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| Grand Jirga Of North Wazoo Tribes Declare War Against The US |
| 2011-03-20 |
| A grand jirga of tribal elders from North Waziristan Agency on Friday said that they would wage jihad against America to avenge those killed in drone attacks. A US drone attack killed at least 40 people, most of them tribal elders, in Datta Khel tehsil, North Waziristan on Thursday. Pakistan's top leadership, including the army chief, have already condemned the attack. Malik Jalal Sarhadi Qatkhel, head of the North Waziristan Peace Committee, told reporters at the Peshawar Press Club that the tribes would wage a jihad against the US as well as Pakistanis who are helping them carry out the Predator drone strikes. He said that they had allowed their youths to carry out suicide attacks against the Americans. The tribal elder claimed that there were no al Qaeda or Taliban members in North Waziristan, or the rest of the tribal areas, and that children, women and the elderly were being massacred instead. "There is no al Qaeda and Taliban presence in North Waziristan, while the Americans themselves have acknowledged that around 70 per cent of Afghanistan is under the control of militants," Qatkhel said. "Unlike [those] who pardoned the killer of two Pakistanis for dollars, we will take revenge for our dead and the world will see it." He said that they would avenge the killing "even if it takes a hundred years" and so they were announcing jihad against America and its allies in Pakistan. He said the media had been presenting the wrong information about militants. He said reports of foreign militants dying in Predator strikes were false and mostly innocent tribesmen were being killed in such attacks. "We have valid evidence and those who claim deaths of foreign militants in these attacks should show us or the media. The latest attack which killed tribal elders shows us this reality of tribesmen being massacred," he said. Other tribal elders of the jirga including Malik Faridullah Saifli Kabal Khel, Malik Daaraz Mada Khel Wazir and Nek Daraz Khan were also present on the occasion. Meanwhile, the top US general in Afghanistan said Friday it was "hugely important" that Pakistani forces take action against militants in North Waziristan. General David Petraeus, commander of the NATO-led force in the Afghanistan war, credited Islamabad with battling insurgents elsewhere but said the campaign needed to move to North Waziristan, where, he said, members of the al Qaeda and Haqqani networks are based. "The fact is that it's hugely important that there's a campaign in northern Waziristan that is putting enormous pressure on the al Qaeda sanctuaries there," Petraeus said at a conference in Washington. US officials have long urged Pakistan to crack down on militants in North Waziristan but the country's military commanders have said their forces are already stretched. "They have lost thousands of soldiers and thousands of civilians in a very impressive counter insurgency campaign to clear Swat Valley and the other areas" in Khyber and South Waziristan, Petraeus said. Okay, since they have declared war against the US, any combatant on their side can be killed at will by the US. This means any armed male, aged 16-60. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #10 The real crux here is INDIA'S = INDJUH'S MIL RESPONSE to any escalating destabilization of Pakistan by pro-2012 Nuclearization-, Political Jihad-happy Radical Islam, + now formerly anti-MilTerr, newly anti-Govt Tribals, AS PAK ISI-CONTROL OF MILTERRS + NOW NEW ANTI-GOVT TRIBALS? INCREASES THE RISK OF "NEW MUMBAI(S)" TERROPS AGZ FICKLE INDIA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-03-20 19:47 |
| #9 Can we start the ARCLIGHT strikes on Miran Shah now? |
| Posted by: OId Patriot 2011-03-20 14:47 |
| #8 Once again life imitates Frank Zappa. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2011-03-20 11:48 |
| #7 "A grand jirga of tribal elders from North Waziristan Agency on Friday said that they would wage jihad against America to avenge those killed in drone attacks." Oh, goody - more self-identified targets. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-03-20 10:12 |
| #6 They have declared war.Is that the green light to invade North Wazoo as the Pak Army has no interest? |
| Posted by: Angeretle Snore6772 2011-03-20 10:04 |
| #5 Oh to be a fly on the wall and learn from whom the targetting info originated. |
| Posted by: Oscar Spineck3066 2011-03-20 04:22 |
| #4 Supposedly, the ISI was doing a clear and hold against the cockroaches in Warzistan. If so, credit them. As we all know: everything is double speak in the intel world. Pakistan intel does not want to get rid of their own intelligence service as far as the Taliban - (They are closer), Americans may do no right by this obviously morally and competent force of reason - the ISI. Do not bag on them too much, they are all between a rock and a hard place like all people residing under the Ummah. When a Man says to you there in the pittance of the Devil "You do not understand, this is the A-Hole of the world", Simply agree and do as they say unless you see them driving you to wrong parts of the town or city. Then it's ditch time. This is the ISI establishing what may need be a save of face. Remember, the US has brought great pressure to Pakistan in the past; what was received was mixed. Good luck getting that out of many nations. It does not happen easily. Thats rough city, Pakistan. I cannot remember how many people from there I wanted to bring home and be Americans. They are not all backwater. Plenty of good to go with the bad. And certainly plenty of bad to go ruin it all for the good. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-03-20 02:30 |
| #3 There are humans in North Wazoo? Wow... who knew? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-03-20 01:26 |
| #2 Once again, "Rubble doesn't make trouble." Rinse, and repeat. It is not as if the rest of the world would even notice, if the human population of North Wazoo became extinct. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2011-03-20 01:24 |
| #1 I see a long commute from Diego Garcia in their future. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-03-20 00:12 |