Islamabad --
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri says the group is holding an American aid expert kidnapped three months ago in Pakistan.
Al-Zawahri said in a video message Thursday that Warren Weinstein would be released if the United States stopped air strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The video was posted on militant websites. Weinstein was abducted by armed men from his house in the eastern city of Lahore on Aug. 13....
Al Qaeda is demanding the end of USA air strikes in Pakistan>? Not the President of Paksitan, but, Al-Zawahri with complete immunity is demanding the end of air strikes within Pakistan or else?
Pakistan has absolutely no knowledge of where al Qaeda is operating from or where to find and apprehend Zawahri? That is not a sovereign nation when international criminals sit in seats of power within the borders of a country.
Mr. Weinstein needs to be returned to his family, by Pakistan, without the free world meeting any demands. Pakistan is responsible for this attack of violence and criminality of a man with nothing but peaceful intentions and the USA is suppose to stop what exactly? Air strikes? The same air strikes al Qaeda is demanding to end?
The group, allied with al-Qaida and based in the northwest close to the Afghan border, has been behind much of the violence tearing apart Pakistan over the last 4 1/2 years. Known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban, or TTP, the Taliban want to oust the U.S.-backed government and install a hard-line Islamist regime. They also have international ambitions and trained the Pakistani-American who tried to detonate a car bomb in New York City's Times Square in 2010....
By KATHY GANNON
Associated Press
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Battered by Pakistani military operations and U.S. drone strikes, the once-formidable Pakistani Taliban has splintered into more than 100 smaller factions, weakened and is running short of cash, according to security officials, analysts and tribesmen from the insurgent heartland.The group, allied with al-Qaida and based in the northwest close to the Afghan border, has been behind much of the violence tearing apart Pakistan over the last 4 1/2 years. Known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban, or TTP, the Taliban want to oust the U.S.-backed government and install a hard-line Islamist regime. They also have international ambitions and trained the Pakistani-American who tried to detonate a car bomb in New York City's Times Square in 2010....
I am happy the USA could assist in dispersing the civil war within Pakistan. Is there still a question as to whom is going to actually govern? By some chance, some remote chance is the ISI finally unified? Why allow uranium into a country with such significant instability. Documented instability. Makes no sense.
...Obama told President Asif Ali Zardari that the soldiers' deaths were "regrettable" and accidental, according to a White House statement.
The comments stopped short of a formal apology but were aimed at soothing Pakistani fury over the November 26 incident....
...Pakistan said the attack was unprovoked, with officials calling it an act of blatant aggression - an accusation the United States has rejected....
Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/04/us-pakistan-usa-obama-idUSTRE7B30KM20111204
Any death is tragic and there are plenty in the region caused by violence. In this case it would appear as though there was actually a war going on. The tensions between the USA and Pakistan is what killed them, not an alliance. The USA is well out of it. I am sure China and Pakistan will live happily ever after.
Pakistan wants equal access to Australian uranium (click here)
by Jeremy Thompson
Obama says Pakistan troop deaths "regrettable" (link below)
Updated December 05, 2011 11:29:49
Pakistan has repeated its calls for access to Australian uranium in the wake of the ALP conference decision to approve the sale of the material to its neighbour and nuclear rival India.
Pakistan's high commissioner to Australia, Abdul Malik Abdullah, says if Australia is willing to export uranium to India then it should sell it to Pakistan as well....
Australia has the correct approach. Pakistan is too unstable to consider them a responsible nuclear power.
Australia has the correct approach. Pakistan is too unstable to consider them a responsible nuclear power.
...Obama told President Asif Ali Zardari that the soldiers' deaths were "regrettable" and accidental, according to a White House statement.
The comments stopped short of a formal apology but were aimed at soothing Pakistani fury over the November 26 incident....
...Pakistan said the attack was unprovoked, with officials calling it an act of blatant aggression - an accusation the United States has rejected....
Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/04/us-pakistan-usa-obama-idUSTRE7B30KM20111204
Any death is tragic and there are plenty in the region caused by violence. In this case it would appear as though there was actually a war going on. The tensions between the USA and Pakistan is what killed them, not an alliance. The USA is well out of it. I am sure China and Pakistan will live happily ever after.
