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Pakistan: U.S. Airstrike Can't Be Repeated
WRAL ^ | January 21, 2006

Posted on 01/21/2006 6:06:50 AM PST by NCjim

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's president told a senior U.S. official on Saturday that the airstrike on a Pakistani village last week cannot be repeated, a foreign ministry official said.

Gen. Pervez Musharraf also assured U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns Pakistan would not waver in its support for Washington's war on terrorism, the foreign ministry official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.

The comments were the first publicized reaction by Musharraf to the Jan. 13 attack on the village of Damadola that apparently targeted but missed Ayman al-Zawahi, al-Qaida's No. 2.

Musharraf met Burns at his office in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near the capital Islamabad.

The strike last week on three homes in the Bajur tribal region village is believed to have killed at least four of al-Zawahri's close associates and at least 13 civilians, including women and children. The village is close to the border with Afghanistan.

The official said Musharraf told Burns: "What happened in Bajur must not be repeated."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airstrikes; gwot; musharraf; nicholasburns; pakistan
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To: RouxStir

"Yea, that sounds like a good idea....notify Al Qaeda that we are coming knocking...brilliant, simply brilliant...
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We're already consulting with Pakistan, which is providing us with information about the whereabouts of Al Qaeda. Are you serious in thinking that Pakistan is not helping us?

Sounds like your hatred of Islam and all Muslims is clouding your judgment. Thank goodness our President and military leaders are not so ignorant.

I propose that you have no idea what communications the US Military is having with Pakistan. I further propose that it's a good thing you have no responsibility in this matter.


41 posted on 01/21/2006 9:46:13 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: Polybius

""In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."..........Winston Churchill"

Excellent quotation. Worth repeating. It's amazing how many people think they know what's going on, but have no idea whatsoever. I do not think they are helping much.


42 posted on 01/21/2006 9:47:40 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: ARCADIA

As usual your ego got in the way again, No one cares about your opinion. You don't have the assignment.
Our Prez does... and whatever you and the kiddies want to hypothesize about is irrelevant.


43 posted on 01/21/2006 9:51:21 AM PST by CBart95
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To: NCjim

Then remind Mussaraf that if he would like we will detail for all his moolimb radicals the full extent to which he's helped the great satan, fall back and let them sack him.


44 posted on 01/21/2006 10:09:11 AM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: NCjim

cross fingers...."sure pakistan, whatever you say.".....uncross fingers


45 posted on 01/21/2006 2:23:07 PM PST by DeusExMachina05
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To: JustDoItAlways
The airstrike and the (somewhat) negative reaction from the Pak street should give a strong incentive for Pakistan to just get out there and grab Bin Laden and Zawahri up themselves. They run the country. What's the problem.

Because they don't control the border regions of Pakistan - Nor do they have the capabilities / ability to (and that is the dirty little secret). There is a reason why the Pak border regions have been autonomous from the Pak Gov't for the past 75 + years -

With that said, we would continue to like to see more of a Pak Military presence in these border regions.

As others have said already...this Gov't release of suggesting "This shouldn't happen again"....is meant as nothing more then a wink and a nod to us (U.S.) while trying to pacify the Muslim street.

46 posted on 01/21/2006 2:55:17 PM PST by SevenMinusOne
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