U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, speaking on Wednesday, said the United States would stop combat operations before the end of 2013 as it winds down its longest war.

“A decision to push this a year earlier throws out the whole transition plan. The transition has been planned against a timetable and this makes us rush all our preparations,” a senior Afghan security official, who could not be named because he was not authorized to speak on the matter, told Reuters on Thursday.

“If the Americans withdraw from combat, it will certainly have an effect on our readiness and training, and on equipping the police force,” the official said, adding that his government had not been informed of the change in plans.

The United States, which led the NATO invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, has previously said it would withdraw most combat troops by the end of 2014.

Panetta said the U.S. troops would shift next year to a supporting role, training and advising Afghan troops who would take charge of a country that has been at war for more than three decades.

A faster end to U.S. combat in Afghanistan could give Obama an election-year lift.

The announcement immediately drew criticism from Obama’s most likely opponent in this year’s race for the White House, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

“Why (in) the world do you go to the people that you’re fighting with and tell them the day you’re pulling out your troops? It makes absolutely no sense,” Romney told a rally.

Panetta has also been criticized by some lawmakers for moving too swiftly to extract U.S. troops.

“Our goal is to complete all of that transition in 2013 and then hopefully by mid- to the latter part of 2013 we’ll be able to make a transition from a combat role to a training, advise-and-assist role,” Panetta told reporters on his plane to Brussels for a NATO defense ministers’ meeting.

The announcement came as allies like France are themselves looking for a quick exit from Afghanistan. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, facing a tough re-election campaign of his own, announced he would pull out French troops by the end of next year.

He urged other members of the North Atlantic alliance to do the same, threatening to upend a well-settled strategy approved at a summit in Lisbon two years ago that calls for the transition to Afghan security leadership by the end of 2014.

The United States has been trying to draw the Taliban into reconciliation talks with the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai. But a key part of its strategy has been to increase military pressure on the Taliban to persuade it to join peace talks.

TALIBAN CONFIDENT ON CONTROL

In a classified report obtained by British media, NATO said that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, remained confident despite a decade of NATO efforts that it would retake control of Afghanistan.

“Taliban commanders, along with rank and file members, increasingly believe their control of Afghanistan is inevitable. Though the Taliban suffered severely in 2011, its strength, motivation, funding and tactical proficiency remains intact,” according to an excerpt of the report, published by the Times of London and the BBC.

Panetta insisted that the new timetable was in line with a previous NATO strategy agreed in Lisbon.

“In the Lisbon discussions, it was always clear that there would come a point which we would make that transition and then be able to hopefully consolidate those gains in 2014,” he said.

“So the bottom line is: No, this isn’t a new strategy. It’s basically implementing what Lisbon is all about.”

He said his key message to the NATO allies as they meet on Thursday and Friday to prepare for a Chicago summit in May was that the coalition in Afghanistan needed to unite behind the goals agreed on in Lisbon.

Image via Wikipedia

Image via Wikipedia

Gaddafi, his son Muatassim, and former defence minster Abu Bakr Younis were removed from their cold storage in Misrata – four days after being killed during an attack by Nato-backed revolutionary forces – and buried in a short Islamic service.

Some relatives were allowed to attend the funeral, although the exact location of the graves have been kept under wraps over concerns it could become a shrine for Gaddafi loyalists, or be subjected to vandalism

Ibrahim Beitalmal, a spokesman for the ruling National Transitional Council, said: ‘The burial took place at 5am on Tuesday. Islamic prayers were read over the bodies. 

‘The burial site will remain secret.’

Gaddafi’s body had remained on display for days after he was killed, apparently in crossfire between government forces and troops loyal to the deposed former despot.

International pressure has prompted the Libyan authorities to announce an investigation into how Gaddafi was killed, especially since video footage emerged of the bloodied former leader being beaten and abused shortl

Image via Wikipedia

Image by RubyGoes via Flickr

Image by Abode of Chaos via Flickr

y before his death.

