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How can the politicians engage in petty bickering when an army of foreign trained terrorists are attacking our civilians?
The “collateral damage” is counter-attacking in Waziristen and FATA, aided and abetted by the enemy across the border. What Ms. Hyat calls conspiracy theories are the only logical explanation of the attacks on the Pakistani state as well as the people. The Taliban in Afghanistan have repeatedly denied attacking Pakistan.
For the longest time bombs and the carnage in Pakistan was been blamed on bad Musharraf policies. Stopping the suicide bombers is a wish, a prayer and election promise of most of the politicians. The National Assembly of Pakistan has spoken against the drones as have politicins from across the spectrum. We have repeatedly written about the suicide bomber that will attack the innocent civilian after the new prime minister is sworn in.
What will be the nations reaction be to all the bombs that happen after that date.
” Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes – crimes that infinitely outdistance every human measure – reach the light of day? “ – From the first leaflet of the White Rose
The past few weeks have shown that the politicians were more concerned about issueing tough statements than about working on position papers and a creating a strategy on stopping this scrooge. Our new unelected leaders were busy horse-trading instead of understanding the nuances of the GWOT (Rupee News calls it GWOM–Global War on Muslims) and what counter measures are being taken by those that are getting bombed by drones and precision guided missiles.
As each passing week of the American drone campaign brings yet another harvest of civilian deaths, more and more Pakistanis are radicalized, and the government — the nuclear-armed government — grows ever more shaky…Thus the attacks ordered by Obama in Pakistan are escalating the threat of exactly the kind of nuclear instability that he decried in Prague. Talking Peace in Prague, Dropping Bombs in Pakistan, Hard Rain Keeps Falling By CHRIS FLOYD
My mother recently asked me how did America elect a Black Man to the presidency. I told her that Americans are good people who have a horrible foreign policy. She looked at me strangely and did not respond. I know she was trying to reconcile the dichotomy of Americans as friends, neighbors and good Samaritans, and the barbaric acts of the occupation and warfare that is carried on in the name of freedom and liberty.
” …Who among us can imagine the degree of shame that will come upon us and our children when the veil falls from our faces and the awful crimes that infinitely exceed any human measure are exposed to the light of day? “ From the first leaflet of the White Rose.
When reading the column by Jeff Leys, and Chris Floyd the conversation with my mother came to my mind. Once again I appreciated the efforts of a few good men and women who were trying to do the right thing. The 14 in Creech Air Force Base reminded all of us of the valiant struggle of the White Rose movement in Germany which tried to stop the tide of German aggression. President Asif Ali Zardari should take back the Hilal e Qauid e Azam medals from Rich Boucher and Jospeh Biden and give them to the 14 who protested against the Drone Bombing against Pakistan.
While the usual gaggle of sycophants and media hive-minders — along with some ordinarily perspicacious analysts — tell us that Barack Obama literally changed the course of human history by disgorging a great load of thrice-chewed cud about nuclear disarmament in Prague this week, the high-tech drone war the great hero of peace is waging inside the sovereign territory of America’s ally, Pakistan, is helping drive tens of thousands of people from their homes and killing civilians almost daily. Talking Peace in Prague, Dropping Bombs in Pakistan, Hard Rain Keeps Falling By CHRIS FLOYD
The UMI and Uzbek movement has clearly been infiltrated by RAW and Khad. Both are creating havoc in Pakistan–payback for Kashmir and bombing the Northern Alliance.
It is quite apparent that a key task for the new government will be finding means to deal with the suicide bombers on the loose in our cities and towns.
This is all the more true with the US putting forward a list of 11 demands that would allow US personnel to station themselves in Pakistan and shoot, kill or destroy with exemption from being held accountable under Pakistani law. While the report, significantly, comes at a time when it can inflict further damage on the already shattered image of President Pervez Musharraf, lambasted for his ‘pro-US’ views, the fact also is that the ‘proposals, ‘requests’ or ‘demands’ — call them what you will — were made. The US, it has also been evidenced through comments made by its military officials at various times, is eager to see Pakistan relinquish what it still retains of its already compromised sovereignty. It believes that by having a direct presence of personnel on the ground, it can effectively combat terrorism.
Realities, known to most Pakistanis, are of course quite different; any further US intrusion would only expand extremism — which in the first place is at least partially a response to unjust US-led policies in the Middle East and elsewhere. But, of course, President Bush and his band of advisers, as well as leaders of the Democratic Party, are not erudite enough to see this. There is even speculation that the renewed wave of terrorist assault in Pakistan is being promoted by players within Afghanistan — with US backing — as a means to persuade Pakistan to allow in American troops.
This of course is most likely a conspiracy theory. Other similar theories suggest it is young Uzbeks and Tajiks who are being used to carry out the attacks. Still others say most attacks do not use suicide bombers at all but use remote controlled devices. They are described as suicide attacks to cover up the security failures that allow them to happen. But whatever the truth hidden amidst the shadowy world of intelligence agencies and terrorist violence, the fact is that 2008 has already seen at least 16 suicide blasts. Over 150 have died. Many others have been maimed for life. The operations being carried out are better planned than those that came before–with a vehicle for instance first ramming the gate of the Naval War College in Lahore where the first bomber blew himself up, allowing a second bomber to try and make his way deeper into the premises. A week later, two bombers struck in different parts of Lahore at exactly the same time. All this takes precise planning. The bomb blast that killed a police officer in Lakki Marwat, followed by a suicide bombing just hours later at his funeral in Mingora, again shows a similar pattern of intricate organization and execution.
