Cheney warned Monday that al-Qaida is regrouping Pakistan’s

[rsmith6621]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Vice President Dick Cheney warned Monday that al-Qaida is “regrouping” in Pakistan’s remote border region and sought President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s help in a stiffened push against Taliban and al-Qaida militants, Musharraf’s office said.

Cheney’s unannounced stopover en route to Afghanistan came as British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett also held talks with Musharraf and expressed concern about suspected militant safe havens near the Afghan frontier.

“Cheney expressed U.S. apprehensions of regrouping of al-Qaida in the tribal areas and called for concerted efforts in countering the threat,” according to a faxed statement from the presidential office.



Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf greets U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney in Islamabad on Monday

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17340265/


Here We F#CKIN Go Again

[wakeme2008]

1. You have let bin Forgotten alone for too long and now they are getting

bigger... Duhhh

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Bush and Cheney's fault that Al Queeda are regrouping

bush and Cheney have failed.

[w4rma]

3. So, why is your priority Iraq, Mr. election-thieving, warmongering, right-wing nutjob?

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. And Cheney will return to the US when?

Conveniently leaves on a global junket agenda to push harder for more disruption and further promote the BushCo/PNAC message that "Democracy Must Rule!" and "We Will Win The War On Terrorism!" as soon as the Libby trial jury goes into deliberations.

Now that the trial is still on, minus one juror, will Cheney still remain outside the US while deliberations are going on?

Fitzgerald's concern that there should be a juror replacement is valid. IF something happens to one more juror, the whole trial could end.

If one juror becomes to ill to remain during the deliberations, this could really change things.

Hope there is no tainted food sent in for the jurors. I am so tainted at this point in time, that I believe the sick fucks at the helm of our nation will do anything to further their plans, greed, and stoke their ultimate hubris to the point of no return for our nation or the global community at large.

Other thought:
Cheney is pushing Pakistan into the fore again. "Use those M-F'ing weapons we gave you OR ELSE!", screams the snarly wannabe dictator of the world.

[BrokenBeyondRepair]

5. Al Qaeda is a myth.. "terrorists" are extremists trained, armed, and supported by the CIA

Wherever in the world Al Qaeda crops up, its appearance has often been uncannily convenient for the local authorities—dictators, warlords, occupation forces and elected governments alike. And often the precise nature of the Al Qaeda connection turns out, on close examination, to be tenuous or non-existent. But by that time the message has gone out and sunk in: "Al Qaeda was here".

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Odd how they spin -total failure- into a hit on ye olde feare button

[populistdriven]

7. Tell Dick to ask: "Is it too late to accept bin Laden's offer of surrender?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDvVZ2Gn-9g

So a reporter asks the White House Press Secretary about a deal that the Taliban has offered in FEBRUARY OF 2001 to hand over Osama to Saudi Arabia if sanctions are dropped and the White House reply was:

"Let me take that and get back to you on that."

They never got back to anybody on that.

[IWantAChange]

8. So if the Libby jury deliberations last till '09 we wont c the DICK again??

[underpants]

9. Really? Then why don't you do something about it?

I mean for all the talk I heard about NOT doing anything in the 90's about alQaeda once again we knew exactly where they are-there is nothing to stop us from doing anything we want to- but yet you do nothing

Do you think our military can't handle the terrain?
Do you think our bombs won't work there for some reason?

Please don't try to hide behind some nambypamby international law or international relations excuse NOW for crying out loud.

[arewenotdemo]

13. Didn't you hear? The terrain is very treacherous in that region.

Binladenstan possesses INACCESSIBLE TERRAIN with VERY HIGH MOUNTAINS. There are NO LAWS there...it is a LAWLESS area. Certainly the United States military would not have the resources to deal with all that.

Oh. And don't forget about Pakistani sovereignty. I'm certain the Paks are doing everything they possibly can to reign in Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

:sarcasm:

[underpants]

15. I didn't know that elevation had such an effect on the rule of law

who knew???

[arewenotdemo]

17. I know those mountains bring out the Mr. Hyde in me

<cue dueling banjos>

Oh...and I meant "rein". Sheesh.

[Virginia Dare]

10. Are they with us or against us?

:shrug:

[jwirr]

11. Chaingang=fear tactics.

[maddezmom]

12. looks like today was beat up Pakistan day

Pakistan must clamp down on Afghan border - Canada
http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26304289.htm

[closeupready]

14. It's kind of comical, don't you think, that this Third World country in

an isolated region of the middle east (not currently at war with anyone else, coincidentally) is supposed to be some hugely threatening country. (Not that they are without issues.)

[Scurrilous]

23. Yep...

U.S. aid to Pakistan of over $10 bln is questioned

<snip>

"The United States has given Pakistan more than $10 billion in the five years since the Sept. 11 attacks but there is little accountability for how the money is spent and it has afforded Washington little leverage over Islamabad, researchers said on Monday.

A report by two experts with the Center for Strategic and International Studies has highlighted doubts about the effectiveness of the Bush administration's strategy of enlisting Pakistan as a front-line ally in trying to combat al Qaeda and resurgent Taliban militants.

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney visited Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday to urge Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to take tougher action against militants on his side of the lawless border, where U.S. commanders say radical fighters are sheltering and training.

The U.S. strategy "has forestalled disaster for five-plus years but there is no Plan B and the costs of crisis in Pakistan are too great to live without workable options." Craig Cohen and Derek Chollet wrote in an article for the spring issue of The Washington Quarterly magazine.

"...it is worth asking whether U.S. policy has reached its limits and if it is now being guided more by inertia than strategy. Washington's alliance with (Pakistani President Pervez) Musharraf may have run its course."

http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSN26330929._CH_.2400

[BigDDem]

16. Huh??

I heard that al-Qaida was "on the run."

[judaspriestess]

18. ok if you have that much knowledge of where al-quida is

then why don't you fucking go after them and end the regrouping.

He is such a CHUD

[rodeodance]

19. quick to make war, late to clean up Katrina, late to figure out alquia is

regrouping. just incompetence no matter where you look.

[superconnected]

20. Cheney is the head of al quaida.

He must be, he knows so much about them and he benefits from their actions. Osama is just an mia chump.

[sakabatou]

21. And again, the warnings will be ignored.

[youngdem]

22. Regrouping from what?

They have been ignored for four years.

They are planning more attacks, and sending a few grunts over to shoot at us in Afghanistan every once in a while to keep us occupied.

Bin laden and the other big fish are tucked safely away in a nuclear power whose President's fragile hold on power is the only thing keeping Al Qaeda from directly holding the keys to Pakistan's nukes.

Yeah, Cheney, I guess it is time to pay attention to this, eh?

[liberal renegade]

24. Do they have microwave ovens in Pakistan?

somebody crank that fucker up!

[goforit]

25. Al Qaeda...Paid and funded by Dick Cheney himself!!! Stand up and bow..

you ass!!!