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., di non permettere piu' il transito dei rifornimenti NATO e USA verso
l'Afghanistan, che dovranno per forza passare attraverso il Pakistan.
Pakistan Furious Over U.S.-Led Border Raid 
 
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi called the raid "shameful." 
September 04, 2008 
By RFE/RL 
Pakistan has angrily condemned a raid on a tribal region village that
officials say killed at least 15 people, including women and children.
Islamabad claims that U.S.-led troops used helicopters to fly in from
Afghanistan and carry out the attack.
If Islamabad's allegations are true, the attack on September 3 would be
the first known foreign ground assault against a suspected militant haven
in Pakistan's tribal regions.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told the National Assembly the raid
was a shameful violation of rules of engagement agreed with U.S.-led
forces in Afghanistan.
"We will not compromise on any violation of our sovereignty," Qureshi
said. "We will defend and ... we have a resolve and we have national
consensus in Pakistan to defend our territorial integrity."
A spokesman for Pakistan's Army warned that the presence of foreign troops
on Pakistani soil would likely spark an uproar. Pakistan’s new civilian
government is struggling to assert its authority and a new president is
scheduled to be elected on September 6.
The spokesman said the use of foreign ground troops was an escalation from
previous U.S. missile and air strikes in the tribal regions. He strongly
condemned the raid as a gross violation of Pakistani territory that could
undermine security cooperation with Washington.
No Public U.S. Response
On September 3, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Ambassador Anne
Patterson to receive Islamabad's formal complaint.
But in an indication of the political sensitivities involved, the Bush
administration has let the complaints stand without a public response.
In fact, officials at the Pentagon, the White House, and the U.S. State
Department have refused to confirm to reporters whether a raid even
occurred.
A spokesman for the U.S.-led antiterrorism coalition in Afghanistan also
refused to comment on Islamabad's allegations, saying he had no
information to give to media on the issue.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan
denied involvement in any raid into Pakistani territory.
But Pakistan's Defense Minister Chaudary Ahmad Mukhtar told reporters in
Islamabad on September 4 that the helicopters used in the raid were from
ISAF.
Mukhtar also says the U.S. government should communicate with Pakistan's
Foreign Ministry about the reasons for the attack.
"What were the reasons that three ISAF helicopters attacked three houses
inside our tribal territory?" he asked.
Reports say the raid occurred on a militant stronghold in a border region
that is considered a likely hiding place for both Osama bin Laden and
Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri.
It remains unclear whether any extremist leaders were killed or captured
in the operation.
Previously, when senior Al-Qaeda leaders have been captured, the Pentagon
has kept quiet for weeks in order to give interrogators a chance to gather
up-to-date intelligence on other militants.
High-Value Target?
The apparent boldness of the operation has fueled speculation that at
least one high-ranking Al-Qaeda leader was targeted.
Analysts say the target of any raid into Pakistan by U.S. ground troops or
U.S. Special Operations Forces would have to be extremely important to
risk an almost certain backlash from Islamabad.
 
Pakistan's top Interior Ministry official said earlier this week that
Pakistani security forces had missed a chance to catch al-Zawahri just two
days before the alleged U.S. raid.
Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said al-Zawahri has been moving
between Pakistan's tribal areas and the eastern Afghan provinces of Kunar
and Paktia.
U.S. military commanders have complained publicly that Pakistan does not
put enough pressure on militant groups in the tribal regions that are
blamed for mounting violence in Afghanistan.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai also has repeatedly accused Pakistan of
failing to prevent militants from crossing into Afghanistan to carry out
attacks. Karzai said in June that Afghanistan and coalition forces have
the right "to destroy terrorist nests on the other side of the border in
self-defense," if Pakistan fails to do so. 
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 l'Afghanistan, che dovranno per forza passare attraverso il Pakistan.
e in realtà non passeranno più da nessuna parte, visto che i paki sono
incazzati neri.

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