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| Karzai asks why NATO wont hit Pakistan |
| 2010-07-30 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday that Western allies had the ability to strike at Taliban bases in Pakistain, but questioned their willingness to do so. "The war against terrorism is not in the villages or houses of Afghanistan ...but in the sanctuaries, sources of funding and training (of terrorism) and they lie outside Afghanistan," he told a news conference in the capital. "It is a different question whether Afghanistan has the ability to tackle this," he said in response to a question about Pakistan support for the Taliban and why the conflict was dragging on, "... but our allies have this capability the question now is 'why they are not taking action'?" Islamabad's covert support for the Taliban resurfaced this week with the publication by the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of classified documents which point the finger at Pakistan's spy agency. Karzai condemned as "irresponsible and shocking" the release of informants' names by WikiLeaks, saying it had put their lives in danger. "It is extremely irresponsible and shocking," Karzai told a news conference in the Afghan capital. "There are lives and these lives are in danger." The website released more than 90,000 classified U.S. military files from the Afghan war between 2004 to 2009, a period when tens of thousands of U.S. and NATO troops ran into increasing resistance from a Taliban insurgency. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said the documents were checked for named informants and that 15,000 such documents had been held back. But the British newspaper The Times reported that after just two hours of combing through the documents it was able to find the names of dozens of Afghans said to have provided detailed intelligence to U.S. forces. The Pentagon has also said that informants whose names appear in the documents have reason to fear for their lives. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 And all those missle strikes in N.Wazirstan are what? |
| Posted by: Hupomomble Sproing7767 2010-07-30 15:02 |
| #3 NATO would actually have to fight since the US is leading the War on Terror else where. |
| Posted by: miscellaneous 2010-07-30 02:52 |
| #2 5) Proably for the same reason you keep denouncing legitimate American efforts whenever "civilians" get killed. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-30 02:14 |
| #1 Why NATO won't hit Pakistan: 1) It has nukes 2) It has more people than Russia 3) It's full of jihadis who don't particularly mind dying 4) Add your pet reasons |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-07-30 00:43 |