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Source: www.bloglines.com --- 37 days ago
New 'NewWorldOrder 9/11 UnTruthCampaign' run from Pakistan: "Worldwide coalition for 9/11 Truth" picked up at: http://www.911wwc.org/ http://www.911wwc.org/2008/09/investigate-911.html We the undersigned agree with the concerns and demands of the 9/11 Truth Movement (www.911Truth.org) ... Newest 20 of 21 signatures 21 salma iqbal 10/5 20 Shawn Cassista 10/4 19 Karolina Karlsson 10/3 18 Anonymous 10/3 17 max igan 10/3 16 Philip John Gandley 10/3 15 John Bursill 10/3 13 Paul Blackburn 10/2 12 Ilija Minic 10/2 11 Barrie Zwicker 10/2 10 Carol Brouillet 10/2 9 Glenn Dormer 10/2 8 Hans Hyma 10/2 7 Dan Keller 10/2 6 Nico Sandman 10/1 5 Muhammad Aamir 9/30 4 Jenna W. 9/29 3 Nikki Laidler 9/28 2 ali jafry 9/28 1 Azad Qalandar 9/27 Created On:18-Sep-2008 20:18:45 UTC Last Updated On:18-Sep-2008 20:18:49 UTC Expiration Date:18-Sep-2009 20:18:45 UTC ... Registrant Name:Syed Imtiaz Ahmed Registrant Organization:Naya Shivala Foundation Registrant Street1:B-21, Kehkashan Homes, Sector 13-C, Gulzar-e-Hijri. Registrant Street2: Registrant Street3: Registrant City:Karachi ... ...

Source: usabayto.six.lv --- 14 days ago
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Source: topics.nytimes.com --- 3 days ago
coalition troops were targeting leaders of the Pakistan-based Jalaluddin Haqqani network when they came under fire in Paktia province. ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 13 days ago
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 5 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday called on President-elect Barack Obama to end U.S. airstrikes that risk civilian casualties after coalition forces allegedly killed dozens of people at a wedding party in southern Afghanistan this week. ...

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 4 days ago
The US is suspected of launching another missile strike into north-west Pakistan today in an attack that killed at least 12 people, including several alleged militants. Intelligence officials said that at least two missiles hit a house in Ghari Wam, a village about 18 miles (30 kilometres) from the Afghan border. The target of the attack was the Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, who was accused of being behind the assassination of former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, according to Reuters. "There were two drones flying in our area and they fired four missiles. They were American," a paramilitary official told the agency. Two officials put the death toll at 12 and said they included several suspected foreign militants. Their exact identity was not immediately clear. Taliban gunmen had cordoned the area and removed the bodies, one official said. The strikes come after a marked escalation in attacks by unmanned US drones in recent months. The US-led coalition in Afghanistan did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The spokesman for the US embassy in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, could not be reached. The US drone attacks, which are rarely confirmed, have been condemned by Pakistan as a violation of its territory. "It's undermining my sovereignty and it's not helping win the ... hearts and minds of people," President Asif Ali Zardari told CBS News in an interview broadcast last night. Yesterday the Afghan presiden ...