The excuse of the United States extends the Pakistani army does not: When were killed in a NATO attack in the Mohmand tribal area of ​​24 Pakistani soldiers, Pakistan intensifies the sound. An army spokesman in the northwestern Peshawar dismissed the apology from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declined significantly: The excuse of Americans was “a joke,” he told SPIEGEL ONLINE. “They are killing our soldiers, saying sorry, and everything should be good, whats the point?”

Major-General Athar Abbas, chief army spokesman, told the Pakistani television station Express 24 / 7: “This apology is not enough.” The attack on Pakistani troops was “arbitrary, brutal and irresponsible”. Abbas stressed that none of their own people was shooting towards the Afghan border. Such reports were untrue. “There is absolutely no reason to shoot in from Pakistan towards Afghanistan.”

Deliberate attack?

The “Wall Street Journal” had previously reported, citing three Afghan and Western leaders, soldiers of the Afghan army and NATO had come under fire on the border of Pakistans military outpost. Moreover, the Pakistani authorities had been informed in time that NATO had requested air support for a mission against the Taliban.

Abbas makes this different dar. Accordingly, the Pakistani forces had liberated the district of Mohmand extremists, so that there is no reason to suspect terrorists there. “We have lost in this region in the fight against militants more than 70 soldiers. Do we have to reckon also on the part of NATO with violence?”

The Army does now serious allegations: You had to start from a deliberate attack by NATO, it is said in Islamabad. The NATO-led ISAF in Afghanistan had been informed about the location of every Pakistani army posts, Abbas said the broadcaster Geo TV. In the attack, it had not been a misunderstanding. “To say that this was not an intentional act, is to distort the facts.”

China “deeply shocked”

The NATO air attack was the bloodiest incident since the beginning of the ISAF mission ten years ago. It led to serious diplomatic turmoil. Pakistan government condemned the attack and announced a review of its cooperation with NATO and the United States. She stopped to resupply the NATO-ISAF in Afghanistan.

Islamabad now receives support from Beijing. The People Republic is positioning itself as a regional power in the new position – and was on Monday so “deeply shocked” by the NATO attack. “China believes that Pakistan independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected,” it said in a statement by the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry. Beijing demanded that the incident would be “closely examined”.

In Pakistan, the attack has triggered a wave of indignation. The association of operators of tank trucks, announced on Monday that it would carry no more NATO supplies.

