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Invading Pakistan: An idea whose time has come

Abid Ullah Jan | 03.01.2008 20:16 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

As usual, the Neocons-Zionists are paying no attention to the consequences of their totalitarian designs. They hardly care if Iraq and Afghanistan are in total chaos and millions of innocent lives have been lost. What is chaos to us is a success to them. Without such a vast turmoil, they believe it is not easy to redraw the maps in the Middle-East [5] (including South Asia) and permanently tame the Muslim world in favour of Israel’s expansionist drive.


Editorial note: Neocons-Zionists and other warlords in Washington and UK believe that time has come to invade and strip Pakistan of its nuclear weapons. That’s how the US got a green light from Islamabad to consolidate its position on the ground within Pakistan and in return Musharraf only maintained his indispensability and rule only for the time being.

As usual, the Neocons-Zionists are paying no attention to the consequences of their totalitarian designs. They hardly care if Iraq and Afghanistan are in total chaos and millions of innocent lives have been lost. What is chaos to us is a success to them. Without such a vast turmoil, they believe it is not easy to redraw the maps in the Middle-East [1] (including South Asia) and permanently tame the Muslim world in favour of Israel’s expansionist drive.


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Invading Pakistan: An idea whose time has come

Under the pretext of training and supporting indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counter-terrorism units – read Pakistan’s mercenary forces, fighting and dying for the neocons designs in the region - US special forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan early next year. According to Washington Post, this was revealed by the American defence officials involved with the planning.

Good luck Pakistan. Musharraf, the compulsive gambler sold another chunk of its sovereignty and independence only to show he can do it better than what Benazir had promised to the warlords in Washington. Musharraf must have told the US officials, Benazir is mere promises, conditional on her success, I can sign a deal right now. Hence the report was published by the Washington Post the day Benazir was assassinated. It means the deal between Mush and the US official was inked days before that.

These Pakistan-centric operations will mark a shift for the US military and for US-Pakistan relations. In the aftermath of Sept 11, the US used Pakistani military bases to stage illegal and illegitimate attacks into Afghanistan, which resulted in the butchery of thousands of innocent civilian and innocent lives. According to the reports, once the US deposed the Taliban government and established its main operating base at Bagram, north of Kabul, US forces left Pakistan almost entirely. This however doesn’t make sense in the light of the present revelations that troops level “will be increased,” which means there is already some presence of the US forces in Pakistan. Although the pro-regime reports say that Pakistan has restricted US involvement in cross-border military operations as well as paramilitary operations on its soil. But the evidence of events since 2001 and the US sustained attacks on Pakistan, any time it wanted to attack, tells a story to the contrary.

Despite that the Pentagon pretends that it has been frustrated by the inability of Pakistani forces to control the borders or the frontier area. Pakistan’s political instability is further used as a ruse to express heightened US concern about “extremists” there. These are all part of the bigger plan. The objective is to pave the way for the impending surge of US troops within Pakistan – which has been presenting itself a nuclear power and an independent, sovereign state. Now it has to face the second stage of direct US occupation.

According to Pentagon sources, reaching a different agreement with Pakistan became a priority for the new head of the US Special Operations Command, Adm Eric T Olson.

Olson visited Pakistan in August, November and again this month, meeting with the self-imposed president Pervez Musharraf, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Tariq Majid and Lt Gen Muhammad Masood Aslam, commander of the military and paramilitary troops in northwest Pakistan. Olson also visited the headquarters of the Frontier Corps, a separate paramilitary force recruited from Pakistan’s border tribes.

Now, a new agreement, reported when it was still being negotiated last month, has been finalised. And the first US personnel could be on the ground in Pakistan by early in the new year, according to Pentagon sources. Thanks to General Musharraf, his ambition to remain in power and his nature as a compulsive gambler, which forces him to surrender almost anything in order to secure his stay in power.

US Central Command Commander Adm William Fallon alluded to the agreement and spoke approvingly of Pakistan’s recent so-called counter-terrorism efforts in a recent interview.

“What we’ve seen in the last several months is more of a willingness to use their regular army units,” along the Afghan border, Fallon said. “And this is where, I think, we can help a lot from the US in providing the kind of training, assistance and mentoring based on our experience with insurgencies recently and with the terrorist problem in Iraq and Afghanistan, I think we share a lot with them, and we’ll look forward to doing that.”

In fact, this is the initial phase of finding a niche within Pakistan army for the pro-US elements in preparation of the bigger struggle. Chaos is being manufactured on the other hand for unfolding the next phases of the plan neutralize Pakistan. As chaos deepens and the situation escalates to a civil war, the US forces will already be on the ground in Pakistan to support in invading and attacking forces. The already present US forces on the ground will stand by those elements of the Pakistan army which will be resisting the break away factions as was indicated by Frederick W. Kegan and Michael O’Hanlon in the New York Times on November 18, 2007 [2].

The theme of attacking or, at least, temporarily occupying Pakistan is not new. This idea has been part of the necons-Zionist lobby for quite some time. David Albright wrote a paper, “Securing Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Complex” in 2001. The paper was commissioned and sponsored by the Stanley Foundation for the 42nd Strategy for Peace Conference from October 25-27, 2001. The paper pointed out [3]:

“a special concern is that Pakistan will suffer another coup. A new leadership can be expected to place a high priority on seizing the country's nuclear assets…In the most extreme case, a coup takes place and the new regime attempts to gain control of the nuclear complex. Foreign governments may intervene to prevent hostile forces from seizing the strategic nuclear assets.”

A realistic look on the unfolding situation clearly suggest that the “extreme situation” pointed out in the said paper is being created with undue support to all the illegal and outright criminal moves by Musharraf. This US-UK support to the tyrant only exacerbate the situation.

David Albright, Kevin O'Neill and Corey Hinderstein, conclude in their proposal, “Securing Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal: Principles for Assistance," [4] (ISIS Issue Brief, October 4, 2001):

“Several observers have suggested that if Pakistan suffers a coup by forces hostile to the United States, the US military should be ready to provide security over the nuclear weapons (or even to take the weapons out of Pakistan entirely) without the permission of the Pakistani authorities.”

Neocons-Zionists and other warlords in Washington and UK believe that time has come to invade and strip Pakistan of its nuclear weapons. That’s how the US got a green light from Islamabad to consolidate its position on the ground within Pakistan and in return Musharraf only maintained his indispensability and rule only for the time being.

As usual, the Neocons-Zionists are paying no attention to the consequences of their totalitarian designs. They hardly care if Iraq and Afghanistan are in total chaos and millions of innocent lives have been lost. What is chaos to us is a success to them. Without such a vast turmoil, they believe it is not easy to redraw the maps in the Middle-East [5] (including South Asia) and permanently tame the Muslim world in favour of Israel’s expansionist drive.



Also see:


· Plans for disintegrating Pakistan are now up for debate. [6]

· Bhutto murder blamed on Pakistan agents [but with a pro-Musharraf twist] [7]

· Pounding Pakistan to Soften the “high value Target” [8]

· Musharraf won’t depart before putting a final nail in Pakistan’s coffin [9]






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[2]  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/opinion/18kagan.html
[3]  http://www.isis-online.org/publications/terrorism/stanleypaper.html
[4]  http://www.isis-online.org/publications/terrorism/pakassist.html
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