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Taliban Gain Ground, Color on Map

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Posted on May 13, 2009
Pakistan Conflict Map
news.bbc.co.uk

The BBC map shows increased Taliban presence and control over the NWFP, a claim disputed by Pakistan’s president.

A new map produced by the BBC succinctly demonstrates the weakness of the Pakistan state in combating Taliban militants in the country’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The map shows only 38% of Pakistan’s NWFP to be under government control, while the balance of the region experiences either Taliban presence or control.

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A map produced by the BBC suggests only 38% of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and surrounding areas is under full government control.

The map, compiled by the BBC’s Urdu language service, was based on local research and correspondent reports as well as conversations with officials.

It shows the Taleban strengthening their hold across the north-west.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari rejected the findings, telling the BBC it was an “incorrect survey”.

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By boggs, June 17, 2009 at 9:38 am Link to this comment

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.

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By Antinazionista, May 13, 2009 at 6:40 pm Link to this comment

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.

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By diamond, May 13, 2009 at 4:17 pm Link to this comment

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.’

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