Pakistan 'protests' at US strike

[maddezmom]

Source: BBC

Pakistan 'protests' at US strike

Pakistan's army says it has protested over a missile attack in its tribal areas that was carried out by the US.

The attack, which the army says killed at least 14 people, targeted the home of a pro-Taleban militant leader.

Pakistan is trying to negotiate a peace deal with militants near the Afghan border following a failed military campaign in the region.

US officials and Nato say the tribal areas have become "safe havens" for al-Qaeda and the Taleban.

'Protest'

"The investigations show the attack was carried out by a US pilotless drone," Gen Athar Abbas, spokesman for the Pakistan army, told the BBC.




Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7405568.stm

[bdamomma]

1. oh crap, can't we just mind our own business.

playing russian roulette with a real nuclear country.:banghead:

[Deny and Shred]

2. If the Taliban blew up Cheney's home unannounced and killed

14 in the process, would the US call that terrorism? You bet.
I always fail to see how it's different the other way around.

[ohio2007]

6. ignorance is bliss

Taliban publicly execute woman
AP, November 17, 1999

http://www.rawa.org/murder-w.htm




If the Taliban blew up Obamas home unannounced and killed ...... actually, like Dafur, what was going on in Afghanistan was ignored for decades.

http://www.rawa.org/reports2.html



http://www.rawa.org/bwphoto.html

just saying, Obama wants to increase military presence in Afghanistan so in another six months, you can bring out the chickenhawk suit as it will be back in style..... ;)

[ohio2007]

3. Militants behead Pakistani soldier to avenge US missile strike

KHAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Pakistani authorities Friday found the body of a paramilitary soldier beheaded by Taliban insurgents in a tribal area where a suspected US missile strike left 12 people dead, an official said.

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A note left on the corpse said the soldier had been killed in revenge for Wednesday's missile massacre in Damadola village in Bajaur tribal district near the Afghan border.

The soldier was kidnapped overnight and his decapitated body dumped on the roadside some eight kilometres (five miles) from a paramilitary post near the main town of Khar, local official Mowaz Khan said.



"This is our revenge for the US missile attack," the note signed by militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, said.

Militants in the troubled semi-autonomous region have in the past kidnapped and killed soldiers, officials and pro-government figures, accused of working with the Americans, as part of a campaign to maintain their stronghold.

snip

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080516/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanafghanistanunrest_080516121815

They attack what is within reach. That certainly will teach the Pakistani govt to get the US to back down. But te Pakistani govt is having trouble staying united .
the target audience was spun by the MSM to think it was an act of defiance against the US ?

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=b07fc494-183c-471e-b26d-cf5515c61935&&Headline=Pakistan+ruling+coalition+close+to+collapse


think again

[Igel]

4. The Pakistani government is losing its leverage.

The deal they're working out makes no mention of cross-border attacks. They're going the Yemen route--"we don't care what happens on our territory, as long as our citizens aren't hurt."

In other words, the PPP is offering to capitulate to the militants in exchange for the militants' accepting the offer of a safe haven. This is little different from the PPP's and MLN-N's previous attitudes towards the militants--except in the past the PPP/MLN-N actively *aided* the militants. The ISI didn't just spring up, it grew under ul-Haq, and flourished under the other two less-than-liberal regimes.

And in taking this tack, they are removing the one positive leverage they had with the US: Help the US stop cross-border attacks. The only possible remaining leverage will be to fund and aid cross border attacks.

The PPP and MLN-N's attitudes to Afghanistan and India are un-reconstructed. Afghanistan is properly under Pakistani influence, because the alternative is that it'll be under India's influence; India is the enemy. In this, the PPP is at one with the military.

Truly, all politics is local.

[ohio2007]

5. Thats why Sharif walked out of the coalition govt. this week ( no western MSM coverage )

Sharif had made it clear on Saturday that if, by May 12, the PPP did not honour the promise it had made in the Bhurban Declaration to reinstate the judges, the PML-N would walk out of the coalition government

US MSM ?
<crickets>
Pakistan politics was all the rage when the merge and power share was agreed to but now... the honeymoon is over.



Desperate measures are being taken at the local level elswhere in the region;
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=26735e50-d150-423a-bf52-f0b956f00f0b




Putting the long overdue big hurt on the Taliban and AQ is being reported with a rather strange bias that favors the drug funded band of theives.


while local politics in the region do not seem to be part of the big picture;


http://www.hindustantimes.com/storypage/storypage.aspx?id=e6f33405-f54e-421a-8dfa-c8d752effe51&ParentID=54095e2a-0b82-4cec-aec9-2c16e86f8171&MatchID1=39&TeamID1=8&TeamID2=1&MatchType1=5&SeriesID1=1&PrimaryID=39&Headline=Chronology+of+blasts+in+India
go figger