Archives for the 'Pakistan' Category
Pak Dawn, Pak Trutherism
Published on 22 Oct 2009 at 10:13 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Obama, Pakistan, Taliban.
Irony abounds. What $11 billion in US aid couldn’t do, some guys in pajamas with a handful of homemade bombs manage. Pakistan is onside, fighting hard in South Waziristan. It’s dawn over Islamabad as the Pak Taliban’s bombing campaign has united Pakistan squarely against Islamic extremism, and moves the Paks to action. In fact, some guys in [...]
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Hammer Wants An Anvil
Published on 17 Oct 2009 at 10:06 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, Pakistan.
Paks, unintimidated by the past week’s attacks, have launched their assault on South Waziristan. NYT.
Meanwhile, still waiting to see whether Obama plans to wack the mole on his side of the board. The administration has denied a BBC report that Obama has told the Brits and the Afghans that he is planning to announce this week [...]
Double Reverse Wack-A-Mole
Published on 30 Aug 2009 at 9:35 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Pakistan, pols.
It’s the latest in Democratic strategic thinking. Sen. Russ Feingold in the Wall Street Journal. Bear with me, because this is really complicated, and also doesn’t make any sense. But I think this is how it works.
Remember when the Dems said the Iraq war was bad, we needed to get out, because all we were doing was [...]
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T-Day Prep Underway
Published on 16 Jun 2009 at 10:00 pm.
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Filed under Pakistan, al qaeda.
Could AQ-Hour be approaching? BBC: Paks prep to assault Taliban and al-Qaeda strongholds in Waziristan.
Troops are amassing around Pakistan’s tribal district of South Waziristan in readiness for an offensive against the Taliban there, officials say.
Army spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas confirmed the army intended to launch an operation against Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the [...]
Drone Strikes
Published on 17 May 2009 at 11:05 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, military.
Sounds a fair description of your average New York Times scribbler’s periodic output, but actually it’s David Kilcullen and Andrew Exum weighing in against Predator hits in Pakistan. These two terrorist-killing/converting enthusiasts make a lot of good points, like this one:
Great Taliban Victory
Published on 4 Apr 2009 at 9:32 am.
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Filed under America, Pakistan, crime.
Claimed in Binghamton mass murder. FOX: Pak Taliban chief Baituallah Mehsud “I accept responsibility. They were my men. I gave them orders in reaction to U.S. drone attacks.”
Usually the absurdity of propaganda tends to undercut it. But Mehsud knows his audience. It isn’t us.
About That ISI Problem
Published on 30 Mar 2009 at 7:02 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, Pakistan, military.
Top U.S. brass turn up the heat. BBC:
In recent days three top American generals have turned their guns on Pakistan, accusing elements of its main intelligence agency, the ISI, of supporting Taleban and al-Qaeda militants.
The unprecedented broadside followed the announcement by the US President Barack Obama of a new strategy for Afghanistan.
Mr Obama cited as [...]
Love & War
Published on 18 Mar 2009 at 8:52 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, Pakistan, military, pols.
US mulling whether to hit Taliban R&R/support areas in the vicinity of Quetta, Baluchistan, Pakistan proper, where big mullahs have fallen back due to the heat in Waziristan’s tribal areas. via Al Qaeda Early Warning System, aka NYT. Rather than whack NYT for reporting what admin officials are blabbing about, though, it’s more useful to consider what it says [...]
Kill A Chicken, Scare A Monkey
Published on 4 Feb 2009 at 9:04 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, india, terrorists.
And other bestial allusions as India warns Obama to back off on Kashmir. Financial Times:
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GWOT Back On Again
Published on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:40 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, Obama, Pakistan, hated Crusaders, terrorists.
Allah be praised. Part of it’s back on, anyway, as Obama continues the war criminal Bush’s practice of whacking suspected terrorists across borders without international authority, without a warrant, without whatever you’re supposed to have when you kill jihadis. What a relief. I was afraid he might entirely wienie out on anything not UN approved. Surely the generals [...]
The Obama Doctrine
Published on 2 Dec 2008 at 7:53 am.
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Filed under Bush, Obama, Pakistan, india.
Obama says India can whack Paks, if that’s where the investigation goes.* Sovereign nations and all. That’s how the Times of India is reading it:
Pak It Up
Published on 30 Nov 2008 at 9:02 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, GWOT, Pakistan, india.
Today’s South Asian reader starts with a captured Pak terrorist’s alleged confession that he’s Lashkar-e-Taiba. ISI chief’s Delhi visit off. Pak troops could move to India’s border. Pak pres, after tense meeting with Pak military, promises action on and and all Mumbai plotters. All of which either bodes very ill for India-Pak relations, or means Pakistan will [...]
Global Jihad
Published on 28 Nov 2008 at 8:51 am.
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Filed under Jihad, Pakistan, india.
On the ropes, seeks to re-assert itself, pokes at one of the softer spots of the world’s not-so-united front against terrorism. The South Asian Cold War. Roundup:
Two Fewer At Breakfast
Published on 22 Nov 2008 at 8:58 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, al qaeda.
