{"id":2244,"date":"2008-01-18T17:43:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T17:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/us-considering-pakistan-incursion\/2244\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T17:43:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T17:43:15","slug":"us-considering-pakistan-incursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/us-considering-pakistan-incursion\/","title":{"rendered":"US considering Pakistan incursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\"><strong>The US Defense Secretary says his country is trying to understand ground realities before taking any action inside northwestern Pakistan. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to make sure we understand the ground truth before we take any action so that it is not be misperceived,&#8221; <em>The Daily Times<\/em> quoted Robert Gates as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re assessing what value we could have, or any other ally could have, in contributing to their security,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has always been an area that has not been fully under the control of the Pakistani government or where there has been a significant military presence,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is reportedly considering military operations inside Pakistan allegedly to hunt militants who use the country&#8217;s tribal regions as hideouts.<\/p>\n<p>US-led forces have already launched several air strikes on North Waziristan and in the Bajaur tribal area, killing dozens of civilians.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=39267&amp;sectionid=351020401\">JR\/ RE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Defense Secretary says his country is trying to understand ground realities before taking any action inside northwestern Pakistan. &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to make sure we understand the ground truth before we take any action so that it is not be misperceived,&#8221; The Daily Times quoted Robert Gates as saying. &#8220;We&#8217;re assessing what value we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1616],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-2244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}