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| Radiate_Truth |
Pakistan not to allow Americans to fight terrorists...Pakistan not to allow Americans to fight terrorists on its territory06.01.2008 Source: AP © URL: http://english.pravda.ru/world/103297-pakistan_terrorists_us-0 American forces would not be allowed to hunt Taliban and al-Qaida militants on Pakistani soil. A news report said that Bush’s administration was considering the proposal to expand U.S. military and intelligence operations into Pakistan's tribal regions. Arab country’s Foreign Ministry dismissed the story as “speculative.” The report said that extremists tried to destabilize the political situation in Pakistan and killed Benazir Bhuto, the prominent pro-Western leader who vowed to fight terrorists if elected. The post-9/11 War on Terrorism in Pakistan has had two principal elements: the government's battle with jihad groups banned after 9/11, and the U.S. pursuit of al-Qaeda, usually (but not always) in coordination with Pakistani forces. In 2004, the Pakistani army launched a pursuit of al-Qaeda members in the mountainous area of Waziristan on the Afghan border. Clashes there erupted into a low-level conflict with Islamic militants and local tribesmen, sparking the Waziristan War. A short-lived truce known as the Waziristan accord was brokered in September 2006. |
| The Inquisitor |
RT,
I would be very cautious about using material from Pravda. Their stories sometimes make the bizarre seem normal. Here is a post I made on Musharraf's direct aid to the Taliban just a few months ago: http://beyond.euskalaretoa.com/belief/YaBB.pl?num=1183731306/7#7 In 2006 and 2007, Musharraf released ALL Taliban members from the prisons near the border. He subsequently allowed them semi-autonomy over the entire border with Afghanistan. He also returned to them all the weapons he had confiscated from them. This isn't hush-hush news, it was widely reported: http://www.newsweek.com/id/69494 Don't forget that Bush said on ABC's "World News" Nov. 20. He described Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf as "somebody who believes in democracy" and declared: "I understand how important he is in fighting extremists and radicals." http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20071203/ai_n21138772 Musharraf is doing exactly what Bush has asked him to do. He is toeing the line exactly as Bush wants it. The results you are seeing from Pakistan are results that both Musharraf and Bush have agreed to. There are no reports of some mysterious third party somewhere freeing the Taliban, giving semi-autonomy to them in the border regions, or returning their weapons to them. Musharraf is the only person in Pakistan with that much power. Bush has said repeatedly that Musharraf is doing exactly what Bush wants. The results you are seeing in Pakistan were designed by both Bush and Musharraf. |