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Pakistan: US Attack Kills 3 as army advance in tribal area

The reports said the unmanned aircraft fired missiles at a village in Miranshah of North Waziristan, killing at least three people and injuring more others.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/21/content_12289641.htm



Obama Steps Up Killer Drone Raids Despite Deaths Of Civilians

Since taking office, President Obama has sanctioned at least 41 Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) drone strikes in Pakistan that have killed between 326 and 538 people, many of them, critics say, "innocent bystanders, including children," according to reliable reports.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0910/S00176.htm



US encouraged by South Waziristan offensive: Gates

I think that the terrorist attacks that have been launched inside Pakistan in recent days made clear the need to begin to deal with this problem," he said. "And so we obviously are very supportive of what the Pakistanis are doing...

http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\21\story_21-10-2009_pg1_4



US buys Pakistan: US Congress may set new curbs on Pakistan aid

The military spending bill would impose new restrictions on how Pakistan gets reimbursed out of a 1.6-billion-dollar fund for logistical and military support of US-led efforts to battle Islamist insurgents.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091021/pl_afp/uspakistanmilitaryaid


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By Simon Tisdall

As the Obama administration dithers over what to do for the best in Afghanistan, neighbouring Pakistan is paying an increasingly heavy price. Like a spate of previous Taliban attacks in recent days, today's mayhem in Lahore underscored fears that the principal consequence of Washington's Afghan paralysis, albeit unintended, is the further destabilisation of the Pakistani state.

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The United States is offering $7.5 billion to Pakistan for development - but only 15 percent of Pakistanis support accepting it, according to a Gallup Pakistan survey released Wednesday.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1014/p90s01-wosc.html



If fired, Haqqani threatens to unveil 'reams' of Pakistan's secrets

The Pakistan Embassy in Washington continues to convey a wrong picture to American officials and politicians on the uproar in Pakistan over the condescending language in the Kerry-Lugar bill.

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The reverse-Midas effect

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

10/16/09

U.S. actions in [central Asia] could be fairly evaluated as exhibiting a reverse-Midas touch: everything we get involved in generates a backlash — ‘blowback’ — in direct proportion to its visibility. Thus we are presently on a course that will eventually end in bringing about the very scenario we fear: a full-scale Islamist insurgency in Pakistan that threatens to topple the government and possibly come into possession of the country’s nuclear arsenal. The idea that we can intervene covertly, with sufficient subtlety to avoid a confrontation with the government — and nationalist elements in the military and the general population — is a foolish dream that ought to be summarily abandoned. How much money have we poured into the Pakistani rat hole — and to what effect? Our every effort boomerangs in our faces, mocking our purportedly noble intentions and underscoring our essential powerlessness in that wild region at the top of the world...

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Two missiles, fired by pilotless US aircraft, hit a suspected militant training center in Dandikhel village of North Waziristan tribal agency, security officials told KUNA.

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The forces jet fighters targeted suspected hideouts of the militants in Makeen area of South Waziristan killing five "militants", sources said. In another air raid in Brond area six "militants" were killed, the private channel Express reported.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/14/content_12232016.htm


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Blame CIA for failure to catch terror leaders.
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A tribal Jirga of North Waziristan on Sunday threatened to support the Afghanistan-based anti-US groups, including the Taliban, if the US drone attacks were not stopped.

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Pakistan has warned the United States that it will not allow drone attacks on suspected Taliban bases in its troubled Balochistan province, military sources have said.

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'Drone attacks in Balochistan will jeopardise US interests'

Drone attacks in Balochistan will hamper the flow of goods and logistics to NATO troops in Afghanistan, Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani said, adding they will also jeopardise US interests in the region.

http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\10\01\story_1-10-2009_pg7_8



Pakistanis Continue to Reject U.S. Partnership

The survey says that 76 percent of the respondents were opposed to Pakistan partnering with the United States on missile attacks against extremists by American drone aircraft.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/world/asia/01pstan.html?_r=2&emc=eta1



Buying Pakistans Sovereignty: US Congress triples Pakistan aid

The aid money will not be directly handed over to Pakistan. It will be spent on different development projects through the US embassy in Islamabad.

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Boston Globe

09/30/09

Two missile attacks killed 13 militants in northwestern Pakistan’s tribal belt yesterday in the latest apparent strikes of a covert US program that American officials are considering intensifying. Unmanned drones have carried out more than 70 missile attacks in the border region over the last year, but Washington rarely acknowledges the strikes...

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