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*Breaking*... Obama bombs Pakistan, kills 18

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/24/pakistan-barack-obama-air-strike




Barack Obama gave the go-ahead for his first military action yesterday, missile strikes against suspected militants in Pakistan which killed at least 18 people.

Four days after assuming the presidency, he was consulted by US commanders before they launched the two attacks. Although Obama has abandoned many of the "war on terror" policies of George Bush while he was president, he is not retreating from the hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders.

The US believes they are hiding in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan, and made 30 strikes last year in which more than 200 people were killed. In the election, Obama hinted at increased operations in Pakistan, saying he thought Bush had made a mistake in switching to Iraq before completing the job against al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The US marine corp commander said yesterday that his 22,000 troops should be redeployed from Iraq to Afghanistan. Gen James Conway said "the time is right" to leave Iraq now the war had become largely nation-building rather than the pitched fighting in which the corps excelled; he wanted the marines in Afghanistan, especially in the south where insurgents, and the Taliban and al-Qaida, benefit from both a nearby safe haven in Pakistan and a booming trade in narcotics.

Obama has warned that he is prepared to bomb inside Pakistan if he gets relevant intelligence about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. He had also said he would act against militants along the border if the Pakistan government failed to.

The US missiles were fired by unmanned Predator drones, which hang in the sky gathering intelligence through surveillance and, when commanded and directed by remote control, to launch attacks.

The strikes will help Obama portray himself as a leader who, though ready to shift the balance of American power towards diplomacy, is not afraid of military action.

The first attack yesterday was on the village of Zharki, in Waziristan; three missiles destroyed two houses and killed 10 people. One villager told Reuters of phonethat of nine bodies pulled from the rubble of one house, six were its owner and his relatives; Reuters added that intelligence officials said some foreign militants were also killed. A second attack hours later also in Warizistan killed eight people.

The Pakistan government publicly expressed hope that the arrival of Obama would see a halt to such strikes, which stir up hostility from Pakistanis towards the government; in private, the government may be more relaxed about such attacks.

There is a lot of nervousness in the new administration about the fragility of Pakistan, particularly as it has nuclear weapons, but it also sees Afghanistan and Pakistan as being linked. In the face of a Taliban resurgence, there is despair in Washington over the leadership of the Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai, and there will not be much disappointment if he is replaced in elections later this year.

But Washington insists on seeing as one of its biggest problems the ability of the Taliban and al-Qaida to maintain havens in Pakistan. Obama on Thursday announced he was making veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke a special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan. The secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, spoke by phone to the Pakistan president, Asif Ali Zardari.
 
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thats great, it looks like Obama is going to make things worse not better :no:
 
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hes clearly addressing the population problem we have in this world
 
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thats great, it looks like Obama is going to make things worse not better :no:

USA has chosen ANOTHER cowboy! :keke:

I have always thought that there were stuff that the top (read Bush now Obama) guys know that we don't.

Obama seemed to talk peace, what did he learn in the last few days to change his mind that he didn't know before he took office?
 
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If i remember correctly i heard he wanted to invade pakistan to find these al qaida leaders and bin laden. IMHO i think thats a huge mistake its gonna create WW3, i didnt think he was serious about that.
 
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If i remember correctly i heard he wanted to invade pakistan to find these al qaida leaders and bin laden. IMHO i think thats a huge mistake its gonna create WW3, i didnt think he was serious about that.

Yeah, but I think it's also to show that he's not going to be "soft", more than anything.

Bin Laden is dead, he's been in renal failure for the better part of a decade, it's pretty difficult to stay alive without regular hospital treatment using sophisticated technology, not the kind you'd find hiding out in caves while being the most wanted man in the world.
 
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USA has chosen ANOTHER cowboy! :keke:

I have always thought that there were stuff that the top (read Bush now Obama) guys know that we don't.

Obama seemed to talk peace, what did he learn in the last few days to change his mind that he didn't know before he took office?

If people would have actually educated themselves they would have seen the real Obama. It's funny that for the past several years Americans would bitch that Bush "decieved" them with his rhetoric. Surprise, surprise; America falls for it, again.
 
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Yeah, but I think it's also to show that he's not going to be "soft", more than anything.

Bin Laden is dead, he's been in renal failure for the better part of a decade, it's pretty difficult to stay alive without regular hospital treatment using sophisticated technology, not the kind you'd find hiding out in caves while being the most wanted man in the world.

Where did u hear that, or could u tell by looking at pics of him. (not a joke)
 

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Osama bin Laden is a propaganda tool used by the US government.

bin Laden is dead.
 
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