Don't underestimate the Bush/Cheney/Rove administration. With less than two months in office, it looks like they might just get their third war yet (or is it four, I lost count). Our tax dollars hard at work. Now we're fighting the Pakistanis... Wait, they are our allies, right?
From Democracy Now:
Pakistani Troops Fire at US Military Helicopters
In Pakistan, security officials said Monday that Pakistani troops had fired on US military helicopters and forced them to turn back to Afghanistan. The incident took place near a village in the tribal region of South Waziristan where US commandos in helicopters conducted a deadly raid earlier this month.
'US raid' kills five in Pakistan
At least five people have been killed after a suspected US drone fired missiles at a village in north-west Pakistan, local officials said.
The officials said missiles hit the village of Baghar in South Waziristan, close to the Afghan border.
The missiles are reported to have struck a militant training camp.
The attack comes as the top US military commander met Pakistani officials to discuss increasing tensions over US attacks along the border.
At least six people were injured in the attack, said a BBC correspondent in the region.
A Pakistani army spokesman said the military was investigating reports about the incident.
From the Huffington Post:
Pakistan's public show of anger with the U.S. comes amid revelations that President Bush secretly approved new U.S. military raids in that country.
A former intelligence official told The Associated Press that President Bush signed the classified order over the summer. It gives new authority to U.S. special operations forces to target suspected terrorists in the dangerous area along the Afghanistan border.
Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the powerful but media-shy army leader, said a week after a deadly American-led ground assault in Pakistani territory that Pakistan would defend its sovereignty and that there was no deal to allow foreign forces to operate inside its borders.
He said unilateral actions risked undermining joint efforts to battle Islamic extremism and warned that "the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country will be defended at all cost."
"No external force is allowed to conduct operations inside Pakistan," he said in the Wednesday statement.
And Yemen doesn't want to be left out of the Middle Eastern American Hating club. From Aljazeera:
US embassy bombed in Yemeni capital
At least 16 people have been killed in an attack on the US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa by a suicide bomber and armed fighters, the country's interior ministry has said.
A suicide bomber on Wednesday morning drove a car close to the embassy before detonating his explosives, witnesses said, leaving part of the building on fire.
Armed men then attacked the embassy from a second car, they said.
Six guards, four civilians and six attackers died in the assault, the interior ministry said.
A group called Islamic Jihad in Yemen has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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