Not one word of the devastating floods of this year in my pos paper.
"Pakistan Army, Taliban clash over drone debris" by Ishtiaq Mahsud Associated Press / September 19, 2011
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Pakistani soldiers battled Taliban fighters in an attempt to seize precious debris from a suspected US drone that crashed in a rugged tribal area near the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials and militants said yesterday.
The Taliban said they shot down the unmanned aircraft, which crashed Saturday night near Jangara village in the South Waziristan tribal area.
Pakistani intelligence officials said they were not certain whether Taliban fire or technical problems brought down the drone. Drone crashes have happened before in Pakistan, but they are rare.
Pakistan first learned of the crash by intercepting Taliban radio communications, said the intelligence officials, who were speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The debris was first seized by the Taliban. Several hours later, the Pakistani Army sent soldiers in to wrest it out of militant hands, sparking a fight with the Taliban in which three militants were killed, the officials said. Three militants and two soldiers were also wounded, they said.
The intelligence officials said the troops were successful in seizing the debris, but Pakistani Taliban commander Azmatullah Diwana claimed his fighters repelled the soldiers. The army then sent helicopter gunships into the area where the militants were holding the debris, Diwana said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
Nawab Khan, a government official in South Waziristan, confirmed the drone crash and the subsequent clash between militants and army troops. But he did not know whether the soldiers were successful in seizing the debris.
Neither the Pakistani Army nor the US Embassy responded to request for comment....
President Obama has dramatically increased the number of drone attacks against militants in Pakistan’s semiautonomous tribal region since taking office in 2009....
That fact there rates at the top of my disappointments list with him. Another mass-murdering, war-criminal president.
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More Globe garbage this past month:
"Taliban blast leaves 8 Pakistanis dead" by Associated Press / September 20, 2011
KARACHI, Pakistan - A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives yesterday outside the home of a senior police officer tasked with cracking down on militants in Pakistan’s largest city. The blast killed at least eight people and left a crater 10 feet deep, police said.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the early morning attack in the southern port city of Karachi....
So I am told by a media I no longer believe.
The death toll could have been even worse if it had happened a few minutes later, when many children head to schools located near Aslam’s house, located in an upscale residential area....
Taliban f***ed up the timing, 'eh?
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And you know what happens when garbage sits around to long, right?
"Pakistan questions Bin Laden family" October 06, 2011|Associated Press
ISLAMABAD - An independent Pakistani commission investigating the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden questioned three detained widows and two daughters of the slain Al Qaeda leader, a government statement said yesterday.
The commission also interviewed Pakistani spy chief Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha and a doctor accused of helping US intelligence run a phony vaccination program that tried to obtain a DNA sample from bin Laden and his family, the statement said.
See: CIA Pokes Around in Pakistan
Investigators interviewed Pasha yesterday and planned to meet with him again today, the commission said.
Islamabad says the US special forces raid on May 2 that killed bin Laden violated Pakistan’s sovereignty. The Pakistani government set up the panel to investigate the raid and how bin Laden managed to hide in the city of Abbottabad.
Oh, a government cover-up, I mean, commission to investigate?
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The fact that the AmeriKan media unabashedly pushes the official lie when the man was known to have died in 2001 really makes you question everything you read. If they will repeat official lies about so many things why would anyone believe them regarding anything?
"Pakistani doctor to face treason charge" October 07, 2011|Associated Press
ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani doctor accused of running a vaccination program for the CIA to help track down Osama bin Laden should be put on trial for high treason, a government commission ruled yesterday, a move likely to anger US officials pushing for his release.
First of all, I'm shocked and just a bit jealous. Some people need to be tried for treason in the USA.
As for US anger, give 'em the finger flip. We don't like it when people criticize or interfere with our system of justice (if you can call it that), so tell 'em to sit and spin.
Dr. Shakil Afridi’s fate has complicated the CIA and ISI’s relationship, which was already strained to the breaking point by the bin Laden raid.
Of course, the torture and burying of Aafia Siddiqui isn't a problem at all.
US and Pakistani officials have said Arifdi ran a vaccination program in Abbottabad where the Al Qaeda leader hid in an effort to obtain a DNA sample from him.
Afridi was detained in the days after the US operation. He has no lawyer.
A Pakistani government commission investigating the raid on bin Laden said in a statement that it was of the view that “a case of conspiracy against the state of Pakistan and high treason’’ should be registered against Afridi on the basis of the evidence it had gathered. It did not elaborate.
Such a charge carries the death penalty.
The commission, which interviewed Afridi and the head of the ISI, Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, this week, has been investigating how bin Laden managed to hide in Abbottabad for as long as five years and the circumstances surrounding the US operation.
Is that where they buried him?
It is headed by a Supreme Court justice, and its members include a retired general, a former diplomat, a former police chief, and a civil servant. It is unclear whether it will lead to charges against Afridi.
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Something is stinking 'round h're, readers.
Actually, there was an allusion to the floods striking the region:
"Monsoon rains destroyed mud huts and flooded wide swaths of northern and eastern India, killing at least 48 people in recent days and leaving hundreds of thousands marooned by raging waters, officials said yesterday....
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That's all I've seen in my Globe after three months of floods.
Of course, pointing out Pakistani suffering and making them seem to suffer from the same problems average Americans have experienced would pierce the stereotypes promoted by my Zionist War Media.
