Pentagon Perturbed by Peace Deal in Waziristan

From http://www.infowars.com/?p=1696

 

Pentagon Perturbed by Peace Deal in Waziristan

Kurt Nimmo
Truth News
April 24, 2008

Pakistan is about ready to wreck one of the best kept reasons for neocons to indiscriminately kill Muslims. “Pakistan’s new government is negotiating a peace deal with militants in the Taliban-controlled Waziristan region, the rugged mountainous area that’s thought to be Osama bin Laden’s refuge,” reports McClatchy Newspapers. “The move reflects the changing approach of America’s longtime ally in the war on terror, and news of the talks set off alarm bells in Washington Wednesday.”

No doubt, as Washington, or the neocon faction still riding high in Washington, wants to kill residents of the Waziristan region. “The National Intelligence Estimate released July 17 put the problem plainly enough: Al-Qaeda has ‘regenerated key elements of its Homeland attack capability’ using a new haven in the lawless frontier area of northwest Pakistan known as Waziristan,” David Ignatius wrote last July for the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post. “What should the United States do about al-Qaeda’s new haven in Pakistan, from which it may already be plotting attacks that could kill thousands of Americans? It is Sept. 10, metaphorically, with a little increment of time still remaining.”

Mr. Ignatius was simply repeating talking points from his Pentagon script. It didn’t work, though, as the neocons have yet to invade Pakistan, although they have violated that country’s sovereignty on several occasions. Around the same time, Eric Margolis wrote: “Sources in Washington say the Pentagon is drawing up plans to attack Pakistan’s ‘autonomous’ tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Limited ‘hot pursuit’ ground incursions by US forces based in Afghanistan, intensive air attacks, and special forces raids into Pakistan’s autonomous tribal region are being evaluated.”

Dictator “Musharraf violated Pakistan’s constitution by sending 80,000 federal troops to fight the region’s tribes, killing 3,000 of them. In best British imperial tradition, Washington pays Musharraf $100 million monthly to rent his sepoys (native soldiers) to fight Pashtun tribesmen.”

But it will no longer work, a fact that “really ticked off” the Pentagon, that is to say the neocon faction ensconced in the Pentagon.

U.S. officials believe that the FATA, and South Waziristan in particular, are a base for the Taliban and al Qaida. The Bush administration was critical of a previous peace accord in South Waziristan, which was forged three years ago, seeing it as giving an opportunity for the militants to regroup. That accord, and a similar one in North Waziristan in 2006, were followed by increased attacks against NATO forces in Afghanistan.

NATO forces, it should be noted, are considered to be invaders and occupiers by the vast majority of the people who live in Afghanistan.

Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, the chief spokesman of the Pakistan army, said that the military had briefed the incoming government on the situation in South Waziristan as “the No. 1″ issue.

“It is the government that has carried out the negotiations with the tribals,” Abbas said. “The terms are completely up to the tribal elders and the government.”

Pakistan’s army has as many as 30,000 troops in South Waziristan, Abbas said. Major hostilities broke out between the army and militants there in late January, but an uneasy unofficial cease-fire has been observed since February.

Bummer for the Pentagon. Peace breaking out does not bode well for the neocons, determined to turn the Middle East and Central Asia into a violent cauldron, as planned.