'Hillary Clinton was advised to take action against Pakistan Army leaders'

[Zarvan]

Washington: Hillary Clinton was advised to quietly take action against Pakistani military leaders who gave support to al-Qaeda and its affiliates, an email sent to her when she was Secretary of State shows.





Such an advice was given to Clinton by Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger, who served as the United States National Security Advisor for President Bill Clinton from March 14, 1997, until January 20, 2001, as per the email dated October 3, 2009, declassified by the State Department on Tuesday.





A tranche of emails of Clinton when she was Secretary of State were released late on Tuesday night. "I believe that coercive measures are more likely to be effective if they are targeted against military leaders who give support to AQ (al-Qaeda) and its allies," Berger said in his email to Clinton, at her request.





"Assuming we have adequate intelligence, we can go after bank accounts, travel and other reachable assets of individual Pakistani officers, raising the stakes for those supporting the militants without creating an inordinate backlash," Berger said.





"Blunter measures of coercion, like conditioning our assistance, are more likely to be counterproductive. Given the level of distrust for us among the Pakistani people, they would see this as another sharp swing of the US pendulum which would harden their attitudes and make greater cooperation very difficult for the Pakistani people to accept," he said. The State Department on Tuesday released some 30,000 emails.





Berger, in his email, notes that there may be greater leverage in giving the Pakistanis incentives to be more aggressive.





"Of course, the military's calculation is most important. I'm not sure what is on their shopping list these days but we would need to balance what would move the needle on AQ against undercutting our effort to get them to shift their strategic focus away from India," he wrote.






"At the same time, we can be as forward leaning as possible in support of their counterinsurgency capabilities (equipment, training, whatever material, intelligence and other assistance we can give them if they move into Wazeristan - including relief for displaced persons). If they finally take that step, we can do all that is possible to demonstrate that our arrows are aligned with theirs," advised Berger.





Some of the emails also have mention about India, but these are mostly related to her India travel in 2009. The emails released by the State Department are the first batch from a pool of more than 50,000 pages turned over by Clinton from her private email server.

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[Umair Nawaz]

LOL as if they could really do that, there is a reason why Pakistan has mostly relegated America from its strategic sphere.

 

[tarrar]

I am not sure about that but I am pretty sure when Bush wins the upcoming elections, tough times will come for Pakistan.

 

[surya kiran]

Looks the Americans were more worried about Pakistan than Pakistani leaders. For people who will comment without reading, the gist is as follows:

1. Military and political leaders have bank accounts. These can be monitored and scrutinised at an international level.
2. Get PA to move into Waziristan and other areas to counter insurgents.

 

[third eye]

LOL as if they could really do that, there is a reason why Pakistan has mostly relegated America from its strategic sphere.

It took one phone call for the U Turn .

Posters may harbour brave thoughts, the military men at the helm had none.

 

[B+ Dracula]

We survived last 70 years ...among displeased Superpowers of time
.
If anything still left to be undone....then let it be done

 

[Sheikh Rauf]

I am not sure about that but I am pretty sure when Bush wins the upcoming elections, tough times will come for Pakistan.

if republican will win just consider army General as President.. its a package..

 

[Hassan_Ishtiaq]

Well then they should start by taking action against their own intelligence and military officials for funding and supplying terrorist organizations in the Middle East.

 

[umairkhan4]

these kind of articles make me laugh

 

[IceCold]

It took one phone call for the U Turn .

You are a moron if you think that it was a mere phone call that did that.

Let me educate you a bit on the subject. Pakistan did not agreed but rather chose to remain neutral, it was India under Vajpaee who offered US bases even when it did not even shared a border with Afghanistan with a condition that US will attack Pakistan 1st. It was only than that Musharraf had to change Pakistans stance otherwise it would have had significant devastating impact for Pakistan's security taking on both India and US at the same time.

Had India not jumped in just for the sake of teaching Pakistan a lesson, our stance would have remained the neutral. Let me also tell you that it was Musharraf's decision alone. Corps commanders advised him against it.

PS I wouldnt really use a word like moron for you as you have been better of what we see from across the border but lately you are acting like one for some unknown reason.

 

[third eye]

You are a moron if you think that it was a mere phone call that did that.

Let me educate you a bit on the subject. Pakistan did not agreed but rather chose to remain neutral, it was India under Vajpaee who offered US bases even when it did not even shared a border with Afghanistan with a condition that US will attack Pakistan 1st. It was only than that Musharraf had to change Pakistans stance otherwise it would have had significant devastating impact for Pakistan's security taking on both India and US at the same time.

Had India not jumped in just for the sake of teaching Pakistan a lesson, our stance would have remained the neutral. Let me also tell you that it was Musharraf's decision alone. Corps commanders advised him against it.

PS I wouldnt really use a word like moron for you as you have been better of what we see from across the border but lately you are acting like one for some unknown reason.

Firstly, do not call me names for even I could but that would put you & me on the same plane.

Next, read the Book by Rambo - Mush.

In any case it does not matter to me what you feel because you can wake up a man who is sleeping - You cannot wake a up a man whp pretends to be asleep.


In the Line of Fire: A Memoir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On September 11
Musharraf, in his memoir, says, he had little choice after the September 11 attacks but to back the U.S.-led war on terror. Pervez Musharraf agreed to back the U.S. led war against terror, fearing the threats made by that time U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on a phone call to him. He said "You are either with us or against us". The next day, he says, Powell's then deputy, Richard Armitage, telephoned the chief of Pakistan's top spy agency, and threatened to bomb Pakistan back to the stone age.

On the pressure aforementioned, Musharraf accepted all the seven points, set before him as demands, by Colin Powell. This readiness amazed Washington and has been criticized since in Pakistan.

Next, read this :
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/books/review/ajami.html?pagewanted=all


“In the Line of Fire” is a book written for American readers, a tale of how the Bush administration recruited him into the new war after 9/11. “You are either with us or against us,” a fellow soldier, Secretary of State Colin Powell, told him. But the book’s best break — the author’s luck — was provided by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. The choice was clear, Armitage told the director general of Pakistan’s intelligence — America or the terrorists. And if Pakistan chose the terrorists, it should be “prepared to be bombed back to the Stone Age.”

 

[Menace2Society]

And Pakistan would have cut the supply lines and choked NATO in Afghanistan.

This is just chest thumping by US. We all are well aware of ground realities.

 

[VCheng]

I am not sure about that but I am pretty sure when Bush wins the upcoming elections, tough times will come for Pakistan.

Tough times are coming for Pakistan no matter who wins the next US elections.

Sandy Berger's advice is actually not bad at all, come to think of it.

 

[Menace2Society]

Tough times are coming for Pakistan no matter who wins the next US elections.

Sandy Berger's advice is actually not bad at all, come to think of it.

Republicans have traditionally been friendly towards Pakistan.

 

[VCheng]

Republicans have traditionally been friendly towards Pakistan.

There is no such thing as friendship in international geopolitics, but only alignment of national interests.