You ready for a DRAFT, kiddos?
"Militants call for talks with new government"
"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Taliban-style militants battling government forces in northwest Pakistan said yesterday they wanted dialogue with the winners of parliamentary elections and urged the new leadership to abandon President Pervez Musharraf's war on terrorism.
The party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, which will lead the new government, called for an end to military operations against autonomy-minded insurgents in another restive area - the southwestern province of Baluchistan where the US-backed Afghan government believes the Taliban leadership may be hiding....
Yeah, the U.S. can't like this.
And here is a thought: Would you want to talk to someone you murdered?
Wouldn't you be staying away from them, readers?
Something strange about this.
Have we been lied to by the Zionist-controlled AmeriKan MSM about all thing s Muslim?
The election results have fueled calls from inside and outside Pakistan for Musharraf to step down. Two US senators urged a "graceful exit" from power for the unpopular president yesterday, but stopped short of supporting efforts to remove him from office.
You know, whatever happens that is PAKISTAN'S BUSINESS, not ours!!!
Worry about the HOMEFRONT, will ya?
We got a WAR-CRIMINAL DICTATOR of our own, shit senators!!!!
"I firmly believe if they do not focus on old grudges - and there's plenty in Pakistan - and give him a graceful way to move," then it could happen, said Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison echoed the sentiment. Both spoke on ABC’s "This Week" after meeting with Musharraf.
Maulvi Umar, spokesman for the Islamic militant Tehrik-e-Taliban, said his group welcomed the victory of anti-Musharraf parties and was anxious to talk with them about ways to bring peace to northwestern tribal areas."Now WHO WOULDN'T WANT PEACE there, readers?
Let's see, whom could it be...
"US moves to expand its role in Pakistan"
"by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | February 25, 2008
WASHINGTON - US officials are quietly planning to expand their presence in and around the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan by creating special coordination centers on the Afghan side of the border where US, Afghan, and Pakistani officials can share intelligence about Al Qaeda and Taliban militants, according to State Department and Pentagon officials.
The Bush administration is also seeking to expand its influence in the tribal areas through a new economic support initiative that would initially focus on school and road construction projects.
While the American people get NOTHING BUT SHIT!!!!!!!
I'm SO FUCKING PISSED at this WAR-MONGERING SOB!!!!!!!
Officials recently asked Congress for $453 million to launch the effort - a higher request for economic support funds than for any country except Afghanistan.
The expansion of US efforts in the tribal areas - made possible, in part, by rising Pakistani anger at a string of suicide attacks by militants from the region - also includes the deployment of about 30 US counterinsurgency trainers to teach an elite Pakistani force to fight Al Qaeda and indigenous extremists.
And CUI BONO, readers?
Don't even have to be "Al-CIA-Duh," they just have to LIVE THERE!
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has long refused to allow US soldiers to operate openly in the semiautonomous tribal areas where Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding. But in recent months, as unrest in Pakistan grew and he became increasingly unpopular, Musharraf began quietly allowing more American "eyes and ears" into the region, Pakistani officials said in interviews.
Now the turn-in, so if you stop reading it here, well, all seems kosher, huh?
US officials say they hope Musharraf's concessions will evolve into a greater role for US forces in the region over time.
Translation: We are NEVER LEAVING!!!
Coming soon: The 2009 AmeriKan DRAFT!!!!!
"In order to get a window on what's happening on the ground, US forces need to be more present, whether they are physically there, or virtually there, monitoring," said Daniel Markey, a Pakistan specialist on the State Department's policy planning staff from 2003 until his retirement last year.
To get a better picture of the complex insurgency that has grown in the tribal areas over the past five years, US officials are constructing two new coordination centers on the Afghan side of a border at Torkham, near the Khyber Pass, and at a second position north of Torkham. Four more posts are under consideration, according to a senior Defense Department official who is not authorized to be quoted in the press.
Ah, gonna GARRISON the Pashtun frontier, 'eh?
Why don't they just ask the CIA agents who are stirring them all up what up?
According to the plans, the official said, about 15 Afghan, Pakistani, and American officials will meet daily at each center to share intelligence about militant activities on both sides of the porous, mountainous border, which extends about 1,560 miles between Afghanistan and Pakistan's tribal areas.
"The purpose of the centers is to share intelligence, ensure that all [parties] have a common operational picture of the area, coordinate operations that might be occurring on both sides of the border at the same time, and [settle conflicts] when necessary," said the Defense Department official.
He said there is no intention at this time to use the centers to conduct joint operations in the tribal areas.
But a State Department official who has been briefed on the plans said the United States hopes the initiatives will spread to dozens of border posts and eventually evolve into a form of military cooperation.
"We'll start with intelligence sharing," said the State Department official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss the matter with the press. "If we could turn that into joint operations, all the better, but we have to walk before we can fly."
