Pakistan Told to Ratchet Up Taliban Fight

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is turning up the pressure on Pakistan to fight the Taliban within its borders, warning that failure to act more aggressively in the United States will use force more on the Pakistani side of the border to turn off Taliban attacks "on U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, U.S. and Pakistani officials.

The blunt message was delivered in a tense meeting in Pakistan last month, before President Obama announced its new strategy War, when General James L. Jones, national security adviser to Obama, and John O. Brennan, the head of Counterterrorism at the White House, met with military leaders of Pakistan and its intelligence service.

U.S. officials said the message did not mean an ultimatum by the UN, but Pakistani military products destined for a persecuted reluctant Taliban insurgents "in Pakistan, who are conducting attacks in Afghanistan.

For its part, the Pakistanis interpreted the message as a warning rather bald that unless Pakistan moved quickly to take action against two groups of "Taliban have refused so far to the attacks, the United States was prepared to take action to UNILATERAL Teledirigido Attacks Predator Expand Beyond the tribal areas and, if necessary, to Resume Attacks Special Operations Forces in the country against Al Qaeda and the Taliban leaders.

An administration official, asked about the meeting, refused to go into details, but added quickly, "I think our intentions accurately read."

A Pakistani official who was briefed on the meetings, said, "was Jones's message, whether that aid comes from Pakistan, the United States would have to do it themselves."

U.S. commanders said this year were considering expanding the strikes in the lawless areas of Pakistan buzz, but the general comments of Jones was the first time the United States bluntly said that Pakistan would have to choose between the attacks on leader of the insurgents within the country's borders or step aside to allow Americans to do so.

Security requirements has been a result of an offer of a broader strategic relationship and exchange of intelligence and expanded financial aid not the U.S. military. The politically weakened president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, replied in writing to a two-page letter that General Jones delivered by Mr. Obama. But Mr. Zardari, gave no indication of how Pakistan responds to incentives, Esteban relating to the demands of great intensification of actions against terrorism.

"We have offered a strategic choice," said an administration official said, describing private communications. "And again we have heard almost nothing." Another administration official said, "Our patience is running out."

Asked about the exchange, Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the White House, said: "We have no comment on the private diplomatic correspondence. As the president has said repeatedly, will continue to work with Pakistan and the international community to improve Military management, and economic capacity of Afghanistan and Pakistan. "

The implied threat not only to ratchet up the buzz strikes, but also the covert release of more U.S. ground incursions would be a substantial increase in anti-terrorist campaign of the administration.

American Special Operations forces attacked Al Qaeda militants in a Pakistani village near the border with in the first publicly acknowledged case of United States conduct Afghanistan in early September 2008, a raid by ground forces on Pakistani soil .

However, the attack caused a political furore in Pakistan with top generals of the country condemned the attack, and the United States backed down What had been planned a series of similar attacks.

During his intensive review of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Strategy, the officials said, Obama came to the conclusion that no amount of troops in Afghanistan will have success in his new mission, if the Taliban could be withdrawn over the border into Pakistan to regroup and resupply. But the government has said little about the Pakistani side of the strategy.

"We concluded early on that what you do with Pakistan, I will not talk much," said a presidential aide said last week. "All it does is to get a backup in Islamabad."

During his speech at West Point last week, Obama said "our success in Afghanistan is inextricably linked to our partnership with Pakistan." But for the rest of the speech referred to the country in the past tense, talking about how "Those who have been in Pakistan have said the fight against extremism is their fight, and that Pakistan is better to do little or seeking accommodation Persons who use violence. "

He never said how his visits to the Pakistani government today, two officials said Obama use that construction in an effort not to alienate the current government or the army, led by General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.

Even before Obama announced his decision last week, the White House had approved an expansion of unmanned aircraft program in the CIA and Pakistan's tribal areas, Outside the Law. A missile attack by what is said to be a U.S. drone in the tribal areas killed at least three people early Tuesday, according to Pakistani intelligence officials, reported The Associated Press.

Pakistani authorities for fear of civilian casualties and the emergence of new infringements of national sovereignty, are still in talks with U.S. officials on whether to allow the CIA to expand its missile attacks in Baluchistan, for the first time - a delicate political movement because it is outside and Tribal Areas. U.S. commanders say this is necessary because the Mullah Omar, Taliban leader who ran Afghanistan before the invasion of 2001 and other Taliban leaders are hiding in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province.

Pakistani authorities also concerned that if the Pakistani Army is aggressively attacking the two groups of most concern to the United States - Leaders' Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network based in North Waziristan - The militants who responded with waves of retaliatory attacks, further undermined the weak civilian government.

Publicly, senior American officials and commanders to take note of that concern. Secretary of State for Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Pakistan in late October with the offer of a strategic partnership. But General Jones to Mrs. Clinton followed two weeks later carrying more sticks than carrots, U.S. officials said.