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Pakistan reaches out to US on 9/11 anniversary
2011-09-11
[Dawn] As a solemn nation observes the 10th anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Pakistain made a feeble attempt on Saturday to reach out to the American public, telling them that it was a victim, not perpetrator of terrorism.
Of course you are, dear. Just sit down here, and Mama will bring you warm milk in your special cup.
In Washington, President Barack B.O. Obama said the attacks had made America stronger. "As a resilient nation, we will carry on," he told Americans on the eve of the anniversary of the attacks.
And wrote an opinion piece especially for the Times of India to tell the world's Muslims America is not at war with them. He does not appear to have written anything for Dawn, oddly enough.
Nearly 3,000 people died on 9/11 in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. On Sunday, Mr Obama will travel to all three sites to mark the anniversary. Former president George W Bush will join him in New York.

"Yes we face a determined foe, and make no mistake -- they will keep trying to hit us again. But as we are showing again this weekend, we remain vigilant," he said.

Mr Obama also noted that "across the Middle East and North Africa a new generation of citizens is showing that the future belongs to those that want to build, not destroy".
He forgot to mention Asia, where Pakistan is. How very odd. It could be a fault of his understanding of geography, though -- Americans are supposed to be particularly bad at that.
On Saturday, America's leaders dedicated a national memorial to the 40 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Then president Bush, his predecessor Bill Clinton, current Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
and their spouses joined families of the victims at the dedication.

Several hundred citizens -- many in patriotic T-shirts or holding US flags -- also paid homage.

Pakistain availed this opportunity to tell the Americans that it was with them in the fight against Orcs and similar vermin "Which country can do more for your peace?" asks an advertisement published in the Wall Street Journal. "Since 2001, a nation of 180 million has been fighting for the future of the world's 7 billion."

Pakistain had first offered this ad to The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
but they refused to publish it, forcing Pak officials to go to a business newspaper with a specialised but influential readership.
The New York Times being for the irrelevant ignorants who like to think they appreciate a finely crafted sentence, the Wall Street Journal is for those who need information on which to make decisions which will affect others.
The ad informs the American public that since Sept 11, 2001, 21,672 Pak civilians have bit the dust or have been seriously injured in an ongoing fight against terror.

The Pak Army also has lost 2,795 soldiers while 8,671 soldiers have been maimed. There have been 3,486 kabooms and 283 major suicide kabooms.

More than 3.5 million have been displaced while the country has lost $68 billion due to terrorism.

The Pak nation is "making sacrifices that statistics cannot reflect", says a caption above a picture of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was also killed by the terrorists. "The promise of our deaders lives on," it adds.
Posted by:Fred

#5  "reaching out..." for the rest of that foreign aid.
Posted by: Skidmark   2011-09-11 23:23  

#4  Too late.
Posted by: Barbara   2011-09-11 12:25  

#3  We sacrificed for years taking care of Bin Laden! /sarc
Posted by: Spot   2011-09-11 12:04  

#2  Pakistan,Iran and Saudi are no friends of the United States
Posted by: Pablo   2011-09-11 11:09  

#1  DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS, NEWS KERALA > MUSHARAFF: PAKISTAN COULD HAD FACED COMBINED MILITARY MIGHT OF US, INDIA AFTER 9-11, iff it did not allow US = US-NATO Milfors to use PAK as a staging area for the anti-terror fight oer in Afghanistan.

IMO Artic read, POST-911 USA = POTUS DUBYA + USDOD WAS GOING TO INVADE AFGHANISTAN COME HELL, HIGH WATER, OR EX-POTUS DAD BUSH 1's DESPISED BROCCOLI, + HAD NO QUALMS SMASHING OR RUNNING OVER PAKLAND IN THE PROCESS.

* SAME > [Wikileaks]CABLE: PAKISTANI AIRSPACE USED BY NATO MILITARY FLIGHTS [150 flights per day]. Originally was unchallenged but was later negotiated + approved between US-Islamabad.

ARTIC = also denotes that US MIlitary Containers passing into Afghanistan from Pakistan do not contain any Weapons, Ammo, or Sensitive techs of use to the MilTerr = Insurgent Groups???

* SAME > [Claim]AGHANISTAN BORDERS ARE SEALED: REHMAN MALIK, as per both flood of Afghan Refugees + espec MilTerr infiltration into PAK from same.

FYI Malik's claim is under curren dispute or disbelieved by various PAK Bloggers-Netters.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-09-11 00:54  

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