Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari believes that the United States has been secretly behind a number of Taliban suicide attacks across the nation, according to a detailed account from Bob Woodward’s new book Obama’s Wars.
According to the book, Zardari expressed this concern to then-US envoy Zalmay Khalizad during a dinner, telling him that they were being arranged by either the US or India and that he “didn’t think India could be that clever.”
Met with shock by Khalizad, Zardari explained that it was part of a US plot to “destabilize Pakistan so that the US could invade and seize its nuclear weapons.” Zardari also apparently claimed that Afghan President Hamid Karzai had told him the US was responsible for the attacks.
The claims continued to get more elaborate, as Zardari claimed the CIA was overtly supporting Baitullah Mehsud and that the US had “revealed its support of the TTP.” Mehsud, the former leader of the TTP, was assassinated in August 2009, and has since been replaced by Hakimullah Mehsud.
I am afraid it seems quite likely. The USG is openly involved in illegal activites averywhere, spreading the spider net of corruption and spin all over the world. Somebody should make a picture of that image – the globe engulfed not by longitude and meridians, but in spin, with black spiders eagerly working crawling around the globe and "fixing" the net.
Whether Zardari said or not thje question arises in the mountain dry grows no explosives, money technical knowhow suicide jackets etc. and CIA as i wrote sevaral times is a criminal organisation which has also highjackt US. govt. for their notorious work and Obama is latest victim. They have no other alternative as to destroy Pakistan because they thought they will march in Afghanistan with no resistance. Our army and ISI says that these suicide bombers are american and RAW agents.
They have occupied all our institutions. We have parallel to Pakistan Latin america till the CIA was active there was no stability and development and they havekicked out america they are prospering.
Yesterday i read an article trhat as UK.left Basra now there is peace and the people feel secure. How it is possible in green zone trucks loaded with explosives reach greenzone.
For God,s leave us alone let us live as we like with or without Islam and you can live as you like. We don,t bother. A day will come the Muslim countries will say good buye to america like Latin america. They have already killed millions of people what else they want.
OOO OOO Montaigne…………. You outdo your previous BEST efforts…………. with this picture..
Recently returning Americans have said as much… G-d forbid the conflict should end!!! How would the Unocal shareholders collect the transit fees they have werked so assiduously to arrange ……. And how is the TAPI project doing…???
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"Mohamed Cassam [Moderator] 21 hours ago
As the manager of the World Bank's South Asia energy unit in the 90s, and the point person for Unocal's TAP Pipeline, here are my comments:
1. T A P was never a serious project: it was a cover for the US government to talk to the Taliban. That he goes through Pashtun and Baluch lands should give everybody thought. Furthermore Baluchistan has twice as much gas as the UK, but Punjabi greed and incompetence throttles the development of this resource. In any case there is no money for this project despite 10 years that the three governments have been pursuing it.
2. The IPI is also more political than commercial. It is extremely expensive and neither Iran or Pakistan can afford it. It too would go through Baluchistan. The pipeline to get to India would have to be very big as southern Pakistan and Karachi would absorb up to 15 billion CM per year.
3. The ideal pipeline for conveying Central Asian gas to South Asia is a 600 km link between the CIS pipeline system in Uzdekistan and the Pakistan Sui system via Kabul. This would fuel Kabul and open up the Northern Afghanistan gas reserves, which are as big as Oman' s, to foreign investment because they would have a good market . Pipeline with the capacity of one bcf/day ex Peshawar would fuel 5000 MW which is the thermal between Peshawar and Lahore which currently depend on fuel oil imported via Karachi and trucked 1500 km so very expensive .
5. The above can be a commercial proposition since it will cost less than $1 billion and have an assured cash flow from the 5000 MW power generators which currently pay almost $1000/ton or $27 per thousand cubic feet. Calls page to the tribes en route would guarantee security
6. In 2012 the Turkmenistan China pipeline will be taking guests from the Daulatabad gas field, the same field that is supposed to supply the TAP. This field actually goes under the Iran border and so is only 1000 km from Bushehr on the Gulf where the Pars gas comes onshore. China is quite capable of building and funding the necessary upgrade of the Iranian gas system to import large quantities of Iranian gas through the central Asian pipelines that it is building .
7. In short by 2015 all incremental Central Asian, Caspian Sea and Iranian gas will be going to China and not one cubic meter to Europe. It is very likely that because of the lethargy of the West when it comes to economic development in Afghanistan, the Chinese will help develop the northern Afghan gas fields in via a 300 km spur delivered to the main Turkmenistan- China pipeline at Samarkand. So China will have the 3 most abundant natural resources: iron ore, copper and petroleum that Afghanistan has. Meanwhile NATO is spending hundreds of billions of dollars in noneconomic activities activities."
Above is a comment on "China's Pipelineistan "War" By Pepe Escobar http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/10/china-nat…
The article is great, a must read!!
Of course the man is right.
The USG and Isreal are totally responsible for ALL the problems in this modern age where State sponsored assassinations (murder) is the norm.
These two rogue states are the REAL axis of evil terror in the world.
The really sad part is that I would tend to trust Zardari's word over Obama's on pretty much anything they care to comment on. Given the history of US involvement in shady deals the world over, it would not surprise me in the least if this latest story is proven to be true. Actually, I would be surprised if we DIDN'T have a hand in it somewhere.