The challenge for Pakistan is to try and curb the reign of death imposed by the killers. If it fails to do so, pressures on any new set-up, both from within and outside the country, will continue to increase, perhaps to intolerable levels. The question of course is how the menace is to be dealt with. Simply laying blame on ‘foreign hands’, as the caretaker interior ministry has attempted to do, or announce security ‘red alerts’ after all essentially serves little purpose. There is no way police, themselves the target of so many attacks, can thwart the determined bomber backed by a sophisticated plan and almost certainly a ‘team’ to ensure its execution. Stopping the suicide squads By Kamila Hyat, 3/13/2008 The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor. Email: kamilahyat@hotmail.com
It has been several years since Mr. Bush visited Islamabad and announced the strategy or the Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZ). Despite Pakistan’s repeated efforts to grease the skids on this economic program for the $750 million US aid for FATA has been stalled in bureaucracy. With only bombs raining down on the “collateral damage”, may react in the only way they know how to!
There is obviously no one answer. Any strategy devised for this purpose would need to have several strands and be backed by both commitment and determination. There is at first a need to know precisely who the suicide bombers are, where they are being trained and what their motivations are. The immense intelligence infrastructure, that has been trained and maintained at tax payers expense, needs to be asked to deliver. It seems difficult to believe this vast network should not have any idea as to the origins of the bombers, their motivations or the links of specific seminaries to them. If the killers are the relatives of those killed in military operations, as has been suggested, this needs to be known. If, as some evidence suggests, they are deprived, madrassah pupils brainwashed by the notion of a place in paradise — a ‘pie in the sky’ — for those to whom none is available in this world, then this too is relevant to the task of devising solutions.
What is disturbing, given that intelligence agencies will inevitably be required to play a role, is the suspicion of their nexus with extremists. Most recently, a reminder of this dangerous linkage came in the case of the reported arrest of a known criminal — Qari Saifullah Akhtar — in Lahore. It was believed the former-jihadi militant, involved in a bizarre plot along with military officials in the mid-1990s to overthrow the second Benazir Bhutto government and replace a ‘woman’s rule’ with ‘Shariah, was involved in the October 18 suicide bombing on the PPP rally in Karachi. Akhtar seemed to have ‘vanished’ after his detention, much as he had after a previous arrest in Dubai some three years ago. It is believed he may know too much and certain powerful people don’t want him to appear in court to tell his tale. Following questions raised by the media, the interior ministry now says the dangerous Qari is being held, but few details are available. The risk remains he may, at some stage, silently be allowed once more to slip away.
This close relationship, knit by agencies with pro-jihadi groups in Kashmir, and in some case retained even after the militants turned their attention inwards to Pakistan, represents the biggest challenge to anyone attempting to tackle the problem. At the same time, new leaders must also review policies on madrassahs, resurrect public-sector education and initiate socio-economic reform. There is also a need to build a media campaign against terrorism, as was done in the case of the Hudood ordinances. But all these measures are necessarily long term. For the immediate moment, there is a need to send out a clear message by clamping down on some key militant outfits. At the same time, ulema, clerics, prayer leaders — most of whom oppose suicide bombing but sometimes confuse pro-militant sentiments with an anti-US stance — need to be brought on board and used to deliver an unequivocal message against violence. This message must be delivered at mosques, over the media and especially through the FM radio stations and CDs used so effectively by militants in northern areas.
These steps may not of course meet with instant success. After all it has taken decades for the degree of violence we now see around us to take root in what was once a relatively peaceful society. Even now, in Swat, in Darra Adam Khel in Waziristan, most seek the calm essential to their own welfare and livelihood. For the sake of these people, and others everywhere in the country, a multi-pronged attack on militancy needs to begin immediately, so that the regular suicide attacks we today confront can become a nightmare from the past and the stability essential to any kind of progress can gradually be restored. Stopping the suicide squads By Kamila Hyat, 3/13/2008 The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor. Email: kamilahyat@hotmail.com
According to recent polls, most Americans are against the war in Iraq, and now a growing majority is also against the war in Afghanistan. It is the 14 at Creech Air Force base that keep liberty alive in America. While these voices may not change the course of history, but it is these voices that may become a chorus and then an electoral tide that may force the administration to rethink the murder and mayhem that the drones are causing in the Khyber.
“…people slumber on in their dull, stupid sleep and encourage these fascist criminals … Each man wants to be exonerated of a guilt of this kind, each one continues on his way with the most placid, the calmest conscience. But he cannot be exonerated; he is guilty, guilty, guilty! “ – From the second leaflet of the White Rose
If everyone waits until the other man makes a start, the messengers of avenging Nemesis will come steadily closer. (From Leaflet 1, urging immediate initiative by the reader. Nemesis of course punished those who had fallen to the temptation of hubris.) White Rose
Justifying the Banality of a brutal Occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan: The Thinktanks attempt to complete the circle of complicity between a sycophantic press, and a non-inquisitive servile public. The nation is forced to accept the only argument that it is being repeatedly inundated with
The core of the White Rose comprised students from the university in Munich-Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl, Alex Schmorell, Willi Graf, Christoph Probst, Traute Lafrenz, Katharina Schueddekopf, Lieselotte (Lilo) Berndl, and Falk Harnack. Most were in their early twenties. A professor of philosophy and musicology, Kurt Huber, also associated with their cause. Additionally, Wilhelm Geyer, Manfred Eickemeyer, Josef Soehngen, and Harald Dohrn participated in their debates. Geyer taught Alexander Schmorell how to make the tin templates used in the graffiti campaign. Eugen Grimminger of Stuttgart funded their operations. Grimminger’s secretary Tilly Hahn contributed her own funds to the cause, and acted as go-between between Grimminger and the group in Munich. She frequently carried supplies such as envelopes, paper, and an additional duplicating machine from Stuttgart to Munich.Wiki
