The ISI and Taliban are TRYING to preserve Obama's Rule
{SARC}
How?
By providing justification for drone attacks at no risk to american personnel while demonstrating national security testosterone in any manner.
He will do it, because the political cost of STOPPING far outweighs any negative effect Pew will come up with later. Biden will push for this as this was his idea in 2009.
Pakistan hesitates to eradicate U.S.-mapped militant camps
The U.S. has compiled a wide body of intelligence on the locations of militant training camps in Pakistan, but has been unable to persuade Islamabad to shut them down, current and former officials say.
A former senior administration official said the biggest concern is a network of camps in North Waziristan from which the Taliban and al Qaeda-linked groups train and recruit fighters, as well as build improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Some of the camps are associated with the Haqqani Network, an insurgent group that carries out attacks on NATO troops from its hide-outs in North Waziristan and which is widely believed to have links toPakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
Persuading Pakistan to crack down in North Waziristan is taking on added importance.
And there’s more
Pakistan could “pull troops Afghan from border” if U.S. cuts aid
DE BORCHGRAVE: Down goes the US-Pakistan alliance
The story that killed Saleem Shahzad
{/SARC}
- US Predators kill 12 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan (longwarjournal.org)
- U.S. Kills 45 Militants In a Series of Drone Strikes The Day After An Announced Delay in an $800 Million Aid Package To Pakistan (ibloga.blogspot.com)
- US Missiles Strike in Pakistan Follow Aid Cut (abcnews.go.com)
- U.S. strikes in Pakistan follow aid cut, kill 38 (ctv.ca)
- Al Qaeda’s Ominous Silence: NOT (warintel.blogspot.com)
- Pakistan Army Push on Taliban Bastion May Avoid a Main U.S. Foe (businessweek.com)
- ISI implicated in MAJOR REPORTER’S DEATH (ibloga.blogspot.com)
- “elements Within The Pakistani Security Establishment Continue To View The Haqqani Network As A Useful Ally And Proxy Force To Represent Their Interests In Afghanistan”
The Institute for the Study of War, in a paper about the HAQQANI NETWORKWashington Times:The Haqqani Network, the terrorist group that the U.S. command in Afghanistan says is its most formidable enemy — worse than the Taliban or al...
- U.s. Kills 45 Militants In A Series Of Drone Strikes The Day After An Announced Delay In An $800 Million Aid Package To Pakistan
From Yahoo News: MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 45 suspected militants were killed by missiles launched by U.S. drone aircraft in Pakistan's northwest, local intelligence officials said on Tuesday, one of the largest death tolls to date...
- The Real Pakistani Belief About America And The Future ..and It's Hassan Nasrallah's Refrain
WaPo: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military is not ready to meet a U.S. demand that it go after Afghan Taliban leader Siraj Haqqani, officials said. U.S. officials see Haqqani as a major threat to U.S. forces in Afghanistan...
- Waziristan - Did Pakistan Clear The Way For Us To Capture Bin Laden
Steve Harkonen speculates (and brilliantly so) that Pakistan may have just cleared the way for us to capture Bin Laden: The Waziristan Accord was a key agreement between the government of Pakistan and tribal factions in the northern part of Pakistan....
- The Terms For The Peace Between Pakistan And The Islamist Emirate Of Waziristan And Our Blood Enemies Of The Taliban And Al Qaeda
Thanks to the incomparable Roggio Pakistan's "truce with the Taliban is an abject surrender, and al-Qaeda has an untouchable base of operations in Western Pakistan which will only expand if not checked NWFP-Waziristan.gifThe news of the Pakistani...