The Obama administration is considering launching secret US commando raids into Pakistan to hunt down terrorist groups inside the country, US officials told the Associated Press.
US officials said the idea comes up every couple of months, but is consistently rejected because the White House doesn’t think the diplomatic blowback from Islamabad would be worth the chance of attacking the Haqqani network.
And blowback from Pakistan should surely be expected if such a covert escalation of US night raids did occur. Washington’s gripe is that militants in Pakistan are finding safe haven in between cross border attacks on US forces in Afghanistan.
But the US shouldn’t be in Afghanistan to begin with. And the Pakistani gripe is much heavier. The US drone strikes, the espionage and infiltration, and the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers have all contributed to the growing wrangle between Washington and Islamabad.
Islamabad has repeatedly called for these transgressions to stop, but the Obama administration has continued them unabated.
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay recently met with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani who claimed that the U.S. drone war violates human rights and Pakistani sovereignty. Pillay then immediately called for a UN investigation into civilian casualties in the U.S. drone war.
Now, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns, is in the beginning stages of investigating the US drone war, demanding the Obama administration explain the legal justification for it and suggesting some of them may have already constituted war crimes. Washington has not yet responded.
Criminal — Anyone not in the military who breaks the law
Crimes against humanity, not “war crimes.” For the UN should have refused to except the illusion that our self-inflicted terrorism problems rise to the level of a war, and surely the “international community” should not have ate the sucker-bait.
So, give the criminal investigation back to the FBI, County Sheriff, your Police Chief, abolish the CIA and jail for life every CIA official that is still breathing.
The level of hubris us getting so dense, perhaps these who wish to do raids into Pakistan can deploy it as a bridge over the fronrier. For those of us with longer memories recall incendiary talk by Neocons about snatching Pakistan's ["Islamic"] nuclear arsenal…….. so secret US commando raids into Pakistan may be seen as Israelis and their Neocon Brethern come to snatch their "Islamic Bomb" and give them all the welcome we would give to "secret Pakistani commando raids" to snatch our [Judao//Christian ???] nuclear arsenal……..
See: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/new-wa…
New War Rumors: U.S. Plans To Seize Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal
October 15, 2010 richardrozoff Leave a comment Go to comments
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October 15, 2010
New War Rumors: U.S. Plans To Seize Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal
Rick Rozoff
Two recent news items emanating from the United States have begun to reverberate in Pakistan and give rise to speculation that growing American drone strikes and NATO helicopter attacks in that country may be the harbingers of far broader actions: Nothing less than the expansion of the West’s war in Afghanistan into Pakistan with the ultimate goal of seizing the nation’s nuclear weapons.
The News International, Pakistan’s largest English-language newspaper, published a report on October 13 based on excerpts from American journalist Bob Woodward’s recently released volume “Obama’s Wars” which stated that during a trilateral summit between the presidents of the U.S., Afghanistan and Pakistan on May 6 of 2009 Pakistani head of state Asif Ali Zardari accused Washington of being behind Taliban attacks inside his country with the intent to use them so “the US could invade and seize its nuclear weapons.” [1]
Dawns on me that the reason there's no threat of terrorism in Greece is that unemployed Greeks are not viewed as nonpeople who can be brutalized with impunity and disregard for the courtesies involved.
Member of NATO too…..
The only way the US may have a slight chance of grabbing Pakistani’s nukes is through Pakistani leaders’ complicity. Pakistani government and top military leaders are similar to those in Egypt in the sense that they are coward traitors to their countries. Why else would Pakistani regime allow us to bomb their countrymen on daily basis?
Covert special operations may backfire as we may have to gradually expand it and very soon we will end up having boots on the ground in Pakistan, as if Afghanistan did not teach us a lesson. Haghani or whatever those groups are that are sending their men to fight us in Afghanistan would love to have our troops on their turf to fight us. Besides, any new war makes warmonger generals and arms dealers and manufacturers richer and ordinary people poorer by blowing away our social security funds.
United States – the nation of evil around the world
Maybe it's time for China to cash out and tell the US govt. to stick it's treasuries up it's bum. Let's see them wage endless war and occupations with no money.
So called brave but actually COWARD U.S.A. and Nato FORCES with All their Best & Excellent Technological Arms are getting Worst Type of SPANKING from Afghan People: All Allied Forces are Desperate to Get Out of Afghanistan Being Humiliated & These SHAMELESS ALLIED LEADERS WANT Their Forces Return Home Even With Their TAILS BETWEEN THEIR LEGS!
Along with TRAITOR PAKISTANI CURRENT GOVERNMENT, Blame Pakistan and try to snatch Pakistan's Nukes.
But Allied Leaders & Traitor Pakistani Administration will meet their Worst Nightmare Resulting in Muslim Commen Wealth Consisting on Pakistan, Afghanistan, Central Asian (Freed Muslim Russian States), Iran may be Turkey and Middle Eastren States are forced by their People to Join It.
Final Result: Allied Leaders will have same Fate as Mussolini and Defeated Nazi and Japanese Leaders by Their Own Westren Public.
The military and Obama are increasingly desperate as they are loosing the Afghan war militarily as well as politically.