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US Missile Attacks On Pakistan To "Dramatically
Increase": Report
Officials briefed on the plans say Obama to raise military
conflict to new levels of intensity
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A British newspaper says that officials in contact with the
US State Department have been briefed on plans to intensify
military attacks on Pakistan, despite strong objections to the
policy from the Pakistani government.
A new offensive would see a dramatic increase
in Predator drone attacks on Taliban targets, reports the
London Telegraph, which says it learned of the
plans from State Department contacts and senior diplomats.
The report states:
President Barack Obama on Sunday admitted that
the US military was pushing for talks with the Taliban, but
officials consulted on the plans said the military conflict
would be raised to new levels of intensity before talks could
begin. "There will be talks but the Taliban are going
to experience a lot of pain first, on both sides of the border,"
said one senior Western diplomat.
Pakistani authorities have consistently
voiced opposition to cross border missile strikes,
which have killed hundreds of innocent civilians.
Obama is seemingly oblivious to this given his statement last
week that "it's very important for us to reach out to the
Pakistani government and work with them more effectively."
It seems that the new president is forging ahead with his campaign
promise to shift the focus of the war on terror into Pakistan,
stepping up the policy
of unmanned airstrikes which have been
ongoing for years.
Obama has also recently beefed the U.S. military role in Pakistan
beyond that pursued by the Bush administration and “expanded
the covert war run by the Central Intelligence Agency inside
Pakistan,”
according to the New York Times, with an increase
in missile attacks by drone aircraft.
Pakistani officials also believe that the drones are taking
off from Pakistani airfields, a claim that has
been backed by chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee,
Diane Feinstein.
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Obama recently demanded a total of around $800
billion in war funds and subsidiary costs just
to cover the rest of 2009.
He has also promised to to
send at least 17,000, and eventually perhaps as many as 30,000,
extra troops to Afghanistan - over seven years after the U.S.
invaded in 2001.
Meanwhile, despite public pronouncements by Obama that a plan
to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq is in progress, the details
of the agreement actually establish a permanent presence of
a sizable
occupying force of 50,000 troops in perpetuity.
All this within just two months of Obama’s inauguration
on the back of an election campaign won on the basis of changing
the warmongering policies of the Bush administration!
As alluded to in the London Telegraph report, the intensification
policy comes via the new special U.S. representative to Pakistan
and Afghanistan, Richard
Holbrooke. A prominent member of the board of directors
of the Council on Foreign Relations and a consummate insider,
Holbrooke has been dubbed "Obama's
Neocon".
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