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| US seeks Pakistan crackdown on Taliban |
| 2010-05-28 |
| [Dawn] Two top Obama administration officials have told Pakistan that it has only weeks to show real progress in a crackdown against the Pakistani Taliban, a senior US official said Wednesday, reports AP. The US has put Pakistan "on a clock" to launch a new intelligence and counterterrorist offensive against the group, which the White House alleges was behind the Times Square bombing attempt, according to the official. White House national security adviser James Jones and CIA Director Leon Panetta delivered that message to Islamabad last week, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. As first reported by the Los Angeles Times, the high-ranking US delegation presented the Pakistanis with evidence they believe proves that Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad was trained and funded by the Tehrik-e-Taliban, or TTP, as the Pakistani Taliban are known. Shahzad is accused of attempting to ignite what turned out to be a poorly constructed car bomb in Times Square. The evidence also showed that two TTP members escorted Shahzad to a training base in the lawless tribal area of Waziristan, where he received some instruction in how to build explosives, the US official said. Pakistani authorities have already detained two suspects thought to be those TTP escorts, the official said. The US now expects to see Pakistan carry out further independent counterterrorist operations and quietly increase other unspecified cooperation with the Americans, the official said. The visiting delegation reminded Pakistani leaders that President Barack Obama had sent them a letter in November, asking for a tougher crackdown against al-Qaida and its affiliates like the TTP, the official said. So far, many US officials have rated Pakistan's progress on that front as mixed because Pakistan has maintained a detente with some of the al-Qaeda affiliates that operate in its frontier provinces, like the Haqqani network. The official said those in the delegation to Pakistan were hopeful that the Shahzad case may spell the difference because the US is asking Pakistan to crack down on a group that is a sworn enemy of Islamabad. The TTP have launched a series of bloody bombings against Pakistani government targets and civilians over the past year. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Or Gromgoru just placed a personal ad...seeking One million Swiss Franks. |
| Posted by: Richelieu 2010-05-28 12:42 |
| #6 One MILLION Swiss Hot Dogs! |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2010-05-28 12:32 |
| #5 Is there a diff between Swiss Franks vs. Swiss Francs? |
| Posted by: Richelieu 2010-05-28 12:17 |
| #4 Mea culpa |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-05-28 11:36 |
| #3 Gromgoru seeks a million |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-05-28 11:36 |
| #2 Gromgoru seek a million |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-05-28 11:36 |
| #1 The Paks got the TTP(Mehsuds) to move from North to south Waziristan.Does that count? |
| Posted by: Paul2 2010-05-28 11:08 |