Or Khan, as the case may be:
"Cricket hero now political player; Seeks Pakistan’s prime minister job" September 05, 2011|By Richard Leiby, Washington Post
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Imran Khan, the colorful cricket legend now topping polls as Pakistan’s most popular politician, never misses a chance to bash his rivals as “stooges’’ and “puppets’’ of the United States. Given his sympathy for the Taliban, condemnation of US drone strikes, and dim view of American foreign policy - “All they want is obedient slaves’’ - you might just get the impression that he’s anti-American.
Well, of course. But that merely constitutes a Pakistani politician’s version of running against Washington, of playing to the disgruntled base. In his relentless campaign to become the next prime minister - in 2013 or earlier, if a snap election is called - Khan has taken an approach that would ring familiar on the US presidential primary corn-dog circuit.
“Anti-status-quo,’’ he calls himself. An incorruptible outsider with no ties to special interests. A God-fearing man with grass-roots support, leading a movement for change, desperately trying to save his country....
I wish AmeriKa had a man like Khan.
Enter Khan, from the left side of the field or the right, depending on which way his rhetoric is running. He often sounds like a prodemocracy liberal but is well known for his coziness with conservative Islamist parties....
That last part has to be setting off alarm bells with the empire-builders and globe-kickers.
It has been nearly 20 years since Khan captained Pakistan’s cricket team to its first and only World Cup victory and 15 years since he founded his own national party, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, or Movement for Justice. Now he sees his most opportune moment. Conventional political wisdom gives him long odds, but Khan says, “I’m telling anyone who is a betting person to put money on me.’’
In June, a Pew Research Center poll showed Khan scoring a 68 percent approval rating, which crushed Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani (37 percent favorable) and the dismally perceived president, Asif Ali Zardari (11 percent).
He attributes his success to an anticorruption theme that has finally caught on, and to television. Pakistan had just one electronic media outlet until the government gave up its monopoly in 2003. Now, as Khan points out, “cable has gone everywhere,’’ promulgating scores of channels and influential anchors reminiscent of Larry King.
The talk shows love to book him, and he grants regular audiences to reporters, who travel winding, rutted roads into the Himalayan foothills to reach his 30-acre estate outside Islamabad.
Despite his blowtorch oratory, in person he exudes a gentle, new-age guru’s vibe....
The product of a wealthy family in Lahore, Khan straddles the line between the secular Western and devout Muslim worlds. The other day he welcomed a group of fact-finding senators to his home. He may oppose US policy in the region, but no hard feelings - have some fruit.
It's called being polite so why the implied insult?
Khan also is acclaimed for his charitable works, including building the nation’s only cancer hospital, which treats 75 percent of its patients for free. In a country known for a lack of transparency, he has made his finances an open book.
Why can't more elites set a good example?
By contrast, he said, the shameless tax evasion and the “megacorruption’’ of status-quo leaders, past and present, have strangled Pakistan’s economy.
“The system is destroying the people,’’ he says, “but the politicians are getting richer than ever before.’’
That's what corporate control has done to the world.
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Now your more traditional cons, readers. I'm just clearing out what I've saved and read from the Glob.
"Al Qaeda’s No. 2 has been killed, US, Pakistani aides say; Rahman’s death seen as curbing terrorist actions" by Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press / August 28, 2011
Again?
WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group that the United States believes to be on the verge of defeat, US and Pakistani officials said yesterday.
Since Navy SEALs stormed Osama bin Laden’s compound and killed him in May, the Obama administration has been unusually frank in its assessment that Al Qaeda is on the ropes, its leadership in disarray.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last month that Al Qaeda’s defeat was within reach if the United States could mount a string of successful attacks....
Readers, I'm glad I'm done with the Glob because I'm sick of the CIA-Duh con.
Rahman has been thought to be dead before.
These guys are in and out of the grave more than I'm in and out of the bathroom. Of course, pudding-headed Americans don't know no different. Got another CIA-duh, blah, blah, blah.
Last year, there were reports that he had been killed in a drone strike; neither US officials nor Al Qaeda ever confirmed them. The officials who confirmed the death Saturday said it represented the consensus opinion of the US government.
Oh, this guy will be resurrected again.
Rahman was born in Libya and joined bin Laden as a teenager in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union.
A Libyan CIA-Duh? Then wasn't he on our(?) side then and now?
He once served as bin Laden’s personal emissary to Iran.
To do what, saw a Shi'ite heretic's head off? They hate them worse than they hate us unbelievers in AmeriKa -- or so I've read in my paper!
