(InformPress.com COMMENTARY) - The News International, a daily English newspaper of Pakistan, reported Saturday (9 May 2009) that Pakistani-Pakhtoons have vowed to kill PPP Mafia Satanist Asif Ali Zardari, PPPP
Mafia’s Yousaf Raza Gillani and all other top terrorists, extremists of the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) ruling
junta for the following three major reasons: Read more »

By PATRICK COCKBURN
May 06, 2009 “Counterpunch” — When President Hamid Karzai drove to Kabul airport to fly to America earlier this week, the centre of the Afghan capital was closed down by well-armed security men, soldiers and policemen. On his arrival in Washington he will begin two days of meetings, starting today, with President Barack Obama and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari about their joint efforts to combat the Taliban. Karzai is also to deliver a speech at the Brookings Institution think tank on “effective ways of fighting terrorism.” Read more »

Pakistan declares war on Taliban militants
Some depressing but interesting news are coming out for learning and awarness. Here is a quick example:

Under U.S. pressure to quash insurgency, Islamabad mobilizes
SAEED SHAH

Special to The Globe and Mail

May 8, 2009

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan declared war on its homegrown Taliban militants yesterday, a defining moment in the country’s struggle with extremism that could have far-reaching consequences for global security.

What you need to note is a general acceptance of the fact that Islamabad is getting mobilized “under the US pressure.” This is an accepted fact mentioned in all stories across the board.

The second point is the mention to “insurgency.” To create a conflict, a “war within,” you need to have two parties. The US could not push Pakistan’s army into a new war without giving it a target first. To drain Pakistan’s military, it was necessary to have or create an enemy within.

Mobilizing Muslims in the name of Islam against the US enemies/targets is nothing new for the US and the CIA. The CIA mobilized the so-called “Islamic” parties and groups in Pakistan in the mid 70s to overthrow Zulfiqar Ali bhutto because he had declared: ”We’ll eat grass but we’ll acquire a nuclear bomb.” And its onthe public record that the then US Secretary of State had warned him in these words: “we’ll make you a horrible example for the rest of the world.” And so the US did.

Then in the 80s, the US once more used Muslims for Jihad against its perceived and declared enemy - the Soviet Union. None of the foot soldiers of that Jihad knew that their jihad-promoting-literature was coming from the US, printed at University of Nebraska at Omaha. None of them knew that in fact they were fighting for the cause of America, not Allah.

The same situation has been created on the ground today. Pakistan army is not blind. It sees how billions of dollars from the US over the past six years have led to the creation of factions and groups and Tahreeks and Mehsoods, so that an insugency kind of situation is produced. Pakistan army has been trying at times to show the Indian and Afghan hand in the terrorist attacks, which are labelled as insurgency. But there is a sold out group that has to push for a “war within Pakistan.” And so they did.

The warlords in Washington and Tel Avive might be thnking that their hard work is paying off. But so did they think in the case of Iraq. An honest, impartial eye sees all this leading to a greater disaster beyond the millions of innocent people butchered and trillions of dollars lost in the 21st century wars so far.

Turning Pakistani regime into a monster under Musharraf and making its army a mercenary force in the eyes of the nation by pushing it into invasions and occupations of its own country and making it accept responsibility of the butcheries carried out by the US forces, has effectively led to the present crisis in which the Pakistani regime stands as the puppet regime of Najeebullah in kabul and the “insurgents,” once more supported and fed throgh the CIA dollars, as a new mujahidden force.

The conclusion of the US Afghan Jihad was good for the US in the sense that the Soviet Union was gone, but it never liked the by-product: the existence of motivation and the emotions for resisting injustice and anything that is a symbol of foreign occupation and interference. And no one but the CIA was behind creating that kind of a mindset.

In the case of Pakistan, the CIA, Mossad and RAW will achieve their key targets: denuclearizing Pakistan and may be even balkanizing it. But will there ever be peace in the region? Will there be no lingering consequences of the insurgency the US has so systematically created this time within Pakistan? The answer is a resounding “no.” The sentiments, emotions and commitment of of the foot soldiers linger on for far long after the influence of dollars is gone with the warlords who organize them against the US set tagets.

Under the cover of argument that Pakistan’s problems are only due to economic issues, Sens. John Kerry and Dick Lugar introduced legislation Monday aimed at tripling US foreign aid to Islamabad. Remember, none of these dolalrs trickle down to the suffering masses. these are feeding the monsters that have been used to turn Pakistan into another Iraq. Does anyone know what kind of povety alleviation did take place with the help of more than 10 billion dollars dolled out during Mush’s regime?

The following article seems to be painting a sharp contrast between Secularism and Islamism and showing that the only real choice for Iraqis is increased security, secularism and sin on one hand and religious extremism, fundamentalism, assassinations, sectarianism and suicide bombings on the other hand. That’s it. No other choice. It’s basically evil vs Evil and guess which one is painted as the lesser of the two?

