Image via Wikipedia 5 days, that is the 22nd, I believe. So Taliban say they will attack on the 22nd of July 08.
"We will attack the provincial government and the ANP leaders after five days if they do not quit," said Maulvi Omar, spokesman for Mehsud, based in the tribal area of Waziristan. "The provincial government is ... not sincere in the talks."
The ANP, which has pacifist roots, has pursued dialogue with Taliban groups in Swat and elsewhere. However, its talk of peace has come up against the hard reality of militants who are willing to give up very little and demand Islamisation and the retreat of the Pakistan army from their territory as the price for ending hostilities.
"This is open war," said Hassan Abbas, a research fellow at Harvard University. "This [ultimatum] will help the provincial government to see things more clearly. They can take direct action against Baitullah Mehsud because there is a direct threat."
Mehsud was reacting to Pakistan army actions. In Hangu, the army stepped in last week after Taliban surrounded a police station and killed 16 paramilitary troops. In Swat, the army was deployed last year to tackle militants who had taken over the valley, previously a tourist destination. Around the provincial capital of Peshawar, the army is flushing out Islamist militants -not allied to the Taliban - who were encroaching on the city.
"We want peace," said Hajji Adeel, vice president of the ANP, but added: "If they use force, we will also use force in reaction."
This Warden Message is to alert American citizens that the Consular Section at the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar will limit services to the public to emergency cases only from July 25 to October 15, 2008. Americans who require routine services such as applying for passports may contact Embassy Islamabad during this period for assistance at (92-51) 208-0000.
http://islamabad.usembassy.gov/wn-08071701.html
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UPDATE:
“The consular officer at the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar who normally handles American citizen services will depart Pakistan on a normal rotation in the near future, and there will be a gap of several weeks before that officer’s successor arrives. For that reason, consular services in Peshawar will be limited for the stated period. All other operations and staffing at the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar continue on a normal basis.”
Kay Webb Mayfield Counselor for Public Affairs U.S. Embassy Islamabad
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It is not unreasonable to expect a pre-emptive strike against the Taliban before the 22nd. ( I'm not sure when the taliban issued their 5 day ultimatum?)
Six powers launch groundbreaking nuclear talks with Iran
DEBKAfile Special Report
July 19, 2008, 5:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
EU's Javier Solana with Iran's Saeed Jalili
The presence of America’s third-ranking diplomat William Burns elevated the talks between the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany and Iran’s senior nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili begun in Geneva Saturday, July 19 to a more serious level. Ahead of the meeting, a senior official in Tehran restated that suspension was “out of the question.”
While Washington has stressed Burns is there to listen, not negotiate, DEBKAfile’s sources reported it will be clear to Iran that it has a chance to end its international isolation by accepting the incentives on offer to freeze uranium enrichment. This outcome would leave Israel out on a limb with the menaces posed directly by Iran and its allies, Syria, Hizballah and Hamas.
European Union executive Javier Solana, who staged the encounter, positioned the American official opposite the Iranian side to avoid a joint photograph.
On July 8, DEBKA-Net-Weekly and DEBKAfile’s analysts first disclosed the developments leading up to Washington’s decision to take part in the Geneva encounter. To read this report click HERE
News # 1 = Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad ( Pakistan ) Stock Exchanges Crashed. Angry protestors broke windows and damaged banks and brokerage houses as country's Stock Exchanges hit their lowest.
( Geo / Aaj / ARY One World, Waqt, Express, Samaa News ) The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) -100 index closed at 10,213 after shedding 279 points today.( In Paki the Taliban are miscreants, and stock market LOSSES are "shedding". G )
The market is under severe bearish clutch for the fourth day of the trading week in a row. The Benchmark 100-index has sunk to the lowest in seven years as it reached to 10,213 points.