Rahman was allowed to move freely in and out of Iran as part of that arrangement and has been operating out of Waziristan for some time, officials have said.
You SEE the PROPAGANDA being TROTTED OUT for the WWIII, right?
In a separate development, teams of Taliban fighters crossed the Afghan border into Pakistan yesterday and attacked security checkpoints in a previously peaceful region of the northwestern frontier. The attacks killed more than two dozen soldiers and police, Pakistani officials said.
Oh, am I ever getting a CIA-Duh STENCH there! Was it locals or contractor hire?
Sorry, folks, but that's the way I see and read the news now because that's the code the agenda-pushing bastards speak. I've been reading it so long I can spot it instantly.
Pakistan has blamed Afghan and NATO forces for not doing enough to stop such cross-border attacks, which could get worse as the United States withdraws troops from Afghanistan. The area where Pakistan said Saturday’s attack originated has largely been abandoned by the United States in recent years.
Then we are just going to have to stay, huh?
Afghan officials denied that the militants came from their side of the border. The Afghan government has long said the center of the Taliban insurgency is in Pakistan.
The Pakistani military said that at least 200 militants crossed into Chitral district yesterday morning and attacked seven checkpoints run by the paramilitary Frontier Corps, two of which were overrun. The scenic mountainous region has rarely experienced militant violence.
There were varying reports about the number of Pakistani security troops and militants killed in the attack. The Pakistani military said 25 paramilitary soldiers and police and 20 militants were killed in the fighting. But local police official Nizam Khan said 38 soldiers and police died, along with nine militants.
Fighting continued yesterday afternoon, as Pakistan sent in reinforcements to drive the militants back across the border, the military said.
The militants chanted “God is great!’’ and “Long live jihad!’’ as they fought, said Captain Abdul Ghani of the paramilitary forces.
The military blamed the attack on Pakistani Taliban fighters and their Afghan allies who have taken sanctuary in the Afghan districts of Nuristan and Kunar.
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"Pakistan says it captured a top Al Qaeda leader; Officials cite cooperation with the CIA" September 06, 2011|By Adam Goldman and Chris Brummitt, Associated Press
ISLAMABAD - A battered Al Qaeda suffered another significant blow when Pakistani agents working with the CIA arrested a senior leader believed to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic interests around the globe, Pakistan announced yesterday....
Pakistan’s unusual public announcement of close cooperation with the US spy agency appeared aimed at reversing the widespread perception that ties between the CIA and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency had been badly damaged....
Meaning this is all public relations crapola.
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Related: Doctor who helped CIA barred from leaving Pakistan
Also see: CIA Pokes Around in Pakistan
Repeating that whole bin Laden photoshop, 'er, assassination lie is a huge con and one I've stopped addressing. The fact that the AmeriKan media fit it into nearly every damn story all raises the stink alarm.
"Al Qaeda reeling, US terror chief says; Killing of latest 2d in command boosts confidence" September 02, 2011|By Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - On a steady slide. On the ropes. Taking shots to the body and head.
That’s how White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan described Al Qaeda on Wednesday as he offered the first on the record confirmation that Al Qaeda’s latest second-in-command was killed last week in Pakistan - roughly four months after Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden there.
In an Associated Press interview, Brennan said the death of Atiyah Abd al-Rahman in Pakistan’s tribal areas last week was a “huge blow’’ to the group, damaging the network and keeping Al Qaeda’s leadership too busy trying to hide to plot new attacks. Rahman was reportedly hit by a CIA drone strike.
Thereby justifying the mass-murdering slaughter from on high, right?
Cui-f***ing-bono?
In a wide-ranging interview, Brennan credited aggressive US action against militants across the region as the main reason US intelligence has detected no active terror plots before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Related:
Possible terrorist event under investigation, officials say
Rumored plot puts New York, D.C. on alert
No sign found of Qaeda terrorists in US, officials say
So it was ALL A BUNCH of BS BLOWN up our SKIRTS to JUSTIFY ENDLESS WAR and TYRANNY, huh?
Yeah, FUCK YOU, AmeriKan media!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(My apologies, readers, for the profane anger I am feeling right now!)
The former CIA officer said that was proof that the White House has found the right formula to fight Al Qaeda, by pairing US intelligence and counterterrorist forces with host nations such as Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen, fighting beside them or sometimes through them. The goal is to keep Al Qaeda off balance, unable to replace the seasoned terrorists the US campaign is taking out....
Until the next CIA-Duh graduating class anyway.
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Then why were we on high alert surrounding the anniversary of 9/11 with a possible attack, blah, blah, bla, blah. Isn't that the kind of POLITICAL CRAP for which Democrats criticized BUSH?
