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Turkish Daily: CIA and Mossad behind Syria Bombings
Thursday, 10 May 2012
‘The Turkish daily Aydinlik said that suicide bombings represent a way of incitement carried out by the CIA and Mossad agents in Iraq, and are applied now in Syria, Lebanese daily Al-Benaa reported.
“CIA and Mossad agents have carried out – and still – various attacks in several countries including Iraq, Pakistan and Libya,” Aydinlik stated in a report published Monday. The report made it clear that the agents have bombed mosques during the occupation of Iraq in order to incite Shiites against Sunnis and vice versa.
“Those agents have achieved their goal where most of their operations were targeting Shiite and Sunnite mosques. All bombings were declared suicide attacks, while the suicide bombers were announced killed, but the fact is contrary to what was claimed,” the daily added.’
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US Drone Strike Kills Four in NW Pakistan
Wednesday, 11 January 2012 07:29
‘At least four people have been killed in a US assassination drone strike in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials say.
In the attack, which occurred late on Tuesday night, two missiles hit a private compound just outside Miranshah in the North Waziristan region. Local residents have reported that the airsrike sparked a huge fire in the building. US assassination drone operations were halted in November 2011 after NATO airstrikes on two Pakistani military border checkpoints in Mohmand agency killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.’
‘UK, Not Pakistan, Created Taliban’
Sunday, 11 September 2011 07:38
‘“The first state which created the Taliban was not Pakistan; the Taliban was created by Britain in the first place,” Sarafraz said at the review session of his book The Taliban Movement: The Mystery of its Rise and Fall, Fars News Agency reported Saturday.
Sarafraz said the notion was confirmed by Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto during an interview with the state-run BBC, but currently all records of it have been removed from archives and this was ultimately the reason behind her assassination in December 2007.
Bhutto was slain in a gun-and-bomb attack as she was leaving an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. “Now all the media archives of this interview have been erased,” he further explained.’
US Drone Strikes Kill 50 in Pakistan
Wednesday, 13 July 2011 06:52
‘Local officials say vehicles and buildings were targeted by US missiles during the attacks which took place early Tuesday and late Monday in South and North Waziristan.
The Tuesday attack targeted a house and a vehicle in the Dari Nashtar area of North Waziristan, killing 18 people, a Press TV correspondent reported. The number of missiles fired during the US attack is not yet clear.
Hours earlier, a US drone fired four missiles at Barmal area of tribal South Waziristan in northwestern Pakistan, killing seven people and injuring four others, according to a Press TV report.’
Push to Secretly Approve GM Corn in Pakistan Leads to Resignation of Chief GM Regulator
Monday, 04 July 2011 07:04
‘Attempts by biotechnology giant Monsanto to thwart the proper approval process for its GM corn in Pakistan have led to massive outcry by various stakeholders who recognize they have been deliberately ignored and betrayed by their own government.
And the uproar against this high-level corruption has been so strong in recent days that Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad, head of a government subcommittee that tried to secretly aid Monsanto’s efforts to push through its GM corn, recently resigned from his position.’
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US Rejects Demands to Vacate Pakistan Drone Base
Friday, 01 July 2011 08:42
‘The US is rejecting demands from Pakistan that American personnel abandon a military base used by the CIA to stage drone strikes against militants, US officials told Reuters.
US personnel have not left the Shamsi air base and there is no plan for them to do so, said a US official familiar with the matter. “That base is neither vacated nor being vacated,” the official said. The information was confirmed by a second US official.
On Wednesday, federal Minister for Defence Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar said that US had been asked to stop using the base for drone strikes and vacate it.’