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Obama won’t apologize for deadly raid in Pakistan
Russiatoday.ru Today at 16:56
Days after a NATO airstrike killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers amid worsening tensions between Islamabad and Washington, the White House says that President Obama does not plan to offer an apology for the executions.

Pakistan attack a big loss for US war policy
Asia Times Online Today at 11:00
The story of what actually happened last Saturday – how and why a NATO helicopter attacked a Pakistani army post inside that country’s borders, killing 24 troops – has been shifting all week, and the Pentagon seem unable to come to grips with it. But one thing is clear: The Pakistani government and people have become more aggressive in their stance against US activity both in their own country and in Afghanistan. – Gareth Porter (Dec 1, ’11)

When will Pakistan’s spring arrive? By Eric Walberg
William Bowles.info Today at 10:06
US friendly fire knows no bounds. The deaths of Pakistan soldiers and civilians is just the tip of the iceberg, which will only disappear in the heat of a national uprising, says Eric Walberg

‘Pakistanis would feel more secure without US aid’
Russiatoday.ru Today at 01:08
Despite the huge amount of aid Pakistan gets from the US, the relations between the troubled allies are plunging into deeper crisis. An expert told RT that the Pakistani people would be better off if the US was not…

Stop NATO news: December 1, 2011
Stop NATO Yesterday at 23:43

Mitt Romney’s Murderous Dictator Gaffe
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Yesterday at 20:42
If you’ve paid attention to the presidential campaign season, you’ve no doubt been entertained by the string of embarrassments and gaffes: Rick Perry blows the voting age! Herman Cain can’t remember what to say about Libya! Mitt Romney talks about the upside of a murderous dictatorship!

Pakistan Releases Video of Border Posts Hit in Deadly Airstrike
New York Times (blog)
By ROBERT MACKEY One day after Pakistan’s Army rejected an American characterization of airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on Saturday as accidental — calling them instead “an unprovoked attack of blatant aggression” — the military’s public …
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/pakistan-releases-video-of-border-posts-hit-in-deadly-air-strike/

Pakistan Drops BBC World News
Voice of America
November 30, 2011 Pakistan Drops BBC World News Kurt Achin | Islamabad, Pakistan Pakistan’s cable operators have pulled the plug on the BBC World news TV channel, in a move it hopes will be a warning to other foreign broadcasters. …
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/south/Pakistan-Cuts-BBC-Over-Anti-Pakistan-Documentary-134759163.html

Pakistan and the U.S. can finally stop pretending
Ottawa Citizen
In Pakistan, that corrupt military-industrial complex that masquerades as a UN member state, the political elites are getting their jollies this week by whipping mobs into paroxysms of paranoid chauvinism and effigy-burning. The White House, Pakistan’s …
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Pakistan+finally+stop+pretending/5793182/story.html

Bomb targets official in Pakistan’s Peshawar: police
Reuters
By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A bomb exploded near the office of a regional government official in the often restive northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar early on Thursday, police officials said, but there were no immediate reports …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/01/us-pakistan-blast-idUSTRE7B00B320111201

Friendship on Fire: Pakistan done with US?
RT
A furious Pakistan is making its anger abundantly clear, over the recent NATO air strike which killed 24 of its soldiers. It’s now pulled completely out of a key security conference on Afghanistan’s future next week. It also promised to permanently …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gib362vfy9Y

Inside Pakistan: A Reporter’s Notebook
Forbes.com
Forbes’ Helen Coster travels through Pakistan with Acumen Fund CEO Jacqueline Novogratz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxKGJLFgEjc

World Blog – U.S.-Pakistan relations, a new ‘all-time low’?
By Amna Nawaz
American gunships launch a strike across the Afghan border into Pakistan, hitting a Pakistani check post and killing 11 soldiers. U.S. officials say the attack was in response to insurgent firing.
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/30/9119530-us-pakistan-relations-a-new-all-time-low

PhotoBlog – Pakistan releases first images of border posts attacked …
Amid rising anger, Pakistan’s military has released a set of images which it says show the remote border posts attacked by NATO helicopters and fighter jets on Saturday in an incident that has soured relations between Pakistan and the United …
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/30/9112722-pakistan-releases-first-images-of-border-posts-attacked-by-nato

The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Pakistan Fired First
By Aaron Goldstein
So it turns out Pakistan did fire first at NATO and Afghan troops along the Afghan-Pakistani border over the weekend. I can’t say I’m terribly surprised. I just wish Secretary of State Clinton and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen …
http://spectator.org/blog/2011/11/30/pakistan-fired-first

US officer says Nato attack on Pakistan was not intentional – News …
A top US military officer says a Nato attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers was not deliberate, while Pakistan maintains Nato forces were alerted.
http://mg.co.za/article/2011-12-01-us-officer-says-nato-attack-on-pakistan-was-not-intentional/

Pakistan, NATO cooperate on new border incident – Marine Corps …
By The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistan resumed some cooperation with U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan following NATO strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers by working with the coalition to prevent another cross-border incident from escalating, …
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2011/11/ap-pakistan-nato-cooperate-on-new-border-incident-113011/

Pakistan has had enough | Simon Tisdall | Comment is free | The …
Simon Tisdall: The assumption that it has no choice but to obey America may turn out to be a dire strategic error.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/27/pakistan-strategic-error

NATO apology is not enough: DG ISPR | Pakistan | News …
While rejecting NATO’s claim that Pakistan forces initiated fire, Director General, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General Athar Abbas said on …
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/28-Nov-2011/Pakistan-army-rejects-NATO-regrets-over-attack