"Pakistan president pulls out of US-backed tribal summit; Musharraf seen snubbing Afghans and White House" by Laura King/Los Angeles Times August 9, 2007
KARACHI, Pakistan -- President Pervez Musharraf abruptly announced yesterday that he would not attend a traditional tribal council that the Pakistani leader was to have opened jointly in Afghanistan today with his Afghan counterpart... President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan.
The heavily guarded event in Kabul, which is to be held in a giant tent, and to feature elaborate tribal formalities.
The Taliban will not be sending representatives to the gathering. Many within Karzai's government believe that the best course of action is to negotiate with the militants, but in the end the insurgents were not invited and said they would not have attended.
Some of the elders from North and South Waziristan said they were not attending because there could be no lasting agreement without Taliban participation.
[Yeah, but the U.S. won't listen to this kind of talk.
We would rather BOMB PHANTOM ENEMIES and KILL THOUSANDS of innocent Muslims!]
Pakistani officials, meanwhile, said some suspected Al Qaeda members, including Chechens and Arabs, were among a dozen insurgents killed in a pair of raids by Pakistani forces in North Waziristan a day earlier. The men were low-level figures, however, local officials said.
[Oh, there was killing the day before? "Suspected" Al-CIA-Duh?
I went back and checked:]
"Pakistan leader says talk of US strikes hurts terror fight" by Laura King/Los Angeles Times August 8, 2007
KARACHI, Pakistan -- President General Pervez Musharraf said yesterday that suggestions the United States might carry out unilateral attacks against Al Qaeda fighters on Pakistani soil were counterproductive.
The Pakistani leader's comments, his first public expression of displeasure on the subject, came as Pakistani troops struck two insurgent hide-outs in the North Waziristan tribal area. Ten suspected militants were killed in the raids, military officials said, and two Pakistani troops died in separate incidents along the border with Afghanistan.
Pakistani forces employed gunships and heavy artillery in the fighting, which was among the heaviest yet during a nearly month-old government offensive in the tribal areas. The raids targeted a pair of insurgent-occupied compounds about 10 miles west of Miram Shah, the main town in North Waziristan."
[Notice that since the Red Mosque crisis ended and Musharaff has "cracked down," the daily dose of killing in the region is hidden even more?
Sniii.... oh, STINK!!!!]
