The CIA’s War in Pakistan
September 23rd, 2010Via: Independent:
The US Central Intelligence Agency is running and paying for a secret 3,000-strong army of Afghan paramilitaries whose main aim is assassinating Taliban and al-Qa’ida operatives not just in Afghanistan but across the border in neighbouring Pakistan’s tribal areas, according to Bob Woodward’s explosive book.
Although the CIA has long been known to run clandestine militias in Afghanistan, including one from a base it rents from the Afghan president Hamid Karzai’s half-brother in the southern province of Kandahar, the sheer number of militiamen directly under its control have never been publicly revealed.
Woodward’s book, Obama’s Wars, describes these forces as elite, well-trained units that conduct highly sensitive covert operations into Pakistan as part of a stepped-up campaign against al-Qa’ida and Afghan Taliban havens there. Two US newspapers published the claims after receiving copies of the manuscript.
I’m tired of Woodward. To me he is such a cliche anymore. Obama’s War’s the book should have been titled “The Presidential Toilet: How Obama is trying to clean up Carter’s, Reagan’s, Clinton, Bush I and the CIA’s Diapers.”
Ya, when someone freaking anywhere figures out how the US can survive ecomomically without drugs, oil, natural gas or whatever that they strive for in their imperialist quests,- lately all in the name of Freedom, wake me up out of my nap. Yawn.
And Woodward, you are such a slug. Contributing nothing forward, but always sucking off the back draft. Give up. Retire.