Wie vermoordde Massoud?

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Zadari: Taliban produkt van CIA en ISI

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Pakistan - Het nieuwe doelwit van de zogenaamde "war on terror"

Het is te merken dat de gevestigde media en autoriteiten de laatste tijd steeds meer aandacht besteden aan de situatie in Pakistan. Vandaag meldt het AD bijvoorbeeld dat de Amerikaanse generaal David Petraeus groot alarm heeft geslagen over Pakistan en roept dat het land op instorten staat.

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Nederland mocht AQ Khan niet arresteren van CIA

Nederland mocht van de CIA de "vader" van de Pakistaans atoombom niet arresteren, aldus Ruud Lubbers.

http://www.wereldomroep.nl/achtergronden/nederl...

Meer achtergrond en context:

http://www.ochtenden.nl/dossiers/25183820/

Clinton: "We Created the Taliban"

Hillary Clinton vanuit Amerikaans standpunt over de creatie van de Taliban.

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Operatie Perth

Arnold Karskens in De Pers:

Het ministerie meldt dat Nederlanders en Australiërs van juni 2006 tot maart 2009 in Uruzgan 375 gevangenen hebben gemaakt. Daarvan zouden er nu nog 27 worden gevolgd om te kijken of ze goed worden behandeld. ‘Over gevangenen in juli 2006 is niets bekend.’

Operatie Perth kent meer onduidelijkheden. Bij de veldtocht, waaraan ook Amerikaanse, Australische en Afghaanse troepen deelnamen, zouden volgens getuigen ‘grote aantallen burgers’ zijn gedood. Een getuige spreekt zelfs van standrechtelijke executies. Na een artikel in De Pers van 25 februari meldt minister van Defensie Eimert van Middelkoop de Kamer dat de Onafhankelijke Afghaanse Mensenrechtencommissie AIHRC ‘niet op de hoogte is van deze zaak’ en dat de incidenten nooit zijn onderzocht.

Deze krant is echter in het bezit van foto’s van gewonde burgers én video-opnamen van een AIHRC-rapport. De SP heeft Middelkoop aanvullende vragen gesteld over Operatie Perth.

Mehsud eist verantwoordelijkheid schietpartij op

Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistaans terrorist en al minstens twee keer gestorven , eist de verantwoordelijkheid op voor de schietpartij in Binghamton, New York State....
En ondertussen wordt de strijd in Waziristan, Pakistan, opgevoerd.

‘Absurd’ Conspiracy Theories Prevalent in Afghanistan

To many in the Afghan capital, there’s an obvious explanation for the dramatic re-emergence of the Taliban — a force that seemed thoroughly dust-binned after the arrival of the world’s most powerful army seven years ago.

“Now,” as one 23-year-old Kabul shopkeeper, Qand Mohmadi, put it, “we think America is supporting both the Taliban and the Afghan government. That’s what everyone says.”

Indeed, the rumor of U.S. support for the Taliban is virtually ubiquitous in Kabul. And absurd as it might sound after a year in which American and other Western troops suffered record casualties in fighting with insurgents, many Kabul residents say they see at least a kernel of truth in the story.

“We don’t know for sure why they are doing it,” said Daoud Zadran, a middle-aged real estate broker. “Politics is bigger than our thoughts. But maybe America wants to build up the Taliban so they have an excuse to remain in Afghanistan because of the Iranian issue.”

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Context of '1994-1997: US Supports Taliban Rise to Power'

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Destabilizing Pakistan, America Plays with Fire

The fact is, most Pakistanis believe religion is a private matter and should be separate from the public sphere. But that doesn't inhibit the TTP and other jihadist outfits from imposing their sectarian will by force and now, with the complicity of the state.

While the Western media portray the country as a hot-bed of fundamentalist extremism, the Taliban-linked parties were shown the door in the 2008 national elections, installing "secular" parties busily negotiating their rights away. Closely associated with the venal Musharraf regime, the five-party alliance, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), which had garnered some 15% of the vote in 2002 and controlled the NWFP government suffered a devastating loss. As socialist critic and historian Tariq Ali wrote on the deadly embrace of Pakistani elites and their American neocolonial partners,

Back in the heart of Pakistan the most difficult and explosive issue remains social and economic inequality. This is not unrelated to the increase in the number of madrassas. If there were a half-decent state education system, poor families might not feel the need to hand over a son or kdaughter to the clerics in the hope that at least one child will be clothed, fed, and educated. Were there even the semblance of a health care system, many would be saved from illnesses contracted as a result of fatigue and poverty. No government since 1947 has done much to reduce inequality. ...

I spent my last day in Karachi with fishermen in a village near Korangi Creek. The government has signed away the mangroves where shellfish and lobsters flourish, and land is being reclaimed to build Diamond City, Sugar City, and other monstrosities on the Gulf model. The fishermen had been campaigning against these encroachments, but with little success. "We need a tsunami," one of them half joked. We talked about their living conditions. "All we dream of is schools for our children, medicines and clinics in our villages, clean water and electricity in our homes," one woman said. "Is that too much to ask for?" Nobody even mentioned religion. (The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, New York: Scribner, 2008, p. 27)

Lees verder: Tom Burghardt op Global Research

'We're not going to win this war'

As the US public is dimly aware, things are not going very well in Afghanistan.

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De Kruif wil overleg met taliban

De nieuwe commandant van de Navo-troepen in Afghanistan, generaal-majoor Mart de Kruif, streeft naar een vreedzame oplossing voor de oorlog met de Taliban (of wat daar voor doorgaat in de media-J.).

