This report is supposed to be scaring the pants off the americans who will then chant for the need to go to war with the ‘terrorists’.
Let those factions in Pakistan settle this with a civil war or whatever it takes.
We need to pull in our long noses and bring our troops home to really protect this country.
They can’t protect us from over there.
Remember, any military actions we take in the Middle East are for Israel or oil or both.

PUTTING THE LIE

Pepe Escobar puts the lie to this report - another BBC Neocon talking point—“There are only a few hundred Al-Qaeda foreign fighters in the tribal areas”, “The Taliban are no threat to the Pakistani state whatsoever”— Killing them softly with air strikes - http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=3672&updaterx=2009-05-08+15:46:33

Pepe Escobar - Balochistan is the ultimate prize -  Asia Times - http://www.atimes.com/atimes/others/Escobar.html

Real News - search for ‘Pepe’, _not_ complete - http://therealnews.com/t/index.php

OUCH

@ Antinazionista, May 13 at 9:40 pm #
> Never trust the BBC, whereas the American Networks manufacture war consent among the uneducated, the BBC do the same to the educated. The latter being ultimately more ignorant as they believe they have the ability to select a ‘balanced’ news source.

Sad but true. Excellent summary. Given that this didn’t just start in the last eight years, it is awkward to realise that one has been manipulated for many decades. Oh well. Better late than never.

Never trust the BBC, whereas the American Networks manufacture war consent among the uneducated, the BBC do the same to the educated. The latter being ultimately more ignorant as they believe they have the ability to select a ‘balanced’ news source.
The message of this chart is Pakistan is a failed state ergo anything ‘we’ do there is justifiable.
How about they produce a nice little map showing the locations of aerial born American slaughter of the local people. People who are sufficiently alien so as to provide the necessary demand for the Military-Keynesian US economy.

If people blow up your wife and children, are they your friends? Or do you want to kill them so you join the Taliban? When the Nazis occupied France the French Resistance was formed and the Nazis responded to their resistance by murdering entire villages. This only led more men and women to join the Resistance. Wasn’t it the French Resistance that killed Reinhard Heydrich? The Nazis responded by slaughtering a French village, shooting the men and locking the women and children in a church and setting it on fire. Just in case you hadn’t noticed, the Nazis lost the war and even if they hadn’t, after what they’d done, they could never have stayed in France for any length of time because they were so hated. Che Guevara and Castro had a policy of ‘no civilian deaths’ and it was the reason the Cubans protected them from the Cuban army, lied for them and even died for them. It’s just too late now to change the situation in Afghanistan - or Iraq. The Iraqi government has told the Americans to get out but they refuse to go. And those who think the US lost the war in Iraq should think again. They now have control of Iraq’s oil through their multinational corporations, have 150 military bases all over Iraq and have made a fortune out of both the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. The US military machine is on its way to being one of the most despotic organizations in the world - all the while bleating about liberty and justice as they torture, kill and maim the people of any country foolish enough to have oil and not to have nuclear weapons. It was Simone de Beauvoir who said ‘There is no just way to occupy a country against the will of its people.’