Pakistan's "territorial integrity ... will be defended at all cost and no external force is allowed to conduct operations ... inside Pakistan," according to a military statement attributed to Chief of Army Staff Gen. Parvez Kayani, who succeeded Pervez Musharraf after he stepped down as Pakistan's army chief last year.
The announcement came as Pakistan's military resumed its battle against Taliban militants in its tribal region, two army spokesmen said. More than 20 militants and four security forces were killed in Monday's fighting in Bajaur Agency, they said.
If you won't "allow" US military operations within your country, then you are harboring terrorists, and I will not make the distinction between the two. I feel so dirty for saying this, but Obama is right, if we have actionable intelligence, we're going into Pakistan.
Frustrated by repeated dead ends in the search for Osama bin Laden, U.S. and Pakistani officials said they are questioning long-held assumptions about their strategy and are shifting tactics to intensify the use of the unmanned but lethal Predator drone spy plane in the mountains of western Pakistan.
The number of Hellfire missile attacks by Predators in Pakistan has more than tripled, with 11 strikes reported by Pakistani officials this year, compared with three in 2007. The attacks are part of a renewed effort to cripple al-Qaeda's central command that began early last year and has picked up speed as President Bush's term in office winds down, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials involved in the operations.
There has been no confirmed trace of bin Laden since he narrowly escaped from the CIA and the U.S. military after the battle near Tora Bora, Afghanistan, in December 2001, according to U.S., Pakistani and European officials. They said they are now concentrating on a short list of other al-Qaeda leaders who have been sighted more recently, in hopes that their footprints could lead to bin Laden.
In interviews, the officials attributed their failure to find bin Laden to an overreliance on military force, disruptions posed by the war in Iraq and a pattern of underestimating the enemy. Above all, they said, the search has been handicapped by an inability to develop informants in Pakistan's isolated tribal regions, where bin Laden is believed to be hiding.
"Prevented"? Let's not forget why we are there people:
Never forget indeed.
I want blood revenge. I want Osama's head on a pike. Until he's captured or killed, I don't care WHERE we search for him, and if we have to go to a foreign nation to get him, I'm all for it.
Even Democrats can't argue with that point.
Travis
1 comment:
I do wonder that were did osama go that even the super powers of the world with all thier ground breking technology have failed to find a man who uses a stick to walk,and why does he single handedly makes all the super powers piss in thier pants i wounder is he even real or not,or osama is the only excuse left to over throw governments and expanding of resources.you say you wanthime on a pike.i ask how many people r u going sacrifice indoing so including ur own the hunderds n thousand of people have died to just to see"osma" suffer.
by reading ur blog i truly understand how libiral,democratic and enlitning u really r that u dont even come close to the sense or meaning of the word,It is people like u who get irrated by thier pleasure by the very letters "P.E.A.C.E"
"IT IS YOU WHO WANTED BLOOD" n yes u have got it in ur bloody quest of reveng
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