Pakistan: You Can’t Hunt Al Qaeda Here

Foreign Ministry Says, Despite Report, U.S. Forces Cannot Engage Militants On Pakistani Soil

(AP)  Pakistan reiterated that it will not let American forces hunt al Qaeda and Taliban militants on its soil, after a news report said Sunday that the Bush administration was considering expanding U.S. military and intelligence operations into Pakistan's tribal regions.

The Foreign Ministry dismissed as "speculative" a story in The New York Times saying President Bush's top security officials discussed a proposal Friday to deploy U.S. troops to pursue militants along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

"We are very clear. Nobody is going to be allowed to do anything here," said Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad, the top spokesman for Pakistan's army.

"The government has said it so many times," Arshad said. "No foreign forces will be allowed to operate inside Pakistan."

The Pakistan-Afghanistan border area has long been considered a likely hiding place for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his top deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, as well as an operating ground for tribal Taliban sympathizers.

In Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai's spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the report.

Bush's top security advisers - including Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice - had debated whether to expand the authority of the CIA and the military to "conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan," the Times reported.

Recent reports indicate al Qaeda and the Taliban are "intensifying efforts" to destabilize Pakistan's government, the newspaper said.

It said Bush's security advisers' discussion on the proposal was part of an assessment of Washington's strategy following the Dec. 27 assassination of populist opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, a moderate pro-U.S. politician who had vowed to fight Islamic extremists if she was elected in an upcoming parliamentary vote.

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, a close U.S. ally in the war against terror, has blamed Baitullah Mehsud, a tribal militant leader allegedly tied to al Qaeda, for Bhutto's death.

Mehsud has reportedly denied involvement.

[slpdisk]

Somebody please make it stop....so much fear, oh please help us ,....ahhhhh.. I mean isn''t that what the expected reaction is suppose to be, So much propaganda. Release your minds from the B.S. that clouds the corporate news stations. Turn off the *** and go see Shrek 3.Don''t worry you aren''t missing anything they will have more fear lined up when you get back.

[rgmiron]

Bush was right in the beginning, " If your not with use, your against USE!
Remove their Nuclear capabilty immediately! The subs must never leave port!!!!
Heads up people

[keithle1]

We don''t want anyone getting our friends Al Qaeda upset. We certainly don''t want people finding proof of how corrupt our government is.

[dogband]

A few million dollars and some extra weapons as gifts will make them change their mind.

Course the weapons may someday be used against us, but thats a trivial concern.

I say, stop all there whimpy programs like Veterans health care, and aid to dependent children, and give the money to the Crazy Country of the Month club.

[nazar1-2009]

All I know pashtuns are dying form both sides, from Pakistan side the pashtun has been used to kill pashtuns on the other side. From Afghnaistan side pashtun has been used to kill pashtuns on this side of the border. Unless the pashtuns are united on both side there will neever be peace. In this case the punjabis and farsiwel are against it to recognise pashtuns on both side

[forthepeopl1]

we americans give pakistani''s our tax dollars at a rate so far of 11 BILLION DOLLARS..

TIME FOR SOMEONE IN CONGRESS TO SHUT THAT DOWN.........

[brianbwb-2009]

"Foreign Ministry Says, Despite Report, U.S. Forces Cannot Engage Militants On Pakistani Soil"

This from the "government" of...

"Pakistan''s President Pervez Musharraf, a close U.S. ally in the war against terror..."

While...

"Benazir Bhutto, a moderate pro-U.S. politician who had vowed to fight Islamic extremists if she was elected in an upcoming parliamentary vote."

...is dead. It doesn''t get any clearer than that, Bush and Musharraf did it, because they want their "Al CIA-da" to remain in place.

[brianbwb-2009]

Bush puppet Musharraf is giving Bush the excuse to leave their Al CIA-da operatives in place, as Bush needs them to continue to scare the suckers out of their money. Musharraf is only obeying the orders of his pimps in DC...

[rowdytexan2]

Pretty good deal there. The US gives Pakistan 3 billion dollars in a slush fund, plus a few million just for general purposes, then they get it back for weapons bought from our war profiteers and it goes straight into the hands of folks like Hallibuton, etc.

WHATTA BAHGAIN!

[grazinggoat]

His Eminence, Sheikh Bin Laden could be in Quebec, home to the largest gathering of terrorists, according to Dr. Paul Williams, in his book "THE DAY OF ISLAM; The Annihilation of America and the Western World."