The local police, weary of years of dodging assassins and cleaning up after car bombings, are blasé about a little vice.

“Today we are dealing with more normal things. All the world is facing such problems,” said Col. Abdel Jaber Qassim Sadir, assistant police chief in Karada, a central Baghdad neighborhood. Read more »

Dear Prof. Peter Phillips, Project [email protected]
Hello, thank you for your efforts towards bringing monumental criminals to justice. However I noted that in your editorial, you focussed on Mr. G. W. Bush and other front-men in the White House. That was also the focus of the courageous Congressman Dennis Kucinich. And while you concluded with “We owe our children and ourselves a future without the shame of mass murder on our collective conscience.”, there is no mention of the real criminals who continually replace new faces in the White House. How to bring those monumental criminals to justice? They remain largely unidentified and the blame is taken by the “effects”, not the cause. more…

By Peter Phillips

The United States is directly responsible for over one million Iraqi deaths since the invasion five and half years ago.  In a January 2008 report, a British polling group Opinion Research Business (ORB) reports that, “survey work confirms our earlier estimate that over 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the conflict which started in 2003…. We now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and August 2007 is likely to have been of the order of 1,033,000. If one takes into account the margin of error associated with survey data of this nature then the estimated range is between 946,000 and 1,120,000”.

….The magnitude of these deaths is undeniable. The continuing occupation by US forces guarantees a mass death rate in excess of 10,000 people per month with half that number dying at the hands of US forces— a carnage so severe and so concentrated at to equate it with the most heinous mass killings in world history. This act has not gone unnoticed.

Recently, Dennis Kucinich introduced a single impeachment article against George W. Bush for lying to Congress and the American people about the reasons for invading Iraq. On July 15 The House forwarded the resolution to the Judiciary Committee with a 238 to 180 vote.  That Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction and Iraq’s threat to the US is now beyond doubt. Former US federal prosecutor Elizabeth De La Vega documents the lies most thoroughly in her book U.S. Vs Bush, and numerous other researchers have verified Bush’s untrue statements. Read more…

Yousaf Raza Gillani’s early in the morning address to the nation restoring the remaining including the Chief justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chowdhary was a sigh of relief to the nation. more…

We are reading reports like the above and also the headlines such as: POLITICS: Five Days That Changed Pakistan; US praises Pak’s decision to restore Chief Justice; Clinton praises Pakistan’s restoration of judge. It is easy to understand excitement of the US warlords because Zardari regime is saved. But it is extremely sad to get the same message from those who were at the forefront of the struggle against Musharraf’s illegal and unconsitutional acts.

Before bragging success and dancing in jubilation, one has to aks oneself a few serious questions.

In the courts packed with Zardari and Musharraf loyalists are Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Justice Ramday a majority or a minority?

Will they be effective or rendered in-effective by virture of keeping the hand-picked judges who took oath on PCO?

Will the illegal actions of Nov 3 continue to be recognised as validated according to the decision of Abdul Hameed Dogar in the Tikka Mohammed Iqbal case?

Are not the guarantees given by Zardari to avoid touching General Musharraf or his illegal actions of Nov 3 remain undisturbed?

Didn’t Senate chairman Farooq Naek say that Article 270 AAA, the product of the signature of a dictator, stays?

Does Malik Muhammad Qayyum, the last attorney general, not conitnue to claim that the illegal acts of Nov 3 continue to be protected by Article 270 AAA because it has been validated by the PCO Judiciary?

Will the same PCO Bench not review the decision which disqualify them in the first palce?

Will the the president’s powers under the 17th Amendment not remain what General Musharraf bestowed on himself?

So, who are the biggest losers and who gains?

We are witnessing a classic case of misplaced priorities and misdirected resistance that will never bring any change to the system, structure or continued de facto colonization of Pakistan.

US jets shot down an Iranian unmanned surveillance aircraft last month over Iraqi territory about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, the US military said.A US statement said the Ababil 3 was tracked for more than an hour before US jets shot it down “well-inside Iraqi airspace”. The statement said the aircraft’s presence over Iraqi airspace “was not an accident”. more….

The US jets shoot down Iranian drone which was not on a mission to kill. But it was shot down because that was violation of the Iraqi airspace and Iraq belongs to the US. Pakistan, however, cannot shoot down the invading drones - despite the fact that they are killing innocnent people and Pakistan’s security officials alike - because Pakistan also belongs to the US. The only difference is that the US is using its forces to coninue occupation of Iraq and used Pakistan’s mercenary army to keep Pakistan under full control.

