Posts Tagged ‘Swat’
CIA Made Fake Videos of bin Ladin Drinking and Boasting of his Gay Conquests
Guardian | By Paul Harris | 26 May 2010 CIA's secret Iraq weapon revealed: a Saddam gay sex tape Bizarre US plots included exploding cigars to kill Fidel Castro and fake video of Osama bin Laden's campfire drinking In their time, America's secret agencies have tried some outlandish schemes to attack their country's enemies, including, most [...]
Pakistan Army Said to Be Linked to Swat Killings
The New York Times | Article By Jane Perlez and Pir Zubair Shah | 14 September 2009 MINGORA, Pakistan — Two months after the Pakistani Army wrested control of the Swat Valley from Taliban militants, a new campaign of fear has taken hold, with scores, perhaps hundreds, of bodies dumped on the streets in what human rights advocates and local [...]
Blackwater/Xe Enters Pakistan, In a Big Way
If memory serves, it was reported both that Benazir Bhutto (in Musharraf's time) and that Asif Zardari (later) had wanted to bring infamous American mercenaries, Blackwater, to Pakistan for their personal protection. With Asif Zardari now placed in office, it appears that "Blackwater" (that now does business under the name Xe Services LLC), [...]
Pakistanis see US as biggest threat
Aljazeera.net | Article by Owen Fay | 10 August 2009 A survey commissioned by Al Jazeera in Pakistan has revealed a widespread disenchantment with the United States for interfering with what most people consider internal Pakistani affairs. (more...)
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Officials Brief New York Times
| By ERIC SCHMITT and JANE PERLEZ | Published: July 21, 2009 Pakistan Objects to U.S. Plan for Afghan War ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan is objecting to expanded American combat operations in neighboring Afghanistan, creating new fissures in the alliance with Washington at a critical juncture when thousands of new American forces are [...]
“We will be defeated in Afghanistan”
TruthDig | By Chris Hedges | 20 July 2009 War Without Purpose Al-Qaida could not care less what we do in Afghanistan. We can bomb Afghan villages, hunt the Taliban in Helmand province, build a 100,000-strong client Afghan army, stand by passively as Afghan warlords execute hundreds, maybe thousands, of Taliban prisoners, build huge, [...]
Forcing Pakistan into American Categories
Registan.net | 18 July 2009 Is It COIN, Or Not? And does it matter? Haider Ali Hussein Mullick has an interesting essay in Foreign Affairs about “Pakistan’s emerging counterinsurgency strategy.” In the fall, Major General Tariq Khan, at the time commanding a squadron of the Pakistani army’s paramilitary force, the Frontier Corps, [...]
U.S to Ship Russian-Made Helicopters to Pakistan
Bloomberg | By Tony Capaccio June 3 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. military plans to lease four of its Russian-made transport helicopters to the Pakistan army to bolster its fight against the Taliban in the nation’s ungoverned northwest territories, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials. The helicopters were among the top items that Pakistan [...]
Our first enemy are the Taliban, our second enemy is the Army – Displaced Physician from Swat
There is a view that the larger aim of the United States in Pakistan is to “secure” Pakistan’s nuclear assets and neutralise its military, by balkanising Pakistan along ethnic lines, using propaganda, psychological warfare , military threats, and economic inducements . The video and translated transcript posted in this post is relevant to [...]
Indian Agent Joins the Pakistan Must “Do More” Chorus
Withdraw Troops from the Indian Border -- Wall Street Journal Publishes Former Indian Intelligence Officer's Advice to Pakistan! B. Raman, a 26-year veteran of the Indian intelligence agency, Research Analysis Wing (RAW, see earlier post on its role in creation of Bangladesh) writes in -- where else -- the Wall Street Journal that -- what else [...]
