Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 6:06 PM

Tonight (May 10),
PBS' Frontline is airing "Kill/Capture,"
a six-month investigation into the U.S. military's program of targeted killings
in Afghanistan. The military says these raids have taken some 12,000 insurgents
off the battlefields of Afghanistan over the last year, and represent a crucial
part of the U.S.'s strategy in the country. Afghan government officials, Afghan
communities, and human rights groups, on the other hand, have objected to the
raids on the grounds that they alienate the local population and are unduly
harsh. The question is: will the kill/capture missions help end the war in
Afghanistan?
"Kill/Capture"
features research by Kate Clark, whose work we have regularly featured on the
AfPak Channel, at the Afghanistan Analysts Network, which has just released a
devastating new
report investigating a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan's Takhar province in
the fall of last year, claiming that civilians were killed in a case of
mistaken identity. The report is based on interviews with survivors of the
airstrike, witnesses, Afghan officials, and U.S. Special Forces officers. The
U.S. military insists
the strike killed a senior member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. Who
was killed in the Takhar strike, and why?
Given that a
targeted American raid recently killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in
Pakistan, we have lots of questions about how these operations are authorized
and carried out, and what their impact has been on both the insurgency in
Afghanistan and the Afghan communities in which they occur.
Join us tomorrow (May 11) at 1:00pm EST here for a live
chat with Frontline's Stephen Grey and
Shoaib Sharifi. Grey is a London-based journalist who has been reporting on the
Afghan war since 2007, and Sharifi is an award-winning journalist with
extensive experience in Afghanistan. Watch a preview of the
film here, and be sure to tune in this evening for the full show.
Ask your
questions in the Cover It Live box below, or tweet them at us @afpakchannel.
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"The Pentagon's New Map" plan for expanding war
The Empire is suckering in more NYT/Judith Miller-type media suckers to promote more war, while thinking they are just reporting the news.
This Frontline "kill / capture" campaign and its falsely 'excited' JSOC assassination raid promotion by the hapless media is unknowingly seeding (and pre-selling) Americans MORE war, not less.
This is beginning of the Empire's marketing campaign for the coming "Attack Pakistan" con-job.
ABC, NBC et al, as early as this past Sunday morning's News 'shows' were already splashing big TV graphics across the TV screens of America --- "Pakistan; Friend or Foe" and "Can Pakistan be Trusted" --- is 'softening-up' the US public to get ready to support attacks on Pakistan, a nuclear country, which may very likely lead to nuclear war!
Boy oh boy, it didn't take long to answer the question the media has been asking since OBL was killed in Pakistan, namely; Why now and in Pakistan??
The seminal question of not the how, but the WHY of the successful USA assassination of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan --- embarrassingly close to their West Point equivalent --- was a big part of the US corporatist media's attention, focus, and speculative excitement about the killing of OBL.
But the bigger WHY question is why the media is focusing (and shaping) the attention of average Americans on this WHY of WHY now, and more pivotally --- WHY Pakistan.
Well, it didn't take long to parse and understand this seminal question!
The WHY NOW part of the question is tied directly to Thomas Barnett's 2004 Naval War College book (and plan), "The Pentagon's New Map", which book clearly lays out the strategy for the disguised global Empire, which has taken over and is now posing as our former country, to also TAKE-OVER the "Gap" countries along a 5000 mile swath from Mauritania to the very boarders of India and China --- and for that disguised global Empire to have the cover-story of needing to use its "Leviathan" military force (with "whatever means necessary") to guilefully con the American people into accepting (and even cheering for) the next supposedly essential military intervention beyond Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, and Syria --- ie. to go into PAKISTAN with both feet.
The supporting question of WHY THERE (in Pakistan) is that OBL was found and killed in PAKISTAN while being supposedly 'protected' by PAKISTAN's military and ISI forces is, of course, to engender in the ever gullible and PR-deluded USA prole-citizens, the hate and FEAR of Pakistan, and specifically its supposedly untrustworthy and DANGEROUSLY NUCLEAR ARMED military and ISI ("country within a country") forces that might at any instant attack the US "Homeland" with known nuclear capability ---- leaving the only warning as a "NUKULAR" SMOKING GUN MUSHROOM CLOUD.
In other words, our dear leader, Obama, is using Osama's death in Pakistan as the 'triggering mechanism' for precisely the level of nationalism, fear and terror that Bush, Cheney, Powell and others in the cast had to work much harder to falsely produce with the non-"nukular" Iraq --- but this time with the issue of the US population already fully aware that Pakistan is a nuclear power --- and now with the easy PR jump to the conclusion that Pakistan must be eliminated as a threat.
Boy oh boy, has the science of PR trickery and false-flagging to start wars evolved a long way from the days when all Hitler had to do was have a few of his soldiers dress-up in Polish Army uniforms and make a phony attack on a German radio outpost to start WWII.
http://www.truthandliberty.com/False-Flag_Attacks.html
So, as Mae West humorously cautioned her next would-be boyfriend, "hold onto your hat, this may be a bumpy ride".
Yes, folks, we now should all understand why the killing of Osama happened HERE (Pakistan) and NOW (Mayday 2011) --- the Revolution by this disguised global corporate/financial/militarist EMPIRE which controls our former country by hiding behind the facade of its bought and owned TWO-Party modernized Nazi "Vichy" sham of faux-democratic government and Goebbelesque media is about to "lower the boom" --- and you can be sure that this time the "lowering of that boom" will fall not only on the heads of Pakistanis, but also on ours.
As Hannah Arendt presciently warned from her painful experiences with the last Empire that tried to take over the world and eliminate a portion of its own citizens:
"Empire abroad entails tyranny at home".
Hang-on fellows, this is going to be a bumpy ride indeed.
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine
Liberty & democracy over violent empire -- People's Party 2012
PS. Keep an eye on the number of TV specials and "two-minute hates" the focus of which is now going to be Pakistan, and the number of supposed foreign policy experts from places like the supposed 'think-tanks' like the "Center for a New American Security" (being featured this afternoon on C-Span, of all places) that will be running the "two minute hate" sessions on Pakistan.
http://www.cnas.org/
And be sure to remember that "war is peace", "freedom is slavery", and most importantly that "ignorance is strength" (at least for the Empire).
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
Forget to adjust your tinfoil hat there AMACD? I think your comments belong on a conspiracy theorist page rather than foreign policy
Do you have any basic facts or evidence to support your idea or are you just going about the general military/current administration bashing?
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