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| US warns Pakistan over Times Square bomb attempt |
| 2010-05-09 |
| The United States has delivered a tough new warning to Pakistan to crack down on Islamic militants or face severe consequences after the failed Times Square bombing. In a meeting on Friday between Stanley McChrystal, the US military commander in Afghanistan, and Pakistani military commander General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, General McChrystal urged Pakistan quickly to begin a military offensive against the Pakistani Taleban and al-Qaeda in North Waziristan, according to the New York Times newspaper. Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-born American whose large but amateurish bomb failed to detonate in Times Square last week has told his US interrogators that he had received training from militants in North Waziristan. Mr Shahzad, 30, who became a US citizen in April last year, has been charged with an act of terrorism and using a weapon of mass destruction. US media reports said Mr Shahzad's family knew at least two key Pakistani militants involved in terrorist activities. The new pressure from the Obama administration is a departure from its more usual courteous encouragement to tackle Islamic militants. The ease with which Mr Shahzad was able to move between the US and Pakistan, often carrying tens of thousands of dollars, has increased fears in the White House that another attempt at a terror attack could succeed. The hardening attitude comes amid increasing debate within the administration about how to proceed in the war on terror that included even “a boots-on-the-ground presence' on Pakistani soil, the New york Times reported. “We are saying, ‘Sorry, if there is a successful attack, we will have to act' ' within Pakistan, an official told the newspaper. With renewed evidence of Pakistani sources for plots to attack on American soil, it was clear the Pakistani government had to do more, and more urgently, a senior American official said. General Kayani, was told, “‘You can't pretend any longer that this is not going on,' ' another American official told the newspaper. “ ‘We are saying you have got to go into North Waziristan.' ' The American ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson, used “forceful language' when she met Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, after the failed bombing as she stresed that the Pakistanis had to move more assertively against militants a Pakistani official said. “The element of threat is definitely different from the last few months,' said Tariq Fatemi, a former Pakistani ambassador. News of the harder-hitting position taken by the White House comes as a US drone killed six militants in North Waziristan today. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 Let us think straight. Ever one knows, all the paths of Islamic terrorism pass through Pakistan. So why US is kissing the ass of Pakistan in stead of blowing it and paying billions of our tax money as a ransom to Pakistan?. Answer: our stupid spineless politicians who don't know what to do. Solution: Give our Armed forces a complete and absolute freedom to vaporise Pakistan immediately and then ask China and Russia and any other country not to interfere because thousands of our nuclear warheads are already aimed at them and ready to be fired. And then you have it. No stupid country in the whole word will ever dare to confront USA on Nuclear war to save any one else, you bet it. |
| Posted by: Annon 2010-05-09 19:53 |
| #3 All talk and no substance. Paks cannot control their own country with multiple personality disorder. Jihadists will continue to send boomers. We will scurry around and be on the defensive, outside of their OODA loops. It is all stupid and avoidable. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-05-09 16:30 |
| #2 The new pressure from the Obama administration is a departure from its more usual courteous encouragement to tackle Islamic militants. The consequences will be grave; Hillary will tongue lash you. If that doesn't work, Obama will invite you to dinner and not show up. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-09 14:08 |
| #1 All roads will lead to their ISI handlers. |
| Posted by: Swanimote 2010-05-09 09:46 |