{"id":4174,"date":"2008-02-11T16:17:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T23:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/is-the-us-getting-ready-to-strike-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T23:19:01","slug":"is-the-us-getting-ready-to-strike-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/is-the-us-getting-ready-to-strike-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the US Getting Ready to Strike Pakistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/asiaCrisis\/idUSISL270802\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Pakistan rejected on Saturday a U.S. official&#8217;s assertion that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar are operating from Pakistani territory.<\/em><em>&#8220;A senior U.S. administration official told reporters in Washington Bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri and others were operating out of Pakistan&#8217;s Federally Administered Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mullah Omar and other Taliban leaders were directing insurgency operations in Afghanistan from the Pakistani city of Quetta, said the U.S. official who declined to be identified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/em>If the US has information as to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, why are they going to the media with it &#8212; unless it&#8217;s to ready the American public for a strike at Pakistan?<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Sadiqsaid had the only\u00c2\u00a0possible response:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If there is any actionable intelligence it should be shared with the government of Pakistan so that they can be neutralized. You don&#8217;t talk to the media if you have information like this.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, you don&#8217;t. But if you <em>don&#8217;t <\/em>really have such information, and merely want to appear as if you do in order to pursue your own warmongering agenda &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0 well, then, you talk to the media anonymously &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports: &#8220;Pakistan rejected on Saturday a U.S. official&#8217;s assertion that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar are operating from Pakistani territory.&#8220;A senior U.S. administration official told reporters in Washington Bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri and others were operating out of Pakistan&#8217;s Federally Administered Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan. &#8220;Mullah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}