{"id":25833,"date":"2011-07-13T12:25:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T16:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25833"},"modified":"2011-07-13T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T16:25:34","slug":"pakistan-balks-at-closing-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25833","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan balks at closing camps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rowan Scarborough writes in the Washington Times<\/a> that the US has provided the Pakistan government with extensive maps of terrorist training camps in Pakistan, but the Pakistan government is resisting US pressure to close those camps;<\/p>\n

A former senior administration official said the biggest concern is a network of camps in North Waziristan from which the Taliban and al Qaeda-linked groups train and recruit fighters, as well as build improvised explosive devices (IEDs).<\/p>\n

Some of the camps are associated with the Haqqani Network, an insurgent group that carries out attacks on NATO troops from its hide-outs in North Waziristan and which is widely believed to have links to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.<\/p>\n

Persuading Pakistan to crack down in North Waziristan is taking on added importance. NATO plans in coming months to step up its counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan\u2019s Regional Command East \u2014 or RC-East, as it is called \u2014 after ridding the southern region around Kandahar of many Taliban safe havens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what’s the problem? We can send in Joe “Bite Me” Biden at the head of his columns of ninja robot zombies.<\/p>\n

The dilemma is that information that U.S. forces share with their Pakistani counterparts can find its way to the militants, who then change their tactics or locations, the former official said.<\/p>\n

News reports last month said the U.S. provided Pakistan with information on bomb-making plants, only to see the sites evacuated afterward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I remember Obama telling us during the campaign that he had problem with a bombing campaign against targets inside pakistan. SO what has changed, other than the fact that he’s responsible for his actions now that he’s not sniping from the back row.<\/p>\n

Is he suddenly worried about offending Pakistan? How much more can they punish us since it appears that their intelligence service is clearly working for the Taliban and al Qaeda. Both Biden and Obama shot off their big mouths until they reached the cat-bird seat. And what about the good will and cooperation we had with Pakistan before this crowd came to Washington?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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