Select the NATO civilian sites as military targets

The Independent published a new report the content of a number of organizations of civil society after the mission in Libya provides a basis for charges of war crimes by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during his mission there.
According to the report published by human rights groups that the Middle East there is evidence that war crimes and human rights violations committed by all parties, NATO and the rebels and forces loyal to Gaddafi in the Libyan uprising last year.
Published report Thursday on the Arab Organization for Human Rights and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the International Legal Alliance support.
And includes the results of an intensive effort to fact-finding mission to Libya carried out by experts of law and crime, although the report confirms that the results are not final, but it adds to concerns about abuses by all sides in the conflict.
According to eyewitness accounts and field visits to the sites targeted by NATO bombing report says the task of civil society during the operations that NATO considered some of the sites of civil military targets.
The UN Security Council, the UN identified the NATO mission in Libya to protect civilians from attacks by the Gaddafi regime during the uprising against his rule last year.
According to the Independent famous incident took place in Sirte, as narrated by eyewitnesses that the civilians had gathered around the place by a missile, killing another bombing killed 47 civilians and then in September.
The Independent commented that both these events to reach the level of war crimes or not, detected more than embarrassment of NATO, which was confirmed that the aim of his mission is to protect civilians from murder.
The International Criminal Court said on the tongue of the chief prosecutor last November that he will investigate the practices of NATO forces along with the rebels and forces loyal to the system to make sure not to violate the laws of war.
Independent and re-reference to the rejection of the UN secretary general last year that have exceeded the limits of NATO’s mission in Libya.
The report quotes as well as abuses by the former opposition forces allied with the Transitional National Assembly, including the evidence of murder, torture and arrest of those who were loyal to the former regime.
The paper quotes the report the incident forced displacement of the suspect in that they are “enemies of the revolution,” particularly in the town of Toariqh near Sirte, which it reports that it has become the “City of Habah” after the expulsion of about 30 thousand of the population from their homes in what looked a process of collective punishment carried out by militants opposed to Gaddafi.
“Inventing the AIDS”
The Daily Telegraph published a report on what it describes as a scratch from the new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The paper says that after his claim that the attacks of September 11 in America was planned locally and saying Israel must be wiped off, claiming the Iranian president said Western countries invented the AIDS virus to weaken the third world and open new markets for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products.
According to the report, Ahmadinejad said that African countries were told falsely that the source of the epidemic is immoral practices but did not prove that those acts were committed in areas where the epidemic appeared.
The report cites Iran’s president as saying: “It is clear that he went to plunder the wealth and resources of African countries, the Great Powers behind the development of these diseases so that you can from the sale of medicines produced by poor countries.”
And transmits the report of the telegraph from the Iranian Health Minister Fatima and only saying that the profit margin from Iran, oil production does not exceed 5 percent of the selling price while the profit margin of pharmaceutical companies of the sale price of any drug in the range of 20 percent.
Currency swap
The Financial Times published a report to the correspondent of Abu Dhabi for a currency swap agreement between China and the UAE with more than $ 5.5 billion in the framework of strengthening economic relations between the two countries.
The agreement was signed during the visit of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf tour includes three countries.
The agreement provides for the possibility of central banks to withdraw the value of barter trade transactions between the renminbi and the dirham.
And China held a national currency swap agreements with 10 other countries in an attempt to reduce reliance on the dollar in foreign trade exchanges.
And that these agreements were intended to rule out that the liquidity obstacle stands in front of commercial exchanges between China and the countries that held currency swap agreements with them.
The Financial Times report says that Gul Wayne is not only aimed at strengthening economic and trade relations, but also target the energy sector in the GCC.
Perhaps the Beijing eye on oil concessions, which will be awarded by Emirates in 2014 when the term of the current privileges.
Analysts polled by Asahev opinions that companies in Asia, particularly China, will be a strong contender for the Western companies that have oil concessions, such as the UAE is currently Dech Royal Shell, Exxon Mobi and BP and Total.

Source: BBC Arabic

U.S. officials have said the missile hit a house in the suburbs of Miranshah in North Waziistan. As diberitakabn Reuters on Wednesday (1/11/2012), intelligence sources in Washington have confirmed the attack.

This is the first attack U.S. spy plane since 17 November 2011. It also attacks carried out since the growing sentiment among the U.S. after the attack targets on 26 November 2011 in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

The incident made ​​Pakistan closes NATO supply line logistics troops into Afghanistan from Pakistan.

U.S. drones have a very important role in U.S. security operations. The Obama administration argues that the drone attacks have helped to weaken the position of the central leadership of Al-Qaeda and militant groups.

Many militia groups operating in Pakistan’s tribal region along the Afghan border.

Amnesty International said it failed to discover any evidence of human rights violations, The Independent reported on Friday. The organization said it appears the stories originated with the U.S. and NATO backed and armed rebels in Benghazi. Amnesty said it is likely the rebels knowingly made false claims and manufactured evidence.The United Nations’ International Court used the bogus information to claim Gaddafi engaged in human rights violations. ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told a news conference two weeks ago that “we have information that there was a policy to rape in Libya those who were against the government. Apparently he [Colonel Gaddafi] used it to punish people.”Secretary of State Clinton said she was “deeply concerned” Gaddafi’s troops are participating in rape in Libya. “Rape, physical intimidation, sexual harassment, and even so-called ‘virginity tests’ have taken place in countries throughout the region,” she declared last week.

The stories are reminiscent of the Kuwait incubator hoax used as propaganda in the effort to get the public behind the U.S. invasion of Libya in 1991.It was later learned that the 15 year old girl who had testified that Saddam Hussein’s soldiers removed incubators and left babies to die during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait was the daughter of Saud bin Nasir al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Her testimony was organized as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations campaign which was run by Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government.The story was mentioned six times in speeches given by Bush Senior and seven senators cited it as a reason for voting to give the Bush administration authorization for the Gulf War.

Image by brewbooks via Flickr

or Houston.

