Aren't they all in the world of staged psyops and fraudulent false flags that my agenda-pushing pre$$ calls reality?
"Huge truck bomb seized in Afghanistan" Associated Press, March 16, 2013
KABUL — The Afghan intelligence service said Friday that it had seized a massive truck bomb packed with 17,200 pounds of explosives on the outskirts of Kabul.
Shafiqullha Tahiri, a spokesman for the intelligence service, said agents also killed five suspected suicide bombers and arrested two others during a raid early Wednesday when the truck was seized.
He said all were suspected members of the militant Haqqani network, which is closely allied with the Taliban.
Related: Haqqani Ha-Ha
No longer funny.
Tahiri said the explosive material was disguised as bags of cement, a trademark method of the Haqqanis, who are known for conducting spectacular attacks. He said agents also seized several suicide bomb vests, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and hand grenades.
I suppose my newspaper would know.
Earlier this week, General Joseph Dunford, the top US commander in Afghanistan, warned that recent anti-US statements by President Hamid Karzai could increase the risk of an attack on American troops....
See: US warns Afghan leader’s comments threaten troops
And then a truck bomb shows up!
Over the past month, Karzai has accused the United States of collaborating with the Taliban, torturing Afghan civilians, kidnapping university students, and deliberately violating his country’s sovereignty.
We have done all those things; however, that is all for show fooley as you will see above later.
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Related: U.S. Calls It Quits With Karzai
Also see: Bus crash kills 45 in Afghanistan
"Afghan police arrest 6 suspected suicide bombers" by Amir Shah | Associated Press, February 04, 2013
KABUL — Afghan police on Sunday arrested six men and seized suicide vests, assault rifles, and more than 50 hand grenades during a raid on a residential building in central Kabul, senior officials said.
Kabul Police Chief General Mohammad Ayub Salangi said an investigation was underway to determine the identities of the men he described as ‘‘terrorists’’ and what they were planning to attack.
Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain met in London on Sunday with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan to discuss prospects for peace talks with the Taliban.
I've tired of talks of peace that never go anywhere coming from a war-promoting paper.
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Afghan forces’ border clash with Pakistan spurs rise in nationalism
Afghan, Pakistani forces clash
Pakistan militants may be training for war in Afghanistan
So much for peace, cui bono?
Also see: Afghans say 10 killed at Iran border
Cameron initiated the meetings with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan last year to boost cooperation among the countries and promote regional stability.
The talks, on Sunday and Monday, were expected to focus on preventing a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan when British, American, and other NATO troops withdraw from the country by the end of next year.
Downing Street said the trilateral meeting will include Afghan and Pakistani Army and intelligence chiefs for the first time.
The Pentagon’s top officials said on Sunday they expect US troops to remain in Afghanistan after the NATO mission ends in December 2014, but said no decision has been made....
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Related: Sunday Globe Special: Pakistan Drone Strike a Diversion
And it worked, too, because all the talk of civilian deaths went away and the chances for peace were shattered like a mud-walled home.
Another timely development:
"Afghan rebel leader killed in Pakistan; Haqqani death is latest loss for militant groups" by Declan Walsh | New York Times, November 12, 2013
LONDON — A senior leader of the feared Haqqani militant network was shot to death on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistani militants and Afghan intelligence officials said Monday, in the latest setback for the close-knit cluster of militant groups that shelter in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region.
The leader, Nasiruddin Haqqani — a son of the militant group’s founder, the Afghan warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani — was gunned down outside a bread store Sunday by a man riding a motorcycle, witnesses told Pakistani media outlets.
Wow, they mentioned the old man.
Intelligence officials believe that he was the chief fund-raiser for the Haqqani network, one of the most lethal elements of the insurgency in Afghanistan, and he was designated as a “global terrorist” by the United States in 2010.
Two commanders for the group confirmed his death Monday.
“We have received his body, and the funeral has taken place,” said one of the commanders, Gul Hassan, who spoke by phone from North Waziristan, the main hub of the Haqqani group in Pakistan. “The mujahedeen are in shock.”
The attack comes at a turbulent time within the nest of militant groups based in northwestern Pakistan, including Al Qaeda, the Pakistani Taliban, and the Haqqani network.
The turmoil started in early October, when US forces detained Latif Mehsud, a senior commander for the Pakistani Taliban, inside Afghanistan.
