Posts Tagged ‘Taliban’
American Paid Waziri Spies Guiding CIA Drone Strikes
Danger Room reports: Spy Chips Guiding CIA Drone Strikes, Locals Say By Noah Shachtman | June 1, 2009 (more...)
Pakistan to US: You secure your weapons, We’ll secure ours!
According to Dan Rivers of CNN, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbasof the Pakistan Army has said that: "many of the Taliban's arms are coming across the border from Afghanistan." When Rivers asked him "if that includes NATO weapons, as suggested in recent reports," he agreed. According to Rivers, "He says Washington is too focused on the safety of Pakistan's [...]
More on the US Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual
Robert Haddick of Small Wars Journal, a former U.S. Marine Corps officer, who writes at Westhawk and The American, has posted a long article (reproduced in full below), that provides important information on the US Army Field Manual on Counterinsurgency (see earlier post with a summary of the Manual, and another post with critical remarks on its [...]
America is a Failed State!
Radical Extremists Within 100 Miles of Washington, DC! In order to reduce the anxieties of the American people, scared to death by the hysteria whipped up by their government, the Pakistan government has been forced to launch a military operation in about as remote a corner of the globe as imaginable, that has led to over 2 million poor people [...]
New Hardware for the “Af-Pak” Theatre
Posted at DoD Buzz: ISR Gunships to Target Taliban By Greg Grant Monday, May 18th, 2009 The ever expedient Marine Corps plans to send field modified A/KC-130J transport-tanker-gunships to Afghanistan by the end of the year, to provide Marines fighting a resurgent Taliban there with much needed over-watch and precision close air support, [...]
Zhao Ziyang’s Memoir: The Taliban of Tiananmen Square
Zhao Ziyang (d. 2005) was a top Chinese leader who was deposed over his sympathy with 1989 protests by students (in Pashto, taliban, albeit with a small 't') who were massacred in the bloody 4 June 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, that he tried to prevent. Reflecting on his recently published memoir, as reported in the Bangkok Post of 14 May [...]
Transcript of Rare Interview with Taliban Leader Mulla Umar’s Representative
Reproduced below, in full, from CNN's site, is the transcript of a remarkable interview reportedly obtained by CNN's Nic Robertson with Zabiullah Mujahid, said to be a spokesmen for Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar . Transcript: Afghan Taliban spokesman discusses war May 5, 2009 -- Updated 2116 GMT (0516 HKT) (CNN) -- Zabiullah [...]
Asif Zardari’s Interview to Der Spiegel
President Asif Ali Zardari's Interview to Der Spiegel of 6 May 2009, is reproduced in full below: 'Nuclear Weapons Are Not Kalashnikovs' The West is concerned about the stability of Pakistan. SPIEGEL spoke with President Asif Ali Zardari, 53, about failed peace talks with the Taliban, the possible whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and the [...]
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...)
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...)
