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| Pakistan warns against further raids inside its territory | |
| 2011-05-06 | |
| [Dawn] Pakistain Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said on Thursday that any country that again seeks to raid its territory would face consequences from Pakistain's military. "We feel that that sort of misadventure or miscalculation would result in a terrible catastrophe," he said. "There should be no doubt Pakistain has adequate capacity to ensure its own defence." He was speaking three days after a US raid by special forces, without the knowledge of Pakistain officials, on a compound in Abbottabad, north of the capital, killed al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden. ... who has left the building... "It's easy to say that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) or elements within the government were in cahoots with the Al Qaeda," Bashir said. "This is a false hypothesis. This is a false charge. It cannot be validated on any account and it flies in the face of what Paks and in particular the Inter-Services Intelligence has been able to accomplish." "If it was an intelligence failure ... then it was a global intelligence failure," Bashir said. "That the ISI is incompetent is a value judgment," he added. "And we believe that this is not the time for anybody to indulge in the luxury of passing value judgments."
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 IMO the greater danger for the US-NATO here is that iff Islamabad's relations wid Washington, DC continues to worsen = deteriorate, that in addition to giving advanced Nuke-WMDS techs to Radical Islamist MilTerr Groups POST-OSAMA PAKISTAN = NORTH KOREA = WILL ATTACK INDIA + INDUCE US-CHINA CONFRONTATIONISM + REGIONAL WAR TO DIVERT FROM ITS TRUBLES. Rising China could truly end up wid TWO NUCLEAR-POSSIBLE REGIONAL WARS AGZ THE US ON OPPOSITE FLANKS. In not militarily opposing the US raid agz Osama at Abbottabad, Pakistan's fear of losing approxi US$3.0Bilyuhn a year in US aid was counterbalanced by its recognition that the US still needed Pakistan to help the US combat Radical Islam + conduct the US-led GWOT. MORE, > Iff Radical Islam took over the ME + North AFrica, e.g. Libyuh's + Egypt's, etc. Nucprogs, PAKISTAN WOULD BECOM JUST ONE SOURCE OF MANY FOR NUKE-HAPPY MILTERRS. > Iff Iran + Hezbollah took over the above, SUNNI NUCLEAR PAKISTAN = SUNNI SAUDI ARABIA = WOULD HAVE A POTENT SHIA NUCLEAR COMPETITOR + POTENTIAL MILITARY OPPONENT TO CONTEND WITH. * Sunni versus Shia NUC ARMS RACE BETWEEN STATES, Sunni versus Shia NUCLEAR ARMS RACE BETWEEN PRO-SUNNI, PRO-SHIA MILTERR GROUPS. THE FIRST "CIVIL WAR" WIDIN THE FUTURE OWG CALIPAHTE WILL BE A NUCLEAR CIVIL WAR??? ["2012" here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-07 00:03 |
| #1 CHINA DAILY FORUM > {White House Press Secretary Jay Carney] US: MORE ATTACKS ON PAKISTAN IFF NEEDED. US will not back down on policy. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-06 02:33 |