Pakistan probes group's claim of holding American

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police are investigating a purported separatist group's claim to be holding a kidnapped American U.N. worker, an officer said Sunday, a day after Islamist militants close to the Afghan border said they had killed a Polish geologist.

Pakistan has seen a rash of kidnappings and attacks on foreigners in recent months, mostly blamed on al-Qaida and Taliban militants seeking to destabilize the secular government and punish it for supporting the U.S.-led war in neighboring Afghanistan.

American John Solecki was seized last Monday in Quetta in the southern Pakistan province of Baluchistan as he drove to work at the offices of the U.N. refugee agency there.

Quetta's chief investigator Wazir Khan Nasir said a previously unknown ethnic Baluch separatist group called the Baluchistan Liberation United Front telephoned a local journalist Saturday to claim responsibility. He did not say what the group's demands were.



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[ohio2007]

1. We saw Poland didn't negotiate with these Taliban "terrarists" of western Pakistan but

can the same be said about the new US admin ?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3728356


Biden seems to hint at few preconditions with ex axis of evil nations
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3728271

so I can only imagine Hillary is up to speed in that part of the world also

[balantz]

2. Hmmm....

"..a previously unknown ethnic Baluch separatist group called the Baluchistan Liberation United Front.."

Just what the Imperialist doctors ordered?

[ohio2007]

3. Same people, different mission statement

Video appears to show hostage killing in Pakistan

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) -- A graphic video delivered to The Associated Press on Sunday appeared to show the execution of a Polish engineer by Pakistani militants who had held him captive for more than four months.

Pakistan has seen a rash of kidnappings and attacks on foreigners in recent months, mostly blamed on al-Qaida and Taliban militants trying to destabilize the secular government and punish it for supporting the U.S.-led war in neighboring Afghanistan.

An American U.N. worker was abducted last week in the border town of Quetta in southwestern Pakistan. Police said Sunday they were investigating a purported separatist group's claim of responsibility.


snip
If confirmed, Stanczak's death would appear to be the first killing of a Western hostage in Pakistan since U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl was beheaded in 2002.

snip

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PAKISTAN?SITE=CAVIC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

What did Daniel Pearl learn that got his mellon lobbed off so early in the confict
but

more to the point, why did people loose sight ?

[cosmicone]

4. Daniel Pearl learned that the ISI and Paki government

were complicit in world-wide terror including 9/11.

I seriously hope and pray that US, Israel and India join forces to break up the illegitimate country of Pakistan, strip it of its military and intelligence agency and balkanize it into several small, non-threatening states.