John Negroponte is at it again - training expert murderers

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JE08Df03.html


US trains Pakistani killing machine


A longstanding disconnect between the Pakistan and United States militaries is largely responsible for the inability of the "war on terror" to nail key targets such as al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, as well as military failures against the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan.

Former US ambassador to Honduras, Mexico and the Philippines and presently Deputy Secretary of State, John Negroponte, aims to change this by creating special Pakistani units, trained by the US, to go after key figures.

"These programs have already started and will continue at length. Already, many teams of US military officials have arrived in Pakistan and have started basic training courses," a senior Pakistani security official told Asia Times Online on the condition of anonymity.

"Under these programs, US Army officers will come to Pakistan and maintain a close liaison with middle-ranking army officers, including majors, colonels and brigadiers. Some officers will then be selected to go to the US, where they will be trained in special operations," the official said.

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Pakistan is also to be given a new US aid package in the context of this counter-terrorism approach. The US Congress is soon to decide whether to triple non-military aid to Pakistan to US$7 billion.

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don't you just love it?

what a man that Negroponte is.

Pakistan will rue the day they ever let him do his deadly business in the country.

[navarth]

1. "Death Squad John" belongs behind bars. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

2. Blackpoint (Negroponte) & Blackwater.

Represent a darkside curse upon all freedom and justice loving Americans and the world they are part of.

[bdamomma]

3. Negroponte another snake who should be, behind bars.

he is creepy too.

[JDPriestly]

4. The Bush administration plans to catch or kill Osama Bin Laden

by the next election. That is what this is all about. This is a teaser announcement to build up suspense about what is going on in Afghanistan and Pakistan. If OBL is still alive, they will make a scene of fighting it out and may even take him alive. If he is dead, they will destroy his camp. It sounds like a good thing except that I believe that they have known where he is for some time and have not moved to arrest or fight him and his people because they want to use his demise/military loss to get yet another Republican into the Oval Office. The threat of terrorism and OBL is simply a campaign strategy for the Republicans.

If the Republicans were really worried about terrorism, they would be concerned about the proliferation of gun ownership (including ownership of powerful weapons) among right-wing extremists and gangs (especially racist gangs of all races) prone to violence in our country. They are not.

[High Plains]

5. If all you have is a hammer...

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6. indeed

nt

[lovuian]

7. Training futute terrorists and with our freakin money

no freakin way