Saturday, June 28, 2008

Pakistan Launches Offensive In Peshawar Against Taliban


Ever heard the expression....too little, too late? Well, the Taliban OWN Peshawar and only then, does the Pakistan government react with a military offensive. I have clamored over here at Holger Awakens for months for the Pakistani government to wake the hell up and stop this policy of appeasement and ass kissing with the Taliban. The Taliban are sons of Satan and I warned it was all a ruse. Well, I have just found the most intuitive, correct paragraph EVER in a news article on the Pakistani/Taliban situation. Look at this from the article at Breitbart:


Security experts said the appearance of the Taliban in Peshawar, just two hours drive west of the capital Islamabad, reflected the military and political failure to halt an Islamist tide rolling in from tribal areas that have become strongholds for the Taliban and al Qaida.

That says it all - the Taliban HAVE been like a tide rolling in and instead of the Pakistani government throwing some force at them, they've let them roll while they've sat at bargaining tables with the likes of the pig, Baitullah Mehsud. It's my prediction that within the next two months, the new government of Pakistan will reach out to NATO for help because the Taliban will have the capital of Islamabad in sight.


Pakistan launches offensive against Taliban near Peshawar+

ISLAMABAD, June 28 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The Pakistani military on Saturday launched a large-scale offensive against Taliban fighters near the northwestern city of Peshawar which is effectively under their control.
By Saturday afternoon, the paramilitary Frontier Corps began shelling suspected militant hideouts in the mountains in Khyber, local official Muhammad Siddiq Khan said, according to the Associated Press.
"There has been no resistance, so far. No casualties, so far," Malik Naveed Khan, the police chief of North West Frontier Province told Reuters news service.
Security experts said the appearance of the Taliban in Peshawar, just two hours drive west of the capital Islamabad, reflected the military and political failure to halt an Islamist tide rolling in from tribal areas that have become strongholds for the Taliban and al Qaida.
Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, based in the most remote tribal region, South Waziristan, telephoned a Reuters correspondent to declare that he was suspending peace talks.
"The talks will remain suspended until the government stops talking about operations and attacks against us," he was quoted as saying by satellite phone from an undisclosed location.

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