So look 8,000 miles away from Quebec, dreamers...
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Posted by Vet1971 at 07:35 PM : Jan 06, 2008

-Williams is a big liar who released fault information to public about a nuclear material (up to 180 lbs) stolen from McMaster University Nuclear reactor. He is sued now by this institution and he''s apologizing.

-Dr Williams is a lunatic idiot and needs to be interned for his authority position abuse. The same type of CIA-Lied information provider regarding Iraq Intel Walking-Liar got before he was pushed to invade Iraq.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_L._Williams

[taotxzen]

U.S. Officials See Waste in Billions Sent to Pakistan

By DAVID ROHDE, CARLOTTA GALL, ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan %u2014 After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military effort against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, some American officials now acknowledge that there were too few controls over the money. The strategy to improve the Pakistani military, they said, needs to be completely revamped.

In interviews in Islamabad and Washington, Bush administration and military officials said they believed that much of the American money was not making its way to frontline Pakistani units. Money has been diverted to help finance weapons systems designed to counter India, not Al Qaeda or the Taliban, the officials said, adding that the United States has paid tens of millions of dollars in inflated Pakistani reimbursement claims for fuel, ammunition and other costs.

%u201CI personally believe there is exaggeration and inflation,%u201D said a senior American military official who has reviewed the program, referring to Pakistani requests for reimbursement. %u201CThen, I point back to the United States and say we didn%u2019t have to give them money this way.%u201D

(cont)

[taotxzen]

(cont)

Pakistani officials say they are incensed at what they see as American ingratitude for Pakistani counterterrorism efforts that have left about 1,000 Pakistani soldiers and police officers dead. They deny that any overcharging has occurred.

The $5 billion was provided through a program known as Coalition Support Funds, which reimburses Pakistan for conducting military operations to fight terrorism. Under a separate program, Pakistan receives $300 million per year in traditional American military financing that pays for equipment and training.

Civilian opponents of President Pervez Musharraf say he used the reimbursements to prop up his government. One European diplomat in Islamabad said the United States should have been more cautious with its aid.

%u201CI wonder if the Americans have not been taken for a ride,%u201D said the diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

[Con Mohrat]

His Eminence, Sheikh Bin Laden could be in Quebec, home to the largest gathering of terrorists, according to Dr. Paul Williams, in his book "THE DAY OF ISLAM; The Annihilation of America and the Western World."

So look 8,000 miles away from Quebec, dreamers.

And as for you, readers in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and neighbours, don''t laugh too hard when you read these boards. The US Army would send troops into your nations without the requisite knowledge of Urdu, Dari, Pushto, Farsi, and Arabic, and continue making the same laughing stock of themselves for another one year, until the next president, hopefully with a human brain, will call it off before a Humvee gets a Pakistani nuke up its tailpipe.

[rowdytexan2]

Posted by speakinup at 06:55 PM : Jan 06, 2008

Go to YouTube, look at the Frost Interview...

Read up, Speakinup...do something beside question other posters...if you had one ounce of sense...question yourself. It''s all here, plain as day.

[speakinup]

RowdyTexan2 - more half truths and full out conjection that I would expect from a far left liberal that can''t own up to facts.

Oh, but I must be wrong! The great rowdytexan has spoken! So, give us the source of your wonderful facts if you will, my dear. We''re all waiting to be astounded by your reputable sources. Course, if you have none - don''t bother to give them - just sling some more bullsh|t - well ?

We''re waiting...

[rowdytexan2]

Sad thing about Musharraf''s declaration is that...

One, there is no Osama, he''s dead, hasn''t been a threat to us for years.

Two, the Al Queda terrorists don''t exist...it is a ghost organization for operatives being run by Bush Cheney to stir up chaos and fear.

Three, actually, Musharraf may or may not know this, but Ms Bhutto did, and now she''s gone.

[bill1fj]

IF we can find out where the terrorist are then we should destroy them.
By the same token we should start trying to clean up our own house.
Lets end this mess in the middle east, one way or the other.
Lets get the over 20 million illegal aliens out of the U.s
Lets clean up and make better our education and health care systems.

I sleep well at night knowing we are hunting them in Pakistan.

[culturechang]

Gee, when someone tells me not to look in there...I have to think that''s where it is. Too bad we wasted billions of dollars of hard earned tax dollars giving aid to the country who harbors the most wanted terroist fugitive of all time.

[incog-nito]

Shame on Pakistan.

Posted by denn034 at 05:29 PM : Jan 06, 2008

LOL. Pakistan has been protecting Al-Qaeda since day one, only pretending to cooperate when threatened by the U.S. and for billions in aid. No, shame on the current administration for being suckers.