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Options studied for a possible Pakistan strike

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  1. haider3
    member

    Options studied for a possible Pakistan strike
    (28.5.10)

    The U.S. military is reviewing options for a unilateral strike in Pakistan in the event that a successful attack on American soil is traced to the country's tribal areas, according to senior military officials.

    Ties between the alleged Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, and elements of the Pakistani Taliban have sharpened the Obama administration's need for retaliatory options, the officials said. They stressed that a U.S. reprisal would be contemplated only under extreme circumstances, such as a catastrophic attack that leaves President Obama convinced that the ongoing campaign of CIA drone strikes is insufficient.

    "Planning has been reinvigorated in the wake of Times Square," one of the officials said.

    At the same time, the administration is trying to deepen ties to Pakistan's intelligence officials in a bid to head off any attack by militant groups. The United States and Pakistan have recently established a joint military intelligence center on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar, and are in negotiations to set up another one near Quetta, the Pakistani city where the Afghan Taliban is based, according to the U.S. military officials. They and other officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity surrounding U.S. military and intelligence activities in Pakistan.

    Read More:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052804854.html

    Get ready for another false-flag attack to kick off the next step towards WW3!

    Posted 1 year ago on 29 May 2010 5:27 #

  2. haider3
    member

    There we go. The Washington Post, yet another Jewish mouthpiece, urging outright military attack on Pakistan, one false flag after another.

    Please to note as well that the busiest place in a US at a standstill is the Pentagon. It has plans to attack: Iran, N. Korea and Pakistan all at its fingertips. Add to this Afghanistan and Iraq and the others and we get the whole picture. A giant of a country, that. Taking on the whole world at one go.

    Posted 1 year ago on 29 May 2010 5:32 #

  3. Shock
    Members

    @Mirza Ghalib

    Pakistan is already under attack from the Islamic terrorist. There is nothing left in Pakistan to attack, that religious zealots haven't touched yet.

    Posted 1 year ago on 29 May 2010 5:42 #

  4. hariskhan
    member

    Assalam-o-Alaikum-Warahmat-ULLAH ALL,

    I just hope I can get my studies to a certain level before WW 3 kicks in.

    After that, I'd love to do one of the 3 things Hazrat Ali (RA, RAA) loved most i.e., behead belligerent non-Muslims who force war upon us in those wars.

    Posted 1 year ago on 29 May 2010 5:51 #

  5. haider3
    member

    Shock, It's yesteday's pain talking in your case here. Take it easy, do. Pakistan is already under attack from many sides, there I agree. And perhaps its biggest enemy of all is what some people like to call the government of this country.

    Yes, HK. The boots on the ground story back with a vengeance. But as a friend of mine always says: the West will never attack an armed country. They haven't got the guts for it. Unless, of course, our army has also sold out to the enemy. These days, anything seems possible.

    Posted 1 year ago on 29 May 2010 6:04 #

  6. nota
    Member

    @Mirza Ghalib
    "one false flag after another..."

    Including yesterday's in Lahore. And what a surprise the culprits just happened to be from...(drum roll please)...SOUTHERN PUNJAB (Rahim Yar Khan). Like clockwork. Ahmed Rashid, Ayesha Siddiqa, Samar Minallah have been warning us about it and see the "experts" were so right! :-P

    But speaking of "a possible Pakistan strike", I though one had already happened (Khyber). Though officially still denied, yesterday a "justification" was published to prove it was well worth it:

    Plotter of Benazir’s death dead, amid growing mystery
    ISLAMABAD: An important commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Ebad-ul-Rehman alias Farooq Chatan, wanted for allegedly coordinating assassination of Benazir Bhutto, is said to have been killed along with his brother Yousaf, in the first-ever drone strike in Khyber Agency two weeks ago.

    There is no official word available but intelligence sources involved in tracking his movement said they are 95 per cent sure that he had been killed. “The rest 5 per cent confirmation can only be obtained through DNA testing and we do not have access to the body,” said an intelligence source. An official of the ISPR said they generally don’t confirm or deny killings of particular militant leaders.[Isn't that what ISPR has been doing constantly??]

    A drone strike on May 15 had reportedly left around 15 people dead, including 13 militants. The local administration denying that it was a drone strike, had said the attack was carried out by a Pakistani fighter plane. According to sources, those killed other than Ebad-ul-Rehman and his brother Yousaf included eight Uzbek militants....

    P.S. That "carried out by a Pakistani fighter plane" spin too is nothing new. The same was done with the very first drone strike and reporter Hayatullah Khan was kidnapped, tortured, and killed for exposing that lie (and later his wife was assasinated as well using a bomb)

    Posted 1 year ago on 29 May 2010 7:26 #

  7. haider3
    member

    nota, terrible, terrible, terrible! No other word for it. Anything really does seem possible now.

    Posted 1 year ago on 29 May 2010 7:34 #

  8. Shock
    Members

    @Mirza Ghalib

    "Shock, It's yesteday's pain talking in your case here. Take it easy, do. Pakistan is already under attack from many sides, there I agree. And perhaps its biggest enemy of all is what some people like to call the government of this country."

    You are telling me to take it easy, shouldn't you be doing that in case of America. I mean you whole politics, life, culture, religion survives on bashing America or the west. Yesterdays incident proves a lot about so called true muslims. You guys were thinking, damn we can't succeed in Times Square, why not attack Ahmedis in Lahore because it is easy.

    Posted 1 year ago on 29 May 2010 8:04 #

  9. semirza
    Moderator

    Known as cowards an American infantry soldier has always lost man to man combats.
    Only air strikes are the option left for Americans and NATO. Either they do it on their own or out of habit through guns placed on Pakistani shoulders, Both ways the outcome as expected will be the same meaning no land control. Land remains in the hands of freedom fighters fighting a successful guerrilla war spreading out to airfields/strips finally taking them over.

    Army top brass may have sold out/threatened/intimidated into submission is very much possible. This happened in the case of Musharraf. Looks like the same has worked successfully on Kiyani as his body language a sort of confirms this has but than our army top brass is aware and so does mother of outright atrocities and conspiracies; USA that loyalty of our troops generally lies with a sovreign Pakistan.

    USA has not yet learnt a lesson from a shameful defeat in Vietnam, the same is happening in Afghanistan even though Afghanistan was carpet bombed extensively that rarely any structure called a building stood visible against the skyline. Now here comes a stark reality from a military point of view. USA or others have air supremacy but ground control is not what they are able to achieve at all. Kitted out with sophistication and heavily armed they do look like if they have dropped right out of a Hollywood movie set but on ground coverage they are mere sitting ducks for target practice.

    You know why. Because if they venture out of heavily fortified safe areas, reluctantly of course on a patrol duty their hormone levels drop even lower than what eunuchs may have evident from the ease they are picked out and sent over to hell their final ever lasting abode.

    Posted 1 year ago on 29 May 2010 8:05 #

  10. haider3
    member

    Moderator Sahib, thanks. That was brilliant and helped a great deal to regain one's equanimity.

    Shock, No, sorry. Whether one likes it or not, US is the enemy. From false flag to false flag, Shock, US (or better said: the West) is the enemy. I'm not trying to convince you of anything. Someday, you yourself will open your eyes and say: God, how mistaken I've been all along. Not my business, that. Between you and God alone. But, take it easy all the same.

    Posted 1 year ago on 29 May 2010 8:17 #

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