Gee, F*cking Thanks, NY Times: Bush Authorizes Commando Raids In Pakistan
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow U.S. special forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the approval of the Pakistani government, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
The new orders reflect concern about safe havens for Al Qaeda and the Taliban inside Pakistan, as well as an American view that Pakistan lacks the will and ability to combat militants, the paper said.
“The situation in the tribal areas is not tolerable,” said a senior U.S. official who spoke to the Times on condition of anonymity. “We have to be more assertive. Orders have been issued.”
The newspaper said the orders also illustrated lingering distrust of the Pakistani military and intelligence agencies and a belief some U.S. operations had been compromised once Pakistanis were advised of the details.
U.S. officials told the Times they would notify Pakistan when they conduct limited ground attacks like the Special Operations raid last week in a Pakistani village near the Afghanistan border, but they would not ask for its permission.
Pakistan army chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani said on Wednesday Pakistan would not allow foreign troops to conduct operations on its soil.
“The sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country will be defended at all cost and no external force is allowed to conduct operations … inside Pakistan,” a military statement quoted Kayani as saying.
A senior U.S. official told the Times the Pakistani government had assented privately to the general concept of limited ground assaults by U.S. forces against significant militant targets, but that it did not approve each mission.
The top U.S. military officer told Congress on Wednesday the military was not winning the fight against the insurgency in Afghanistan and said it would revise its strategy to combat militant safe havens in Pakistan.
“I’m not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan. I am convinced we can,” Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a congressional committee nearly seven years after U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban.
Mullen said he was “looking at a new, more comprehensive strategy for the region” that would cover both sides of the border, including Pakistan’s tribal areas.
Violence in Afghanistan has soared over the past two years as al Qaeda and Taliban fighters have regrouped in the remote region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The United States has stepped up attacks against militant targets inside Pakistan this year with a series of missile strikes from unmanned drones and a raid by helicopter-borne U.S. commandos in recent days. The attacks have been denounced by Pakistani leaders.
(Reuters)
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WTF? Isn’t allowable to kill people who leak secrets? If not, why not? Let’s find the moles and do bad things to them.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:28 pmI’m sorry, how is this not treason, or aiding and abetting? When you obtain and then release classified information in a format which is circulated world wide, at what point does your ass go to federal bum puncher jail for three consecutive life sentences?
September 10th, 2008 at 8:41 pmThese raids were no secret. The Pentagon confirmed the raids on September 4th. IIRC there have been 14 since then.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92VM75G0&show_article=1&catnum=0
September 10th, 2008 at 8:55 pm“I’m sorry, how is this not treason, or aiding and abetting? When you obtain and then release classified information in a format which is circulated world wide, at what point does your ass go to federal bum puncher jail for three consecutive life sentences?”
Fuck wasting my tax money paying to keep these traitorous piglets within cell walls…
Kill them. Bullets don’t cost much.
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September 10th, 2008 at 9:04 pmWhen Waziristan and the rogue Northern Agencies are beaten down, we win the Afghanistan war.
Once Iran is beaten down, the rest of the Middle East will be a place where all the people there can lead peaceful lives.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:05 pmSince the times is tanking in subscriptions in this country, they are trying out their luck in the Pakistan.
There is a difference between a free press helping to hold public officials to accountability by publishing their deeds and misdeeds and this act of treason.
They have chosen a side.
September 11th, 2008 at 3:54 amIn WWII the Times would be crucified if not taken out and shot.
September 11th, 2008 at 4:05 amNYT: 6-5-44: “Allies to Bring War to France at Normandy Tomorrow Morning. Will Likely Kill Many Civilians.”
September 11th, 2008 at 4:06 amWith friends like the NY Times, who needs enemies?
September 11th, 2008 at 4:36 am“The situation in the tribal areas is not tolerable,” said a senior U.S. official who spoke to the Times on condition of anonymity. “We have to be more assertive. Orders have been issued.”
Translated, this means an entrenched liberal who hates America, loves socialism, despises Bush and all things conservative, and has been promised a well paying consulting job through Soros after retiring from the governemnt job, wants OBL and the rest of the terrorists to know so they can hide someplace else…
September 11th, 2008 at 4:45 amthe NYT strikes again. this is like the 5000th time they have done this. Geraldo gives a little too much info on troop movements in Iraq and they kick him out of country. these people give away secrets and somehow they are protected under freedom of speech. this is just as top secret.
September 11th, 2008 at 5:07 amHas anyone considered the fact that this “secret information” being leaked to the media is nothing more than “dis-information”?
Any and all intellegence and military agencies know exactly what is being fed to their “dupes”(the msm), and they know what the end result from a so-called “leak” will be.
September 11th, 2008 at 5:24 am
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September 11th, 2008 at 5:50 amMy thoughts exactly….If you wanted to leak something and give it some credibilty what better outlet than the biggest America hating paper of them all the NYT.
That is probably correct, if you’re gonna take a leak, do it at the Times.
September 11th, 2008 at 6:22 am“The situation in the tribal areas is not tolerable,” said a senior U.S. official who spoke to the Times on condition of anonymity. “We have to be more assertive. Orders have been issued.”
THIS is the fucker we need to start going after even if it was the President. That anonymous source, those who don’t fucking GET that secret means secret, you don’t fucking talk to an asshole who’s job it is, is to print fucking secrets in a ‘newspaper’(I use that term loosely).
What this is, folks, is the fact that nobody has been tried for breaking the rules in this country for a very long time. We wonder why we have kids that grow up with parents that coddle and never discipline? We wonder why we have kids that would fucking beat a homeless man about his head and face for the pure joy of killing him?
It’s because we don’t fucking punish the losers before they breed, when they don’t follow the fucking rules in the first place. My parents would not only have beat the shit out of me for doing wrong, but they would call the police in on my ass if I did something serious enough. Trust me, been there, done that. I broke a neighbors window with a rock at 7 because I was a little shithead. I don’t remember what pissed me off, but I took it out on his window. My parents called the police after taking a belt to my ass, then had the police drive me to the station before they came and picked me up. I worked my ass of for my neighbor at my fathers direction until my neighbor had the compassion to tell me, “Look. Your dad wants me to work you to the bone, boy. I think you’ve bought that glass”, and let me ride. I never saw my neighbor in the same light. He was always cool after that. The point is there is no fucking discipline in DC.
What we get is fucking politicians that are elected that have no idea what the rules are, and when they find out what the rules are, they are so fucking liberal, elitist and stupid that they don’t think the rules apply to them, and that it doesn’t matter because the Cold War is over. I have some serious fucking news, they get people like me killed when they decide to be anonymous.
If they didn’t know it was wrong, they wouldn’t speak on condition of anonymity. That is what get’s to me. They know it’s not only wrong but illegal. Yet, they don’t get packed away to prison. They are no better than Ames, if you ask me.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:07 amFriggin’ NYTIMES needs to be tried and convicted for treason for this leaking. Read the remarks at their website, never have I seen so many US haters / Leftist traitors in one place. We are headed straight for the time to pick a side and fight to recover our country.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:47 am