Posts Tagged ‘Pakistan’
Transcript of Senators Levin and McCain’s Questions on Pakistan and Drones, and Gates’ and Mullen’s Answers at the Armed Services Committee Hearing
The US Senate Committee on Armed Services conducted a full committee hearing on Thursday 14 May 2009, to receive testimony in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2010 and the Future Years Defense Program. What appears below is a rough selective transcript (from live webcast), of the discussion on Pakistan, in the early part [...]
The 9/11 plot took place primarily in Hamburg — Matthew Yglesias
Under the threat of being bombed back to the stone age, the United States secured the surender of Pakistan from Pervez Musharraf (occupying only four critical bases, and avoiding in this way the expense and problems of occupation). Today, with a rising chorus of influential voices the American public has been persuaded that the 9/11 attacks [...]
Outrage in Pakistan Over Images Taken as US Insult of the President
Zardari is no stranger to the corridors of power in America. Yet, while the few who see prospects of profiting from the enormous flow of American taxpayers' money that is envisaged in the wake of President Zardari's recent US visit -- US "contractors" (mercenaries), America's Pakistan "experts" (in the US and in Pakistan), and local go-betweens -- [...]
Seuddeutsche on the Changes in the US Afghanistan Command
Afghanistan: This is Now Obama's War Das ist non Obama Krieg R. Klüver und P. Blechschmidt (Rough Translation from the German) U.S. President Obama changes the command structure and strategy in Afghanistan -- reminiscent of his predecessors, Lincoln and Truman. With the abrupt dismissal of the supreme commander of the armed [...]
Pakistan – The Cheated People
In an article entitled, The Cheated People (Der betrogene Volk), the German newspaper Seuddeutsche Zeitung's online edition (seuddeutsche.de) offers a European perspective on the Swat crisis, a rough translation of which, together with some of their graphics, appears below. (more...)
“Af-Pak” War Plans: Two Weeks Later
With the passage of two weeks since the announcement of the so-called "Af-Pak" strategy, we can be reminded of Generalfeldmarschall von Moltke's (the Elder, 1800-1891) saying: "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy". Faced with a growing realisation that a defeat at the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan is inevitable, the American [...]
IRI Poll: 80% support for Shari`ah; Inflation and Employment, not Terrorism, Seen as “most important” Issue
Teeth Maestro reports on the tenth survey of opinion in Pakistan, released by the International Republican Institute: see the charts and graphs using this link , and the descriptive review, here . Read the Teeth Maestro's analysis of results -- noting, however, the substantial bias in the sample frame toward higher income groups (52% of the [...]
US Afghan Commander Gen. McKiernan Fired
An earlier post had reported on US Defense Department's move towards greater control of command in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theatre. On 11 May 2009, the New York Times reported the next step in this process, the replacement of Gen. David McKiernan, head of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) as well as the Commander of US Forces [...]
Transcript of Ron Paul – Holbrooke Interchange
Pak Alert Press reports on a US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on US Strategy toward Pakistan, held on 12 May 2009, where there was a candid interchange between Congressman Ron Paul and Ambassador Richard Holbrooke . A transcript of the interchange, available on You Tube, is provided below. (more...)
On the Day After
This article poses two questions: On the day after US/NATO forces invade and occupy some of Balochistan and Waziristan, ‘What will we say we should have done’, and ‘Why aren’t we doing it now?’ Is this far-fetched? The facts suggest otherwise. Like the US invasion of Iraq, plans for covert operations and military strikes against [...]
