Pakistani Judges Must Hang PPP Criminal Traitor Rehman Malik For
Operating Blackwater-Xe Inside Pakistan:
1. What Robert Gates Didn't Say - And US Corporate Media Hides - About
Blackwater-Xe in Pakistan
http://www.ahmedquraishi.com/latest_col.php?id=113
2. Blackwater-Xe Behind Terrorist Bombings in Asia and Africa?
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5477.shtml
3. US War Criminal Robert Gates Failed to Tell the Whole Truth About
Terrorism of Blackwater-Xe in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online...
4. Blackwater-Xe in Pakistan: Gates Confirms
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100208/scahill
By JEREMY SCAHILL
WASHINGTON DC, USA, 22 January 2010 (The Nation) - On Thursday, [US]
Defense Secretary Robert [Michael] Gates confirmed that Blackwater
[Xe
Services, LLC] is operating in Pakistan. In an interview on
[Pakistani] Express [News] TV, Gates, who was visiting Islamabad,
said: "They [Blackwater-Xe and another private security firm, DynCorp
International] are operating as individual companies here in
Pakistan," according to a [US] DoD transcript of the interview.
"There
are rules concerning the contracting companies. If they are
contracting with us or with the [US] State Department here in
Pakistan, then there are very clear rules set forth by the State
Department and by ourselves."
Today, the country's [ANP] senior minister for the North-West
Frontier
Province (NWFP), Bashir [Ahmed] Bilour, also acknowledged that the
[Blackwater-Xe] company is operating in Pakistan's frontier areas.
Bilour told Pakistan's Express News TV that Blackwater's activities
were taking place with the "consent and permission" of the Pakistani
[PPP, MQM, ANP coalition] government, saying he had discussed the
issue with officials at the US Consulate in Peshawar, who told him
that Blackwater was training Pakistani forces.
When Gates was asked what the US response would be if the Pakistani
Parliament passed a law banning [American] private security
companies,
Gates said: "If it's Pakistani law, we will absolutely comply."
As Gates's comments began to make huge news in Pakistan, US defense
officials tried to retract his statement. As The Wall Street Journal
reported: "Defense officials tried to clarify the comment Thursday
night, telling reporters that Mr. Gates had been speaking about
contractor oversight more generally and that the Pentagon didn't
employ Xe in Pakistan."
Bilour's statements are consistent with what a former Blackwater
executive and a US military intelligence source told me in December
[2009] -- that Blackwater is working on a subcontract for Kestral, a
Pakistani security and logistics firm. That contract, say my sources,
is technically with the Pakistani [PPP] government, which helps cloak
Blackwater's presence. From my article in The Nation:
Blackwater owner Erik Prince is close with Kestral CEO Liaquat Ali
Baig, according to the former Blackwater executive. "Ali and Erik
have
a pretty close relationship," he said. "They have met many times and
struck a deal, and they [offer] mutual support for one another."
Working with Kestral, he said, Blackwater has provided convoy
security
for Defense Department shipments destined for Afghanistan that would
arrive in the port at Karachi. Blackwater, according to the former
executive, would guard the supplies as they were transported overland
from Karachi to Peshawar and then west through the Torkham border
crossing, the most important supply route for the US military in
Afghanistan.
According to the former executive, Blackwater operatives also
integrate with Kestral's forces in sensitive counterterrorism
operations in the North-West Frontier Province, where they work in
conjunction with the Pakistani Interior Ministry's paramilitary
force,
known as the Frontier Corps (alternately referred to as "frontier
scouts"). The Blackwater personnel are technically advisers, but the
former executive said that the line often gets blurred in the field.
Blackwater "is providing the actual guidance on how to do
[counterterrorism operations] and Kestral's folks are carrying a lot
of them out, but they are having the guidance and the overwatch from
some BW guys that will actually go out with the teams when they are
executing the job," he said. "You can see how that can lead to other
things in the border areas." He said that when Blackwater personnel
are out with the Pakistani teams, sometimes its men engage in
operations against 'suspected terrorists'. "You have got BW guys that
are assisting...and they are all going to want to go on the jobs --
so
they are going to go with them," he said. "So, the things that you
are
seeing in the news about how this Pakistani military group came in
and
raided this house or did this or did that -- in some of those cases,
you are going to have Western folks that are right there at the
house,
if not in the house." Blackwater, he said, is paid by the Pakistani
[PPP] government through Kestral for consulting services. "That gives
the Pakistani [PPP] government the cover to say, 'Hey, no, we don't
have any Westerners doing this. It's all local and our people are
doing it.' But it gets them the expertise that Westerners provide for
[counterterrorism]-related work."
