SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2008Onze bondgenoot in Afghanistan gaat lekker. Nederlandse politiek steunt deze terreur. Wat zou er gebeuren als Pakistani's in de VS ongewapende burgers zouden vermoorden?
'US Reported to Kill 12 in Pakistan
by: Pir Zubair Shah and Alan Cowell, The New York Times
by: Pir Zubair Shah and Alan Cowell, The New York Times
Islamabad, Pakistan - As the American campaign against suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban militants in Pakistan's tribal areas seemed to intensify on Friday, two missiles fired from remotely piloted American aircraft killed 12 people on Friday in an attack on a village compound in North Waziristan, according to a local journalist and television reports.
At the same time, fighting between Pakistan security forces and militants elsewhere in the wild lands bordering Afghanistan killed 32 militants and two soldiers, The Associated Press reported, citing a Pakistan Army spokesman, Maj. Murad Khan.
The missile strike was said to have taken place near Miran Shah, the main settlement in North Waziristan, before first light Friday and was aimed at the home of a local tribesman, Yousaf Khan Wazir, who was among the dead, a local journalist said, speaking in return for anonymity.
A Pakistani intelligence official said most of the dead in the attack were "Punjabi Taliban." The term refers to militants from the Punjab Province of Pakistan. The target was said to be a militant training camp, the official said, asking not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
The missiles were fired at a village called Tole Khel, two miles east of Miran Shah, and the dead included women and children, according to residents speaking to Pakistani reporters. There was no immediate word on the reported attack from American or Pakistani military authorities.
Pakistan's government has little control in the tribal areas which the United States regards as safe havens for Al Qaeda and Taliban militants. In July, President Bush approved secret orders permitting American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials.
Earlier this month, American forces raided a Pakistani village near the Afghan border in an attack that angered Pakistani officials who asserted that it had achieved little except killing civilians and stoking anti-Americanism in the tribal areas.
According to two American officials briefed on the raid, more than two dozen members of the Navy Seals spent several hours on the ground, supported by an AC-130 gunship, and killed about two dozen suspected Al Qaeda fighters before they were whisked away by helicopter.
Some Pakistani officials have made clear they prefer the C.I.A.'s Predator drone aircraft as the means of killing Qaeda operatives without the deployment of American troops on the ground.'
At the same time, fighting between Pakistan security forces and militants elsewhere in the wild lands bordering Afghanistan killed 32 militants and two soldiers, The Associated Press reported, citing a Pakistan Army spokesman, Maj. Murad Khan.
The missile strike was said to have taken place near Miran Shah, the main settlement in North Waziristan, before first light Friday and was aimed at the home of a local tribesman, Yousaf Khan Wazir, who was among the dead, a local journalist said, speaking in return for anonymity.
A Pakistani intelligence official said most of the dead in the attack were "Punjabi Taliban." The term refers to militants from the Punjab Province of Pakistan. The target was said to be a militant training camp, the official said, asking not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
The missiles were fired at a village called Tole Khel, two miles east of Miran Shah, and the dead included women and children, according to residents speaking to Pakistani reporters. There was no immediate word on the reported attack from American or Pakistani military authorities.
Pakistan's government has little control in the tribal areas which the United States regards as safe havens for Al Qaeda and Taliban militants. In July, President Bush approved secret orders permitting American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials.
Earlier this month, American forces raided a Pakistani village near the Afghan border in an attack that angered Pakistani officials who asserted that it had achieved little except killing civilians and stoking anti-Americanism in the tribal areas.
According to two American officials briefed on the raid, more than two dozen members of the Navy Seals spent several hours on the ground, supported by an AC-130 gunship, and killed about two dozen suspected Al Qaeda fighters before they were whisked away by helicopter.
Some Pakistani officials have made clear they prefer the C.I.A.'s Predator drone aircraft as the means of killing Qaeda operatives without the deployment of American troops on the ground.'
2 opmerkingen:
Ja, dat gaat goed. Komt het bekend voor? Tijdens Vietnam moesten uiteindelijk Cambodja en Laos het ook ontgelden. De oorlog in Cambodja effende uiteindleijk de weg voor het schrikbewind van de Rode Khmer en Pol Pot. Wat dat betreft belooft dat voor Pakistan niet veel goeds. Dit zal veel kwaad bloed zetten in Pakistan wat naar mijn mening kan leiden naar een Taliban bewind met een kernbom.
Heel juist Brendan,
De idioten die nu oorlog voeren of aanhangen zijn die recente geschiedenislessen alweer vergeten of hebben er nog nooit van gehoord.
De VS en Israel hebben vast al veel plannen klaarliggen om hun neutronenbommen op Iran-Pakistan en rgio af te vuren mocht er zo'n machtswisseling komen.
Ten tijde van Korea en Vietnam waren er ook al diverse bijna nucleaire aanvallen voornamelijk gericht op China, dat hield pas op toen China zelf het kernwapen had!
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