Sorry, guys, but NO LONGER FALLING for the BS because the STENCH is SO STRONG -- and NOR WILL I EVER AGAIN!
"Pakistanis backtrack on kidnap rescue" August 26, 2011|By Shah Nawaz, Associated Press
LAHORE, Pakistan - A Pakistani police chief denied yesterday that a kidnapped development specialist had been safely recovered, only hours after saying that officers had freed the American in an early morning operation.
The United States also said it had no information indicating Warren Weinstein, 70, had been freed. Weinstein was kidnapped almost two weeks ago from the eastern city of Lahore.
Related: Pakistan Abductions
I'm convinced he's CIA. He worked for AID and the CIA-supporting papers have been very quiet about the whole thing.
Lahore police Chief Malik Ahmed Raza Tahir initially said police traced Weinstein to the city of Khushab, 125 miles northwest of Lahore and freed him early yesterday. Tahir backtracked several hours later and said in a statement that Weinstein had not been recovered....
Isn't this WHOLE THING STINKY, readers?
Weinstein was abducted before dawn Aug. 13 after gunmen tricked his guards and broke into his home. He is the country director in Pakistan for J.E. Austin Associates, a US firm that advises a range of Pakistani business and government sectors.
Is it just me, or does that sound lame and weak?
Police arrested three people suspected of belonging to the gang that kidnapped Weinstein, Tahir said Wednesday. Their arrests were made after police tracked cellphone numbers.
Police have also released a black-and-white sketch of a possible suspect in the kidnapping. It is unclear if the young man is one of the three people who have been arrested.
Kidnappings are common in Pakistan, and foreigners are occasionally targets. Criminal gangs are suspected in most abductions, but militants are also believed to use the tactic to raise money through ransoms.
Yeah, we'll just have to occupy Pakistan to bring 'em some order, 'eh?
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God am I sick of reading this rot.
Tough to get around Pakistan these days:
"In Pakistan, militants set tanker truck convoy ablaze; US strike said to kill 4" August 23, 2011|Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suspected US missile strike killed four alleged insurgents yesterday in a militant stronghold near the Afghan border, and militant gunmen blew up at least 19 tanker trucks carrying fuel to coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Pakistani intelligence officials said a pair of missiles hit a vehicle close to Mir Ali town in North Waziristan. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media on the record.
The area is home to militants from the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban and foreign Islamist fighters. Pakistan’s army has not launched an offensive in North Waziristan, meaning militants there have an effective safe haven. The United States routinely fires missiles at militant targets, drawing Pakistani government criticism.
In southwestern Pakistan, gunmen riding motorcycles set fire to oil tankers carrying fuel for US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan. The gunmen fired at the tankers as they were waiting for a police escort on the main highway at Kolpur village, outside Quetta, the capital of restive Baluchistan Province, police said.
Violence continued yesterday in Karachi, the country’s largest city, where gunmen killed four more people.
At least 85 people have been killed in Karachi in the past week. The city has a long history of violence, with much of the fighting blamed on gangs allegedly linked to political parties.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the city’s most powerful political party, said it will observe a general strike today to protest the violence and urged traders to shut down their businesses and transporters to take vehicles off the road.
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Yeah, better get out of the city:
"Pakistani official quits over city’s violence" August 29, 2011|Associated Press
ISLAMABAD - A ruling party minister in Pakistan’s violence-plagued city of Karachi resigned yesterday, charging that the city’s largest political party was behind the bloodshed and its leader was a “killer,’’ allegations that could spark more trouble.
Holding a copy of the Koran, Zulfikar Mirza accused the powerful Muttahida Qaumi Movement of being responsible for the kidnapping, extortion, and violence that has killed more than 400 people since July. He also accused the party of killing journalist Wali Khan Babar earlier this year.
“I am saying it openly that the MQM killed him,’’ he told a news conference. He singled out movement leader Altaf Hussein, who critics say runs the party like a cult from his home in London, as a “killer’’ and head of a “terrorist organization.’’
In a statement, the organization said Mirza himself was a patron of murderers and his remarks were a “heinous bid to spark the fire of hatred, violence, and insurgency.’’
Karachi, Pakistan’s economic hub and largest city, has long been plagued by ethnic and political bloodshed, but the current surge has been particularly prolonged.
And how long have US contractors like Raymond Davis, et al, been there?
Analysts say the Muttahida Qaumi Movement is involved in a turf war with another political force in the city, the Awami National Party, and the Pakistan Peoples Party, of which Mirza was a member. Killers linked to the parties are behind most of the violence, they say....