When I tried to get confirmation of Blackwater's work with Kestral, I
was bounced around from agency to agency. Eventually, a spokesman for
the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC),
which is responsible for issuing licenses to US corporations to
provide defense-related services to foreign governments or entities,
would neither confirm nor deny that Blackwater has a license to work
in Pakistan or to work with Kestral. "We cannot help you," said
Department spokesman David McKeeby after checking with the relevant
DDTC officials. "You will have to contact the companies directly."
Blackwater's spokesman Mark Corallo said the company has "no
operations of any kind" in Pakistan other than one employee working
for the DoD. Kestral did not respond to my inquiries.
Kestral's lobbyist, former [US] Assistant Secretary of State for
Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega, who served in that post
from
2003 to 2005, would not provide comment on the contract either.
Noriega, according to federal lobby records, was recently hired by
Kestral to lobby the US Government, including the State Department,
USAID and Congress, on foreign affairs issues "regarding [Kestral's]
capabilities to carry out activities of interest to the United
States."
All of this appears to be a contradiction of previous statements made
by the Defense Department, by Blackwater, by the Pakistani [PPP]
Government and by the US Embassy in Islamabad, all of whom claimed
Blackwater was not in the country. In September [2009], the US
Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne [Woods] Patterson, denied Blackwater's
presence in the country, stating bluntly: "Blackwater is not
operating
in Pakistan." In December [2009] in The Nation, after I reported on
Blackwater's work for JSOC and Kestral in Pakistan, the Pentagon did
not issue any clear public denials, and instead tried to pass the
buck
to the State Department, which in turn passed it to the US Embassy,
which in turn issued an unsigned statement saying the story was
false.
Shortly after my story came out in The Nation, ABC News reported that
in 2006, "12 Blackwater "tactical action operatives" were recruited
for a secret raid into Pakistan by the U.S. military's Joint Special
Operations Command [JSOC], according to a military intelligence
planner. The target of the planned raid, code-named Vibrant Fury, was
a 'suspected al-CIA-da' training camp, according to the planner."
In Pakistan, there appears to be an egg on the face of the country's
[PPP] Interior Minister [Abdul] Rehman Malik, who has said on
numerous
occasions that he would resign if it is proven that Blackwater is
operating inside Pakistan. Today, Express [News] TV rebroadcast Malik
saying in November [2009]: "There is no Blackwater."
What's that old saying? "Never believe anything until it has been
officially denied."
[Mr. Jeremy Scahill, a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation
Institute, is the author of the bestselling book, Blackwater: The
Rise
of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, published by Nation
Books. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and
correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now.
http://www.thenation.com - http://rebelreports.com - http://blackwaterbook.com
- http://www.democracynow.org ]
1. Gates Confirms Blackwater-Xe, DynCorp in Pakistan
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/22/headlines/gates_confirms_blackw...
2. The Secret US War in Pakistan
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091207/scahill
Blackwater-Xe Operatives Training Pakistanis To Murder Pakistanis:
NWFP Minister
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, 22 January 2010 (DAWN) - A senior [ANP] minister
from the NWFP, Bashir Ahmed Bilour, on Friday confirmed the presence
of Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater, in the NWFP [Pakistan].
Bilour further disclosed that not only do Blackwater-Xe officials
exist in the NWFP, they have also been imparting training to
Pakistanis [to murder other Pakistanis]. However, he added, that
Blackwater-Xe is operating in a limited capacity in Pakistan.
Meanwhile, the [PPP] Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira also
acknowledged the [illegal] presence of US security agencies in
Pakistan after several months of denial.
Earlier on Thursday, US Defense Secretary [War Profiteer Robert M.
Gates] also admitted during an interview with a private television
channel that Blackwater-Xe and DynCorp are operating inside Pakistan.
TWISTING THE TRUTH - The Nation - Editorial - 25 January 2010 -
Lahore, Pakistan:
As the [US] State Department and US Embassy at Islamabad desperately
try to perform an impossible trick of retrieving the words of [US]
Defence Secretary Robert Gates, recorded by a private TV channel
during his visit to Pakistan, admitting the presence of Blackwater [Xe
Services, LLC] and Dyncorp [International] here [inside Pakistan],
[PPP] Interior Minister [Abdul] Rehman Malik insists there is no such
thing around. Let us recapture in print Mr. Gates' reply, "Well, they
are operating as individual companies here in Pakistan," to the
question by a TV reporter, "Xe International, formerly known as
Blackwater and Dyncorp, under what rules are they operating here in
Pakistan?", and that should leave little room for doubt.