News # 2 = Taliban give NWFP govt 5-day ultimatum to quit
This might be enough pain to get the Government to act against the Taliban. The big money in Paki is scared. They have some of the Best Intelligence. Something heavy this way comes.
Defense officials say commanders called for the formal investigation known in the military as a "fifteen-six" (15-6), to get answers to a series of critical questions: Just how did so many insurgent get so close to the outpost without being detected? Was security and surveillance surrounding the outpost inadequate or did those involved in security fall down on the job?.....
"There is no question that the absence of pressure on the Pakistani side of the border is creating an opportunity for more people to cross the border and to launch attacks." When asked if the U.S. military would launch unilateral strikes against the insurgent camps inside Pakistan, Gates would not rule it out. Meanwhile, defense officials say Pentagon efforts to send more American troops and equipment to Afghanistan to counter the growing enemy threat there have kicked into "high gear."
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeNews # 1 = Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad ( Pakistan ) Stock Exchanges Crashed. Angry protestors broke windows and damaged banks and brokerage houses as country's Stock Exchanges hit their lowest.
( Geo / Aaj / ARY One World, Waqt, Express, Samaa News ) The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) -100 index closed at 10,213 after shedding 279 points today.
The market is under severe bearish clutch for the fourth day of the trading week in a row. The Benchmark 100-index has sunk to the lowest in seven years as it reached to 10,213 points.
News # 2 = Taliban give NWFP govt 5-day ultimatum to quit
( Geo / Aaj / ARY One World News ) Peshawar Pakistan : Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan has warned NWFP government of dire consequences in case it failed to step down within the next five days.
Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umer informed media that Tehreek-I-Taliban will be forced to take action against NWFP government if it fails to quit. "NWFP government will itself be responsible for the damage," he warned..... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Warden Notices
Warden Notice 11/2008
July 17, 2008
This Warden Message is to alert American citizens that the Consular Section at the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar will limit services to the public to emergency cases only from July 25 to October 15, 2008. Americans who require routine services such as applying for passports may contact Embassy Islamabad during this period for assistance at (92-51) 208-0000.
Published Date: July 17, 2008 WASHINGTON: The United States is to send a top ranking diplomat to attend international nuclear talks with Iran on Saturday, marking a major shift in Washington's policy on negotiations with Tehran. Undersecretary of State William Burns will attend the weekend meeting.......
Image via WikipediaOriginally published by Geo TV, Karachi, in Urdu 1600 15 Jul 08.
Karachi Geo News television in Urdu at 1600 gmt on 15 July relays live regularly scheduled "Today with Kamran Khan" programme. Noted Pakistani journalist Kamran Khan reviews, discusses and analyzes major day-to-day developments with government ministers and officials, opposition leaders, and prominent analysts in Geo TV's flagship programme. Words within double slant lines are in English.
Segment I
Kamran Khan says: unabated violence continues in Iraq even after five years of American occupation and the latest suicide bombing today killed 31 prospective Iraqi police recruits. Khan adds: the suicide attack comes in wake of repeated claims by the American president and the establishment that the situation in Iraq has vastly improved this year. Continuing, Khan says: according to latest figures 4,119 Americans have been killed in Iraq so far and although official figures say 100,000 Iraqi civilians have also been killed so far, unofficial figures speak of 600,000 Iraqis war- related casualties. Khan adds: 70 percent of Iraqi population has no drinking water and Iraq, which is the third largest oil producing country, faces power load shedding on regular basis and schools and hospitals are not functioning normally there. Continuing, Khan says: as America prepares for the presidential elections, Barack Obama, "first black American presidential candidate" and who according to polls is likely to win the elections, has pledged to the American people that he would end American occupation of Iraq and withdraw American troops from there by 2009.
Kamran Khan establishes video link in Lahore with Shamshad Ahmed Khan, prominent analyst and Pakistan's former foreign secretary, and asks him whether the American military, establishment and other American institutions would allow Obama to fulfill his commitment to withdraw all American troops from Iraq by 2009. Shamshad Ahmed Khan says: "there has been a //strong// perception right from the beginning in America about the Iraq war that it was a big mistake and America should withdraw from there as soon as possible." Shamshad Ahmed Khan adds: Americans also gave a clear verdict during the mid-term elections that US troops should be withdrawn from Iraq and Obama has now given a commitment that American troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by 2009. Continuing, Shamshad Ahmed Khan says: Pakistan's tribal areas have become focus of American attention because of "failures" in Iraq where no target has been achieved and resistance continues unabated. When Kamran Khan asks whether! it will be possible for any American President to withdraw troops from Iraq by 2009 and accept "defeat," Shamshad Ahmed Khan says the total withdrawal will not be possible, but effort would be made to "defuse" the situation in some way or other, which is a "big commitment" of the Democrat Party.
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Segment III
Kamran Khan says: in the background of reports that America is telling the Pakistan government that it is not satisfied with the situation in tribal areas, American and allied forces in "large numbers" have started arriving near the border across Pakistan's North Waziristan and South Waziristan. Khan adds: deployment of American and allied troops equipped with helicopters, heavy machineguns and artillery is hinting that, perhaps, a "major military operation" is about to be launched at the Afghan border next to North Waziristan and South Wazirstan. Continuing, Khan says the Pakistan government has repeatedly expressed its concern at any such planned incursion. Khan says: President Pervez Musharraf recently explained Pakistan's position in these words:
[Begin Musharraf recording, in English] The man in the street in Pakistan does not want any foreign intrusion into Pakistan. It is an issue of sovereignty of our country. And, United States or anyone who says that must understand the sensitivity of the man in the street. So, I don't think this is possible at all that any foreign forces will be allowed into Pakistan. It is militarily unwise and politically I don't think it is acceptable to the people of Pakistan. [end recording]
Kamran Khan says Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan People's Party Co- chairman, in an interview in Dubai yesterday asked America that it should refrain from deploying troops near the Pakistan border as it will be a big mistake. Khan adds: Pakistani tribal leaders have also stated that they would "strongly" confront any attack on Pakistan's tribal areas and "tens of thousands" of tribesmen will take up arms against America.
Kamran Khan establishes video link in Peshawar with Sami Yusufzai, senior journalist and Newsweek correspondent in Pakistan, and asks him to confirm reports that American and allied troops are massing near the Pakistan border. Yusufzai says he talked to "sources" in Afghanistan's Paktia, Paktika and Khowst provinces adjoining Pakistan's North Waziristan and South Waziristan and they denied reported troop movement. Yusufzai says: the fact is that such an atmosphere has been built up due to recent [threatening] statements from the Afghan side that even a "minor movement" of troops generate fear in people's mind [about incursions into tribal areas]. Continuing, Yusufzai says: however, reports from Kunar province where a "large number" of American troops were killed on 13 July say that America believes that "Pakistani //volunteers//" and militants involved in the attacks on allied troops flee to Pakistan's Bajaur Agency and Mohmand Agency and that is why the American and allied troops have increased their movement and set up new check posts at that part of the border. Yusufzai does not believe that "America is in a //position// to make incursions into Pakistan's tribal areas and send its troops there." Yusufzai says: America is fully aware that Jihadi forces in Pakistan are highly anti-American and they could strike back deep inside Afghanistan against American and ISAF [International Security Assistance Force] troops. When Khan asked Yusufzai to comment on the latest warnings from the NATO commander to Pakistan and Mike Mullen's unscheduled visit to Pakistan, Yusufzai says: America may carry out [aerial and missile] attacks on a "//high value target//" or militant camps, but it will be "impossible for Americans to intrude into Pakistan." Yusufzai says: America is merely trying to put "//pressure//" on Pakistan to take "additional tough measures" in the tribal areas. Yusufzai, however, adds that American [missile attacks] were earlier targeting Al-Qa'ida elements in Pakistan's tribal areas, but now America will, perhaps, also target "local Pakistani mili tants and their camps." SOURCE: http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews+articleid_2397384&title=Pakistan_TV_Show.html
Smackdown bombers Posted on 07/01/2008 4:50:14 AM PDT by StarCMC All aces, all return victoriously. Great Story here: We have a Black wiki, full company devoted to Youtube Smackdown, taking down their propaganda and recruiting videos.
GREAT JOB GUYS.
Senator Lieberman, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, has conducted hearings on this issue. He brought pressure on Google/YouTube to ban the posting of videos that show terrorist actions, such as attacks on American troops.
That resistance and pressure to get rid of terrorist training videos on YouTube is working.
Recently our talented colleague Joseph Shahda came across a chat room thread below on the terrorist website "Ekhlaas."
The reaction from Senator Lieberman's staff can be summed up in one word -- "wonderful."
"Username: Mohajer Daya'aa Al Tareek, July 4, 2008
Dear Brothers: Invade, Invade YouTube. Most of special and martyrdom operation have been removed.
In the name of Allah the most merciful the most compassionate
Beloved brothers, we beg you to invade YouTube because most of the Jihadi sections have been removed and in particular the martyrdom ones. I did not find the operation of Khatib Fatima. Therefore experts, invade, invade. Allah blesses you.
Username: Hanat Yadaiy, July 4, 2008
I post one movie a day on YouTube and under dozens of different names. After a month one or two names are removed but I keep the work using the other names
Username: Mohajer Daya'aa Al Tareek, July 4, 2008
Allah bless you my beloved brother and continue your work and Allah willing we will have the experience and we will not stop from invading the infidels. Allah will make us victors and the prophet is our idol and the martyrdom is our goal
Username: Mohajer Daya'aa Al Tareek, July 5, 2008
Elevate this subject ( *** he is asking that this thread he wrote will be put in a more prominent place on Ekhlaas terrorist forum so more members will see it and participate in it)
Username: Hanat Yadaiy, July 5, 2008
Thanks Allah who gave us this tool to speak the truth in their sites and no matter how many names they remove, eliminate, and ban we will not give up and they will get rid of us until we go to the battlefields and then our brothers after us will take the task."
The Durand line runs right down the middle of the Brown area on the map. ( above )
Map below is completely within the Brown area above map, all Pashtoon.
The Durand line runs right down the middle of the Brown area. The Durand line, border, runs down the left side of all the colored areas above . Pakti on the Right side, Afghan on the left side.
NWFP empowers jirga to hold talks with Taliban The Post - Lahore,Punjab,Pakistan ... to contact CM Amir Haider Khan Hoti for empowering the jirga to hold another round of talks with the Taliban. Since Amir Haider Hoti was in Lahore, ...
US not Allowed to Hunt for Bin Laden? July 13, 2008 Associated Press
NEW YORK - Pakistan's top diplomat said Saturday there are no U.S. or other foreign military personnel on the hunt for Osama bin Laden in his nation, and none will be allowed in to search for the al-Qaida leader.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said his nation's new government has ruled out such military operations, covert or otherwise, to catch militants.......
"Our government's policy is that our troops, paramilitary forces and our regular forces are deployed in sufficient numbers. They are capable of taking action there.....
Qureshi said he tried to reassure Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at their meeting Friday that his government was doing everything it can to combat militants in lawless tribal areas bordering Afghanistan............
I'd liked to have been there to hear Cheny explain the Paradigm.
Gerald
MORE: Pakistan denies it is aiding militants and says the Kabul government should try harder to negotiate a peaceful end to the conflict, which it says is an internal Afghan issue. ( such BS, internal Afghan issue with attacks coming from Paki. G ) Smells like Paki covering for Taliban.
I was out trying to take some photos of the fireflies, and watching all the lights blink on and off, it remended me of the al Qaeda hackers and webmasters.
al Qaeda's Internet paradigm is almost 180 degrees from the US Military's Internet paradigm.
aQ views the WWW as the ultimate weapon and communications channel. aQ fireflies wink on and demonstrate the new paradigm, and aQ embraces it and has a party.
In the USA the WWW is viewed like a threat or security risk. Something they would like to avoid if possible.
One of my staff was posting on a Military forum about cyber war and the use of WWW as a weapon. This was the comment emailed to Gerald.
"yeah i read the whole thing, they were a hard audience. They seemed to be more concerned with naming things and theoretical aspects of it all whilst you are a man of action gerald. Combine that with a new concept of operations, as you state gerald, and I don't think they have their heads around the actions you and the wiki are taking." A well know Blogger.
The Internet is one weapons level above WMDs. Our paradigm is classified. G It offers the potential to win a war with out violence. It's uses as "Force protection", "Force projection", and a "Force multiplier" are understood by the al Qaeda movement.
And still being discovered by US Forces.
US Forces keep the WWW at arms length away like some bad odor, while al Qaeda wears the WWW like it was cologne.
The American historical paradigm has been one of ignoring a threat until we are hit hard then America pours in resources like a tidal wave to over come the weakness.
Its cheaper and safer to dominate all domains.
The "Future of Wars Paradigm" plays heavily on the use of the Internet by the antagonist, and is Americas weakest link.
At the current time USA is unprepared and ill trained to fight in this domain. And remains so at Great risk to the country.
Nato reported that the small American Combat Outpost in Dara-I-Pech district of Kunar Province, on the border with Nuristan Province in the east of the country, came under heavy fire at around 4.30am local time. Heavy fighting continued throughout the day with US forces calling in artillery, fast jets and Apache helicopters.
Nato spokesmen warned of casualties "on both sides", and in the last few minutes it has emerged that nine American soldiers were killed, making it one of the biggest single losses in a day for the coalition since military operations began in the country.
"Insurgents have been firing at the COP with small arms, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars using homes, shops and the mosque in the village of Wanat for cover," said a Nato statement.
Surveillance technology: Using a new camera, Sony Cyber Shot 1080, about $300 new.
Look at the capabilities. NO tripod, hand held.
Feeder circled. No Zoom.
Camera zoom
Computer push.
The Military stuff is even better, awesome.
Gerald
. Hafiz Wazir, Reuters Published: Friday, July 11, 2008
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pilotless U.S. drones armed with missiles have stepped up patrols over Pashtun villages on the Afghan-Pakistan border, hunting for Taliban and al Qaeda militants and fraying nerves below.
Pashtun villagers living on the frontier call them "buzzers," and the aircraft have increasingly taken to the skies, causing sleepless nights and occasionally raining down death.
"We're sick of these drones, they're driving us crazy," said Sher Shah, a government official in the town of Wana in the South Waziristan region, a hot bed of militancy in northwest Pakistan.
"They fly so low at night we can't sleep!"
The Predators, capable of carrying two anti-tank Hellfire missiles, can remain aloft for up 24 hours -- providing the Central Intelligence Agency with a wealth of intelligence beamed live from its hi-tech cameras.
Sometimes villagers can spot the drones -- a tiny speck in the sky -- and even fire at them with rifles. At other times the drones are too high to see, but you know they're there from the distinctive and incessant buzz given off by their rear-mounted propeller engines.
The buzzing often gets louder at night as the drones patrol at lower altitudes in the darkness, villagers say.
Residents of Bajaur, another militant-plagued region on the Afghan border, to the northeast of Waziristan, said drones flew overhead all night on Thursday.
"The sky is not safe, the earth is not safe, where should we go?" asked Jabbar Shah, a resident of Inayat Kalay village, about 10 km (6 miles) from the border.
"We don't know when will they strike and who will they hit. It's very worrying," he said. SOURCE:
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