DRANT #282 and 282A: UPDATE! CIA KILLS BHUTTO, U.S. TROOPS MOVE IN

DRANT #282 (below)was sent December 28.
It is even more obvious that everything in it was not only right, but that its worse than we imagined.
And again, all of this was PLANNED months BEFORE the CIA knocked Bhutto off.

Check it out:
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
CIA to get broad powers to act inside Pakistan: Report 06 Jan 2008 The administration of President [sic] George W Bush is considering granting the Pentagon and CIA new authority to conduct covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan, The New York Times reported on its website late Saturday. Citing unnamed senior administration officials, the newspaper said the plan calls for giving Central Intelligence Agency agents broader powers to strike selected targets inside the country, in some cases using intelligence provided by Pakistani sources.

U.S. Considers New Covert Push Within Pakistan 06 Jan 2008 President [sic] Bush’s senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Many of the specific options under discussion are unclear and highly classified. Officials said that the options would probably involve the C.I.A. working with the military’s Special Operations forces. At the White House and the Pentagon, officials see an opportunity in the changing power structure for the Americans to advocate for the expanded authority in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country. [Hmm... Who benefits from the Bhutto assassination? Do we really need Scotland Yard to figure out who was behind the assassination?]

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DRANT DAILY
Number 282
December 28, 2007

Oh come ON people.
Cui Bono Cui Bono, how many times I gotta tellya CUI F*****CKING BONO !!!
And, remember, when the pimp press all sing one song, yer BS detector bettah start howling.
There is no US diplomatic disaster in Pakistan.
The Bushists did not make a mistake.
Here again: IDIOCY BY DESIGN.
Can Any of you spell P-I-P-E-L-I-N-E ???
As in: Trans-Afghanistan pipeline and the Iran-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline.
What do you think we're doing there ?
Ya think its for the Pashtun food ?
We killed Benazir's old man.
We put Musharraf in power.
Bin Laden (Al CIAda),The CIA, The Mujahideen, and ISI go back a looong way. They endure as a deadly menage-a-treachery.
We dragged Benazir back to Pakistan.
And we have obviously knocked her off.
Now comes the chaos, the smashing of windows, burning of mosques, overthrown cars, a bunch of corpses, and tons - I say TONS-
of footage on the pimp media showing screaming brown folks acting crazy.
Well, says Sheriff Bush, we bettah ride into town and make it safe for our ole pal Dimmokracee one mo' time.
And, just like crock-work, in comes Da Army !
Please note- the deal was made LAST MONTH.

U.S. Troops to Head to Pakistan
Washington POST

Early Warning
William M. Arkin on National and Homeland Security
December 28, 2007

Beginning early next year, U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan, as part of an effort to train and support indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units, according to defense officials involved with the planning.

These Pakistan-centric operations will mark a shift for the U.S. military and for U.S. Pakistan relations. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, the U.S. used Pakistani bases to stage movements into Afghanistan. Yet once the U.S. deposed the Taliban government and established its main operating base at Bagram, north of Kabul, U.S. forces left Pakistan almost entirely. Since then, Pakistan has restricted U.S. involvement in cross-border military operations as well as paramilitary operations on its soil.

But the Pentagon has been frustrated by the inability of Pakistani national forces to control the borders or the frontier area. And Pakistan's political instability has heightened U.S. concern about Islamic extremists there.

According to Pentagon sources, reaching a different agreement with Pakistan became a priority for the new head of the U.S. Special Operations Command, Adm. Eric T. Olson. Olson visited Pakistan in August, November and again this month, meeting with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman Gen. Tariq Majid and Lt. Gen. Muhammad Masood Aslam, commander of the military and paramilitary troops in northwest Pakistan. Olson also visited the headquarters of the Frontier Corps, a separate paramilitary force recruited from Pakistan's border tribes.

Now, a new agreement, reported when it was still being negotiated last month, has been finalized. And the first U.S. personnel could be on the ground in Pakistan by early in the new year, according to Pentagon sources.
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For a much more insightful account, please access:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/bena-d29.shtml
Bhutto assassination heightens threat of US intervention in Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken
29 December 2007

With Pakistan erupting in violence over the assassination of its former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and amid conflicting accounts as to both the identity of her assassins and even the cause of her death, official Washington and the American mass media have coalesced around a version of events that has been crafted to suit US strategic interests.

Without any substantive evidence, the crime has been attributed to Al Qaeda, while Bhutto herself has been proclaimed a martyr both in the struggle for democracy in her own country and in the US “global war on terror.” Meanwhile, the government of President Pervez Musharraf has been exonerated. There is ample reason to question this “official story” on all counts.

The obvious intent is to turn this undeniably tragic event into a new justification for the pursuit of US strategic interests in the region. In the week leading up to the assassination, there have been a number of reports indicating that US military forces are already operating inside Pakistan and preparing to substantially escalate these operations.

...The lines separating Al Qaeda—or, to be more precise, radical Islamist elements in Pakistan—from the country’s military-intelligence apparatus are hardly firm. Pakistan’s military-controlled regimes have encouraged and rested upon support from Islamist forces—as a counterweight to the working class and the left—ever since General Zia-ul Haq seized power and carried out the hanging of Benzir Bhutto’s father, then Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in 1979. The military regime—and in particular its intelligence arm, the ISI—further cemented these ties during the US-backed war against the pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan in the 1980s. It was then that the ISI and the CIA worked to build up the movement that became know as Al Qaeda and collaborated directly with Osama bin Laden.

That these ties still exist is without question...