The jubilant reaction of Western powers and the foes of Muammar Gaddafi to his barbaric murder on October 20, 2011 raises some serious questions about war crimes committed by the Western-backed National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters and NATO forces.  

There are two serious violations of international law here, namely, (1) in relation to the Third Geneva Convention in 1929 and (2) in relation to the UN Security Council Resolution #1973 in 2011. Let me explain first (1) the Geneva Convention and then (2) the UN Resolution hereafter.

(1) The first violation of international law concerns the Third Geneva Convention in 1929, which offers rights to prisoners of war (POWs), such that POWs have certain rights to be protected. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rightly said on October 21, 2011 that, “in compliance with international law, the moment that a party to an armed conflict is captured, special procedures should be applied to him or her, including assistance, as well as a ban on killing such a person.” 

But this right was violated, when Gaddafi was captured alive (as POW) and was then repetitively verbally and physically abused before being shot dead shortly after. As “testified by the grainy mobile phone footage seen by the world of the former leader, bloodied and dazed, being dragged along by NTC fighters” in a gruesome way, “Gaddafi can be heard in one video saying ‘God forbids this’ several times, as slaps from the crowd [of NTC fighters] rain down on his head,” as reported by Rania El Gamal for Reuters on October 23. 

Then, he was executed by a young NTC fighter named Sanad al-Sadek al-Ureibi, who claimed that he shot Gaddafi after capture, because he did not want him alive; and other fighters celebrated with him after the summary execution. Worse, his dead body was then publicly displayed in a commercial freezer at a shopping center for more celebration. 

This act of Western-backed NTC fighters is not only criminal but also barbaric. The foes of Gaddafi may argue that he deserves this fate, but two wrongs do not make a right (which is a well-known logical fallacy), and the answer to criminality is not more criminality. This blatant violation of the Geneva Convention then led Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial executions, to charge on October 21 that “the manner of the deposed Libyan leader’s killing could be a war crime,” in a report by RT on October 22. 

This criminal act by Western-supported NTC fighters is not just restricted to the case of Gaddafi’s death but also be extended to the murder of his son (and others in the group). For instance, Gaddafi’s son, Mutassim Gaddafi, was captured alive, together with his father, and, in a video released by NTC fighters, he was shown to be “alive in custody, and even casually smoking a cigarette” in a room (surrounded by armed NTC fighters), but in a few moments later, “other images show him dead with gunshot wounds to his neck and abdomen” in the same room, in a report by RT on October 21. 

A technical question here is who should be responsible for this criminal act. There are at least five legal possibilities, namely, (a) the individuals who physically abused him and/or pulled the trigger, like Sanad al-Sadek al-Ureibi and others to be identified, (b) the specific unit of NTC fighters which participated in the capture of Gaddafi and his group, (c) the NTC leadership, (d) NATO forces because of their participation (or complicity) in the attack which led to the capture (and the subsequent murder), and (e) certain leaders of Western powers who have given wholehearted support to NTC from the start to encourage the violence against the regime. 

It is not surprising that, at the beginning, the NTC tried to cover up the criminal killing by making up fictional stories and blaming others instead. For instance, NTC leader Mahmoud Jibril, first tried to defend NTC by making a dubious public statement to the press that Gaddafi was killed in a crossfire and was shot by one of his own loyalists. But this cover-up was questioned later, even by a senior member of NTC, Waheed Burshan, who said on October 22:  ”We found that he was alive and then he was dead. And as far as we can tell, there was no fight” (crossfire).   

Even “British MP Jeremy Corbyn said that, as Gaddafi was captured alive, he should have been treated as prisoner of war, interrogated and put on trial,” but “it looks that there was an element of mob rule in this, and he was indeed killed in the back of the truck,” as reported by RT on October 20.   

So now, both “the UN Human Rights Office and Amnesty International are calling for an investigation into Gaddafi’s death as it raises concerns over what may be the unlawful killing of a prisoner,” as reported by RT on October 22. U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville even said on October 20 that he found it very disturbing when “you see someone who has been captured alive and then you see the same person dead….Summary executions are strictly illegal under any circumstances. It’s different if someone is killed in combat….But if something else has happened, if someone is captured and then deliberately killed, then that is a very serious matter,” as reported by Stephanie Nebehay for Reuters on October 21. 

