Cheney Warns Pakistan to Act on Terror

[dogday]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — Vice President Dick Cheney made an unannounced trip to Pakistan on Monday to deliver what officials in Washington described as an unusually tough message to Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, warning him that the newly Democratic Congress could cut aid to his country unless his forces become far more aggressive in hunting down operatives with Al Qaeda.

Mr. Cheney’s trip was shrouded in secrecy, and he was on the ground for only a few hours, sharing a private lunch with the Pakistani leader at his palace. Notably, Mr. Cheney traveled with the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Steve Kappes, an indication that the conversation with the Pakistani president likely included discussion of American intelligence agency contentions that Al Qaeda camps have been reconstituted along the border of Afghanistan.

The decision to send Mr. Cheney secretly to Pakistan came after the White House concluded that General Musharraf is failing to live up to commitments he made to Mr. Bush during a visit here in September. General Musharraf insisted then, both in private and public, that a peace deal he struck with tribal leaders in one of the country’s most lawless border areas would not diminish the hunt for the leaders of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Now, American intelligence officials have concluded that the terrorist infrastructure is being rebuilt, and that while Pakistan has attacked some camps, its overall effort has flagged.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/world/asia/26cnd-pakistan.html?hp

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Rabbit Urges US to Act on Terror: Impeach the Terrorists

!!

[EFerrari]

2. The ISI isn't being rebuilt. It was never dismantled and again

NYTs is full of it.

[dogday]

3. So is Cheney saying the Republican congress funded

Pakistan even though they were not agressively hunting Al Qaeda? Why would they do that? :sarcasm:

[malaise]

6. Looks that way

Truth will out one way or the other.

[Botany]

4. Ah Dick, Pervez Musharraf already has cut a deal w/ the Taliban

They will not try to kill him if he leaves bin Laden and al Qaeda alone.

BTW Paki intel helped in 9/11 too but you already know that.

[majorjohn]

5. Cheney: War on Pakistan n/t

[hippiechick]

7. WTF? He's telling other countries what to do?

I mean, more blatantly than usual ??


:wtf:

[JDPriestly]

8. If the Democratic Congress achieves nothing more,

a change in Pakistan's lax attitude toward terrorists on its soil would be worth all the effort in the past elections. The Bush administration has been silent on this issue. The Bush administration's material, financial and diplomatic support for Musharraf makes it an accomplice in encouraging the growing terrorist threat coming from Pakistan and Afghanistan. What a stupid strategy.

[malaise]

9. Meanwhile

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x288337

[dogday]

10. I guess this answers my question

which I posted above eh?

[Virginia Dare]

11. Cheney running around the world planting his demon war seeds...

on our tax dime, obscene!