This morning, as a cross-border missile strike reportedly hits its mark:
What’s Up?
Published on 13 Oct 2008 at 11:28 pm.
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Dude’s in the wrong place. Pakistan Daily Times:
GHALANAI: Charsadda police on Monday arrested an American citizen with a laptop, maps and other documents as he tried to enter Mohmand Agency, sources said. “We have arrested an American national at Yakaghund checkpost with a computer, some maps and other documents while crossing into Mohmand,” the sources [...]
Memo Re Palin
Published on 28 Sep 2008 at 4:13 pm.
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Filed under Pakistan, pols.
Kristol at Fox, via Moderate Voice: Free Sarah Palin!
Mona Charon at NRO’s The Corner: Yeah … and while you’re at it, stop foreign-policy cramming, stick to making sense. A lot of the answers that have drawn fire lately could have very simply been answered according to the principle McCain voiced in the debate: It’s not [...]
New Pak Pres = Horndog
Published on 25 Sep 2008 at 10:56 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, pols, sex, sexism.
In the subtle, indirect language of diplomats and heads of state, Zardari remarks are the foreign policy equivalent of voulez-vous l’humma humma:
Fallen American
Published on 22 Sep 2008 at 11:16 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, America, Pakistan, courage, military.
Lt. Mohsin Naqvi, 10th Mountain. Born in Pakistan; immigrated to the United States at 8; naturalized at 16; enlisted at 19 on Sept. 15, 2001; Iraq vet, killed in action in Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2008. via Newsday.
Pakistan Zindabad
Published on 26 Mar 2008 at 10:21 pm.
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Filed under Pakistan, guns.
Another exotic roadtrip vid via Theo. This Americanized Pak thinks he discovered the gun market at Dara, long on the foreign correspondent nifty feature list, and throws in editorial comment about other things he appears to know little about. But he’s game, it’s a fun ride and if you have ever been to Pakistan or parts nearby, this will look [...]
Blow Me Up Once
Published on 3 Mar 2008 at 7:11 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, Taliban, al qaeda.
Shame on you. Blow me up twice … you know the old saying. So al Qaeda and the backward semi-literates of the Taliban have learned nothing from Global Jihad’s miserable experience in Iraq. Gateway has the roundup on the suicide bombing of a tribal meeting to discuss peace that drew thousands in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province. Meanwhile, U.S. counterinsurgency [...]
Can You Hear Me Now?
Published on 25 Feb 2008 at 8:31 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Islam, Pakistan.
First, Pakistan basically crashed YouTube for most of the world’s YouTube fans Sunday, in a bid to squelch anti-Islamic vid. Something like that. It’s really complicated, and my understanding of Internet technology is about at same level as the Taliban’s understanding of cell phone technology. Apparently, the hated Crusaders are using the very cell phone signals that fly through the [...]
Mush Out
Published on 24 Feb 2008 at 8:35 am.
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Filed under Pakistan.
Shortly, reports the UK Telegraph. That and what follows Mush rounded up:
First Iraq, Now the Paks
Published on 10 Feb 2008 at 8:59 pm.
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Filed under Pakistan, al qaeda.
If he were an American pol, he’d be on life support. The art’s a joke. The news is real. Poll finds plummeting support for the Taliban, Osama bin Laden.
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Pak Peace
Published on 6 Feb 2008 at 10:37 pm.
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Mulled amid ceasefire. US apparently thinks it’s a good idea. Bloomberg:
Great, Briton
Published on 3 Feb 2008 at 10:24 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Britain, Canada, Europe, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, al qaeda.
“We shall abandon them in the mountains! We shall abandon them in the cities! We shall run like frightened children! Out of my way, I’m trying to surrender!”
Lesson to be Recorded on the Pages of History in Letters of Gold
Published on 30 Jan 2008 at 11:13 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Pakistan.
Mehsud, the guy giving the Pak army a hard time, has quite a turn of phrase. A few conceptual problems as he takes his spiritual guidance from the illiterate, one-eyed Mullah Omar, slags the US for murdering innocent Japanese and admires bin Laden for doing likewise with Christians and Jews. Anyway, the interesting news is [...]
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Questions
Published on 29 Jan 2008 at 12:04 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, al qaeda.
Keith Ryan, Homeland Security attache to the United States Embassy in Islamabad, is dead. Local boy, son of a top Boston Globe sports columnist. Shot in the head. The initial official word is suicide, but that is now in question. Reuters first:
What Goes Around
Published on 19 Jan 2008 at 9:23 am.
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Comes back around on Pak Taliban, and other Pak news:
Pak Fort Overrun
Published on 17 Jan 2008 at 8:26 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, Taliban, al qaeda, military.
Khyber Rifles, Fort Apache, take your pick, as Pakistan’s Frontier Constabulary is overrun by Pak Taliban. Wildly conflicting reports on whether they put up a fight or not, though.
All Roads Lead to Pakistan
Published on 15 Jan 2008 at 8:02 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, GWOT, Pakistan.
