Pakistan: Whose spy? Mossad, CIA? Jewish Jude Kenan from Florida caught in FATA–released.

Posted on 15 October 2008. Tags: CIA, Mossad spy in Pakistan, Pakistan, USA

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The US spy that was caught in Mohmand has been released. The pick surprised many FATA watchers. This is the first time a US national has been publicly arrested. What surprised analysts was the speed at which the Florida resident was released.

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By LUKAS I. ALPERT Posted: 3:37 am, October 15, 2008: NY Post

An American citizen who was picked up by police near Pakistan’s unstable tribal areas bordering Afghanistan has been released, according to reports.

Florida college student Juddi Kenan, 20, told police he was in the area to visit a friend when he was stopped at a checkpoint. He was let go after police confirmed his story, Chief Waqif Khan told the BBC

America’s Secret war in Pakistan-MSNBC uncovers Marines with long beards and without uniforms. US psy ops have been busy in Pakistan for the best part of the decade. This is one of the first cases that has made it to the media. US troops with long beards and wearing Pakistani dress has been the subject of much discussion in the media, however mainstream media hides some of this. MSNBC news recently divulged the details of a US division of American soldiers who do not wear the American uniform. Would that make them -Enemy combatants not covered by the Geneva Conventions (per recent US laws). Whose war is it?

We must look askance at any strategy for Afghanistan that is premised upon expanding the war both in Afghanistan and into Pakistan. There are two main reasons why this would be foolhardy. First, an expansion of the war would fuel the insurgency. Second, this solution is based on a false reading of the underlying causes of the insurgency in Afghanistan.

There should be little doubt that the intensity of military operations is partly fueling the insurgency. It is almost daily now that we hear of scores of civilian deaths as a result of both air strikes and ground operations in Afghanistan. Although the recent deaths of up to 90 people following a US air strike, most of them children, have put this fact into the international spot light it remains the case that this has been an on-going issue for quite some time. Hitherto Afghan lives have been considered a cheap commodity.

Quite apart from its obvious moral consequences, which should be the paramount concern, an expansion of the war will increase the civilian death toll, providing the Taliban with much needed support among the domestic population. The most astute ground commanders in Iraq following the invasion quickly came to the view that the “centre of gravity” of post-invasion operations was the attitude of the broader public. A large scale increase in the level of firepower deployed in the Afghan theatre would only further see this centre of gravity fall to the Taliban. (Where now for the West’s strategy in Afghanistan? By Marko Beljac – posted Tuesday, 14 October 2008)

150,000 Indian troops to Afghanistan? India’s Vietnam?

Pakistan arrests US citizen in Mohmand: police

Pakistani police Tuesday questioned a man they said was a US national arrested near the Afghan border in the remote tribal region known to be a hub of Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants. The man was dressed as a local and was travelling without any travel documents, police said. “Officers arrested a young American national as he was entering the Mohmand tribal region on Monday evening,” local policeman Khurshid Khan told a foreign news agency. “The bearded man was aged 20-25 and wore a traditional Pakistani shalwar kameez. He said he was visiting a friend.”

The Taliban initially gained its political legitimacy because the population was sick and tired of the war and corruption that accompanied the Afghan warlords after the resistance to the Soviet occupation turned their guns on each other. Much of the populace now no longer welcomes a situation whereby outside military forces engage in virtually unconstrained military operations while the old corrupt warlords are back in business.