Weeks later, a CIA drone strike killed the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, and one of his top deputies.
Now, Haqqani, a looming figure in a militant network closely allied with the Taliban, is dead.
It was unclear whether Haqqani’s killing was linked to those recent Pakistani Taliban losses, and there were conflicting views about who was behind the attack. Some officials in Afghanistan said Monday that they believed that the killing may have come because of an internal dispute within the group or even the immediate Haqqani family. But in Pakistani intelligence circles, speculation was rife that Afghan intelligence officials were behind the killing of Haqqani, a native Afghan whose group has been focused on striking the Afghan government and Western military presence.
In any case, the fact that he was killed on the very edge of the Pakistani capital is likely to discomfort the Pakistani government and military, which have long faced accusations that they allow the Haqqanis and other militant groups near complete freedom of movement within the country.
Another Haqqani network commander, speaking on the condition of anonymity from Peshawar, claimed that militants had mourned Haqqani at a prayer service right under the nose of the Pakistani military, at a secret spot in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near Islamabad.
“Another Abottabad? Massive embarrassment,” Talat Hussain, a senior Pakistani television journalist, said on Twitter, referring to the embarrassment caused by the US commando assault that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011.
What are we to do when the endless lies of conventional myth are constantly found in the agenda-pushing newspaper?
US and Afghan officials have for years accused Pakistani intelligence officials of aiding, or at least ignoring, the Haqqani network as part of a strategy to maintain influence in Afghanistan and to attack Indian diplomatic facilities in the country.
Pakistani officials deny any collusion with the group but admit they keep in contact with its commanders as part of intelligence operations.
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So who is the new negotiator for peace?
"Pakistani Taliban appoint hard-liner as new leader; ‘Mullah Radio’ is not supportive of peace talks" by Declan Walsh | New York Times, November 08, 2013
LONDON — In a surprise choice that bodes poorly for proposed peace talks, the Pakistani Taliban on Thursday appointed as their new leader the hard-line commander responsible for last year’s attack on Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Pakistani education activist.
Related: Slow Saturday Special: Nobel Peace Prize Purely Political
What is this about the Taliban being shocked she was shot?
The Taliban’s governing council chose Mullah Fazlullah, the head of a Pakistani faction in the northwestern Swat Valley, Taliban officials told reporters. Fazlullah is best known for hard-line radio broadcasts — in which he has called for public beatings and executions and denounced polio vaccinations, among other topics — that have earned him the nickname “Mullah Radio” in some circles.
Related: Polio in Pakistan
He may have a point there.
Celebratory gunfire erupted on the streets of North Waziristan, the tribal district that is Pakistan’s main militant hub, after the announcement was made. But the news was likely to be received with less enthusiasm by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government.
Furious government officials criticized the United States’ killing of the previous Taliban leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, in a drone strike last Friday, saying that Mehsud had been on the verge of starting peace talks that could end seven years of bloodshed in Pakistan’s major cities.
Fazlullah, who reneged on a major peace deal with the authorities in 2009, offers dimmer hopes for talks. On Thursday, his spokesman, Shahidullah Shahid, said there would be “no more talks as Mullah Fazlullah is already against negotiations.”
Who is this asshole?
Shahid warned that the Taliban were planning retaliatory attacks against the federal government in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province. He said Sharif had “bargained and sold out Hakimullah to the Americans.”
Fazlullah has been a primary enemy of the Pakistan military since he escaped the army’s toughest anti-Taliban offensive in recent years. Thousands of soldiers swept Swat in 2009 after the failure of a peace deal with the provincial government, killing or capturing many militants. But Fazlullah slipped through the dragnet and fled across the border into Afghanistan.
I'll bet he had help like Chuck Taylor and Zakaria Kandahari.
Since then he is believed to have been hiding in Kunar and Nuristan in eastern Afghanistan, using the remote mountains as a base to mount attacks inside Pakistan, including the attempted killing of Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in October 2012.
Fazlullah claimed a major military target in September when his fighters killed a two-star army general in Dir district, near the Afghan border, in September.
Fazlullah was chosen by the Taliban shura, or governing council, after almost a week of deliberations in North Waziristan, the main militant hub in Pakistan. He was not the favored candidate because he does not hail from the Mehsud tribe, which has dominated the leadership of the Pakistani Taliban for years.