Unfortunately, because of the Western dominance in international legal bodies, any prosecution of war crimes committed by Western forces and their allies is very unlikely, as “Benjamin Barber, an analyst at a US think tank, does not expect anyone will be held accountable for the colonel’s death,” as reported by RT on October 22. 

Now that Gaddafi was dead, the most tragic thing is that this gruesome murder “will cast doubt on the promises by Libya’s new rulers to respect human rights and prevent reprisals. It would also embarrass Western governments which gave their wholehearted backing to the NTC,” as reported by Rania El Gamal for Reuters on October 23. 

Even British MP Jeremy Corbyn soberly warned that “this really does raise some question marks about the command and discipline of the NTC forces and what Libya is going to be like, not just tomorrow, but next month, next year and the next ten years.” 

Furthermore, according to Shirin Sagedhi, “the gruesome and public killing of Gaddafi was insulting to the people of Libya and the people of the region, as well as the ‘idea that democratic forces would brutally kill someone like that,’” in a report by RT on October 22. 

(2) And the second violation of international law concerns the UN Security Council Resolution #1973 in 2011, which set up a “no-fly zone” above Libya but did not authorize NATO forces to carry out an attack on any group who were not harming anyone but were fleeing from being attacked instead. Indeed, it was a French jet which “fired on Gaddafi convoy” when it was trying to flee from the ferocious attack by NTC fighers, as confirmed by French defense chief and reported by RT on October 20. 

In this specific case, Gaddafi and his few bodyguards were under attack by NTC fighters when they were fleeing Sirte in a convoy, but NATO helped the NTC fighters and carried out an aerial attack (by a French jet) on Gaddafi’s convoy (which led to Gaddafi’s capture). 

But this violates international law, in regard to the UN Security Council Resolution #1973, since, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday rightly pointed out, “the attack on Gaddafi’s convoy was directly at odds with the agreed task of guaranteeing a no-fly zone,” because “in this specific case one cannot speak of protecting the lives of civilians, either because the convoy did not attack anyone” and was trying instead to escape from the ferocious attack by NTC fighters, or because there was no civilian around to protect (as an excuse) in the first place. 

Russia’s NATO envoy, Dmitry Rogozin, therefore accused NATO of being “directly involved in the operation to kill the former Libyan leader,” since “apparently there were orders that oriented the military servicemen who are in Libya and that directed them to ensure the physical elimination of Gaddafi,” as reported by RT on October 21. 

Instead of showing respect towards international law, Western powers reacted joyfully to the killing, as shown by the elation of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who, when “learned about the death of Muammar Gaddafi via an SMS message” in an interview “filmed by CBS NEWS,” exclaimed “Wow!” and thus joyfully said, “We came, we saw, he died!,” as reported by Pravda on October 21. And her boss, President Obama, triumphantly announced that, “without putting a single U.S. service member on the ground, we achieved our objectives” of getting rid of Gaddafi and setting up a new regime.   

In reaction to this Western joy over the killing, Rogozin thus observed that “the Western elation over the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi could have sadistic grounds,” as he thus added: “The faces of the leaders of ‘world democracies’ are so happy, as if they remembered how they hanged stray cats in basements in their childhoods,” as reported by RT on October 21. 

In this way, Western mainstream media did not waste time to engage in spinning the whole murder into one of bashing Gaddafi and his historical legacy, without telling the rest of the world about the Western complicity in supporting Gaddafi in all these years of dictatorial rule. 

For instance, only some years ago, “former British Prime Minister Tony Blair had no qualms doing business with Gaddafi and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi got cozy with him at a United Nations Summit in Rome,” as reported by RT on October 21. 

