US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen on Thursday said he believed the top leadership of Al Qaeda, including Osama Bin Laden, was in Pakistan. Talking to Al Jazeera TV, Mullen said Al Qaeda was on top of the US list of priorities and threats around the world. When asked why the United States was not in FATA despite having the knowledge that Al Qaeda was present there, he said, "Because FATA is in Pakistan and Pakistan is a sovereign country and we don’t go into sovereign countries."...
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Mullen: U.S. Does Not Invade Sovereign Countries
Daily Times Monitor
July 24, 2009
Osama still in Pakistan: Mullen
* Top US military commander says Pakistan has taken Taliban threat very seriously
Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen on Thursday said he believed the top leadership of Al Qaeda, including Osama Bin Laden, was in Pakistan.
Talking to Al Jazeera TV, Mullen said Al Qaeda was on top of the US list of priorities and threats around the world. When asked why the United States was not in FATA despite having the knowledge that Al Qaeda was present there, he said, "Because FATA is in Pakistan and Pakistan is a sovereign country and we don’t go into sovereign countries."
He said Al Qaeda could strike the US from FATA therefore the top objective of the current US strategy was to defeat it, adding that Washington did not have any troops on ground in Pakistan chasing the Taliban.
"We have had trainers there for a significant period of time to train their trainers, which is [an] ongoing support function that is actually moving in the right direction," he said, adding that some of the US troops were special forces and some were general purpose troops.
Threats: Mullen said there had been a positive shift across Pakistan, especially its military, in recent months against the Taliban.
"One of the things that has happened in Pakistan in recent months and weeks is the Pakistani military - really in response to the people of Pakistan - [and] the government of Pakistan [have] taken the threat against them very, very seriously," the US joint chief of staff said.
However, Mullen said the Taliban could be politically engaged in the long run. "I think at some point [in the] long-term, they [Taliban] become part of the political process".
Mullen said Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had to change its strategic thrust in the long run, which, he said, had been to "foment chaotic activity you know in its border countries".
He said Islamabad’s that "view to its own survival and its own security" had to change at some point in the future.
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| Comment by layla anwar - 25 Jul 2009 - 18:05 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | HAHAHAHA.
No, the Yanks don't invade sovereign countries - they just go there for a walk - A cake walk.
HAHAHAHAHA |
| Comment by - 25 Jul 2009 - 18:51 [USER NOT REGISTERED] |
f--k the united states of zionism (formerly the united states of america)
talmudic dual-citizen american/israelis control america
talmudic duties: to lie lie lie to the trusting, dumbed-down 'goy' they have di senfranchised
of course united states of zionism can only lie - they are are practised talmudi c liars |
| Comment by johndoylesr - 26 Jul 2009 - 01:26 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | | America don`t invade sovereign nations,what the fuck was(Iraq,Panama,Afghanistan ,Pakistan,Haiti,Cuba,etc).It just a affront to anyone who isn`t ignorant regardi ng,the taqiyya of the JEW!America is a proxy and subserviant to zionist ISREAL!T o all uninformed readers,American newer slang name is(ZOG)Zionist occupied gover nment!The JEWS refer to all of us non-JEWS as,SHABAZZ GOYM(Stupid cattle)! |
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