The ranks of the Mehsud leadership, however, have been thinned by the CIA drone campaign. US strikes in North and South Waziristan killed both Hakimullah and his predecessor, Baitullah Mehsud, who died in 2009.
A former security official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Fazlullah had been chosen to avert a rift between rival Mehsud factions inside the Taliban.
The Taliban also appointed Khalid Haqqani, a little-known commander from a rural district near Peshawar, as the deputy commander, effectively signaling a shift in the Taliban leadership from the tribal belt to neighboring Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“This changes the entire equation,” said one senior government official in Peshawar.
Fazlullah, believed to be in his late 30s, offers the Taliban the opportunity of a possible new direction, led by a figure with a reputation for charisma, ruthlessness, and an instinct for publicity.
Fazlullah, from a poor family, started his adult life as the operator of a chair lift that spanned the river Swat. He rose to public prominence in 2007 by riding into Swat on a white horse, then setting up a pirate radio station that broadcast jihadist propaganda across the valley. Soon afterward, his armed fighters displaced the civil government.
In Swat, the Taliban instituted an authoritarian and often cruel rule that mandated public floggings, executions, and the closure of girls’ schools.
Which raises suspicion because that is the last thing insurgents do to win over people? Who benefits?
The provincial and federal governments’ struggled to respond to Fazlullah’s swagger, signing two peace deals with his father-in-law, Sufi Muhammad, in a bid to reestablish peace in the valley.
But those compromises quickly foundered — there was outrage across Pakistan over a video that showed Taliban fighters flogging a teenage girl in Swat — and by summer 2009, the army had moved in.
Except the video was a fake!
Since then, the Swat Taliban have been reduced to hit-and-run attacks, while the army has been accused by human rights groups of carrying out summary executions of suspected militants.
It's for a good cause.
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[Sad to admit the hard facts about Pakistan, but militant/terrorist leaders tend to tell the truth more often there than does the actual government leaders do. I can find no fault with the following TTP claims. The first quotes are from the Dawn article on Fazlullah, blaming the Pak govt. for killing Hakeemullah....
No matter what the lying Pakistani or Western press says to the contrary---There is NO DAYLIGHT between the Pakistani and American militaries on the drone assassination program, a hard fact that the militants have always understood. All of this nonsense about "good" or "bad Taliban" is tabloid journalism, intended to mislead the viewing or reading public. Consider the words of the most disputed "good/bad Taliban," before he too was murdered by one of Obama/Kayani's drones, Mullah Nazir had the following to say:
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Fazlullah has promised to wage an intensive bombing campaign across Punjab in revenge for Hakeemullah's murder, which is anticipated to force the Army's hand, achieving the long-sought North Waziristan offensive that the Pentagon has been screaming for....
Fazlullah is the CIA/Saudi agent who started a war against the Pak Army in Swat and Bajaur, before the Army drove him into Afghanistan's Nuristan/Logar region. He has maintained his attacks upon the Army from the sanctuary there. Having him in charge of the TTP is the CIA's "wet dream" come true. There will be no drone attacks upon Fazlullah. While Fazlullah was in control in Swat, there were zero drone assassinations there, after the single disastrous attempt to kill Ayman Zawahiri there in 2006, blowing-up a religious seminary in Chenagai village, claiming the lives of 82 boys and their teachers.
Whoever was the traitor that planted the CIA tracking chip on Hakeemullah, effectively silencing the new govt attempts to negotiate peace, did a very great disservice to his country. The Pakistani people just jumped from the frying pan right into the middle of the fire....]-- Pakistan Forced To Trade American Agent Hakeemullah For Even Worse US/Saudi Agent Fazlullah
And it now appears his analysis regarding the Haqqanis is correct. They are no longer in league with the CIA as they once were.
And in other earth-shaking developments:
"Pakistan’s former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf can now freely travel within the country. However, he is barred from traveling abroad without court permission, Aasia Ishaque, a spokeswoman for Musharraf’s party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, said. Speculation has been rife that Musharraf would go into exile after his release, on the pretext of visiting his ailing mother. However, Ishaque denied the speculation. “He is not leaving. He will stay in Pakistan,” she said. Ishaque said the threat level to Musharraf’s security is “extraordinarily high.”