Nevertheless, this obvious admission has not embarrassed Minister
Malik. He has, in fact, once again come out with denying the presence
of this murderous [Blackwater-Xe, Total Intelligence Solutions and
DynCorp] outfit, maybe because he had, some time back, sworn to resign
if he was proved wrong. An interesting observation coming from [PPP]
Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira seems to acknowledge the fact
that the [Blackwater-Xe] firm is [illegally] operating in Pakistan. In
the backdrop of the media's call that after Secretary Gates' admission
Mr. Malik should resign from his post in compliance with his
commitment, Mr. Kaira says that he should not have turned emotional
when he was talking about the presence of this [Blackwater-Xe] firm in
the country.
This paper [The Nation] took the lead in exposing the [PPP]
government's acquiescence to let the [Blackwater-Xe] firm, with a
reputation of committing targeted killings in Iraq, [unlawfully]
operate in the country and provided repeated evidence of their dark
designs as well as deeds [crimes] in Pakistan. Once again, the free
media did a national service of crucial significance; earlier it had
joined the lawyers and civil society to successfully restore the
deposed judiciary. This effort must not go waste, nor any attempt at
muzzling its voice be allowed. The ill-famed [Blackwater-Xe, Total
Intelligence Solutions and DynCorp] outfit must be made to pack up and
go [out of Pakistan] before it could do any serious harm to our
security interests.
PAC Rally Demands Rehman Malik's Resignation
KARACHI, Pakistan, 11 January 2010 (Geo News TV) - The Peoples Aman
[Peace] Committee [PAC] has taken out a protest rally against [PPP]
federal Interior Minister [Abdul] Rehman Malik here on Monday.
The participants of the rally reached Karachi Press Club, where they
chanted slogans against the [PPP] government, particularly against
[PPP] Interior Minister Rehman Malik and called for his resignation.
A clash has also erupted between police and protestors, forcing the
police to fire shells.
REFERENCES:
(1) PPP Corrupt Traitor Abdul Rehman Malik Must Resign Now For
Operating Blackwater-Xe in Pakistan
http://groups.google.com/group/reportpress/t/17b5e6e4d5afea95
PPP Outlaw Traitor A. Rehman Malik May Be the First to Face the Axe
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print3.asp?id=26839
Fuming PML-N Senator Asks PPP Con-Artist Rehman Malik To Resign Now
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online...
Very Big Lie of PPP Interior Minister Rehman Malik: 'No Blackwater-Xe
in Pakistan'
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116948
Gates Faux Pas Opens the Door to Criticism
http://pakistankakhudahafiz.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/gates-faux-pas-o...
(2) Blackwater-Xe in Pakistan - Pakistani Senators Demand PPP Liar
Rehman Malik's Resignation
http://www.pakobserver.net/201001/23/news/topstories03.asp
JIP Asks CIA Actor Rehman Malik To Resign Over Blackwater-Xe
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=220510
JIP Seeks PPP Thug Rehman Malik's Resignation
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online...
- http://www.Jamaat.org
(3) What Robert Gates Didn't Say - And US Corporate Media Hides -
About Blackwater-Xe in Pakistan
http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=3325
Gates Created More Misunderstanding and Confusion During His Recent
Visit To India, Pakistan
http://www.pakobserver.net/201001/25/Articles01.asp
DAILY MAIL: BLACKWATER-XE, US MILITARY WORKING FOR TALIBAN DRUG LORDS
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/01/23/daily-mail-blackwater-us-mili...
AF-PAK STUDY GROUP: AMERICA'S UNBALANCED POLICY FAVORING INDIA
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/01/23/af-pak-study-group-americas-u...
(4) PPP Corrupt Tyranny of Criminal Traitors Urged To Explain
Blackwater-Xe illegal Presence in Pakistan
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116819
Uproar in Pakistan Senate Over Unlawful Presence of Blackwater-Xe
Inside Pakistan
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print.asp?id=96766
French Judge Investigates Corruption of PPP Corrupt Crook Asif Ali
Zardari
http://groups.google.com/group/reportpress/t/2f85731fbfb2575a
(5) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Demands Resignation of All PPP, MQM
and ANP Corrupt Traitors
http://www.insaf.pk
http://www.insaf.pk/News/tabid/60/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3...
PTI Chairman Imran Khan Opposes, Condemns and Exposes Blackwater-Xe on
Pakistan's Express News TV
http://www.insaf.pk/Media/Videos/tabid/62/articleType/ArticleView/art...
PTI Secretary-General Arif Alvi Condemns US Interference in Pakistani
Matters
http://www.insaf.pk/Media/Videos/tabid/62/articleType/ArticleView/art...
PTI VIDEOS: http://www.insaf.pk/Media/Videos/tabid/62/Default.aspx
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