Source: www.salon.com --- 3 days ago
U.S. forces say coalition troops have attacked a bomb-making cell in eastern Afghanistan, killing 10 militants. The military said Saturday in a statement it was targeting several key figures in a network run by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a militant leader believed to operate out of Pakistan. ... ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 2 days ago
By Stephen C. Rose The situation in Afghanistan weighs more and more heavily on us. I took it up in a Huffington Post piece a while back titled Could Barack Obama Suffer The Fate of LBJ? Many wish the war on terror to be translated from a military trap into a POLICE ACTION, something sane observers believe it should have been from the very start. Today, comes a sad vindication of the reality and a stark warning that there can be no winning in Afghanistan. It will be Barack Obama's task to cut a deal and be honest about why Violence in Afghanistan has reached its highest levels since the U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban regime in 2001 SOURCE A Pakistani decision to temporarily bar some trucks from a key passageway to Afghanistan threatened a critical supply route for U.S. and NATO troops on Sunday and raised more fears about deteriorating security in the militant-plagued border region. The suspension of oil tankers and trucks carrying sealed containers came as U.S.-led coalition troops in eastern Afghanistan reported killing five al-Qaida-linked fighters and detaining eight others, including a militant leader. Al-Qaida and Taliban fighters are behind much of the escalating violence along the lengthy, porous Afghan-Pakistan border, and both nations have traded accusations that the other was not doing enough to keep militants out from its side. The tensions come as violence in Afghanistan has reached its highest levels since th ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 2 days ago
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan temporarily barred oil tankers and container trucks from a key passageway to Afghanistan, threatening a critical supply route for U.S. and NATO troops on Sunday and raising more fears about security in the militant-plagued border region. Confirmation of the suspension came as U.S.-led coalition troops reported killing 30 insurgents in fighting in southern Afghanistan and detaining two militant leaders _ both in provinces near Pakistan's lawless border. Al-Qaida and Taliban fighters are behind much of the escalating violence along the lengthy, porous Afghan-Pakistan border, and both nations have traded accusations that the other was not doing enough to keep militants out from its side. The tensions come as violence in Afghanistan has reached its highest level since the U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban regime in 2001, and as a surge in U.S. missile strikes on the Pakistani side of the border has prompted protests from Pakistan government leaders. Last Monday, a band of militants hijacked around a dozen trucks whose load included Humvees headed to the foreign forces in Afghanistan. Renewed security concerns prompted officials to impose the temporary ban on tankers and trucks carrying sealed containers in the immediate days following the attack, government official Bakhtiar Khan said. He said it could be lifted as early as Monday. Lt. Cmdr. Walter Matthews, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Afgha ...

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 5 days ago
A suicide attack on a U.S. military convoy in Afghanistan has killed at least 20 civilians and a coalition soldier, the U.S. military says. Also, an Iranian diplomat has been kidnapped in Pakistan a day after the shooting of an American aid worker. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 5 days ago
Pakistan is often described as the most urgent foreign-policy headache facing President-elect Barack Obama. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban have sunk roots in its tribal regions, from which they mount attacks on coalition troops in Afghanistan. A frustrated Bush team has unleashed missile attacks on militants in Pakistan, but the country's government warns that the strikes undercut its own efforts to fight the jihadis. Meantime, the militants destabilize a country with nukes. ...

Source: www.nowpublic.com --- 3 days ago
Latest reports coming in from Pakistan says that  Pakistani security forces have retrieved 15 trucks that had been hijacked by the Taliban earlier in the day en route to Afghanistan to deliver goods to US-led coalition forces.A convoy carrying supplies for NATO forces... read more ...

Source: www.sacbee.com --- 4 days ago
Pakistan is often described as the most urgent foreign-policy headache facing President-elect Barack Obama. Al-Qaida and the Taliban have sunk roots in its tribal regions, from which they mount attacks on coalition troops in Afghanistan. A frustrated Bush team has unleashed missile attacks on militants in Pakistan, but the country's government warns that the strikes undercut its own efforts to fight the jihadis. Meantime, the militants destabilize a country with nukes. But wait. There's some good news. Despite the rhetoric about missiles, there are good prospects for stronger U.S.-Pakistan cooperation if Obama moves astutely and fast. Pakistani officials say there has been substantial improvement in relations between U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials. The new head of Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, visited Washington in late October for talks with our top intelligence chiefs, and the meetings went very well. "Everyone in Washington knows there is no lack of will on the part of Pakistan's elected leadership to combat terrorism," Pakistan's ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani, told me. "We are working together to assure capacity." Such cooperation is key, since America has little human-intelligence capacity in the region where the militants are hiding. Relations between the CIA and ISI had been at a nadir, but they are being rebuilt. Pakistanis say they are cleaning out ISI elements that ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 17 days ago
A series of operations by U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan targeted an al-Qaida leader and a bomb-making cell, killing 19 militants, the coalition said Saturday. Afghan police said they had investigated unconfirmed reports that civilians may have been killed and found that only militants died. The operations took place Friday in Nangarhar and Khost provinces, volatile regions along the Pakistan border. In the deadliest operation, the coalition said it killed 10 militants during a strike against a bomb-making cell under the command of Jalaluddin Haqqani, a fierce militant leader believed to operate out of Pakistan. Wazir Pacha, the spokesman for Khost's provincial police chief, said a delegation of police had been sent to investigate whether civilians had been killed and had found no such evidence. ...

