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- But By All Means, Let's Talk With The Taliban In Afghanistan
Pakistan's Taliban vow attacks on West By Michael Georgy ISLAMABAD | Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:21am EDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Taliban, a close ally of al Qaeda, has threatened to carry out a series of attacks against American, British and...
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Newsmax: Key al Qaeda Operative Killed in Pakistan by U.S. Drone Saturday, 04 Jun 2011 08:47 AM ISLAMABAD, June 4 (Reuters) - Senior al Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmiri, regarded as one of the most dangerous militants in the world, was killed by a U.S....
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L.A. Times: CIA recalls Pakistan station chief after his name becomes public The CIA officer, who remains undercover, is returning to the U.S. because of threats to his safety, a U.S. official says. The officer's name was used in a police complaint...
- Drones Gone Wild
AFP: US missiles kill 10 militants in Pakistan: officials By Hasbanullh Khan (AFP) – 4 hours ago MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — US missiles destroyed a compound used by Islamist fighters in Pakistan's tribal belt on Thursday, killing at least 10 militants...
- Pakistan Blocks Fuel Supply For Foreign Troops In Afghanistan
Last week, the United States military made an uninvited incursion into Pakistan to hit at a suspected Al Qaeda base. I said at the time that this was an incident unique in history, where one nuclear power attacked the actual land of another nuclear power....
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Guess they were worried they were now on the target list, what with "recent revelations" about the ISI and the bad guys (but I repeat myself)
Financial Times:
Pakistan shuts US out of drone base
By Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad, James Lamont in New Delhi and Daniel Dombey in Washington
Pakistan has called a stop to US drone flights from a base that has launched strikes against Taliban and al-Qaeda militants on its border with Afghanistan.
In the latest sign of US-Pakistan tensions, Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar, defence minister, said on Wednesday that Islamabad had ended US operations at the Shamsi airbase in Baluchistan. The move comes after a surge of anti-American feeling in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden last month in a US raid on Abbottabad, a Pakistani hill station.
The Shamsi base, about 300km from Quetta and close to the Afghan border, has been used to launch drone strikes on militants – part of a campaign the US says has wiped out about half of al-Qaeda’s leadership.
“No US flights are taking place from Shamsi any longer. If there have to be flights from this base, it will only be Pakistani flights,” Mr Mukhtar told the Financial Times. “We have ended all US flights from the base.”
the rest here
Financial Times:
Pakistan shuts US out of drone base
By Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad, James Lamont in New Delhi and Daniel Dombey in Washington
Pakistan has called a stop to US drone flights from a base that has launched strikes against Taliban and al-Qaeda militants on its border with Afghanistan.
In the latest sign of US-Pakistan tensions, Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar, defence minister, said on Wednesday that Islamabad had ended US operations at the Shamsi airbase in Baluchistan. The move comes after a surge of anti-American feeling in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden last month in a US raid on Abbottabad, a Pakistani hill station.
The Shamsi base, about 300km from Quetta and close to the Afghan border, has been used to launch drone strikes on militants – part of a campaign the US says has wiped out about half of al-Qaeda’s leadership.
“No US flights are taking place from Shamsi any longer. If there have to be flights from this base, it will only be Pakistani flights,” Mr Mukhtar told the Financial Times. “We have ended all US flights from the base.”
the rest here
- But By All Means, Let's Talk With The Taliban In Afghanistan
Pakistan's Taliban vow attacks on West By Michael Georgy ISLAMABAD | Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:21am EDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Taliban, a close ally of al Qaeda, has threatened to carry out a series of attacks against American, British and...
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Newsmax: Key al Qaeda Operative Killed in Pakistan by U.S. Drone Saturday, 04 Jun 2011 08:47 AM ISLAMABAD, June 4 (Reuters) - Senior al Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmiri, regarded as one of the most dangerous militants in the world, was killed by a U.S....
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L.A. Times: CIA recalls Pakistan station chief after his name becomes public The CIA officer, who remains undercover, is returning to the U.S. because of threats to his safety, a U.S. official says. The officer's name was used in a police complaint...
- Drones Gone Wild
AFP: US missiles kill 10 militants in Pakistan: officials By Hasbanullh Khan (AFP) – 4 hours ago MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — US missiles destroyed a compound used by Islamist fighters in Pakistan's tribal belt on Thursday, killing at least 10 militants...
- Pakistan Blocks Fuel Supply For Foreign Troops In Afghanistan
Last week, the United States military made an uninvited incursion into Pakistan to hit at a suspected Al Qaeda base. I said at the time that this was an incident unique in history, where one nuclear power attacked the actual land of another nuclear power....