Pakistan says U.S. drone strike violated its sovereignty

[Freewill]

The US still bombing ally countries, interesting.

Pakistan says U.S. drone strike violated its sovereignty

KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan accused the United States on Sunday of violating its sovereignty with a drone strike against the leader of the Afghan Taliban, in perhaps the most high-profile U.S. incursion into Pakistani territory since the 2011 raid to kill Osama bin Laden.

Afghanistan said the attack killed Mullah Akhtar Mansour, which, if confirmed, could trigger a succession battle within an insurgency that has proved resilient despite a decade and a half of U.S. military deployments to Afghanistan.

 

[my2¢]

With an ally country like Pakistan, who needs enemies?

 

[Freewill]

With an ally country like Pakistan, who needs enemies?

I guess as long as their skin is only brown they are fair game.

 

[rightwinger]

The US still bombing ally countries, interesting.

Pakistan says U.S. drone strike violated its sovereignty

KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan accused the United States on Sunday of violating its sovereignty with a drone strike against the leader of the Afghan Taliban, in perhaps the most high-profile U.S. incursion into Pakistani territory since the 2011 raid to kill Osama bin Laden.

Afghanistan said the attack killed Mullah Akhtar Mansour, which, if confirmed, could trigger a succession battle within an insurgency that has proved resilient despite a decade and a half of U.S. military deployments to Afghanistan.

For some reason, Pakistan never complains about its sovereignty when terrorists flood across their borders seeking safe haven

 

[Timmy]

They are saying that to sAve face . Pakistan wants those dudes dead as much as we do .

 

[rightwinger]

With an ally country like Pakistan, who needs enemies?

I guess as long as their skin is only brown they are fair game.

As long as they provide a safe haven for terrorists, they are fair game

 

[rightwinger]

With an ally country like Pakistan, who needs enemies?

Or the Saudis for that matter

 

[Freewill]

With an ally country like Pakistan, who needs enemies?

I guess as long as their skin is only brown they are fair game.

As long as they provide a safe haven for terrorists, they are fair game

Does France, England have any terrorist cells?

Funny in a not laughing way, how the left vilified the CIA over torture yet is OK with them selectively killing people.

Kinda reminds me of Mohammad Ali and him protesting the war. Seems like he didn't want to kill anyone he just wanted to beat the crap out of them.

 

[Freewill]

Well looky here at what the state department calls safe havens.

Pakistan is ONE of many, yet it seems we only bomb brown countries.

Country Reports on Terrorism 2014 Chapter 5: Terrorist Safe Havens (Update to 7120 Report)

 

[Freewill]

They are saying that to sAve face . Pakistan wants those dudes dead as much as we do .

And you know this, how?

 

[rightwinger]

With an ally country like Pakistan, who needs enemies?

I guess as long as their skin is only brown they are fair game.

As long as they provide a safe haven for terrorists, they are fair game

Does France, England have any terrorist cells?

Funny in a not laughing way, how the left vilified the CIA over torture yet is OK with them selectively killing people.

Kinda reminds me of Mohammad Ali and him protesting the war. Seems like he didn't want to kill anyone he just wanted to beat the crap out of them.

On the order of Pakistan?

Not even close

 

[NYcarbineer]

With an ally country like Pakistan, who needs enemies?

I guess as long as their skin is only brown they are fair game.

So you support only killing white terrorists?

wtf?

 

[Timmy]

They are saying that to sAve face . Pakistan wants those dudes dead as much as we do .

And you know this, how?

Is it some big secret that the paki gov doesn't lime religious extremists ? They have their own share of terrorism over there .

 

[bendog]

Obama kow tows to yet another terrorist regime. I weep. (-:

 

[NYcarbineer]

1. Obama successfully takes out another terrorist
2. USMB ODS'ers bitch about it.
3. Same shit, different day.

 

[Freewill]

They are saying that to sAve face . Pakistan wants those dudes dead as much as we do .

And you know this, how?

Is it some big secret that the paki gov doesn't lime religious extremists ? They have their own share of terrorism over there .

