Adm Mike Mullen On Charlie Rose

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Siasat.pk • General Kiyani was about to take over - According to US Army

Was Kiyani held back from staging coup?
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 4:03 pm Under World News Buzz up!


Amidst the rising political unrest in Pakistan, US on Friday (March 13) claimed that it held back the Pakistan army chief General Ashfaq Kiyani from intervening in the stand-off in the country.

US Joint Army Chief of Staff Mike Mullen said that he spoke to Kiyani upward of ten times in the last few days to calm him after the Pak chief felt angered in the manner in which the political establishment was behaving.

Mullen said, “I have had upwards of ten interactions with Kiyani. He wants to do the right thing for Pakistani. But he is in a very tough spot.”

Also in a television interview, Mullen said that he is ‘extermely concerned’ over the situation in Pakistan.

The situation “continues to deteriorate very, very slowly under a political leadership which is very challenged because of the totality of the crisis,” Mullen said in an interview with PBS news.

He also said that General Ashfaq Kayani, is “committed to a civilian government” and doesn’t want to take over as his predecessor Musharraf did in 1999.

( This post is from an independent writer. The opinions and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not endorsed by APakistanNews.Com.)

Was Kiyani held back from staging coup?

 

[sherdil76]

reported by Press Trust of India

Washington, Mar 14 United States would go ahead and hit high value targets inside Pakistan if Washington felt threatened from this part of the world, a top US military official has said.

Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff, who interacts regularly with the Pakistani Army and its political leadership, told the PBS news channel that the US would go ahead and hit the high value targets inside Pakistan, based on actionable intelligence.

He said the US would not hesitate in striking inside Pakistani territories if the next attack to the US came from this part of the world.

Mullen said he has made this view of the Obama administration clear to the Pakistani leadership.

I think he (Pakistani Army Chief, Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani) fully understands that, and its a conversation Ive had many times, not just with the military leadership, but also the political leadership, that any President of the United States would respond to an attack on US citizens, another attack coming out of the FATA to strike the United States, and any President would have no choice, Mullen said in an interview to the channel.

They understand that very clearly, and they dont disagree with that. It makes sense to them. Thats certainly a solemn duty that we have here, he underlined.

 

[S-2]

Oh, and he's an ADMIRAL. That means he's a navy puke.

Any army in the world would note and disparage this point.

Thank you.

 

[Patriot]

His statement regarding invading Pakistan in case of another attack is very disturbing.ISI should plant a lot of agents in FATA, Waziristan and make sure another 9/11 does not happen.It will be a disaster if something like 9/11 occurs again and it is originated from Pakistan.

 

[jeypore]

The US wants Pakistan to reform its notorious Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, shift its focus from India to Afghanistan and train its troops in counter-insurgency to meet the terrorist threat at home.

Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani "recognises that he has an extremist threat in Pakistan", Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in an interview with PBS broadcast late Thursday.

"They've lost many, many citizens. And, in fact, if you look at the suicide bombings which have occurred over the last year or so, they've actually moved towards - and a couple of them have actually occurred in Islamabad.

"So he recognises there's a serious extremist terrorist threat inside his country," Mullen said when asked how he would get Kayani to use his military forces not in anticipation of conflict with India, but more in pursuit of forces that want to destabilise Pakistan.

"Clearly, the Mumbai attacks in India put him in a position where he had to focus more on the Indian border, and he has," he said adding, "I mean, he's a chief who's got threats coming from both directions."

But giving "a lot of credit" to former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Mullen said "they actually de-tensioned that border during President Musharraf's time, and in fact the tourism started to flourish, there was trade which started to flourish across that border.

"And all that got suspended with the Mumbai attacks," he noted. "So General Kayani knows what he has to do. He needs to move more troops to the west and he needs to train them in counterinsurgency."

Kayani "certainly is aware of the concerns that I have with respect to his intelligence agency, ISI", Mullen said.

"They have been very attached to many of these extremist organisations," he said warning that "in the long run, they have got to completely cut ties with those in order to really move in the right direction".

"ISI fundamentally has to change its strategic approach, which has been clear to focus on India as well as Afghanistan," Mullen said. "And I don't believe they can make a lot of progress until that actually occurs."

Kayani, he said, had appointed in Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, "one of his best guys", as the new director of ISI. "I'm encouraged with his views and I'm encouraged with how he sees the problem."

But "it's going to take some time to get at it inside ISI".


Pak's ISI should sever ties with Terrorists | India.com

 

[Cheetah786]

India.com is the link enough said

 

[S-2]

sherdil76, we've a CHARLIE ROSE thread here somewhere. It's from that interview that about 20 differently configured press stories have hit the wire. I'd encourage this thread be merged and that you watch the actual interview with Adm. Mullen here.

Maybe that thread should be merged with yours here. I don't know but I'd like some coherance brought to these scattered by-product stories when we've the source material from which it all stems-accurately or inaccurately twisted after-the-fact by various news slants.

I'm going to try something new...

 

[jeypore]

India.com is the link enough said

This article is the summary of S-2 thread on Adm Mike Mullen On Charlie Rose

Read the article first!!!!!