Source: www.charlotteobserver.com --- 1 day ago
(By RIAZ KHAN, Associated Press Writers) Security forces escorted container trucks and oil tankers through the Khyber Pass on Monday after Pakistan reopened the route critical to transporting supplies to NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Pakistan suspended the vehicles from the passageway for a security review last week after militants hijacked several trucks whose load included Humvees bound for the U.S.-led coalition. On Monday, a dozen or so paramilitary pickups joined a convoy of around 30 vehicles as part of new security measures. The escort trucks bore rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns. Earlier, the transport trucks travel with little or no security. Al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, as well as ordinary criminals, are behind escalating violence along the porous Afghan-Pakistan border. The danger has made the Khyber Pass an increasingly perilous 30-mile stretch, but one that the U.S. and NATO still rely upon heavily. The violence in the region continued Monday when an Afghan official said a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of a government office in Kandahar province, killing two policemen and a civilian. It was not possible to confirm exactly what was being transported in Monday's convoy. Military supplies usually travel in sealed, unmarked containers. The route is also a critical commercial trade passage between the two countries. A U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan insisted Monday the susp ...

Source: www.charlotteobserver.com --- 12 days ago
(By FISNIK ABRASHI, Associated Press Writer) Afghanistan's government is looking at ways to engage tribes in the fight against insurgents, a similar tactic to the one that helped reduce violence in Iraq, the new chief of U.S. Central Command said Thursday. Gen. David Petraeus has been credited for turning the tide of violence in Iraq, and many expect Afghanistan will see some of the same tactics, such as co-opting local tribal leaders to resist the Taliban. "This is a country in which support of the tribes, of the local communities, for the overall effort is essential. It is a country that has not have a tradition of central government extending into the far reaches of its provinces and its districts," he told The Associated Press in an interview. "So it is essential that, again, the various tribes, various communities indeed oppose the extremism, oppose the insurgents and enable the effort of the Afghan government and the coalition," he said without disclosing any details of the initiatives under discussion. Violence in Afghanistan is running at its highest levels since 2001, and the U.S. also wants neighboring Pakistan to do more to crack down on insurgents who use pockets of its northwest region as sanctuaries from which to plan attacks on U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. Over the last three months, the U.S. has launched at least 17 strikes on militant targets on Pakistan's lawless side of the Afghan border. Pakistani leade ...

Source: www.michaelmoore.com --- 3 days ago
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 PROMISING PROSPECTS FOR BETTER RELATIONS WITH Pakistan By Trudy Rubin / Philadelphia Inquirer Pakistan is often described as the most urgent foreign-policy headache facing President-elect Barack Obama. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban have sunk roots in its tribal regions, from which they mount attacks on coalition troops in Afghanistan. A frustrated Bush team has unleashed missile attacks on militants in Pakistan, but the country's government warns that the strikes undercut its own efforts to fight the jihadis. Meantime, the militants destabilize a country with nukes. But wait. There's some good news. Despite the rhetoric about missiles, there are good prospects for stronger U.S.-Pakistan cooperation if Obama moves astutely and fast. Pakistani officials say there has been substantial improvement in relations between U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials. The new head of Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, visited Washington in late October for talks with our top intelligence chiefs, and the meetings went very well. "Everyone in Washington knows there is no lack of will on the part of Pakistan's elected leadership to combat terrorism," Pakistan's ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani, told me. "We are working together to assure capacity." Such cooperation is key, since America has little human-intelligence capacity in the region where the militants are hiding. Relations between ...

