Category: Pakistan
By Nail Em Up on Sep 14, 2011 in 9/11, AfPak Border, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Asia, CIA, Civil Liberties & Rights, Counterterrorism, Crime, Current Affairs, Fascism, Governance, Human Rights, India, Jihadists, Media, Print, Muslim, National Defense, National Security, Pakistan, Religion, Sharia Law, Taliban, Terrorism, World | View Comments
Osama bin Laden: killed and al Qaeda: on the run. That’s the balance sheet — more or less — that the U.S. has to share with the world. Meanwhile, its biggest ally in the War on Terror — Pakistan — has nothing to present except that its own people have been terrorized by militants, with [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jul 21, 2011 in Afghanistan, Bailouts, Congress (House & Senate), Crime, Current Affairs, Deficit, Economy, Egypt, Foreign Aid, Governance, Pakistan, SEC, State Department | View Comments
The old Ben Franklin adage, is apparently one with which our government is unfamiliar. Just within the past few days, three major wasteful decisions have come to light. The first is in the State Department. This wasn’t just a wasteful decision, but an unethical, immoral, and I have to hope, illegal one. Within the State [...]
By Nail Em Up on Jul 13, 2011 in AfPak Border, Afghanistan, Defense, DoD, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, Media, Blogs, Pakistan, Pentagon, Southwest Asia, State Department, Taliban, Terrorism | View Comments
Only a year ago, the Obama administration decided to ramp up military support to the Pakistani army as part of an effort to persuade Islamabad to do more to combat militants. The new military aid, which was contingent on Congressional approval, was expected to amount to more than $2 billion over five years and would [...]
By Nail Em Up on Jul 6, 2011 in 9/11, Abuse, AfPak Border, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Censorship, Civil Liberties & Rights, Civil Rights, Current Affairs, Entertainment, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Hollywood, Human Rights, Islam, Jihadists, Media, Print, Media, Television, Muslim, Muslims & Arabs, National Defense, National Security, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Taliban, Terrorism, Torture, Women and Children, World | View Comments
The tense relationship between Pakistan and the United States has often been described as a bad marriage. Like a couple teetering on divorce but frozen in mutually dependent inertia, the U.S. wants one thing while Pakistan wants another, at least most of the time. This love-hate relationship long precedes the September 11th attacks. The last [...]
By Nail Em Up on Jun 28, 2011 in AfPak Border, Afghanistan, Asia, Corruption, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, India, Islam, Media, Muslim, Muslims & Arabs, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism, World, World News | View Comments
It’s surprising to many that the majority of Pakistanis support the Islamists and their apologists as the saviors of their religion. But this didn’t happen overnight. The mindset of the large segment of society didn’t change with a blink of an eye. No serious attempt has been made to analyse this phenomenon even though the [...]
By Nail Em Up on May 20, 2011 in AfPak Border, Asia, Censorship, Civil Liberties & Rights, Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Pakistan | View Comments
It was embarrassing enough for the people of Pakistan to find out that Osama bin Laden was living in their midst for years. Even more shameful was the realization that their politicians are incapable of questioning the security apparatus of the country. The masses rallied and protested and faced hardships for months to kick General [...]
