U.S. Troops to Head to Pakistan – Benazir Bhutto killed in attack
U.S. Troops to Head to Pakistan
By: washingtonpost.com
BBC
on: 27.12.2007
Beginning early next year, U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan, as part of an effort to train and support indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units, according to defense officials involved with the planning.
These Pakistan-centric operations will mark a shift for the U.S. military and for U.S. Pakistan relations. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, the U.S. used Pakistani bases to stage movements into Afghanistan. Yet once the U.S. deposed the Taliban government and established its main operating base at Bagram, north of Kabul, U.S. forces left Pakistan almost entirely.
Since then, Pakistan has restricted U.S. involvement in cross-border military operations as well as paramilitary operations on its soil.
But the Pentagon has been frustrated by the inability of Pakistani national forces to control the borders or the frontier area. And Pakistan’s political instability has heightened U.S. concern about Islamic extremists there.
According to Pentagon sources, reaching a different agreement with Pakistan became a priority for the new head of the U.S. Special Operations Command, Adm. Eric T. Olson. Olson visited Pakistan in August, November and again this month, meeting with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman Gen. Tariq Majid and Lt. Gen. Muhammad Masood Aslam, commander of the military and paramilitary troops in northwest Pakistan.
Olson also visited the headquarters of the Frontier Corps, a separate paramilitary force recruited from Pakistan’s border tribes.Now, a new agreement, reported when it was still being negotiated last month, has been finalized. And the first U.S. personnel could be on the ground in Pakistan by early in the new year, according to Pentagon sources.U.S. Central Command Commander Adm.
William Fallon alluded to the agreement and spoke approvingly of Pakistan’s recent counterterrorism efforts in an interview with Voice of America last week.
“What we’ve seen in the last several months is more of a willingness to use their regular army units,” along the Afghan border, Fallon said. “And this is where, I think, we can help a lot from the U.S. in providing the kind of training and assistance and mentoring based on our experience with insurgencies recently and with the terrorist problem in Iraq and Afghanistan, I think we share a lot with them, and we’ll look forward to doing that.”If Pakistan actually follows through, perhaps 2008 will be a better year.http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/12/musharrafs_woes_have_opened_a.html?nav=rss_blog
______________________________________________________________Benazir Bhutto killed in attack
Pakistani former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been killed in a presumed suicide attack.News of her death was confirmed by a military spokesman and members of her Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
Ms Bhutto had just addressed an election rally in Rawalpindi when gunfire and an explosion occurred.At least 15 other people are reported killed in the attack and several more were injured. Ms Bhutto had twice been the country’s prime minister.She had been campaigning ahead of elections due in January.Nawaz Sharif, also a former prime minister and a political rival, told the BBC her death was a tragedy for “the entire nation”. “I can’t tell you what the feelings of the people of Pakistan are today,” he told BBC News 24 after returning from the hospital where she was brought.The BBC’s Barbara Plett says the killing is likely to provoke an agonised response from her followers, especially from her loyal following in Sindh Province.Ms Bhutto was key to her party, she was the focus of her party and she was a major political player amongst all those fighting for seats in the forthcoming elections, our correspondent adds.The PPP has the largest support of any party in the country.Analysts note that Rawalpindi, a garrison city, is seen as one of the country’s most secure cities, making the attack even more embarrassing for the military authorities.
Wasif Ali Khan, a member of the PPP who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital, said she died at 1816 (1316 GMT).
Supporters at the hospital began chanting “Dog, Musharraf, dog”, referring to President Pervez Musharraf, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
Some broke the glass door at the main entrance to the emergency unit as others wept.
A man with a PPP flag tied around his head could be seen beating his chest, the agency adds.
An interior ministry spokesman, Javed Cheema, was quoted as saying by AFP that she may have been killed by pellets packed into the suicide bomber’s vest.
However, AP quoted a PPP security adviser as saying she was shot in the neck and chest as she got into her vehicle, before the gunman blew himself up.
Mr Sharif said there had been a “serious lapse in security” by the government.
Earlier on Thursday, at least four people were killed ahead of an election rally he himself had been preparing to attend close to Rawalpindi.
The killing was condemned by the US and Russia.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
Educated at Harvard and Oxford
Father led Pakistan before being executed in 1979
Spent five years in prison
Served as PM from 1988-1990 and 1993-1996
Sacked twice by president on corruption charges
Formed alliance with rival ex-PM Nawaz Sharif in 2006
Ended self-imposed exile by returning to Pakistan in October
“The attack shows that there are still those in Pakistan trying to undermine reconciliation and democratic development in Pakistan,” a US state department official said.
Russia’s foreign ministry condemned the attack, offered condolences to Ms Bhutto’s family and said it hoped the Pakistani leadership would “manage to take necessary steps to ensure stability in the country”.
France spoke of an “odious” act and said it was deeply concerned.
Ms Bhutto returned from self-imposed exile in October after years out of Pakistan where she had faced corruption charges.
Her return was the result of a power-sharing agreement with President Musharraf in which he granted an amnesty that covered the court cases she was facing.
Since her return relations with Mr Musharraf had broken down.
On the day of her return she led a motor cavalcade through the city of Karachi. It was hit by a double suicide attack that left some 130 dead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7161590.stm
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Comment :
who controls all parties in the Pakistani elections are responsible for this murder through Islamic Patsys. Buhtto was an MI6 asset, Musharraf is a CIA asset and Nawaz is controlled through Saudi Arabia by proxy for the account of the US.
Remains this Khan who is another Western stooge. The West killed Buhtto to create Chaos in Pakistan, as Per the theory of Strauss and the Neacons.
Out of Chaos a new order is created. Divide and rule is another concept of the colonialist and imperialists . The killer was an Islamic Patsy who knows no better from here to there most probably a poor soul who was used in this process. The purpose is clear since its evident that US troops will be entering Pakistan as per next year, then this will enhance the process through the Chaos that is created to prtect Musharaf. The final goal is to control the Nukes of Pakistan and open a second land front against Iran . Anybody in his/her sane mind cannot avoid seeing who is the perpetrator and their goals.
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SHAHEED BENAZIR BHTTO
SHE WAS GREAT LEADER OF PAKISTAN SHE WAS ONE OF THEM WHO SACRIFICE THEM LIFE FOR POOR,HELPLESS,SELFLESS ETC PERSONS SHE PROVIDED US WATER SAVERAGE GAS ELECTRIFY OUR TOWN. ALLAH WILL REVENGE OUR LEADER KILLER ONE DAY OR THE OTHERS
YESTERDAY BHUTTO WAS ALIVE
TODAY ALSO BHUTTO IS ALVIE
HUSSAIN
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