All Blog Posts Tagged 'Pakistan' (12)

Sky News

An al Qaeda “assassin” accused of bombing Christian churches and a luxury hotel in Pakistan was working for British intelligence at the same time, according to leaked files.

The claim about…

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AP

 

An American CIA contractor detained on suspicion of murder was released on Wednesday after families of the two Pakistanis he killed were given “blood money” and…

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Yahoo News



Double murder-accused US official Raymond Davis has been found in possession of top-secret CIA documents, which point to him or the feared American Task Force 373 (TF373) operating in the region, providing Al-Qaeda… Continue

FARS News Agency

December 1, 2010

A former Pakistani army commander said that the disclosure of classified documents by the whistleblower site of Wikileaks is a US plot to create rift among friendly and neighboring states.

“The US has a hand in this plot, and these reports (posted by the WikiLeaks website) are part of the US…

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Karachi News



Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US envoy to Afghanistan, once brushed off Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's claim, that the US was "arranging" the (suicide) attacks by Pakistani Taliban inside his country, as 'madness', and was of the view that both Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who believed in this US conspiracy theory, were "dysfunctional" leaders.



The account of Zardari's claim about the US' hand in the attacks has been elaborately… Continue

Deadline Live

What a find this is! Pakistan’s President clearly says George Bush funded CIA Operative Osama Bin Laden to destabilise Pakistan. Originally uploaded in January…

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In a strange turn of events the New York Times reports, Guilty Plea in Times Square Bomb Plot. Yes, defendant Faisal Shahzad, 30, put an immediate end to his trial for purportedly bombing (though no bomb went off) in Times Square. His Nissan SUV-bomb fizzled with his or someone’s incompetency, or to get the desired effect with a minimum of blowback. Who could that possibly be?…

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Veterans Today realized some time ago that Pakistan would be the key to US security. Toward that end, we formed a partnership with Opinion-Maker (www.opinion-maker.org), one of the most influential publications in that country and one that takes courageous stands in a country new to democracy. Jeff Gates and I traveled to Pakistan this spring at the initiation of VT co-editor Raja Mujtaba. While in Pakistan, we were briefed by the highest…

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Back and forth we go on the whole "Faisal Shahzad is linked to the Pakistani Taliban" matter!

Over the weekend, Attorney General Eric Holder and National Security Adviser John Brennan repeatedly asserted on Sunday morning's political talk shows that Shahzad was definitively linked to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. The matter had been in dispute on the pages of…

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(AP/Huffington Post) -- SHAHI KOTO, Pakistan — A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers and partly destroyed a girls' school in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday in an attack that drew attention to a little-publicized American military training mission in the al-Qaida and Taliban heartland.

They were the first known U.S. military fatalities in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions near the Afghan border and a major victory for militants who have been… Continue

London Telegraph



An American man charged with plotting the attacks on Mumbai was a double agent for both the United States and al-Qaeda terror group Lashkar e Taiba, Indian officials have claimed.



David Headley, a Pakistan-born American national arrested in Chicago in October, is alleged to have carried out reconnaissance missions in the run-up to the Mumbai attacks, in which 166 people were killed.



He is also believed to have been present in… Continue