By Nail Em Up on May 18, 2011 in 9/11, AfPak Border, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Asia, Defense, DoD, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, Islam, Jihadists, Media, Media, Print, Muslim, Pakistan, Pentagon, State Department, Taliban, Terrorism | View Comments
One of the most familiar story lines in the beloved comic strip “Peanuts” involved malicious prankster Lucy holding a football and encouraging poor Charlie Brown to kick it. At the last moment, Lucy would pull the football away. Year after year after year, Lucy played Charlie Brown for a sucker. The football remained unkicked. So [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 9, 2011 in Al Qaeda, CIA, Chicago politics, Commander in Chief, Congress (House & Senate), Counterterrorism, Current Affairs, Federal Agencies, Cabinets and Departments, Flip Flopping, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Gen. David Petraeus, Governance, Hoodwinking, Muslims & Arabs, National Defense, National Security, Pakistan, Pandering, Pentagon, President Barack Obama, Richard Daley, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett | View Comments
“The operation was at this time effectively unknown to President Barack Obama or Valerie Jarrett and it remained that way until AFTER it had already been initiated. President Obama was literally pulled from a golf outing and escorted back to the White House to be informed of the mission. Upon his arrival there was a [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 7, 2011 in Al Qaeda, Counterterrorism, Current Affairs, Egypt, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, Muslims & Arabs, National Security, Pakistan, Terrorism | View Comments
That would be Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood, to name just two. Yep, Hamas has “condemned” the killing: While many Middle East leaders welcomed America’s military action, the mixed reaction across the region cast a shadow over both the “Arab Spring” and the future of talks between Israel and the Palestinians. [...] The Hamas prime [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on May 6, 2011 in Al Qaeda, Bush/Cheney, Current Affairs, Jihadists, Middle East, National Security, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Soldiers/Veterans, Washington Post | View Comments
I never thought I would see the day that ex-Governor Sarah Palin, WSJ’s Peggy Noonan, and WaPo’s Eugene Robinson* would agree on anything. Hell must have frozen over. Their unlikely agreement came as all three insisted it would have been better for the White House to release the post-mortem photos of Osama bin Laden, rather [...]
By Nail Em Up on May 2, 2011 in 9/11, AfPak Border, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Bush administration, Commander in Chief, Crime, Current Affairs, Defense, DoD, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, George Bush, Guantanamo, Homeland Security, India, Islam, Jihadists, Media, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Media, Blogs, Media, Print, Muslim, Muslims & Arabs, NATO, National Security, Pakistan, Pentagon, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Southwest Asia, State Department, Terrorism, World News | View Comments
Bin Ladin is dead. Again. In the last ten years he has been reported “killed” at least four times. The only difference this time was that the President of the United States announced the death of the number one terrorist in the world. Above all, this time he was killed not in Tora Bora, not [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 2, 2011 in 9/11, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Bush administration, CIA, Counterterrorism, Current Affairs, DoD, Foreign Affairs, George Bush, Homeland Security, Intelligence, Muslim, Pakistan, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | View Comments
Update below the fold. I had another post all ready to go this morning of Lara Logan’s interview on “60 Minutes,” but that can keep until tomorrow. Today, the big news, as President Obama announced late last night, Osama bin Laden has been killed. The reports have been a bit conflicting on just how he [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Mar 31, 2011 in Abuse, California, Civil Liberties & Rights, Current Affairs, Egypt, Forced Prostitution, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Iran, Linda Anselmi, Misogyny, Pakistan, Sexism, Texas, Women and Children, Women's History Month | View Comments
I freely admit, I did not see this one coming. My friend and fellow NQ writer, Linda Anselmi, shared the following article with me, most appropos for bringing to an end Women’s History Month. And that would be this Bloomberg article, Saudi Women Inspired by Fall of Mubarak Step Up Equality Demand. Wow, right? Honestly, [...]
By Nail Em Up on Jan 6, 2011 in AfPak Border, Bush administration, Censorship, Citizenship, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties & Rights, Civil Rights, Crime, Current Affairs, Death Penalty, Fascism, Freedom of Speech, George Bush, Hate Speech, Human Rights, Islam, Jihadists, Media Bias, Media, Blogs, Media, Television, Muslim, Muslims & Arabs, Pakistan, Race, Racism, Religion, Sharia Law, Southwest Asia | View Comments
Salmaan Taseer is dead. He’s neither the first politician, first liberal, the first outspoken bullish pugnacious politician who was killed. Nor is he last. There were many, there will be more. He was the sitting governor of Pakistan’s biggest province and was assassinated by his own bodyguard. Does Pakistan suffer today because of his death? [...]
By Nail Em Up on Dec 28, 2010 in AfPak Border, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CIA, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Counterterrorism, Crime, Current Affairs, Defense, DoD, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Jihadists, Media, Print, Media, Radio, Media, Television, NATO, National Defense, National Security, Pakistan, Political Strategy, Southwest Asia, State Department, Taliban, Terrorism | View Comments
The Islamabad station chief of the Central Intelligence Agency hastily departed from Pakistan last week after his cover was blown due to a suspected deliberate leak by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence. This act is the latest evidence of the tense relationship between the two spy agencies. It is believed that his cover was blown in retaliation [...]
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