Another failure from George W. Bush, as is everything he puts his mass-murdering fucking hands to!
And he doesn't look evil to me.
On the other hand, George W. Bush looks like evil incarnate!
"Militants Gain Despite Decree by Musharraf" by JANE PERLEZ and ISMAIL KHAN
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 15 —In the last several days, the militants have extended their reach, capturing more territory in Pakistan’s settled areas and chasing away frightened policemen, local government officials said.
As inconspicuous as it might be in a nation of 160 million people, the takeover of the small Alpuri district headquarters this week was considered a particular embarrassment for General Musharraf. It showed how the militants could still thumb their noses at the Pakistani Army.
More than thumb their noses; KICKING HIS ASS!!!!!!!!!!
In fact, local officials and Western diplomats said, there is little evidence that the 12-day-old emergency decree has increased the government’s leverage in fighting the militants, or that General Musharraf has used the decree to take any extraordinary steps to combat them.
No, he's imprisoning his political enemies instead!
The success of the militants in Swat has caused new concern in Washington about the ability and the will of Pakistani forces to fight the militants who are now training their sights directly on Pakistan’s government, not only on the NATO and American forces across the border in Afghanistan, Western officials said.
Losing a war, huh, shitfucks? GOOD!!!!!!!!!
After several weeks of heavy clashes, the militants largely control Swat, the mountainous region that is the scenic jewel of Pakistan, and are pushing into Shangla, to the east. All of the sites lie deeper inside Pakistan than the tribal areas, on the Afghan border, where Al Qaeda, the Taliban and assorted foreign and local militants have expanded a stronghold in recent years. In Alpuri, the administrative headquarters of Shangla, a crowd of militants easily took over the police station.
This is NOTHING BUT GOOD NEWS!
It is FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY at its very best.
LOCAL CONTROL, as it SHOULD BE!
WE GOT NO BUSINESS BEING UP THERE KILLING THEM!
NO BUSINESS!
The shelling of militant positions in several subdistricts of Swat, and in neighboring Shangla in the last several days, was the first significant action by the Pakistani Army in the area, Western defense officials said.
Yup, Mushy MURDERING CIVILIANS with the SHELLING!!!!
That never worked before, and it ain't gonna now, losers!
One Western diplomat said a government military briefing Thursday in Islamabad was intended to convince foreign countries of the feasibility of the government offensive. Instead, the official said, the presentation only underscored the Pakistan Army’s lack of counterinsurgency skills as it tries to battle about 400 well-supplied and well-trained militants in the region.
400 guys? THAT'S IT?
That's what is keeping the Pakistani military so busy?
Pfffffffttttttt! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
In the past, the government has relied on paramilitary forces, the Frontier Corps and the constabulary to control Swat, which is part of North-West Frontier Province.
More than 2,000 Pakistani Army soldiers were deployed to the province in July, but they remained largely inactive, intimidated by the militants’ ability to capture soldiers.
400 guys have the Paki Army crapping in their pants? Haw-haw-haw-haw!!!!
This is either a huge lie, or hilarious!!!!!!!!
The army said Thursday that more than two dozen militants had been killed in clashes since operations began three days ago.
And how many civilians?
But Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad, a military spokesman, said the army had not cleared the main road in Alpuri by Thursday night.
The local militants in Swat are led by Maulana Fazlullah, a charismatic Islamic cleric, and are fortified by Islamic fighters of Uzbek, Tajik and Chechen origin, residents say. They say that although masks hide the foreigners’ faces, it is clear that they do not speak Pashto, the local language.
How do you guys know so much about them?
Something is a stinking in the Zionist press here!
Mr. Fazlullah leads the Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Laws, a Taliban-style group that has forced the closing of schools for girls and shut down video stores. He delivers his message on FM radio, a technique that the government has not curbed. Civilians in the area said the arrival of the army three days ago was not reassuring.
Notice how they always slip in the lies about the women, readers?
I'm sick of the stink Zionist press and their mischaracterization and lies about Muslims.
FUCKING HAD IT!!!!!!!!!!
Civilians have already been killed, local residents said by telephone.
In Kanju, a town under the militants’ control, the army shelled a house, killing four people, said Walyat Ali Khan, a lawyer:
“The army controls the airport, but the militants openly control the one-kilometer road from the airport to Kanju.”
The militants also control the 15-mile stretch from Kanju to Matta, a town to the north.
In Koza Bani, another district the militants control, the army has suffered more casualties than the militants.
All right! DEFENDING THEMSELVES QUITE WELL, aren't they?
In Kabal, Fazal Wahab, a pharmacist, said the army and government paramilitary forces now controlled the main road. Three civilians, including a 9-year-old boy, were killed Wednesday by government shelling, and a government curfew that kept people inside on Wednesday meant it was hard to get food, he said.
A NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY is a "militant," huh, Mushy?!
FUCK YOU, MURDERER!!!!
So you are going to STARVE THEM, too, huh, MURDERER!!!!!!??
Several events in the 12 days of martial law illustrate how little impact General Musharraf’s greater powers have had on the expanding insurgency.
On Nov. 4, the day after the declaration, General Musharraf approved the release of 213 soldiers who had been held captive by Baitullah Mehsud, one of the most powerful militant commanders in the tribal areas, in exchange for 25 militants captured in August.
General Musharraf acknowledged in an interview this week that some of the militants handed back to Mr. Mehsud were trained suicide bombers, and that one of the militants had been charged with involvement in a suicide attack.
The general said that he was not happy with the deal, but that Pakistan needed the soldiers back.
A suicide bomb attack on a government official in Peshawar last week showed how the militants were aiming at officials allied with General Musharraf.
The government official, Amir Muqam, the minister for political affairs in the tribal areas, survived the suicide attack on his home. His cousin, who was also a government official, was killed in the blast.
The attempt on Mr. Muqam’s life sent a chill through the government. He was carefully chosen. He had been a member of a religious party alliance that was sympathetic to the militants, and then switched allegiance and joined the general’s political party, the Pakistani Muslim League, several years ago.
General Musharraf seemed so appreciative of Mr. Muqam, that he hailed him at a public ceremony as a special friend, and presented him with a pistol.
Even though the militants numbered only in the hundreds, they would give “a tough time to the army, and they will cost the army a lot,” said Hasan-Askari Rizvi, a military analyst in Lahore.
Hundreds against thousands and yet they will win! Pffft!
We should end these wars now then, and beg the Muslims for forgiveness!
He said the army would probably be able to expel the militants from the cities and towns. But the militants would take shelter in the mountains, and could survive the winter unscathed.
The soldiers, almost all of whom do not come from the region and feel like outsiders there, are unprepared for what could amount to a guerrilla war, he said.
His army is going to get its ass kicked!
That's what happens when you invade foreign lands, assholes!
Another problem was the intense barrage of propaganda from the religious clerics in the region. The messages exhorting soldiers not to fight a “foreigners war,” meaning a war on behalf of the United States, had undermined the morale of the government paramilitary forces that were leading the fight, he said.
Right, the propaganda from the religious crowd!
You ever smell your own stinkshit, NYT?
FUCKING ZIONIST SCUM!!
Mr. Rizvi: “The army has never faced such a serious challenge in the tribal areas or in Swat before.”
Oh, they are going to get their asses kicked!
And I was told the U.S. was winning the war on terror!
Just ANOTHER BUSH and MSM LIE, huh?
Ah, what's one more to the thousands upon thousands of lies they've told, huh?
