Special US unit can enter Pakistan at will to hunt Osama (Yippie!)

daily times pakistan ^ | 9/11/06 | Khalid hasan

[voletti]

So, again, why did it take 5 freakin' yrs to dfo this? Why were we 'asking' permission from jihad central that also doubles as a rented client state that depends on our $$$ aid to stave off bankruptcy? And our support to escape the consequences of reckless nuke proliferation to confirmed rogue states? And escape the consequences of clandestine support for taliban and Al qaeda jihadists? etc etc etc

[bmwcyle]

Find him and kill him, no trail.

[cripplecreek]

This is very good news.

[bert]

It took five years for the old gray whore to learn of the operation and expose it. Keep in mind the OGW is our enemy ....not our friend.

[Doogle]

wanna catch UBL? Stop sharing infomation with the ISI


Doogle

[submarinerswife]

Didn't the Gov't of Pakistan just make a peace deal with the tribes that not only prohibits Pakistani troops from entering these areas but the US also?

Need clarification because I'm not so sure what the truth is here.

[Obadiah]

I am just as frustrated as you that it took 5 years, but I think we have no idea how difficult this is for the Mussharif government. I think the locals, and maybe some of the Pakistani army supports bin Laddan and maintaining control is difficult. I think Mussharif has time and again put his life and his political rule on the line to assist us in the WOT.

[voletti]

From what I understand, the exit of the pak army essentially clears the decks for the US army to operate there at will.

Or so I hope.

Pak is known to have perfected the art of running with the Taliban hare and hunt with the American hound (or is it the other way round?).

I do trust Pakistan (where even in the urban areas public sentiment is some 90%+ anti-American) to do anything that would genuinely help America.

[Incorrigible]

I hear John Kerry will be leading the effort crossing national borders just like he did in Cambodia on Christmas 1968!

[yldstrk]

Git 'er done!

[ketelone]

Musharraf's promise
Western leaders tout Musharraf's speech to Pakistanis a couple of days after September 11, in which he justified his decision to join the US side against jihadis. But few seem to recall that Musharraf made another less publicized speech on September 19, 2001 in Urdu, Pakistan's national language, in which he made it clear that he would do everything within his power to make sure that the Taliban emerged unharmed in the "war on terror". While the English-language speech was for Western consumption, the Urdu speech was meant to assuage his countrymen regarding the Taliban. Whether the US wants to admit it or not, it is patent now that Musharraf has kept that particular promise to protect the Taliban.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GG19Ag03.html

You might want to rethink what youre saying. Musharraf is a double dealer. All he wants is American arms, support for his dictatorship, and money. Hes not putting his rule on the line for the US. If it wasnt for the US, hed have been overthrown long ago anyway.

Else, hes a committed Taleban supporter, at least from all the action that has been taken against the Taleban so far. Indeed, the Pakistani ISI ceratd the Taleban. Hamid Karzai is going blue in the face saying Pakistan is supporting the insurgency in Afghanistan, but noone seems to be listening.

[Common Tator]

Didn't the Gov't of Pakistan just make a peace deal with the tribes that not only prohibits Pakistani troops from entering these areas but the US also?

Yes but these troops are NATO troops. The problem was always the Packistani Army. If we get into a fight with them... then cooperation such as the Plane Bombing out of England would be over.

But if the Packistani army is out of the way, with no chance of conflict, then nothing is stopping NATO from going into Packistan. If the terrorists complain to the Packistani government... they just say... we are not allowed in to that area of Packistan so we have no way of knowing if NATO troops are in there are not. In fact the Packistani Army would not even be able to confirm where we got Osama.

Of course the Packistani goverment would say that they have ordered us not to invade Packistani territory... But that doesn't bind NATO.

The Terrorists wanted the Packistani army ouf of that area of Packistan. They were also certain that the NATO forces that replaced the US forces would be just like the UN forces in Lebanon. They are finding out they are not.

[Obadiah]

And so it is hard to tell. Is Musharraf a double dealer? Or is he playing to both galleries because he walks a fine line? Hard to know. You are persuasive, but I remain not totally convinced. Perhaps I'm a naive optimist.

[P8riot]

Find him and kill him, no trail.

"No body, no trial, no papers to file."

[Wings-n-Wind]

Find him and kill him, no trail.

Are you suggesting the Special Ops military version of that southern Good-'Ol-Boy mantra for dealing with predatory varmints??

Shoot... Shovel.. and.. Shut up?

[dangerdoc]

Translation, they know he is in Iran now.

[zerosix]

Definitely couldn't happen until Saddam was safely out of power, new government elected and Afghanistan with elected government in place.

These tribal leaders right;y suspect America's commitment to them personally. Money aside, their very lives are on the line each and every time they help as the extremist views of many surrounding them make their very survival tenuous, at best.

America has had a very bad track record with them, as was on display in the 9/11 docu-drama; first we support them, then we're not sure if we can hold up our end of the bargain.

Remember the Shiites and Kurds after Gulf I, they thought that they had our complete support to rise up against the Baathists, then "we" (cowards in high places) backed out of the deal.

[prophetic]

only a "SPECIAL UNIT"???

I would have thought at least an entire Division (3000-6000 men) would be deployed for that job!

[Kewlhand`tek]

would be nice that this is a done deal. Bush comes out in some cermony today and says Btw I have just been informed we killed bin laden 3 days ago dna was confirmed just now.

[bmwcyle]

YES!