Taliban — Under the Western Media’s Full Court Press

Posted by Temple3 ⋅ May 5, 2009 ⋅ Leave a Comment

CIA and company seeks out bad guys to subsidize. Mainstream media picks out bad guys to demonize. Cross fire? Nationals in the targeted territory.

The US pimped Pakistan for $10B worth of military support (staging, etc.) according to at least one source. Are the Taliban in Pakistan because the US chose to use Pakistan as a staging ground — with the intent of drawing the Taliban into that state? Neither group has any respect for Pakistani sovereignty. The Taliban tightened their grip on a lot of nothing.

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 4 — Taliban forces tightened their grip on Pakistan’s Swat region Monday and continued resisting the military’s efforts to dislodge them from neighboring Buner, bringing a fragile peace accord closer to collapse and the volatile northwest region nearer to full-fledged conflict.

Yet even as the Taliban continued its rampage and rejected the government’s latest concession to its demands — the appointment of Islamic-law judges in Swat — Pakistan’s military leaders clung to hopes for a nonviolent solution, saying that security forces were “still exercising restraint to honor the peace agreement.”

Behind this strained hope for a peaceful solution lie an array of factors — competing military priorities, reluctance to fight fellow Muslims, lack of strong executive leadership and some internal sympathy for the insurgents — that analysts say have long prevented the Pakistani army from making a full-fledged assault on violent Islamist groups.

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