Pakistan Tells U.S. to Stop Airstrikes in Tribal Zone

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Source: New York Times

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Pakistani government lodged a formal protest on Wednesday over American missile attacks on the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the nation’s tribal areas and told the American ambassador the strikes should be “stopped immediately,” the Foreign Ministry said.

Ambassador Anne Patterson was summoned to the ministry two days after a missile strike by a drone in South Waziristan killed 20 people, including several local Taliban commanders.

Last Friday, a similar strike hit a religious school in North Waziristan, killing eight people, all of them militant fighters, according to local residents. There have been at least 19 American strikes against the militants in the tribal region since August.

The escalation of the missile attacks has shaken the Pakistani public, and the new government led by President Asif Ali Zardari has been under pressure to distance itself from what is perceived as an American-led fight against terrorism inside Pakistan.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/world/asia/30pstan.html?ref=asia

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1. Over-acting at it's best

The reason Asif Ali Zardari is President is to allow the u.s. to do exactly this.

You can be:

Against an action and say you are against it

Against an action but say that you are fore it

Fore an action but say that you are against it

Fore an action and say you are fore it

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2. If you were a freeper posting here

You would be 'fore' McCain but would say that that he sucked otherwise you would get tombstoned.