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| US infuriated by Pakistan's go-slow war |
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| struggling |
| 05/13/02 at 20:00:47 |
| [slm] US infuriated by Pakistan's go-slow war Rory McCarthy in Islamabad Monday May 13, 2002 The Guardian The first splits in America's alliance with Pakistan in the war against al-Qaida began to emerge last night as officials in Washington complained about the slow pace of military operations in Pakistan's sensitive tribal areas. US intelligence analysts believe several hundred al-Qaida fighters have fled across the Afghan border into Waziristan, the southernmost of Pakistan's lawless tribal agencies. Pentagon officials have pressed the military regime in Islamabad to take action but they are facing strong resistance, according to a report in yesterday's Washington Post. "We've been after them to attack and we haven't made much progress," one senior defence official told the paper. Another official said: "We are trying to encourage, wheedle, coerce, urge the Pakistanis to move more aggressively. We've had some success but movement is slow." Hundreds of British Royal Marines have been deployed in south-east Afghanistan, directly across the border from Waziristan. Although the Marines have found large concentrations of ammunition there has been little sign of al-Qaida fighters. Islamic clerics in Pakistan have grown increasingly angry about the presence of American troops operating in the tribal areas. The hardline Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam party, which had close links with the Taliban, held protests across the North-West Frontier province last Friday. "The presence of US troops and raids on madrassahs [seminaries] are unacceptable for the independent people of Pakistan," the party's leader, Maulana Fazal-ur Rehman, said. A rocket was fired on Friday at a school in Miram Shah in Waziristan where US troops are staying. It was the second such attack in two weeks but again the rocket missed its target. The Pakistani army, which has longstanding and complex ties with the religious right, is reluctant to risk creating any more opposition from the clerics who could be a useful ally for the military ruler General Pervez Musharraf in the elections due in October. In an interview with foreign reporters earlier this month Gen Musharraf admitted operations in the tribal belt were extremely sensitive. In contrast to American intelligence, he said there were no large concentrations of al-Qaida fighters in the area. "If you think they have come here and taken over whole chunks of territory and established themselves, no, this is just out of the question, this is not possible at all, zero possibility," he said. "A small number of infiltrations, in terms of four or 10 or eight people, small groups or parties, is a possibility." At the same time Pakistan's generals are deeply concerned about the eastern border with India where hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been deployed on either side of the border at a state of high alert since December, when the two countries came close to their fourth war. Major-General Rashid Qureshi, a Pakistan military spokesman, said the stand-off with India was limiting operations on the Afghan border. "We are being distracted in the war against terrorism on our western border with Afghanistan which we are not able to seal as effectively as we would like," he said. "The US and the western world need to tell India to back off." In Karachi police investigating last week's suicide bombing which killed 14 people, including 11 French submarine engineers, have arrested five new suspects. http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,2763,714637,00.html |
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| muqaddar |
| 05/14/02 at 11:13:43 |
| [quote author=Struggling link=board=ummah;num=1021334447;start=0#0 date=05/13/02 at 20:00:47] [slm] US infuriated by Pakistan's go-slow war Rory McCarthy in Islamabad Monday May 13, 2002 The Guardian The Pakistani army, which has longstanding and complex ties with the religious right, is reluctant to risk creating any more opposition from the clerics who could be a useful ally for the military ruler General Pervez Musharraf in the elections due in October. In an interview with foreign reporters earlier this month Gen Musharraf admitted operations in the tribal belt were extremely sensitive. http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,2763,714637,00.html [/quote] [slm] You really have to hand it to these 'socialist' writers , usually whenever they talk about american involvement in some country they talk about ordinary people opposing them when it comes to muslims it's suddenly 'clerics' or 'groups' who are opposing the americans. the problem with telling lies is you come to believe them yourself if you tell them often enough. the musharaf pharoan can buy off as many 'clerics' as he wishes and america can martyr the rest ..it dosn't change the fact ..the desire to be free of musharaf and his corrupt tyrrany is growing in pakistan with or without 'clerics' |
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| mujaahid |
| 05/14/02 at 11:37:27 |
| [slm] Inshallah the Pakistani muslims will crush the US invasion in pakistan. Mushrraf now knows he cannot do as he pleases, and with the pakistan army divided between siding with the kaafirs and siding with the muslims, Musharraf has no choice now but to reduce his "full co-operation" with the kaafir crusaders. |
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| muqaddar |
| 05/14/02 at 11:40:38 |
| [slm] hmm you think the US is the problem? i think musharaf and those who support him are the problem. |
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| mujaahid |
| 05/14/02 at 16:31:34 |
| [slm] Muqaddar the US is the probelm as they threatened to blow pakistan apart if Musharaf didnt co-operate. Mushraf being a coward, feel to his knees to please the US. :D |
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| Sr_Mariam |
| 05/14/02 at 17:29:46 |
| I have to say i thought at first that USA was the problem and Israel was the problem, But looking at the muslim world i think that muslims ourselves are the problem. Yeh USA and Israel have some input but only because we let them. Sadam Hussain Massacred Kurdish muslims, Barhanudin Rabbani (once an Afghan President) massacred loads of Afghans, these are muslim people. We are so involved in this dunya, that we don't look at ourselves and the sins we comitt. Why should Allah (SWT) answer our prayers when we cannot even follow simple rules that he has bestowed on us. Our prophet (SAW) said that we are the best Umah cos we haven't seen him yet we still believe in him and followed What allh has revealed through him(SAW), so why don't we act like the best Ummah, rather than fighting amongst ourselves. |
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