The idea for the centers grew out of a commission made up of intelligence and military officers from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United States who have held periodic meetings since 2003 in various locations in the three countries to discuss security and terrorism.
Then how come the U.S. public is only being told of this now, MSM?
In the past those meetings, which took place every six weeks, were marked by tension and mistrust, as Afghan and US officials feared their Pakistani counterparts were giving safe haven to militants. But a rash of suicide attacks against government targets inside Pakistan last summer pushed military leaders in Islamabad to view the extremists in the tribal areas as their enemies, not just the enemies of Americans and Afghans, and put all three countries on the same side, US officials said.
And CUI BONO?
WHO BENEFITED from the "suicide attacks," readers?
CERTAINLY NOT the "insurgents!!!"
In August, a special meeting between US officials, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, tribal leaders, and Musharraf paved the way for better cooperation.
The Bush administration has requested $826 million in funds for Pakistan for 2009, more than half of which would be spent on development assistance, mostly in the tribal areas.
It's not like I don't want the people high in the hills to live good lives, I do!
I love those people who never did anything to us.
They fascinate me; however, WE AMERICANS are HURTING, too!!!
And Bush is SENDING ALL OUR MONEY OVERSEAS!!!!
About $300 million would be spent on reimbursing Pakistan's military for the costs of its operations in the tribal areas.
Oh, now I'm REALLY MAD!!!!!
Taking care of Pashtuns will aid is one thing; reimbursing Pakistan's military for their operations is OUTRAGEOUS!!!
U.S. is basically PAYING PAKISTAN'S DEFENSE TAB!!!
While you get tossed out of your home, starve and freeze this year, 'murkn!
You angry yet, shit-eaters?
Initially, the Bush administration proposed to provide the development aid on a "cash transfer" basis to the Pakistani government. But in December, it opted to funnel the money through projects, which will require USAID contractors to have greater access to the isolated area, where foreigners are usually prohibited from traveling without a Pakistani military escort.
The large request has raised eyebrows in Congress. Last week, Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat who chairs a Senate subcommittee on foreign aid, raised questions in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about the effectiveness of US aid in the tribal areas and on US activities there.
The Pentagon is also planning to send roughly 30 counterinsurgency trainers to centers in the Northwest Frontier Province and in Baluchistan, where they will work with the Special Services Group, an elite commando force inside the Pakistani Army that is similar to the US Army's Special Forces, according to the Defense Department official. News of the training was first reported by the
Un-fucking-real!
Here we are, the American public, sick of these rotten wars based on lies and they are only ESCALATING!!!!
Only thing that will stop them seems to be the complete destruction of AmeriKa and its ruling elite.
Across the border, in Afghanistan, such counterinsurgency training takes place in the field, with US and Afghan soldiers walking together side-by-side, often in enemy territory. Pakistani leaders have refused to agree to such overt exercises, fearing the backlash that it would provoke among the fiercely anti-American tribal population. But US officials hope their role will evolve over time.
"You could get to a place where the US could be operating side-by-side or in some sort of advisory capacity, on the ground," said Markey. "But this is a ways off. This is politically very, very unpalatable at this stage in Pakistan."
We're ALREADY THERE!
CIA CREATED "Al-CIA-Duh" and Pakistan's ISI created the Taliban!!!
I'm tired of the bullshit, readers.
The CIA is also pushing to enhance its surveillance capabilities and intelligence cooperation with the Pakistani services at a covert location in the tribal areas, according to a Pakistani official in the tribal areas who asked not to be identified. For years, Pakistani newspapers have published accounts of "invisible American commandos" operating inside the tribal areas, but in recent months Pakistani officials have become more open about the CIA presence there.
Well HOW ABOUT THAT, huh?
Yeah, it was only the AMERICAN PEOPLE who DIDN'T KNOW!!!!
Thanks, shit MSM, for omitting this important information all these years -- and printing government lies instead!
US forces have long operated Predator drones capable of destroying terrorist targets inside Pakistan's tribal areas, but have complained that there are too few reliable, timely tips about the location of wanted targets.
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"What the US would like is closer, on-the-ground intelligence coordination, US intelligence boots on the ground and more freedom of action in the tribal territories," said Robert Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan and director of the CIA's counterterrorism center.
Sounds like they got what they wanted.
Still, some in the US government have argued that it would be unwise to ramp up the overt US presence in the tribal areas too quickly.
Yeah, but they won't be listened to.
So for now, US officials said, they will concentrate on enhancing their influence in the tribal region in more subtle ways.
"There is a desire to do more on the US side, and there is a recognition that it has to be handled with a great deal of sensitivity," Markey said."Like you would handle a turd that is falling apart: with a great deal of sensitivity!
