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| US consul flees Pakistan amid threats |
| 2010-12-11 |
| [Iran Press TV] Beautiful Downtown Peshawar-based US Consul General Elizabeth Rood has reportedly left Pakistain after receiving numerous death threats from pro-Talibs. A brief statement issued by the US Embassy in Islamabad has confirmed her sudden departure, a Press TV correspondent reported on Friday. Media reports say Rood had reportedly received threats to her life and was "feeling unsafe." Rood, who had assumed the post in August, had failed to perform her diplomatic activities in an extremely volatile region where militancy is rampant. The development comes a hundreds of people have held anti-US protests for a second consecutive day. Protesters have condemned non-UN-sanctioned US dronezaps on Pakistain's tribal areas. US dronezaps have killed two thousand people in northwest Pakistain since 2004. Pro-Talibs launched a series of bomb attacks against the US Consulate in Peshawar over the past months. At least seven people were killed in the early April attack. There were several powerful kabooms in the area near the consulate and a number of buildings collapsed. According to official figures some 10,000 people have been killed in both Pak military operations and US dronezaps since former military ruler Pervez PervMusharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... joined the so-called US-led war on terror following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on US soil. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 All flaming liberals should be made to have a tour of duty as US consul in Pakistan or Afghanistan. It will be a life changing experience for them. A cure for liberalism. |
| Posted by: Mikey Hunt 2010-12-11 13:22 |
| #2 Elizabeth Rood is Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General in Peshawar, Pakistan. Her most recent assignment was as Director of the Stability Operations Division of the Foreign Service Institute. Previously, Ms. Rood was the Department of State representative on the U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Team in Paktika Province in southeastern Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009. From 2006 to 2007, she was the Director of the State Department's Office of Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts; from 2004-2007 she was the Deputy to the U.S. Special Negotiator for the Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria conflicts. In prior tours she served in the Nonproliferation Bureau, the U.S. Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna, Consulate General Düsseldorf, Embassy Vienna, and Embassy Moscow. Before joining the Foreign Service Ms. Rood taught foreign languages in the Frederick County, Maryland public schools. She is a native of Cary, North Carolina and holds an MA from the University of Maryland at College Park and an AB from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She speaks French, Russian, German, and Pashto. |
| Posted by: Uleger Barnsmell4617 2010-12-11 10:35 |
| #1 Peshawar would be a wonderful place to test the impact accuracy of those new railguns... |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2010-12-11 00:03 |