"Think of Saleem Shahzad as a made in Pakistan Predator drone carrying words, not bombs, flying all over AfPak. Instead of taking out "terrorists" - and the odd Pashtun wedding party - what his Hellfire missiles actually do is smash most assumptions and the concentric walls of disinformation disseminated in the West about AfPak.
Pluto Press - as an act of compassion - should mail a copy of this book to self-billed counter-insurgency ace and now Central Intelligence Agency chief General David Petraeus, not to mention his coterie of sycophant boots not on the ground as well as "terrorism experts" of the comfy think-tank variety - so they would actually have a clue about what's really been happening on the ground.
It was after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that Saleem - Asia Times Online's Pakistan bureau chief - staked his ground as the foremost reporter investigating the labyrinth of the Pakistani tribal areas. By one of those tragic quirks of history, his book was launched only three weeks after the targeted assassination of Osama bin Laden in the Abbottabad raid; and roughly a week before Saleem himself was kidnapped, tortured and murdered. No, he was not killed by "al-Qaeda"; as the investigation about his murder in Pakistan is going nowhere (and will stay there), still the insider bet is on a not so rogue faction of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), with clearance at the highest levels"..............READ MORE
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