Did anyone notice Pakistan’s mercenary army’s latest role for Washington? Although naive commentators are appreciating General Kiyani’s role in the present crisis in Pakistan, but the reality is that Kiyani did a good job for the warlords in Washington who wanted to make sure that Zardari survives, no matter what. Kiyani came to his rescue. He was able to convince the lunatic thug that you are an NRO president, sitting there as part of a deal (Bibi-Mush) and plan (Bibi’s assassination) by Washington and London and your pig-head insistence can roll your presidency..

Zardari was told that the Judge with clipped wings in the Supreme Court is less harmful than judge on the street. See what his supporters are saying: Aitzaz hopes Iftikhar will not hear NRO case. Zardari was clearly told that at the Supeme Court, he would stay for a couple of more years at the most, but the street protests could make you go like Musharraf and your bosses do not want that at the moment.

Imagine Zardari’s reaction when he was told by General Kiyani: toe the line, or else I would have to follow orders from my handlers. So Kiyani saved a thuggish regime in power once more. What else can the warlords get from such obedient servants, who are sustaining thuggish regimes as well as running drone operations from within the country for the United States of America.

US soldier charged with stealing $700,000 cash from Iraq relief fund (some sources say $690,000) from “a pot of money designated to local commanders for relief and reconstruction needs”. As bad as that theft is, it is still the act of one small rogue thief who was in Iraq serving the interests of much bigger thieves who appear to be untouchable in their theft of lives and oil and the prevention of any attempt to live by Islamic governance which would ensure that such resources as oil would belong to and benefit all the people there and not just an upper echelon of foreigners and their local puppets.

Only Islam protects the true best interests of people materially and spiritually, in this world and the next, and Muslims living by Islam offer the greatest resistance and threat to invaders, tyrants, oppressors and warmongering thieves the likes of which we see in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Palestine/Israel. Hence the ongoing, multi-pronged war against Islam and “Islamists”, the false-flag terror attacks to justify the ongoing war on terror, the manipulation of infiltrating intelligence agents, the creation of confusion and encouragement of a war within Islam. All to weaken resistance to oppression.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s candid statement that the Taliban cannot be defeated — and that responsibility for the war must instead be given to Afghans — was endorsed on Monday by John Manley, who chaired an authoritative 2008 investigation into Canada’s mission in Afghanistan.

…..Asked if Canada would extend its military mission to Kandahar past the 2011 deadline, Harper said that depends on whether U.S. President Barack Obama could offer a clear “strategy for success, and for an eventual departure” of coalition forces.

“We’re not going to win this war just by staying,” Harper said. “My own judgment is quite frankly we are not going to ever defeat the insurgency. [continued....]

Taliban is just a justification, just a label to justify occupation and butchery of the occupied population. Irrespective of the Taliban’s existence and irrespective of their role, the occupation forces had to face this fate. Occupation forces would have face the same fate in any other country of the world, reagrdless of its religious, ethnic or cultural make up. What Harper says today is what anyone could conclude years ago with a little bit of common sense: See: What the US can never do. 

By Nathan Hodg

February 27, 2009 “Wired“ — The Iraq war may be winding down. But the battle for Afghanistan could continue until 2025.

That’s the view, at least, of Lt. Gen. (Ret.) David Barno, the former head of coalition forces in Afghanistan. In testimony  yesterday before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Barno outlined a strategy that anticipates keeping U.S. troops there for another 16 years. Read more »

Jason Ditz, AntiWar News

Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed today that the missile attacks on a house in Sararogha, South Waziristan Agency came from a US drone. Joint Chiefs chairman Admiral Michael Mullen declined to comment on the specifics of the operation but said that the military has been “carrying out guidance from President Obama” in the region.

At least eight militants have been confirmed killed in the attack so far, though villagers say that people continue to search the rubble of the building, so further casualties are likely to be found.

Since President Obama took office the number and severity of the drone strikes on Pakistani territory have increased dramatically. Though the Pakistani government has continued to publicly complain about the attacks, mounting evidence suggests they have been providing direct backing to them.

Don’t get deceived. the bottomline of the whole excercise is: Paksitan should be the target. Adn its part two seems to be extension of the same theme. Doesn’t seem to an honest attemtp at a peacful settlement in Afghanistan. The bottomline suggests that we can’t win in Afghanistan, it is not a danger. Turn your guns on Pakistan. That should be the target. Its hard to say if this conclusion was a conincident or part of the plan in which the warlords need to convince the public for the next move which they had planned long before the invasion of Afghnaistan.

Salmah UmmZainab

Shamsi air base is definitely in use as a US base. One give away is the clam-shell door type hanger which are not used on any Pakistani air bases. That hanger alone could house 4 Predator type drones. The hangers are all air-conditioned as there are 4 air conditioning units behind the big hanger, another 6 between the two smaller southern hangers, and 5 units attached to the northern hanger. Also the trailers for housing personnel; another typical US housing method on bases. The base looks very much in use on Google Earth. The numbers of vehicles on the base and the garbage dump at the 7 o’clock position (200-300 yards) to the south side of the silver clam shell hanger is a dead give away of current use.