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"Gunmen kill 7 Shi’ites in attack on minibus in Pakistan" September 02, 2011|Associated Press
PARACHINAR, Pakistan - Gunmen killed seven Shi’ite Muslims in an attack on a minibus in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, and three people died in a suicide car bomb attack on a police station.
Sunni extremists of one stripe or another are suspected in both attacks, which were not linked.
Allied to Al Qaeda and the Taliban, the militants frequently target Shi’ites, whom they regard as non-Muslims, as well as Pakistan’s pro-Western government....
Unless the SHIT-SHEET PROPAGANDA REQUIRES that they are WORKING WITH IRAN, right?
Well, you CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS!!
So WHEN does the ISRAELI NUKE DESTROY CHICAGO in the NEXT FALSE FLAG EVENT, 'eh?
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So is there any transportation safe in Pakistan?
"Tricycle bomb blast kills 11 in Pakistan" August 26, 2011|Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A bomb planted in a child’s tricycle exploded outside a shop in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 11 people and damaging several stores and hotels, police said.
Who even knows if that's what it really was. This is simply what the lying s***rag paper says.
Wars must be going pretty badly in the public opinion area for such crapola to be trotted out.
Yup, when the wars are not popular trot out the horrors to women and children -- as we visit our own horrors upon them (whoooooooooooosh, BANG!!).
The attack occurred in the main bazaar in the town of Risalpur in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, said Mohammad Hussain, police chief for surrounding Nowshera district. Shoppers were buying goods for an upcoming Muslim holiday when the bomb went off. At least 23 people were wounded, Hussain said.
Then it WAS NOT a MUSLIM, was UNLIKELY to be a TRIKE BOMB, and has ALL the HALLMARKS of an INTELLIGENCE AGENCY FALSE FLAG!!!
No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Pakistani Taliban has carried out many bombings across the northwest.
ANOTHER HALLMARK of an INTELLIGENCE AGENCY FALSE FLAG -- and look at how the agenda-pushing media instantly implicates Taliban!!
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Related:
"Confirmed cases of child recruitment are rare, and it is difficult to identify the bodies of bombers who blow themselves up, but intelligence officials say there has been a recent increase in the use of children....
Why should we believe those liars?
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"30 Pakistani boys kidnapped in Afghanistan, officials say" September 03, 2011|Associated Press
KHAR, Pakistan - Suspected Taliban militants were holding a group of about 30 Pakistani boys yesterday after luring them into Afghanistan and kidnapping them, Pakistani officials said.
The insurgents initially seized around 40, but those under 12 were released yesterday and traveled back to their villages in the Pakistani border region of Bajur, said its top political official, Islam Zeb.
It was unclear why they were kidnapped, but militants often target people from tribes who oppose or do not support them.
The boys, aged between 10 and 15, went to Afghanistan’s Kunar Province on Thursday after a man invited them to play in a river there, said Zeb and Abdul Haseeb Khan, another official....
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Now we know where the trike bombers are coming from, right?
Un-f***ing-real!
"23 die in twin suicide bombings targeting Pakistani general; Attack follows arrest of senior Al Qaeda leaders" September 08, 2011|By Karin Brulliard, Washington Post
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A pair of suicide bombings targeting a top army officer killed at least 23 people early yesterday in the southwestern city of Quetta, police said, two days after Pakistan announced the arrests of three senior Al Qaeda leaders in the same city.
The blasts struck the residence of Brigadier General Farrukh Shahzad, deputy head of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Quetta, injuring him and killing his wife. Another senior army officer, identified as a colonel, was killed, police said.
The Pakistani Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the blasts....
So says my paper.
A spokesman for the militant organization told some news agencies that the attack was carried out to avenge the recent arrests, which were conducted by Pakistan’s top spy agency and the Frontier Corps. But a Taliban spokesman told the Associated Press that the bombings were meant as payback for an incident in which Frontier Corps troops killed five people at a checkpoint in May....
Can't the propagandists get their stories straight?
Quetta is the capital of the restive Baluchistan province, and US officials say it is a hub and transit point for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters.
Yeah, and there is a civil war between the residents and government of resources in that province. Strange how you rarely, if ever, read about that in my PoS paper.
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Update:
"In Pakistan, about 100 supporters of an Islamist political party staged anti-US protests in Islamabad and Multan. In Karachi, another 100 people protested the war in Afghanistan. A few dozen demonstrators from a group called Muslims Against Crusades gathered outside the US Embassy in London. One group set fire to a depiction of a US flag during a minute’s silence. Two Islamic protesters were later arrested....
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