How to Lose Friends and Gain Enemies--CIA Bombs Pakistan, Hits America

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How to Lose Friends and Gain Enemies
CIA Bombs Pakistan, Hits America
By BRIAN CLOUGHLEY

Well done the CIA! In an act of astonishing incompetence the Agency has in one fluid motion created millions more enemies for America, fostered a recruiting drive for the anti-American Taliban that will keep it in dedicated manpower for the next couple of decades, driven a friendly government to despair and shattered its attempts to counter the excesses of dangerous religious lunatics, and contributed massively to the already grave instability of a volatile region.

This bizarre shambles was caused by US aerial assaults which killed civilians in Pakistani villages in its North West Frontier Province which lies along the Afghan border. The US military, which is fighting the tribes on the Afghan side of the border, declares it knows nothing of the attacks, and the Pakistan army, which is fighting the tribes on the Pakistan side of the border at the command of Washington (although naturally Pakistan denies this is the reason), knows nothing about them, either, other than the fact they took place.

So we have a chaotic international situation in which buildings within a sovereign country have been smashed to smithereens and their inhabitants blown to pieces by persons unknown to the government of the territory where the strike was made. By any national or international criterion the destruction and killing were illegal. It all sounds a bit like 9/11, in fact - - except that many people who condemned the 9/11 slaughter in the US have supported the slaughter on January 13, 2006 in Pakistan.


http://www.counterpunch.com/cloughley01212006.html

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1. it isn't terrorism when AmeriKKKA does it!!!

just ask the repukes. :puke:

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2. Both use flying projectile bombs to destroy buildings filled........

with innocent people. And WHO did they say was the terrorist?????

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3. Your tax dollars at work

Pakistani doctor fixes tube of Shabana Gul, 5, at local hospital in Bajour, Pakistan along Afghanistan border Saturday Jan.14, 2006 who is allegedly injured by Friday's airstrikes in Damadola, where at least 17 people were killed, Pakistan on Saturday condemned a purported CIA airstrike that officials said unsuccessfully targeted al-Qaida's No. 2 man while killing at least 17 people in a Damadola near the Afghan border.

If her Dad isn't dead, you can't bet he's a "terrorist" now.