As the Taliban continues its tradition of murdering innocent, unarmed civilians in brazen hotel attack. Round-up of allegedly Pak-based attack, Pak-bound arrests:
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Al Qaeda Weighs In
Published on 7 Jan 2008 at 6:57 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Pakistan, al qaeda.
On Waziristan peace talks, offs 8 tribal elders who were talking to Pak security forces.
If not AQ, then Taliban, or someone who shares their goals, not to put to fine a point on it. H/t Reader Steve who suggests these scalps belong to NYT, all the news that’s fit for a jihadi headsup, but I’d [...]
Yankee Go Home
Published on 6 Jan 2008 at 8:52 am.
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Filed under Pakistan.
Pak Army: Yankee Covert Ops Out of Pakistan. AFP:
War Still On Here, Too
Published on 4 Jan 2008 at 1:39 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, GWOT, Pakistan.
Quick catch up in the ‘Stan:
Push vs. Mush, Bush
Published on 1 Jan 2008 at 9:22 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, pols.
UPDATE: ”Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on orders of lower- and middle-level officers of the Pakistani army and air force.” UPI, citing intel sources:
According to a source who asked to remain unnamed, members of the Pakistani armed forces involved in Thursday’s killing of the former prime minister and leader of the opposition are sympathizers of the [...]
Once Upon A Time …
Published on 31 Dec 2007 at 7:42 am.
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Filed under Pakistan.
In Pakistan, there was a beautiful princess who wanted to be queen. Then evil men killed her, either by shooting her or maybe a bomb blast that bonked her head, not sure about that yet. So wise men who only wanted good for her people called on her son, a handsome young prince, to step up to [...]
It’s Not the Effup
Published on 31 Dec 2007 at 7:23 am.
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Filed under Pakistan.
It’s the coverup, stupid. Conspiracy theorized. NYT:
Whither Pakistan
Published on 29 Dec 2007 at 10:50 am.
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News and commentary roundup, includes Bhutto anti-hagiographies, starts with Pakistan says turmoil could delay vote. AFP:
Ghoulish Test
Published on 29 Dec 2007 at 9:16 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, pols.
Is what Patrick Healy at NYT calls the Bhutto assassination visavis the U.S. presidential candidacies. I’d suggest its some of the answers rather than the test are ghoulish. I’d call it more a revealing dose of reality. NYT:
Pak Press
Published on 28 Dec 2007 at 8:31 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Pakistan.
Dawn: Dream snuffed out, bitter ironies, questions unlikely to be answered:
Bhutto Assassinated
Published on 27 Dec 2007 at 9:04 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Pakistan.
Suicide bomb kills Benazir Bhutto.
Think Globally
Published on 4 Dec 2007 at 11:41 pm.
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Filed under Pakistan, moronocy.
Annoy globally! It’s a new twist on the old advocacy saw. Hey, if Musharraf can’t get rid of al Qaeda and the Taliban, can’t we at least get him to keep Code Pink? Washington Times:
Pak War
Published on 18 Nov 2007 at 11:08 am.
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Filed under Pakistan.
Offensive looming, as 15,000 Pak soldiers mass for assault. “It’s not Iraq but it’s getting worse.” AP.
Roggio at Long War Journal with details, background on Swat, where the Taliban vs. Pak Army fight has spilled out of the tribal areas.
Meanwhile, 96 killed in sectarian clashes.
Negroponte sticks around, tells Mush to lift the emergency.
Limits of Usefulness
Published on 11 Nov 2007 at 10:19 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, Taliban.
Explored by Musharraf, as he rewards Taliban hostage takers/beheaders with the release of a top Taliban leader, while imprisoning lawyers and dissidents. Newsweek:
Pak It Up
Published on 10 Nov 2007 at 10:23 am.
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Saturday snak-Pak of news and opinion:
Pak It In
Published on 7 Nov 2007 at 9:51 am.
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Is the advice to Musharraf re his SOE from Pak press and friends abroad, as his PM hints at backtrack on elections and Bhutto threatens a “Long March.” Pak news and opinion:
Things May Have Just Got (Even) More Interesting
Published on 5 Nov 2007 at 9:35 am.
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In Pakistan. Musharraf house arrest rumors denied:
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State of Emergency
Published on 4 Nov 2007 at 9:56 am.
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Declared, somewhat belatedly. Pakistan has been in a state of emergency(ies) for a long time, and whatever else it has been, Musharraf’s dictatorship is, was, and has been a response to that. Here’s the latest. NYT:
Battle for Democracy
Published on 20 Oct 2007 at 12:00 pm.
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Pak roundup plus Bhutto speaks via Gateway, who’s got the vid. Then, there’s the bomber’s head, which had to be put back together. Bhutto:
Pakistan
Published on 18 Oct 2007 at 11:48 pm.
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Filed under Pakistan, al qaeda.
… meet Iraq. UPDATES, ANALYSIS added below:
Tora Bora Redux
Published on 17 Aug 2007 at 12:02 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Pakistan.
Major offensive underway on old ground, old problems, unresolved. Fourth Rail and others with details:
