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Taliban Chief Baitullah Mehsud is Dead - Pakistan

TexasBred

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reader (the Second) said:
Yeah, just more softness on terrorism by this socialist Democratic administration :wink:

Pakistan Foreign Minister: Taliban Chief Baitullah Mehsud is Dead
By Ayaz Gul
Islamabad
06 August 2009

Pakistan's foreign minister says intelligence sources have confirmed that Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed by Wednesday's missile strike in the South Waziristan tribal region.

Family sources had immediately confirmed the killing of two people in the Wednesday attack including the wife of fugitive Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.

But, because of the remoteness of the Taliban-held district in South Waziristan it was not immediately possible to confirm whether Mehsud was also present in the house when the missiles hit it.

Speaking to reporters in Islamabad on Friday Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the reports about Mehsud's death are correct.

"And to be 100 percent sure we are going for ground verification and once the ground verification reconfirms, which I think is almost confirmed, then we will be 100 percent sure," he said.

Taliban commander Mehsud organized some 13 militant groups under his leadership in late 2007 and named it the Tehrike Taliban Pakistan.

Pakistani authorities blame the outlawed terror network for a wave of suicide bombings that has killed scores of security forces and civilians in recent years.

Earlier this year, the government declared Baitullah Mehsud the country's "enemy number-one" and offered a reward of over $600,000 for information leading to his arrest or death.

The Pakistani military has carried out frequent air and ground strikes in recent weeks against Mehsud's terrorist network in the Waziristan region. It is a known safe haven for Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists who are allegedly using the territory for cross-border attacks on international forces in Afghanistan.

Missile strikes by unmanned U.S. aircraft against militants on the Pakistani territory are also believed to have increased.

Pakistan opposes such strikes as a violation of its sovereignty and says killings of civilians in U.S drone attacks is fueling public anger against the government and the United States.

But analysts like former Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan Rustum Shah Mohmand say the death of the Mehsud is likely to increase drone attacks on militant targets inside Pakistan.

"This would be cited as a triumph for the drone strategy and they [United States] would turn around and tell the Pakistani critics that, look if we have not been launching these drone attacks these eliminations and deaths would not have been possible," Mohmand said.

It is widely believed that the U.S Central Intelligence Agency operates the unmanned spy aircraft or drones capable of launching missile strikes. But U.S officials have, so far, not officially commented on any of the nearly 50 attacks carried out inside Pakistan since the beginning of last year.

Critics of the Pakistani government say the attacks are being carried out as a result of a deal between Islamabad and Washington. But Pakistani officials reject these suggestions.

There is no more war on terror...or did you miss it?? It's over with....the White House announced it..........who won???? Why are we in Pakistan and Afghanistan?? What is the body count now for the Obama's Un-named war??
 
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TexasBred said:
reader (the Second) said:
Yeah, just more softness on terrorism by this socialist Democratic administration :wink:

Pakistan Foreign Minister: Taliban Chief Baitullah Mehsud is Dead
By Ayaz Gul
Islamabad
06 August 2009

Pakistan's foreign minister says intelligence sources have confirmed that Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed by Wednesday's missile strike in the South Waziristan tribal region.

Family sources had immediately confirmed the killing of two people in the Wednesday attack including the wife of fugitive Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.

But, because of the remoteness of the Taliban-held district in South Waziristan it was not immediately possible to confirm whether Mehsud was also present in the house when the missiles hit it.

Speaking to reporters in Islamabad on Friday Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the reports about Mehsud's death are correct.

"And to be 100 percent sure we are going for ground verification and once the ground verification reconfirms, which I think is almost confirmed, then we will be 100 percent sure," he said.

Taliban commander Mehsud organized some 13 militant groups under his leadership in late 2007 and named it the Tehrike Taliban Pakistan.

Pakistani authorities blame the outlawed terror network for a wave of suicide bombings that has killed scores of security forces and civilians in recent years.

Earlier this year, the government declared Baitullah Mehsud the country's "enemy number-one" and offered a reward of over $600,000 for information leading to his arrest or death.

The Pakistani military has carried out frequent air and ground strikes in recent weeks against Mehsud's terrorist network in the Waziristan region. It is a known safe haven for Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists who are allegedly using the territory for cross-border attacks on international forces in Afghanistan.

Missile strikes by unmanned U.S. aircraft against militants on the Pakistani territory are also believed to have increased.

Pakistan opposes such strikes as a violation of its sovereignty and says killings of civilians in U.S drone attacks is fueling public anger against the government and the United States.

But analysts like former Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan Rustum Shah Mohmand say the death of the Mehsud is likely to increase drone attacks on militant targets inside Pakistan.

"This would be cited as a triumph for the drone strategy and they [United States] would turn around and tell the Pakistani critics that, look if we have not been launching these drone attacks these eliminations and deaths would not have been possible," Mohmand said.

It is widely believed that the U.S Central Intelligence Agency operates the unmanned spy aircraft or drones capable of launching missile strikes. But U.S officials have, so far, not officially commented on any of the nearly 50 attacks carried out inside Pakistan since the beginning of last year.

Critics of the Pakistani government say the attacks are being carried out as a result of a deal between Islamabad and Washington. But Pakistani officials reject these suggestions.

There is no more war on terror...or did you miss it?? It's over with....the White House announced it..........who won???? Why are we in Pakistan and Afghanistan?? What is the body count now for the Obama's Un-named war??

A few years ago it was Bush's "Holy War" and a "mission from God"- and rightwingernuts called anyone that questioned it "unpatriotic"--but now that Obama is actually fighting the wars GW started (and left him with) like they should have been- and succeeding by putting the emphasis where it should have always been til we succeeded (Afghanistan/Al Quaeda) instead of GW's taking on "missions from God" in Iraq-- you start calling it Obamas unnamed war and wondering about body count.... :roll:

You need to change your handle to Hypocrit II... :wink:


Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible's satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

Honest. This isn't a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their "common faith" (Christianity) and told him:

"Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East. ... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled. ... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins."
 

TexasBred

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A few years ago it was Bush's "Holy War" and a "mission from God"- and rightwingernuts called anyone that questioned it "unpatriotic"--but now that Obama is actually fighting the wars GW started (and left him with) like they should have been- and succeeding by putting the emphasis where it should have always been til we succeeded (Afghanistan/Al Quaeda) instead of GW's taking on "missions from God" in Iraq-- you start calling it Obamas unnamed war and wondering about body count....

You need to change your handle to Hypocrit II...

You missed it again OT....THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THERE IS NO MORE WAR ON TERRORISM...WHAT THE HELL IS THE NEW NAME OF THIS NEW WAR??? I mean we're still fighting and people are dieing. True GW didn't do a lot of things right, but it's now time for Barracko to start taking responsibility for what HIS general's and HIS soldiers do. The body count is no longer Bush's. Bush succeeded in Iraq...we're out of there or moving quickly.....Barracko wanted to fight in Pakistan and Afghanistan.....The body count is now his and his alone.
 

TexasBred

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Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible's satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

Honest. This isn't a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their "common faith" (Christianity) and told him:

"Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East. ... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled. ... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins."
And you have a problem with this?At least one enemy of the people is gone and the nation is making progress at standing on it's own feet.
 
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TexasBred said:
A few years ago it was Bush's "Holy War" and a "mission from God"- and rightwingernuts called anyone that questioned it "unpatriotic"--but now that Obama is actually fighting the wars GW started (and left him with) like they should have been- and succeeding by putting the emphasis where it should have always been til we succeeded (Afghanistan/Al Quaeda) instead of GW's taking on "missions from God" in Iraq-- you start calling it Obamas unnamed war and wondering about body count....

You need to change your handle to Hypocrit II...

You missed it again OT....THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THERE IS NO MORE WAR ON TERRORISM...WHAT THE HELL IS THE NEW NAME OF THIS NEW WAR??? I mean we're still fighting and people are dieing. True GW didn't do a lot of things right, but it's now time for Barracko to start taking responsibility for what HIS general's and HIS soldiers do. The body count is no longer Bush's. Bush succeeded in Iraq...we're out of there or moving quickly.....Barracko wanted to fight in Pakistan and Afghanistan.....The body count is now his and his alone.

I didn't miss it...I know he's not calling it a war on terrorism-- or calling the terrorists "combatants"....They are now being called criminals and terrorists like the military experts advised-- so as not to make heros and martyrs out of them in Bush's "holy war"......

Rand Study: 'War on Terror' Not Working

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:59 AM

WASHINGTON — The United States should shift strategy against Al-Qaeda from the current heavy reliance on military force to more effective use of police and intelligence work, a study released Tuesday concluded.

The study by the RAND Corporation, a think tank that often does work for the US military, also urged the United States to drop the "war on terror" label.

"Terrorists should be perceived and described as criminals, not holy warriors, and our analysis suggests that there is no battlefield solution to terrorism," said Seth Jones, lead author of the study.

The US military has pressed in recent weeks for more troops to combat an intensifying Islamic insurgency in Afghanistan, but the RAND study recommends only "a light military footprint or none at all."

The study examined how terrorist groups since 1968 have ended, and found that only seven percent were defeated militarily.

Most were neutralized either through political settlements (43 percent), or through the use of police and intelligence forces (40 percent) to disrupt and capture or kill leaders.

"Military force has rarely been the primary reason for the end of terrorist groups, and few groups within this time frame achieved victory," the report said.

"This has significant implications for dealing with Al-Qaeda and suggests fundamentally rethinking post-September 11 counterterrorism strategy," it said.

It argued that a US strategy centered primarily on the use of military force has not worked, pointing to al-Qaeda's resurgence along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border nearly seven years after the September 11 attacks.

Policing and intelligence "should be the backbone of US efforts," it said. Police and intelligence agencies were better suited for penetrating terrorist groups and tracking down terrorist leaders, it said.

"Second, military force, though not necessarily US soldiers, may be a necessary instrument when al-Qaeda is involved in an insurgency," it said.

"Local military forces frequently have more legitimacy to operate than the United States has, and they have a better understanding of the operating environment, even if they need to develop the capacity to deal with insurgent groups over the long run," it said.

While the US military can play a critical role in building up the capacity of local forces, it should "generally resist being drawn into combat operations in Muslim societies, since its presence is likely to increase terrorist recruitment," the study said.

— AFP
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/war_on_terror/2008/07/30/117517.html
 
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TexasBred said:
Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible's satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

Honest. This isn't a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their "common faith" (Christianity) and told him:

"Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East. ... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled. ... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins."

And you have a problem with this?At least one enemy of the people is gone and the nation is making progress at standing on it's own feet.

Well forgive me if I sound sacreligous-- but if I'm going into a war zone or firefight- I'd much rather be following a leader that is taking his advice and direction from the military experts and advisors than a nutcase who says he is taking direction from God, and battling -Gog and Magog- unless his name is Moses- and GW was no Moses... :wink:
 

aplusmnt

Well-known member
reader (the Second) said:
Yeah, just more softness on terrorism by this socialist Democratic administration :wink:

Pakistan Foreign Minister: Taliban Chief Baitullah Mehsud is Dead
By Ayaz Gul
Islamabad
06 August 2009

Pakistan's foreign minister says intelligence sources have confirmed that Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed by Wednesday's missile strike in the South Waziristan tribal region.

Family sources had immediately confirmed the killing of two people in the Wednesday attack including the wife of fugitive Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.

But, because of the remoteness of the Taliban-held district in South Waziristan it was not immediately possible to confirm whether Mehsud was also present in the house when the missiles hit it.

Speaking to reporters in Islamabad on Friday Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the reports about Mehsud's death are correct.

"And to be 100 percent sure we are going for ground verification and once the ground verification reconfirms, which I think is almost confirmed, then we will be 100 percent sure," he said.

Taliban commander Mehsud organized some 13 militant groups under his leadership in late 2007 and named it the Tehrike Taliban Pakistan.

Pakistani authorities blame the outlawed terror network for a wave of suicide bombings that has killed scores of security forces and civilians in recent years.

Earlier this year, the government declared Baitullah Mehsud the country's "enemy number-one" and offered a reward of over $600,000 for information leading to his arrest or death.

The Pakistani military has carried out frequent air and ground strikes in recent weeks against Mehsud's terrorist network in the Waziristan region. It is a known safe haven for Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists who are allegedly using the territory for cross-border attacks on international forces in Afghanistan.

Missile strikes by unmanned U.S. aircraft against militants on the Pakistani territory are also believed to have increased.

Pakistan opposes such strikes as a violation of its sovereignty and says killings of civilians in U.S drone attacks is fueling public anger against the government and the United States.

But analysts like former Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan Rustum Shah Mohmand say the death of the Mehsud is likely to increase drone attacks on militant targets inside Pakistan.

"This would be cited as a triumph for the drone strategy and they [United States] would turn around and tell the Pakistani critics that, look if we have not been launching these drone attacks these eliminations and deaths would not have been possible," Mohmand said.

It is widely believed that the U.S Central Intelligence Agency operates the unmanned spy aircraft or drones capable of launching missile strikes. But U.S officials have, so far, not officially commented on any of the nearly 50 attacks carried out inside Pakistan since the beginning of last year.

Critics of the Pakistani government say the attacks are being carried out as a result of a deal between Islamabad and Washington. But Pakistani officials reject these suggestions.

You never seemed to get excited with the thousands of Terrorist and high ranking ones that Bush got, why all of a sudden you pizzing yourself over one Obama got.
 

loomixguy

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Police actions? LMAO!
I don't think dialing 911 in Kabul will get much of a reaction.
FWIW......I hope Mehsud's 70 virgins were all fugly and had creeping anal warts.
 
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