In the case of the U.S., the thoughtful comment by Matthew Rothschild on October 21 is worth mentioning: “The hypocrisy of the U.S. position could hardly be greater. In 2003, the Bush Administration rehabilitated Qaddafi, who became an ally of the United States in the ‘war on terror.’ In fact, the CIA used Qaddafi’s intelligence service to torture detainees that the U.S. sent over to Libya. The CIA ‘rendered’ eight or nine detainees to Qaddafi’s intelligence service, and sent questions along with for the torturers to ask, according to Human Rights Watch, in an interview with Democracy Now. The CIA may even have had agents present during some of the questioning. In 2008, Condoleezza Rice visited Qaddafi in Libya. The next year, Obama shook his hand, and John McCain offered him arms. When it was convenient for Washington to support Qaddafi, it did so. When it was convenient to attack him, it did so. But the Obama administration didn’t attack Bahrain when it cracked down on people fighting for democracy against that kingdom. No, Washington even let Saudi Arabia, another kingdom, invade Bahrain to help put down the nonviolent uprising.” 

Many who do not know the history of modern Libya are not aware of the historical contributions of Muammar Gaddafi to his people and the region, even when he has his own failures. Consider, for instance, the following five important contributions by Gaddafi to his country and the region: 

(a)    He envisioned “the United States of Africa” and thus contributed to the formation of the African Union. In fact, “the African Union is basically the creation of Muammar Gaddafi, who saw it as a vessel for a stronger Africa,” as reported by RT on October 20

(b)   He succeeded in holding Libya together, which, according to Shirin Sagedhi, was previously fragmented by different “tribes and ethnicities.”

(c)    He transformed Libya to have “one of the highest GDPs per capita in Africa and…to provide an extensive level of social security, particularly in the fields of housing and education,” in a way that many sub-Saharan countries in Africa could only dream of, in the article on Libya by Wikipedia.

(d)   He managed to avoid being dominated by the Soviet Union or the U.S. during the Cold War by masterfully playing the Soviet Union against the U.S. without being a puppet of the former. After the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War, he continued to fight against Western domination in the region and thus developed bad blood with Western powers.

(e)    He overthrew the Kingdom of Libya in a bloodless military coup against King Idris in 1969 and thus brought Libya into the modern era (from monarchic feudalism). 

All these achievements are no small feats for a ruler of a small country with only a few million people and thus have allowed Gaddafi to rule for 42 years. 

This does not mean that Gaddafi has no failures. Surely, there are good examples to consider, like his personal vanity, his abuse of power, his ruthlessness, and the like. But who has no failures, for a man with his historical status in the modern era? 

But all these achievements are now forgotten, as the West had finished using him, and Western mainstream media is now spinning his historical legacy, in accordance to the dominant rhetoric of Western powers in world media. 

Yet, history has its final say: Muammar Gaddafi, in the end, is a historical figure in the modern history of Africa and for that matter, the Middle East, in spite of all his personal faults. And the war crimes by Western powers and their allies help perpetuating the vicious cycle of violence and of suffering in the world.

Image by Magharebia via Flickr

It is widely believed to be the base used in unmanned aircraft RAID the secret agency, the CIA, United States Code with respect to the leader of the Taliban and Al Qaida in Pakistan’s Northwest tribal region, which borders Afghanistan. A high-security officials, who asked not to spot, the news agency AFP, France earlier said it was
‘ people of the United States clearing the Shamsi air base and handed it to Pakistan’s security forces. ‘

Other officials in Baluchistan ensures that the last remaining official United States waves set off by two flights on Sunday. Relations with the messed up Washington Islamabad continues to be damaged by NATO’s attack on 26 November, the Pakistani army are identified as deliberate. Pakistan close two border crossings into the United States and Afghanistan to NATO as well as supply gives the superpower that through Sunday to leave the Shamsi air base.

United States Ambassador Cameron Munter for Islamabad to Pakistan on television last week saying, ‘ We comply with the request. ‘ Islamabad refused to join the United States in the investigation of a deadly air raids on the border of Afghanistan. As a result of the attack, Pakistan decided not join the main Bonn on the future of Afghanistan, whose Taliban doubted any joint boycott hopes to use the meeting to seek a peaceful settlement.

