Word: pakistanis
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...Coming on the heels of two other American incursions - a commando raid on a suspected militant hideout on Sept. 3 left 20 people dead, and a Sept. 4 missile strike killed four more - the Haqqani strike roiled Pakistani public opinion. At his inaugural press conference, Zardari was pitched indignant queries about whether he would end U.S. raids on Pakistani soil. Each time, he punted, pointing out instead that Pakistan has a problem with terrorism but that "we can look the problem in the eye, and we can solve it." Punting may have been his only option: continued U.S. operations...
...community believes that al-Qaeda has regrouped in Pakistan's ungoverned tribal territories abutting Afghanistan and that this area now serves as a staging ground for the movement's activities not only in Afghanistan but worldwide. The billions of dollars the U.S. has pumped into training and equipping the Pakistani military appears to have produced neither a capability nor a will to decisively tackle the problem. Many in Washington even suspect that members of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence spy agency are actively supporting Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders and may be tipping them off about planned attacks. So while...
...should make it openly clear that [it] cannot wait for Pakistan to [take decisive action] and will have to treat Pakistani territory as a combat zone if Pakistan does not act," wrote military scholar Anthony Cordesman of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies last month. "Pakistan cannot both claim sovereignty and allow hostile non-state actors to attack Afghanistan [and] U.S. and NATO/ISAF forces [there] from its soil...
...Similar attacks continued sporadically, becoming more frequent in early 2008 after negotiations on the issue between the U.S. and Pervez Musharraf. The U.S. also stopped warning the Pakistani military about attacks ahead of time, as had been customary, since too many militants, it seemed, knew what was coming. The stepped-up strikes began yielding more results. In January, al-Qaeda commander Abu Laith al-Libi was killed, along with a dozen purported militants. But a May attack in Damadola, said to be targeting Algerian al-Qaeda operative Abu Sulaymen Jazairi, killed more civilians, while a July strike in South Waziristan...
...Since then, at least five more U.S. attacks have occurred on Pakistani soil, and more are expected as the insurgency mounts against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. NATO Commander General David McKiernan has blamed Pakistan's inability to stop cross-border militancy for the 40% rise in attacks against U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan. As one U.S. Army officer bluntly put it, "We can't let these guys have safe havens...