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Headlines : "War on Terror"With a Quiet Blessing, U.S. Attacks on Al Qaeda Spike
Although useful in many ways as a loyal military strongman, a weakened Pervez Musharraf has also been valuable for the military-industrial complex. With the General battling electoral and military insurgencies in January, the Bush administration used his predicament to demand a free fire zone in Pakistan’s north west provinces.
This has resulted in mass death. At least 18 died on March 15 in Waziristan. 4 Pakistani’s died as American forces used “precision guided munitions” across the Afghan border on March 12 while, on 27 February, at least 12 died in the same region.
Attention on Pakistan is focused on the release of the country’s Chief Justice, who is now free after four months of house arrest, but the reality on the border is being ignored.
[Posted By Szamko]Republished from Newsweek
The United States has stepped up its use of pilotless planes to strike at Qaeda targets along Pakistan’s rugged border area, a measure that in the past drew protests from President Pervez Musharraf but now has his government’s tacit approval. Since January, missiles reportedly fired from CIA operated Predator drones have hit at least three suspected hideouts of Islamic militants, including a strike last Sunday on a house in a South Waziristan village called Toog.
The surge began after visits to Pakistan at the beginning of the year by senior U.S. officials, including intelligence czar Mike McConnell, CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden and Adm. William Fallon, who recently resigned as commander of the U.S. forces in the region. Some news reports said at the time that Musharraf had “rebuffed” U.S. proposals to step up combat operations inside Pakistan. But U.S. officials and Pakistani sources, who asked for anonymity discussing sensitive information, said the recent wave of Predator attacks are at least partly the result of understandings the high-level visitors reached with Musharraf and other top Pakistanis, giving the United States virtually unrestricted authority to hit targets in the border areas.
Posted by Szamko
Just tries to tell the truth.
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How long before they start deploying those unmanned ground machines that was on that other thread?
We live in fucked up times. Really fucked up.
including a strike last Sunday on a house in a South Waziristan village called Toog.
That’s right Americans, your real enemies live in South Waziristan in a village called “Toog.”
and how long before the denizens of Toog can shoot these war machines for pussies out of the sky?
Memnoch, you are speaking of FCS
Check the website out. Watch the videos and soak-up the implications.
We live in fucked up times. Really fucked up.
I think that sometimes, and it makes me despressed.
.
On the other hand, it could be that times have been fucked up for ages now, and we’re all just now finally facing reality.
It could be put this way: Other times have always been just as fucked up, it’s just that technology has advanced to the point that allows violent retards to assert their stupididy remotely and on an industrial scale.
So take heart, now is just as fucked up as then! :D