Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2009
AfPakistan... PakGhanistan... 'Themistan'... Why The Obama Administration Is "Gravely Concerned"
Saturday, June 6, 2009
What Happens When You 'Fumigate' Only One Apartment In A Building? Ask Uzbekistan... The Next Apartment Over - Thomas P.M. Barnett
H/t: Gates Of Hell
Dagestan interior minister assassinated
By joshuah at 6 June, 2009, 3:57 am
Dagestan Interior Minister Adilgerei Magomedtagirov was assassinated by a sniper, a source at the republic’s law-enforcement bodies told Itar-Tass.
"At around 13:00, Moscow time, the minister together with Colonel Abdulzhapar Magomedov, director of the Interior Ministry’s tax crimes department, were standing near the Marakesh banquet hall, where the marriage of the Colonel’s daughter was to take place," the officer said.
A preliminary report said an unidentified man opened fire at the minister and the people around him from an apartment of a nine-storey house nearby.
Five people were rushed to the republic’s orthopedic-traumatological center.
"The minister was wounded in the heart and died without regaining consciousness. The other wounded people, including Col Magomedov, have been operated upon. They are in very serious condition," chief doctor at the orthopedic-traumatological center Magomed Omarov told Tass.
At present, police have launched an operation to apprehend the attackers.
Adilgerei Magomedtagirov was born on November 1, 1956. He has been Dagestan’s Interior Minister since May 1998.
Source/Full Story: ITAR-TASS
Uzbekistan: the next apartment over
ARTICLE: Militant attacks strike eastern Uzbekistan, Jane's, 03 June 2009
When you indulge in your opponents' desire for a "central front," you do the region a favor by drawing in a lot of violent extremists. But when you spray that apartment, in hopes of killing and/or driving off the cockroaches, then the next apartments over are forced to deal with the flow (up to now, Pakistan, but here, Uzbekistan too).
Posted by Thomas P.M. Barnett on June 6, 2009 7:44 AM
Excerpt:
Militant attacks strike eastern Uzbekistan
03 June 2009
On 26 May, the Uzbek government reported the most serious militant attacks to strike the country for several years when a suicide bomber and gunmen launched separate attacks in nearby towns in the Ferghana Valley region of the country.
Details of the attacks from the highly secretive country remain limited and often contradictory. However, responsibility for at least one of the attacks has been claimed by the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), an offshoot of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), whose previous activity has largely been confined to Afghanistan and the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan.
The attacks serve to highlight the risk of further violence in Uzbekistan's eastern region, where a mixture of government repression, widespread poverty and high unemployment has created a potent undercurrent of unrest. The subsequent claims of responsibility by the IJU will likewise raise concerns in Central Asia about the ¡involvement of organised militant groups capable of harnessing this discontent, and potentially applying expertise gained in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Copyright © IHS (Global) Limited, 2009
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The 'good war' in Afghanistan?... It isn't a good war... It isn't an Afghan war... "It is about Pakistan" -Tom Ricks (Ex-WaPo now FP Magazine)
But I wonder what the hell we've been doing since then...
In Full @ Foreign Policy
Tags:
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David Petraeus,
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Friday, August 1, 2008
John McCain appears to value nothing beyond sheer military might-- even if it has shady contacts to al-Qaeda - Juan Cole
From Juan Cole's Informed CommentFriday, August 01, 2008
ISI Linked to Indian Embassy Bombing;
McCain client Musharraf Likely Implicated
How much of the $10 billion in aid Bush and Cheney gave to Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf after September 11 ended up being used to kill US, NATO and Afghan troops in Afghanistan?
NYT reports that US intelligence intercepted communications between elements of the Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's military intelligence division, indicating that they gave support to the Haqqani group of Pushtun guerrillas in bombing the Indian embassy in Kabul.
There have long been suspicions that the Pakistani military was using Pushtun guerrillas to project power into Afghanistan, even as they fought them inside Pakistan itself. The NYT was told by US government officials that this intercept was the first smoking gun proving that active-duty ISI officers were complicit with violence in Afghanistan (and therefore with attacks on US and NATO troops.)
The Pakistani military has tight command and control. ISI's collaboration with the neo-Taliban and other guerrilla groups could not occur without the knowledge and acquiescence of Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf, who was chief of staff until last fall. That is, Cheney, Bush and McCain have backed to the hilt a military dictator who has continued the old 1980s and 1990s policy of supporting Pushtun guerrillas as a way of a) dominating Afghanistan and b) training other guerrillas to hit Kashmir.
Here is what McCain said about Musharraf last winter:
' "I continue to believe Musharraf has done a pretty good job, done a lot of the things that we wanted him to do . . . I would remind some of my fellow Americans that Benazir Bhutto and [former prime minister Nawaz] Sharif presided over failed states, there was corruption, there was a failed state in Pakistan when Musharraf took charge...I would like to give Musharraf some credit for taking the measures that we asked him to do." 'Musharraf's 'successful state' involved dismissing the Supreme Court, provoking massive and repeated demonstrations, violating the constitution, interfering with free and fair elections, and presiding over a virtual national meltdown on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto late last December. McCain appears to value nothing beyond sheer military might-- even if it has shady contacts to al-Qaeda!
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