Pakistan: US Forces Cannot Hunt Al Qaida, Taliban Militants On Our Soil

AP:

Pakistan reiterated Sunday that it will not let American forces hunt al-Qaida and Taliban militants on its soil, after a news report said Washington was considering expanding U.S. military and intelligence operations into Pakistan's tribal regions.

The Foreign Ministry dismissed as "speculative" a story in the New York Times on Sunday saying U.S. President George W. Bush's top security officials discussed a proposal Friday to deploy American troops to pursue militants along the Pakistan-Afghan border.

"We are very clear. Nobody is going to be allowed to do anything here," said Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad, the army's top spokesman.

"The government has said it so many times," Arshad said. "No foreign forces will be allowed to operate inside Pakistan."

In Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai's spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

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Comments

[slobone]

Well, we could have gotten him in Afghanistan in 2001 if President Cheney hadn't been so obsessed with Iraq. But even if he slipped into Pakistan, nobody would have faulted us if we'd gone in after him. Now of course it's way too late.

[vippy]

Why do people still believe Obama is alive. How long can one go on kidney dialysis. He died in 2001. Bush is keeping him alive to keep the fear going. And Pakistan, we are wasting our money to keep Musharraf in power.
Sooner or later the people will get their way.
Now that is a country which hates us. Remember we bombed them 2 years ago and killed families
because our intel was wrong again.

[Alethia]

The U.S. and the Western world should do what they should have done right after 9/11: pressure India to settle the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan. After a settlement, we would have seen everyone in Pakistan rushing to destroy Al Qaeda with their hearts in it-and loving the U.S. forever.

The festering Kashmir dispute has to be solved to bring peace to vast region of the world and to extinguish at least half the terrorism that exists in the world today.

[forpeace]

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Bush Administration (US Forces) did NOT go after al-Qaida when it was in Afghanistan, what makes you believe they will go after them in Pakistan!!!

........ and the question remains, where is Osama??!!!

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[MajorKong]

Silly Pakistan. They must think they're a sovereign country or something.

[darker]

Why of course, the USA cannot hunt for al-Qaida and Taliban militants in Pack-it-stan.

They are in Dubai on vacation, compliments of the sultan and their CIA supporters, whose "job" is to foment "terrorism" as a FOR-PROFIT OPPORTUNITY for
corporate welfare queens spending taxpayer money
in a FOR-PROFIT INVASION & wars.

War PAYS! Invest in WAR!
More war, more $$$$$$$$$$­$$$$$$$$$$­$$$$$$!!!

Middle-income Americans will be paying forever for such emptying of the USTreasury.

[watchingthings]

Same old...same old....America chooses wrong puppet to prop up. Now comes the third finger salute in gratitude.

[Bad actor]

Didn't anyone hear Bhutto say in a televised interview just before her death that Bin Laden was murdered in 2002. She even named the person who killed him.

[PAFirefighter]

This - from the country which ALLOWS the Taliban from Afghanistan (a foreign force) to shelter in their country and provides OBL and his followers with a safe, warm place to stay:

"The government has said it so many times," said Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad, the army's top spokesman. "No foreign forces will be allowed to operate inside Pakistan."

They can't even keep their top presidential contender alive. Well, that's not true. They actually KILLED their top presidential candidate because she posed a threat to the military junta now ruling Pakistan with an iron fist.

PA Firefighter
"Cogito, ergo Liberal!"

[jackpinesavage]

The Pakistani government would have to say this for domestic consumption; Musharaff's coziness to the US is trouble for him. The fact of the matter is that nobody is in control of the tribal areas. Which means that the CIA can do pretty much whatever they want, and tribal leaders will shift their alliances based on what's best for them at any given moment.

Once again, we are being overtly covert and we'll be setting chains of events into motion which we can neither predict nor control.

[LorettaSingbiel]

"Pakistan will not let American forces hunt al-Qaida and Taliban militants on its soil. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is a close U.S. ally in the war against terror."

"a close U.S. ally in the war against terror"?OH...THAT’S RICH!

Well actually..­.MUSHARRAF­’S RICH, and not a SNITCH. He'll accept The Decider's hospitable help, WITHOUT ratting Bin Laden out of his hospitable hiding place.

YES FOLKS...Our #1 terrorist is aided & abetted by Musharraf, with BILLIONS of U.S. tax dollars. The money trail leads right to Bin Laden's hell-raising, rabble-rousing emcampments.

Stay safe, healthy and happy,
Love, Loretta

[Lt]

The real question is how did we get into this mess?

How will we get out of it? And how do we prevent it from happening again?

Bush and his group of conservatives are all devout christians, they bought the MINDLESS christian vote by bribing the evangelical leaders with the 'faith based initiative' -our tax dollars at work- we need to end the era of tax free mega churchs, religion in politics, and any religious leader that gets tax money needs to pay taxes on that money.

[Tankan]

Satan looks after his own!

[sparkey]

Bush doesn't care anymore. He got his and will be heading to Paraquay next January. By the way, has anybody seen Cheney, lately? He seems to have vanished. The old mafia saying is true;"keep your friends close, but keep you enemies closer". I want to know where Cheney took off to. I trust him even less than I trust Bush, and I don't trust him at all. Everthing is falling apart over there and both of them are trying to get out while they can. Bush, Cheney and all the crooks have put us ten trillion dollars in debt, sold us to Mexico, China and Saudi Arabia and are just trying keep everything from blowing up till they leave next January. I feel sorry for our kids and grandkids who are going to have to pay for what those two crooks did.

[1man1voicenovote]

Imams in Pakistan are using the phrase 'The Great Satan' to describe America again.

U.S. Flags are burning every day in that country...but no footage.

If Iranians were burning U.S. Flags, we'd have that footage shoved down our throats!