United States officials and reviewers password declared war a secret unmanned aircraft that were not affected, because the base closings Washington can fly the aircraft without crew Predator and Reaper from air bases in neighboring Afghanistan. But, Shamsi air base is very useful for poor weather hampered flight. In Pakistan, the people of the United States and considered it to be immediately terminated.

They claimed to be suffering more bitter, because 24 soldiers were killed in NATO attacks the United States, which they believe not to be done.
‘ This is not the first time the United States to attack our soldiers, but our Government did not respond, ‘ says victim of army families Mussarrat airstrikes it-screaming, ‘ not enough to kill the innocent, the breadwinner for their children. ‘

This War must come to an end ‘ now, ‘ Said Beguman (70), mother of Husayn (another victim), with scarves covering their hair sitting at home in simple terms, the mourners in the village Bhagwal was flooded, 120 kilometres south of Islamabad. ‘ It took destruction to our country, ”
he added, ‘ I want peace for other children. This war is not for anyone and our Government should get out of it. ‘

A command of General Mohammad Ali Jaafari, commander of the guards, have raised the status of the operational readiness of the country’s troops and begin preparations against potential external attacks and secret attacks. Western intelligence officials, as quoted by the Telegraph, said the Islamic Republic has started a number of plans to deploy long-range missiles, high explosive bombs, artillery units, and bodyguards to key defensive positions.

The order was given in response to growing international pressure against Iran’s nuclear program. Preparation for a confrontation increased rapidly following the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna last month that states there is evidence that Iran has been actively working to produce nuclear weapons. Iranian leaders fear that the country became the target of a coordinated Western intelligence and security agencies to destroy key elements of its nuclear infrastructure.

The explosion at a missile testing facility has recently been strengthened Iran’s paranoia. Countries fear Iran’s regime would be a target of a surprise attack Israel or U.S. military. Ballistic missile program suffered a major setback on 12 November after an explosion occurred in the main missile testing facility in Bidganeh regime, about 30 miles west of Tehran. At least 17 people were killed in the incident, including General Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, head of Iran’s missile research program.

The IAEA report said Iranian scientists have worked to develop a missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Security analysts explain, the progress of Iran’s missile development as a “turning point” that had “profound strategic implications”. Last week, the other a mysterious explosion caused significant damage to Iran’s uranium conversion facility in Isfahan.

“It looks like a form of war of the 21st century,” said Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Washington think tank, told the Los Angeles Times.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s spiritual leader, issued a directive to the heads of military intelligence and security organizations of the country to take all necessary steps to protect the Iranian regime. General Jaafari responded with directives that govern the Revolutionary Guards units to redistribute long-range missiles to Iran, namely Shahab, to secret places around the country so that the missiles were safe from enemy attacks and can be used to launch a counterattack.

In addition, Iran’s air force has formed a “rapid response unit”, which has conducted a massive exercise to practice response to enemy air attack.

Last weekend, Iran claimed successfully shot down an unmanned U.S. aircraft sophisticated, RQ-170, in the east of the country. If true, it would represent a coup for the ayatollahs because this type of stealth aircraft contain sensitive technology that enables it to operate for hours without being detected. A spokesman for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan only confirmed that the U.S. carriers have “lost control” of an unmanned aircraft, without specifying the model.

Intelligence officials believe, a dangerous game of cat and mouse between Iran and the West has been responsible for attacks against the demonstrators British Embassy in Tehran last week. William Hague, British Foreign Secretary, has closed the British embassy in Iran and Iranian diplomats expelled from London in response.

However, because Iran does not show signs of loosening its nuclear program, there is concern that Israel would launch unilateral military action. Late last week, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, warned that he would take “appropriate decision at the right time” if Iran continues its uranium enrichment program.

Israel’s uncompromising approach to trigger a warning from Washington. Leon Panetta, U.S. Defense Secretary, has warned that a unilateral Israeli attack risk of an “escalation” that could “lead to the Middle East are in confrontation and conflict that we regret”.

A senior Western intelligence official said, “There is deep concern in the senior leadership of the Iranian regime that they would become the target of a surprise military attack Israel or the United States. For that reason, they’re doing all the necessary measures to ensure they can defend themselves well if the attack occurred. “