Lastly, Shamsi air base is very isolated so drones could fly in and out undetected, unlike the other base at Jacobabad which was also once used by US forces.

Another thing, on Google Earth, the base is named “Bandari” because I presume it is near the village of the same name. It was originally built by Arab sheiks for landing their jets for falconry outings.

Read full report: Drone Airport: Mystery or Deliberate Confusion. (0)

More than 70 United States military advisers and technical specialists are secretly working in Pakistan to help its armed forces battle Al Qaeda and the Taliban in the country’s lawless tribal areas, American military officials said.

The Americans are mostly Army Special Forces soldiers who are training Pakistani Army and paramilitary troops, providing them with intelligence and advising on combat tactics, the officials said. They do not conduct combat operations, the officials added.

They make up a secret task force, overseen by the United States Central Command and Special Operations Command. It started last summer, with the support of Pakistan’s government and military, in an effort to root out Qaeda and Taliban operations that threaten American troops in Afghanistan and are increasingly destabilizing Pakistan. It is a much larger and more ambitious effort than either country has acknowledged. [continued…]

This is not news, nor is the scale of US presence in Pakistan so small. (see: US military role in Pakistan no secret: Pentagon ). These news reports are just teasers used to sensitize the masses for accepting the US occupation of Pakistan as Obama expands US military intervention in Pakistan.

One day, the embeded journalists in the controlled US press release reports that drones are being flown and operated from within Pakistan and the next day they release some pointers to the presence of US military units in Pakistan.

The extent to which Pakistan is in the total grip of the United States is beyond imagination. From the political to military and economic fronts, Pakistan has been totally crippled by the indirect occupation of Pakistan. The US is losing money and men in other, direct occupations. But in Pakistan, it is the Pakistanis dying on both sides of the war of terrorism for the globalist totalitarians.

What the puppet regime in Pakistan is doing is like having a family dispute in a house over the way the family affairs are run. Some family members invite outsiders, who are actually responsible for the discard and dispute in the family. And instead of pragmatically trying to get to the root causes of the issue, seek assistance from the outsiders in killing and effectively eliminating the rest of the family. So at the moment, Pakistan is like a house where the enemy is stationed inside, assisting one brother against the rest.

Occupation of Pakistan is thus invisible, slow and painful for Pakistanis. This is an agonizing way for softening up what is considered a Muslim nuclear monster. Softened up a bombed out Iraq took the US ten years and 1.8 million Iraqis, mostly women and children, before the final onslaught in 2003. How many lives would it take to completely soften up Paksitan is hard to guess as the neo-cons-zionists plan is still gradually unfolding and the US slave press and media are in full cooperation with the war lords

US newspapers are complaining that they are losing money and may not survive. After they put all sorts of falsehoods about Iraq on their front pages, it may be that they fatally wounded their credibility with the US public. However, they won’t give up on serving the warlords as they are their last remaining sources of support. So stay tuned for more reports like the above which are strategically released as part of a broader plan.

The US papers have time for the above mentioned reports yet the have no time for reporting what the Hindu and others are reporting here about the Iranian nuclear program. This report does not show up anywhere on the web or in Lexis that one can find, except, which tells how the US press and media are doing their master’s job.

By GENERAL MIRZA ASLAM BEG, The Nation 25 February 2008,

The first Afghan war of Liberation was won in 1989. The Afghans paid a very heavy price of over a million and a half martyrs. The second war of liberation now has reached a decisive moment and the day of freedom appears to be drawing closer. The invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets in 1979 was challenged by the Americans, joined by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and others. After eight long years of war, the Soviets were forced to retreat. The CIA intelligence report of 2004, mentioned that, after the Soviets retreat from Afghanistan, there were over 60,000 diehard trained Muslim fighters from seventy countries of the world. Read more »

The Defense Minister of Pakistan admits to landing of drones. We should believe him. Something that lands for “logistics” does not have to fly out. It is packed in crates and shipped via Lundi Kotal to be flown again and land for “logistic reasons”.

Pakistan can stop drone raids: air force chief
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s air force is fully capable of stopping missile strikes by pilotless US drones but it is up to the government to decide whether to do that, the air force chief said on Tuesday. US forces in Afghanistan have carried out at least 26 air strikes by unmanned aircraft on militant targets in northwest Pakistan this year, according to a Reuters tally, more than half since the start of September. (Posted 17:35 PST)

US drones and associated lies 

You see the code for Juzzak is OP35 and does figure as a Military Airport but now who flys from there?
There is Tuftan strip also near. Further away is Reqo Diq…..the largest gold and copper deposit. What were Musharraf’s motives in giving away this area for exclusive use, we will get into that later. This is the area where the KC-130 crashed.
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