Het lijkt me de enige realistische optie. Zie nieuwsbericht op RTL.

U.S. Slaughters Family of Former CIA Asset in Waziristan

It doesn’t pay to have worked with the CIA. Jalaluddin Haqqani apparently found that out after missiles fired by U.S. drones killed several of his wives, his sister-in-law, a sister, two nieces, eight grandchildren and a male relative in North Waziristan.

Haqqani is described as a Taliban leader with close ties to the dead Osama bin Laden.

“A senior intelligence official said the militants killed were Pakistani and Afghan Taliban but locals said five of them were low-ranking al Qaeda operatives, including three Arabs,” reports the Associated Press. “Haqqani is a veteran of the U.S.-backed Afghan war against the Soviet invasion in the 1970s and 1980s, and his extended family had been living in North Waziristan since then. Haqqani’s links with bin Laden go back to the late 1980s.”

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Pakistan: 100 die in Taliban suicide bombings

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Taliban claimed responsibility for dual suicide bombings at a Pakistani military arms factory on Thursday that police say killed 100 people and wounded 80 others.

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Is Pakistan's "Public Enemy Number One" A CIA Asset?

Is Pakistan's "Public Enemy Number One" A CIA Asset? Of Course He Is! Otherwise He'd Have Been Dead A Long Time Ago

Why was not Baitullah captured when he was ready to surrender? Instead, he was given money and allowed to grow his militia from a few hundred to nearly 20,000? Why? Who made the decision?

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The NATO lunacy

Once again fabricating lies, as was done in Iraq, Pakistani tribesmen are accused of working on a plan in concert with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda to launch another attack on the US and its western allies. To convince the allies of the looming Taliban attack, another Twin Towers like drama is being planned in which Pakistan is the villain apparent while the US-installed Afghan president is ruling the roost. He has 40,000 highly equipped US and NATO forces in addition to the US-trained Afghan army against scattered Taliban militants whose strength hardly exceeds ten thousand. Instead of fighting with them fair and square in Afghanistan, he conveniently shifts the blame onto Pakistan.
Wednesday's barbaric provocation was designed to bring to a standstill the ongoing peace negotiations between the government and tribal elders.

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Bellen met de Taliban

En in de "war on terror" worden jihad-websites nog steeds doodleuk in de VS gehost. Goh, hoe zou dat nou komen...

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Veel soldaten Uruzgan mentaal ziek

De zware gevechten in Uruzgan maken veel Nederlandse militairen psychisch ziek.

De missie in zuid-Afghanistan is veel heftiger dan gedacht. Overal dreigt gevaar. Die voortdurende spanning blijkt zijn tol te eisen. Honderden soldaten en officieren kampen met mentale problemen, blijkt uit cijfers van Defensie. Van de militairen die betrokken waren bij gevechtsacties, vraagt 40% om psychische hulp.

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The Evacuation of the Taliban

How the Taliban and al-Qaeda Escaped to Pakistan

November 14-25, 2001: US Secretly Authorizes Airlift of Pakistani and Taliban Fighters

At the request of the Pakistani government, the US secretly allows rescue flights into the besieged Taliban stronghold of Kunduz, in Northern Afghanistan, to save Pakistanis fighting for the Taliban (and against US forces) and bring them back to Pakistan. Pakistan’s President “Musharraf won American support for the airlift by warning that the humiliation of losing hundreds—and perhaps thousands—of Pakistani Army men and intelligence operatives would jeopardize his political survival.” [New Yorker, 21 January 2002.')" onmouseout="return nd()">New Yorker, 1/21/2002] Dozens of senior Pakistani military officers, including two generals, are flown out. [PBS NOW with Bill Moyers, 21 February 2003.')" onmouseout="return nd()">NOW with Bill Moyers, 2/21/2003] In addition, it is reported that the Pakistani government assists 50 trucks filled with foreign fighters to escape the town. [New York Times, 24 November 2001.')" onmouseout="return nd()">New York Times, 11/24/2001] Many news articles at the time suggest an airlift is occurring. [Independent, 16 November 2001.')" onmouseout="return nd()">Independent, 11/16/2001; New York Times, 24 November 2001.')" onmouseout="return nd()">New York Times, 11/24/2001; BBC, 26 November 2001.')" onmouseout="return nd()">BBC, 11/26/2001; Independent, 26 November 2001.')" onmouseout="return nd()">Independent, 11/26/2001; Guardian, 27 November 2001.')" onmouseout="return nd()">Guardian, 11/27/2001; MSNBC, 29 November 2001.')" onmouseout="return nd()">MSNBC, 11/29/2001] Significant media coverage fails to develop, however. The US and Pakistani governments deny the existence of the airlift. [US Department of State, 11/16/2001; New Yorker, 21 January 2002.')" onmouseout="return nd()">New Yorker, 1/21/2002] On December 2, when asked to assure that the US did not allow such an airlift, Rumsfeld says, “Oh, you can be certain of that. We have not seen a single—to my knowledge, we have not seen a single airplane or helicopter go into Afghanistan in recent days or weeks and extract people and take them out of Afghanistan to any country, let alone Pakistan.” [MSNBC Meet the Press.')" onmouseout="return nd()">MSNBC, 4/13/2003] Reporter Seymour Hersh believes that Rumsfeld must have given approval for the airlift. [PBS NOW with Bill Moyers, 21 February 2003.')" onmouseout="return nd()">NOW with Bill Moyers, 2/21/2003]

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