Comments on: Imran Khan’s march brings global attention to CIA drone strikes

By: Robert Naiman

Robert Naiman — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:37:40 +0000

For the record, the following are exact quotes that I transcribed from the audio of the first of our two meetings with Ambassador Hoagland:

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In our meeting with Ambassador Hoagland, I said:

“I particularly would like you to address… the issue of attacks on civilian rescuers… I’m sure you’re aware that many experts in international law are absolutely convinced that whatever one may think otherwise about the lawfulness of the drone strikes, even if it were a lawful conflict, attacks on civilian rescuers are a war crime…”

Ambassador Hoagland responded:

“On this one, for at least the last several years that I have been here in Pakistan and more intimately associated with the knowledge of this, there is never any deliberate strikes against civilian rescuers. Now, what I have seen is that after a strike, there will be colleagues from one of the isolated places, never urban, it’s not ambulances or anything like that, who are also part of the larger group. But I can tell you honestly I have never, ever in recent times seen any deliberate strike on rescuers coming to a site.”
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/americans-press-us-ambass_b_1941919.html

By: vgcddaio

vgcddaio — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:56:32 +0000

who cares about pakistan…we will us it until we need them…That’s how it goes…Let them live in the stone age, nobody cares, nobody will.

By: Saleem

Saleem — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:16:47 +0000

Imran Khan is obviously a political opportunist who is trying to exploit the rabid anti-American sentiments among many Pakistanis who blame the US for their own failures, turning a blind eye towards the brutality of the Taliban. However, sinister motives of Imran Khan have been exposed. The fact is that there simply were no drone attacks until Pakistan allowed the Taliban, the Haqqani network and indeed the Uzbek, Chechen and Arab militants allied with al Qaeda to operate from the tribal areas against Afghanistan, the US and, indeed, the world at large. Pakistan has ceded both its territory and sovereignty to the militants or, at the very least, shares it with them.