School bombing exposes Obama’s secret war inside Pakistan

[Mari333]

THE discovery of three American soldiers among the dead in a suicide bombing at the opening of a girls’ school in the northwestern Pakistan town of Dir last week reignited the fears of many Pakistanis that Washington was set on invading their country.

Barack Obama has banned the Bush-era term “war on terror” and dithered about sending extra troops to Afghanistan, but across the border in Pakistan, the US president has dramatically stepped up the covert war against Islamic extremists.

US airstrikes in Pakistan, launched from unmanned drones, are now averaging three a week, triple the number last year. “We're quietly seeing a geographical shift,” an intelligence officer said.

For the past month drones have pounded the tribal region of North Waziristan in apparent retaliation for the murder of seven CIA officers in Afghanistan by a Jordanian suicide bomber working with the Pakistani Taliban.


















http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7017929.ece

[OhioChick]

1. K&R n/t

[thunder rising]

2. We will reap this harvest in the spring.

[leftstreet]

3. 'Pakistanis consider the US a greater threat than the Taliban'

"Among the Pakistani public, there has been outcry at the attacks. Surveys constantly show that Pakistanis consider the US a greater threat than the Taliban, despite 3,021 Pakistani deaths in terrorist attacks last year."

America, Fuck Yeah.

[Mari333]

4. and more

'Three schoolgirls, two villagers and a Pakistani soldier were also killed in the attack, for which the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility. More than 100 were wounded, mostly schoolgirls. '

wherever we go, chaos follows.

[emilyg]

5. True.

[FSogol]

6. Un-reced for using the RW criticism, "dithering." Taking the time to plan is not

dithering.