Posted on 05/02/2011 2:06:22 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
US strike violates Pak sovereignty: Musharraf
CNN-IBN
Posted on May 02, 2011 at 01:58pm IST
New Delhi: Former Pakistan president General (retired) Pervez Musharraf called the operation by US forces to kill al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad near Islamabad a violation of Pakistani sovereignty."America coming to our territory and taking action is a violation of our sovereignty. Handling and execution of the operation (by US forces) is not correct. The Pakistani government should have been kept in the loop," Musharraf told CNN-IBN in an exclusive interview."Foreign troops crossing the border into Pakistan will not be liked by the people of Pakistan.
US forces should not have crossed over into Pakistan," he said.Musharraf, who was the chief of Pakistani Army before he orchestrated a bloodless coup in 1999 and took over the government in Pakistan, said that Pakistan has also been incurring the wrath of terrorists and has been an ally in the 'war against terror'. He said that all the forces trying to neutralise terror group should trust each other.
"If there is a lack of trust, it is bad. We are fighting the same enemy. It is wrong strategically and the issue of lack of trust is very bad. There has to be trust between the two agencies fighting the same enemy," he replied when asked if US claims that Pakistan was not kept in the loop about the operation against bin Laden were true.
He rubbished speculations that some Pakistani authorities were helping bin Laden and they helped him during his stay in Abbottabad, which incidentally also has the Pakistan Military Academy.
"There is no possibility of any local administration collusion but there could be involvement of
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now Islamic group should read no Islamic group.
trust each other...trust each other? OBL was next-door neighbors with retired paki military and trust is what you say?
Tell you what, Musharraf, you tell your Paki buddies that if they don’t like us going after mass murderers they can always turn down the 1.5 billion a year we give ya’ll in aid and we’ll give it to India instead.
Trust, indeed.
> Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has asked
> Afghan President Hamid Karzai to dump United States and
> instead align with China for help in striking a peace
> deal with Taliban and rebuilding the economy.
LOLOLOL!!!
PLEASE align yourselves with China, PLEASE!!!
You think the Americans are bad for a tiny operation to dust Bin Laden??
You think the Chinese are going to put up with the antics of throwbacks from the 7th century??
I can’t think of a better way to guarantee that the Taliban will be systematically destroyed than for Pak to kow-tow to China.
Go for it, boys, and we’ll pop some corn.
He was reported to be suffering from kidney problems and needing dialysis so that would be a very good location providing both military and health care.
Unfortunately, the military protection didn't work out too well.
I imagine that Pakistan is extremely embarrassed about the U.S. staging the raid and getting away with it uninjured so close to their ‘West Point’ equivalent? military academy.
That's got to send a very pointed message that even when surrounded by hundreds if not thousands of military troops one still isn’t safe from even a simple ground assault let alone a missile attack.
I really wonder how the helicopters got in so far without being discovered or shot down. It was stated that we did lose one copter due to ‘mechanical problems’ and WE destroyed it for ‘security reasons’.
Those choppers aren't heavily reinforced or protected so it is really amazing that they could travel so far into country and not be shot down.
It's hard to determine how much cooperation we got from Pakistan but this makes them look really incompetent.
Shove it Musharref
I think they’re stepping it up a few notches now don’t you?
Pakistan has always kow-towed to China. And the Chinese didn’t have any problems with dealing with the mass murderers in Sudan and Myanmar or even the Taliban in its earlier avatar in the 1990s.
The cadets took down one chopper though.
Of course it is a sham. Anyone who has studied Pakistan knows that the government is run by the military, and the military is basically a fraternal organization.
But the “civilian” government has to put up some pretense to simply continue existing. They have to continue to spoof the outside world that they have a “civilian” government, because they’re now a nuclear power. They’re probably made more of a nuclear power by their association with the PRC, who is giving them all manner of technology, civilian and military. This is another reason why our “free trade” policy with China is stupid, but I won’t go off on that rant here. Suffice to say that the PRC and the Paks are joined at the hip.
The “civilian” government of Pakistan is necessary, because without it, they appear as a problem that the west has to deal with. And since they have at least a few nukes, dealing with them would require a very big hammer.
They’re violent, two-faced thugs. They’re not stupid, however.
The ISI doesn’t answer all that well to the outside promises made by their civilian government. But that doesn’t mean that they’re “out of control.” In fact, they’re actually the ones in control. The ISI and the Army really run the country. The civilian government is a facade, and protests about our violation of their airspace and sovereignty are necessary to keep up this facade. That’s all I’m saying.
Screw you a-hole - your country was harboring a global mass-muurderer.
Suck it up.
Exactly right. The Pak military is how people get ahead in Pakistan. If you can read and follow orders, and you want a pretty comfy middle-class existence in Pakistan, the military is about the only option.
“We are fighting the same enemy”?
NOt true Pervez, you and your kind are the enemy.
Sometimes, I hate being right so often.
The viewers reviews of “Osama bin Laden’s Hideout” are even a scream:
As they say in Bora-bora, payback’s a female infidel canine.
Take him out too!
Why, yes. It was a violation of Pakistani sovereignty, a consideration which hampered Bush’s efforts to catch UBL, since at the time the US was allied with Pakistan. But, alas alak, those days are gone. So will Pakistan now declare war on the US because they killed UBL within their territory? Why not? War on two fronts, three, four? What’s the difference?
Well har de har har har, ain’t that a shame.
Exactly. It’ll play with the 50% of the population which is illiterate.
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