A question answering a question is not an answer. Yes, there is terrorism over there just like there is throughout the world as the link from the state department clearly shows. So what's the difference between a drone/cruise missile and a pressure cooker?

 

[Timmy]

They are saying that to sAve face . Pakistan wants those dudes dead as much as we do .

And you know this, how?

Is it some big secret that the paki gov doesn't lime religious extremists ? They have their own share of terrorism over there .

A question answering a question is not an answer. Yes, there is terrorism over there just like there is throughout the world as the link from the state department clearly shows. So what's the difference between a drone/cruise missile and a pressure cooker?

Like, $20 million dollars !

 

[Freewill]

With an ally country like Pakistan, who needs enemies?

I guess as long as their skin is only brown they are fair game.

As long as they provide a safe haven for terrorists, they are fair game

Does France, England have any terrorist cells?

Funny in a not laughing way, how the left vilified the CIA over torture yet is OK with them selectively killing people.

Kinda reminds me of Mohammad Ali and him protesting the war. Seems like he didn't want to kill anyone he just wanted to beat the crap out of them.

On the order of Pakistan?

Not even close

Could you qualify that bit of information with some sort of data? I offered you the link to the state department, lots of bad folks out there that's for sure. Seems like not long ago Bush was accused of being a terrorist recruiter, what do you think is the effect of drone strikes?

 

[Siete]

Bin Laden hid in Paki for years ... fuck them.

 

[waltky]

Will Mansour's death result in war or peace?...

An Assassination That Could Bring War Or Peace
June 4, 2016 - At a press conference in Hanoi on May 23, President Obama announced that he would lift the decades-old arms embargo on Vietnam, which he called “a lingering vestige of the Cold War.”

He also confirmed that, two days earlier, a missile launched from a U.S. Special Operations Forces drone had killed the Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansur in a taxi about a hundred miles southwest of Quetta, the capital of the Pakistani province of Balochistan. (The strike also killed the driver, Muhammad Azam, whose family the U.S. should compensate.) Obama called the air strike an “important milestone” in terminating that other vestige of the Cold War: the protean, never-ending conflict in Afghanistan. The strike, Obama said, “removed the leader of an organization that has continued to plot against and unleash attacks on American and Coalition forces, to wage war against the Afghan people, and align itself with extremist groups like al Qaeda.” Afghan social-media users thrilled to the news that the U.S. had, for the first time, taken the fight to the Taliban’s safe haven in Balochistan, from which the Taliban leadership sent suicide bombers and assassins into Afghanistan with impunity.

Obama also expressed the hope that the Taliban would “seize the opportunity” of Mansur’s death “to pursue the only real path for ending this long conflict—joining the Afghan government in a reconciliation process that leads to lasting peace and stability.” So far, the Taliban do not seem to have interpreted the assassination of their leader as an outstretched hand for peace. Like other fighters, including ours, the Taliban respond to blows that fail to destroy them with determination to make their enemy pay the consequences. Research on the “decapitation” of terrorist groups shows that it rarely splits them and often radicalizes them.

Mansur had taken charge of the organization less than a year before, when an attempt to start peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government triggered the revelation that Mansur had concealed the April, 2013, death of the Taliban’s founding leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar. A small group hurriedly appointed Mansur as successor, but the closed nature of the process, the visible effort to shore up Mansur’s support by Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the I.S.I., and Mansur’s two-year-long deception of the Taliban’s membership caused dissension from Mullah Omar’s family and other leaders.

On May 25th, the Afghan Taliban leadership council in Quetta chose Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, a religious scholar, as the new leader. As the head of the Taliban’s council of ulama (Islamic scholars), he played a role like general counsel to both Omar and Mansur, providing Islamic legal justification for acts such as suicide bombings and targeted killings. He had also served as a judge in the Taliban’s military courts, where he gained a reputation for harsh rectitude. So far, the succession process has gone smoothly: many of those who objected to Mansur’s selection have agreed to pledge loyalty to the new leader. Hibatullah need not exert much authority to continue the Taliban’s annual spring offensive, especially now that the fighters have an additional motivation: avenging their leader’s death.

An Assassination That Could Bring War Or Peace - The New Yorker