Source: www.michaelmoore.com --- 11 days ago
2008-11-07 PAKISTANIS HOPE U.S. UNDER OBAMA WILL BE LESS BOSSY ISLAMABAD ( Reuters ) - Barack Obama's victory fostered hopes in Pakistan that the United States would become less overbearing towards its ally in the war on terrorism, and nurture the country's recent return to civilian-led democracy. "I think he will understand that the use of brute force alone creates more enemies and widens the zone of conflict," Talat Masood, a retired Pakistani general turned analyst, said. "I think he will put greater emphasis on developing civilian capacities," he added, pointing to a bill proposed by Obama's Vice President-elect Joe Biden to provide Pakistan with a multi-billion dollar "democracy dividend" package. Under Pakistan's previous leader, former army chief Pervez Musharraf, most U.S. aid went to Pakistan's military. Musharraf quit in August, and his successor, President Asif Ali Zardari, has inherited an economy in danger of meltdown. Relations between the United States and nuclear-armed Pakistan have been strained by a series of cross-border U.S. strikes, most by missile-firing pilotless drone aircraft, on militant targets in Pakistan. The strikes have hardened anti-American sentiment in Pakistan at a time when the coalition government is trying to build popular support for its own campaign against Islamist militancy. Samina Ahmed, South Asia project director for International Crisis Group, believed Obama's victory would lead to a make-o ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 14 days ago
A deadly attack on a U.S. outpost in eastern Afghanistan in July was executed with the support of some local police and government leaders as well as villagers there, according to an internal military report. The report, released Tuesday, recommended the district's Afghan police chief and governor be replaced, if not arrested and tried for committing crimes against the government. And it said the incident underscores repeated problems in the volatile mountain region with the local population offering "passive and active support" to the enemy, which also has infiltrated the country's security forces. Nine U.S. troops were killed in the attack, which was launched just before midnight on July 12 by about 200 insurgents. Another 27 U.S. troops were wounded, and of those, 11 were treated and then returned to duty. Between 21 and 52 enemy fighters were killed, and another 45 wounded, the report said. The report was completed August 13, but an unclassified version was not released until this week. It confirmed many of the details previously released to the public about the incident, including suspicions that villagers were complicit in the attack. The assault did not come without warning. coalition forces had received numerous intelligence reports that an attack on the base was being planned, but such threats did not come as any surprise in that volatile region along the Pakistan border. ...

Source: www.defensetech.org --- 22 hours ago
Here's a little tid bit on the cutting room floor from last week's interview with the Pentagon's policy chief, Eric Edelman. The other day I got an email from a source of mine who claimed some of his buddies working in the private security industry in Pakistan and Afghanistan told him Pakistani intelligence officers have been found in "non life-supporting postures" after skirmishes or air strikes on insurgents in Afghanistan. In other words, elements within Pakistan's ISI are directly aiding anti-coalition forces in Afghanistan -- sometimes engaging in combat operations with them. I asked Edelman what the deal was...here's a brief transcript of how that conversation went: Defense Tech: In Afghanistan, have you seen any evidence of Pakistani agencies' involvement in assisting the Taliban and other parties within Afghanistan against US troops and also within the [federally administered tribal areas]? Edelman: I think that, you know, there's a long history here. The Pakistan government for a very long time has regarded Afghanistan as its 'strategic depth' and clearly there have been relationships that go back to the Mujahaddin era that have persisted. We've had some concerns about it, we've expressed those concerns. We had a meeting with the head... ...