US Missile Strike on Haqqani Compound;
New President Faces Economic Mess in Pakistan
New Pakistani president Asaf Ali Zardari will face the challenge of a struggling economy. The stock market has lost 40% of its value since last March, currency reserves are deplete, and high energy and food costs are hitting ordinary folk hard.
Aljazeera English examines the remarkable victory of Asaf Ali Zardari in Saturday's presidential election in Pakistan.
Pakistan has unblocked the Khyber Pass for NATO to resupply troops in Afghanistan. It was apparently briefly closed to put pressure on the US to cease cross-border strikes on the Pakistani side of the border. There appears to have been another US missile strike on a Pakistani target on Sunday. It killed 3 militants and wounded 17 other persons. The strike seems to have been aimed at the house of Jalaluddin Haqqani.
posted by Juan Cole @ 9/08/2008 12:56:00 AM
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In his 60 Minutes interview about his new book, Bob Woodward referred to some vague, revolutionary, new terrorist leader surveillance technology. Is this what is behind all these attacks inside Pakistan? If it is so revolutionary, why have they not gotten bin Laden yet?
"Aljazeera English examines the remarkable victory of Asaf Ali Zardari in Saturday's presidential election in Pakistan."
Huh? Zardari is President because we wanted Zardari as President since he will assure us unlimited military access to Pakistan. This is not the old Aljazeera, as Angry Arab has explained, this is the Saudi Aljazeera.
The US military said that its findings were corroborated by an independent journalist embedded with the US force. He was named as the Fox News correspondent Oliver North, who came to prominence in the 1980s Iran-Contra affair, when he was an army colonel.
ARE YOU F***ING KIDDING ME ?!?!?
THE us MILITARY RELIED ON THE WORD OF THAT LYING PIECE OF SH*T OLIVER NORTH FOR CORROBORATION ?!?!?!
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD !!!!
Harrowing video film backs Afghan villagers' claims of Mass Death caused by US military
and now the us military is going to have HUGE HEAPING PILES OF SH*T SHOVELED ON THEIR HEADS BECAUSE IT TOOK THE 'WORD' OF A CONVICTED FELON OVER THE WORD OF THE AFGHAN PEOPLE ?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!
Afghanistan: Civilian Deaths From Airstrikes on the Rise
Airstrikes Cause Public Backlash, Undermine Protection Efforts
ref : “another US missile strike on a Pakistani target. . .”
American massacres of Afghani and Pakistani peoples by means of air power gone awry or amok (this morning's latest incident being the obliteration of a madrassa, a childrens' school, for god's sake) have reached a grotesque, stomach-sickening extent. We are engaging in a cruel, collective punishment of peaceful, non-combatant peoples that is by any civilized measure far out of proportion to any threat apparent from any ‘militant’ resistance group ~ or simply criminal bandit gang ~ being related by blood tie or tribal birth-place to all these innocent victims.
The pentagon has gone all AirWar haywire on us. Our ground, naval and I imagine not a few Air Force officers ~ those who remain sane and sound must, by now be alarmed by this robotic, "Death From Above" by remote control... This is in my humble opinion an odious, morally detached new kind of killing -not- combat emergent : because real soldiers are not mere executioners.
T.S.Eliot => We are the Hollow Men
That the pentagon does, incident after incident deny the existence of any massacre of innocents, only to learn, later by some irrefutable proof that there were, indeed massive civilian KIA + WIA tells us: yes, there (still is) some sense of shame, lingering awareness among our officers ~ of "right", and "wrong". Yet their conscience appears to us intermixed with this weird, i daresay nonchalant amorality, lack of empathy, apparent -- and shocking unawareness of the realities on their own, chosen battlegrounds! What to make of it all, I do not know ~ but I do believe that left unchecked, our reasoning will remain unbalanced, revenge- not Victory-driven: This military hysteria will destroy our own fighting forces' potency and morale long before Counter-Insurgency by means of indiscriminate mass executions manages to vanquish all these real and imagined enemies and innocents, neither defeated nor conquered, nonetheless summarily condemned.
"This is not the old Aljazeera, as Angry Arab has explained, this is the Saudi Aljazeera." ; I too have noticed a decided change in Al-Jazeera English reporting AND censorship of comments.
With the agreement re India and nuclear fuel/technology (and China's apparent acquiescence to such), Southeast Asia has become a VERY dangerous place.
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