROSS to the PAKISTANIS?
The Frontier Constabulary, which dates from the 1800s, is run by the Pakistani police authorities and has about 70,000 paramilitary soldiers. In addition to patrolling checkpoints, members of the constabulary provide security at foreign embassies and consulates in major cities.
You know, places where guys like DAVIS would HANG OUT!
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Related:
A Diplomatic CIA
CIA chief promises spies 'new cover’ for secret ops
Actually, I VIEW ALL REPRESENTATIVES of AmeriKan institutions as SPIES THESE DAYS given that which the NYT will obfuscate and who is being given diplomatic cover!
