Thursday, January 22, 2009

CIA CHIF


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Al Qaeda feeling unsafe along border, says CIA chief
As per DAWN NEWS:
WASHINGTON, Jan 15: Al Qaeda leaders no longer feel safe in Afghan-Pakistan border areas, where they face heavy US and Pakistani pressure and their local welcome has worn out, CIA chief Michael Hayden said on Thursday.Hayden also said he believed Iran was nearing a decision on whether to proceed with development of a nuclear weapon.He stood by his defence of CIA waterboarding and said that regardless of whether the agency’s harsh interrogations will be judged worth the widespread condemnation, they worked.“The agency did none of this out of enthusiasm. It did it out of duty, and it did it with the best legal advice,” he said.Hayden said a disappointment of his 2 1/2-year term was that Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was still at large. But he said Bin Laden and top lieutenants were no longer secure in the Pakistan mountain hideouts believed to be hiding them.“The great danger was that — I’m going to use a little euphemism here — the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan was a safe haven for Al Qaeda,” Hayden said. “It is my belief that the senior leadership of Al Qaeda today believes that it is neither safe, nor a haven. That is a big deal in defending the United States.”An audio message from Bin Laden this week may have been intended in part simply to show he was still alive, Hayden suggested.“What we and our Pakistani allies have been able to do have changed the equation there,” he said. US forces in Afghanistan launched about 30 missile strikes in Pakistan in 2008, according to a Reuters tally.Residents in the border areas have also begun to make Al Qaeda feel unwelcome, Hayden said.—Reuters
Pakistan is paying high price

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NATO CHIEF SAYS THAT PAKISTAN IS DOING THE BEST JOB

As per AFP:

ISLAMABAD (AFP) — NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer held talks with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Islamabad on Thursday on the regional situation and security along the Afghan border, officials said.
The talks were focused on "border security, NATO supplies, (and the) general regional situation," a presidential aide told AFP.
The government has always stressed that "a secure and stable Afghanistan is vital to Pakistan," the aide said.
A foreign ministry official said that de Hoop Scheffer is also expected to meet Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar.
US and NATO officials say Pakistan's rugged northwest tribal belt has become a safe haven for militants linked to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda who fled from neighbouring Afghanistan after the 2001 US-led invasion.
NATO leads the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), made up of more than 51,000 troops from nearly 40 countries, which is assisting Afghan government forces in the fight against an escalating Taliban-led insurgency.
Extremist attacks have plagued the main transport corridor from Pakistan used to re-supply NATO and other foreign forces operating in Afghanistan.
On Monday, de Hoop Scheffer said NATO needs 10,000 more troops to help provide security for scheduled elections in Afghanistan this year.


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Thursday, January 15, 2009

1000 Deaths after 19 Days....Who is Terrorist

Palestinian death toll rose above 1,000 after 19 days of air and ground attacks by Israeli troops.


God forbid this time can come to you !!!

Can you protest ?

Can you Come out and Protest ?

Can you write ?

If you can't do all of these things its mean your heart is made of stone ...

PEACE - PEACE - PEACE - PEACE - PEACE - PEACE - PEACE - PEACE -PEACE - PEACE -

Friday, January 9, 2009

 
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