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analysis for Strategic Forecasting, a private intelligence group in Washington, said the new
government will almost certainly take a harder line against such strikes. “These... are very
unpopular, not because people support al-Qaeda, but because they feel Pakistan has no
sovereignty,” he said. The latest Predator strike, on March 16, killed about 20 in Shahnawaz Kot; a
Feb. 28 strike killed 12 foreign militants in the village of Kaloosha; and a Jan. 29 strike killed 13
people, including senior al-Qaeda commander Abu Laith al-Libi, in North Waziristan.’ (Robin
Wright and Joby Warrick, “US Steps Up Unilateral Strikes in Pakistan,” Washington Post, March
27, 2008)^207
Soon it became clear that this was a systematic US bombing campaign and represented a scandal
as big in its own way as the Nixon-Kissinger secret bombing of Cambodia back in the early 1970s.
This is no hyperbole; we must simply remember that a nuclear power, and not some banana
republic, is being attacked! Soon it became clear that the US bombing campaign was being
conducted with wild and reckless abandon, and that members of Pakistani paramilitary formations
were getting killed: ‘Pakistan is condemning a U.S. air strike which allegedly killed 11 Pakistani
paramilitaries as a “completely unprovoked and cowardly act.” U.S.-led forces killed Pakistani
troops in an air strike along the volatile Afghan border that Pakistan’s army condemned on
Wednesday as “completely unprovoked and cowardly.” U.S. officials confirmed that three aircraft
launched about a dozen bombs following a clash between Taliban militants and Afghan and U.S.-
led coalition forces late Tuesday. Pakistan says the strikes killed 11 of its paramilitary troops. The
Pakistani army said the air strike hit a post of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in the Mohmand tribal
region .... It launched a strong protest and reserved “the right to protect our citizens and soldiers
against aggression,” the military said in a statement. The statement said the clash “had hit at the
very basis of cooperation” between the allies in the war on terror.’^208 The Pakistani government was
now the one elected in the elections conducted after the death of Benazir Bhutto in December 2007.
This was supposedly the regime the US had wanted to install, but Brzezinski was doing everything
possible to humiliate, mortified, and thoroughly antagonize the new government in Islamabad. The
Frontier Post of Pakistan reported: ‘On June 10, 2008 US - led coalition forces along the Afghan
border launched an air strike on a Frontier Corps Sheikh Baba border post in the mountainous Gora
Prai region in Mohmand Agency. 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops including one major, 10 civilians
killed and several injured. The incident took place inside Pakistan, near the border with
Afghanistan. Pentagon confirmed that coordinated artillery and air strikes were carried out. On Jun
11 2008, Prime Minister Gilani condemned the deaths, telling parliament: “We will take a stand for
the sake of this country’s sovereignty, for the sake of its dignity and self-respect”. He further
revealed that “We do not allow our territory to be used. We completely condemn this, and will take
it up through the foreign office.”’ (“NATO’s Senseless Aggressiveness in FATA,” Frontier Post)^209
By early July 2008, the US was making preparations tom escalate: US commandos are reportedly
poised to launch raids against al-Qa’ida and Taliban targets in Pakistan as Washington moves an
aircraft carrier into the Arabian Sea. The redeployment of the Abraham Lincoln and its escort
vessels from the Gulf yesterday came after US military intelligence officials recorded an increase in
the number of foreign fighters travelling to Pakistan’s tribal areas to join with militants.’^210
What was Brzezinski doing? He was obviously using a pretext of bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the
Taliban in order to destroy the central government of Pakistan, and promote civil war,
Balkanization, partitioning, and subdivision in that country. The goal was evidently the division of
Pakistan into three or four or five petty states, including such areas as Sind, Pushtunistan,
Baluchistan, and so forth. This operation had nothing whatsoever to do with bin Laden, Al Qaeda,