Re: Barack Obama says he will order invasion of Pakistan
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PREZ POLITICS: Obama’s Unusual Pakistan Plan
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Pakistan has been thrust into the middle of the U.S. presidential
campaign, thanks to Senator Barack Obama’s comments on Aug. 1, 2007,
about how he’d deal with terrorism. From the AP report, “Obama Talks
Tough on Terror.”
“Let me make this clear,” Obama said. “There are terrorists holed
up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting
to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had
a chance to take out an al-Qaida leadership meeting in 2005. If we
have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and
President Musharraf will not act, we will.”
That of course, set off a lot of coverage. Here’s a roundup of news
and opinion pieces from the major U.S. media:
* NY Post: Obama: I’d Invade Ally: Stunning Plan to Fight Qaeda in Pakistan
* NYT: Obama Calls for Military Shift in U.S. Focus on Terrorism
* WashPost: Obama Says He’d Take Fight to Pakistan
* LAT: Obama Talks Tough on Pakistan, Terror
* Reuters: Tough Talk on Pakistan by Obama
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The government of Pakistan responded with some harsh words (from news.com.au):
PAKISTAN accused Democratic US presidential candidate Barack Obama of
“sheer ignorance” today for threatening to launch US military strikes
against al-Qaeda on Pakistani soil.
Mr Obama warned today that if he is elected president, he would order
US forces to hit extremist targets on Pakistan’s frontier with
Afghanistan if embattled military ruler President Pervez Musharraf
failed to act. “Such statements are being made out of sheer
ignorance,” Pakistan’s Minister of State for Information, Tariq Azeem,
said.
“They are not fully apprised about the ground realities and not
aware of the efforts by Pakistan.”
Islamabad has bristled against a string of similar threats in
recent weeks by the administration of US President George W. Bush,
whose top counter-terror official in July refused to rule out US
strikes in Pakistan.
Mr Musharraf, struggling to contain a wave of Islamist violence
unleashed by the army’s bloody storming of the radical Red Mosque in
Islamabad three weeks ago, himself firmly rejected any US action last
week.
“We have said before that we will not allow anyone to infringe our
sovereignty,” Mr Azeem said.
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