MMC
11-26-2011, 08:38 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-25-troops-dead-nato-helicopter-attack-085244024.html
AP – 50 mins ago.....
Pakistan: 25 troops dead in NATO helicopter attack.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters of firing on two army checkpoints in the northwest and killing 25 soldiers, then retaliated by closing a key border crossing used by the coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan.
The incident Friday night was a major blow to already strained relations between Islamabad and U.S.-led forces fighting in Afghanistan. It will add to perceptions in Pakistan that the American presence in the region is malevolent, and to resentment toward the weak government in Islamabad for co-operating with Washington.
In a statement, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani strongly condemned the alleged NATO attack, and said government was taking it up "in the strongest terms with NATO and the U.S.
A Pakistani customs official told The Associated Press that he received verbal orders Saturday to stop all NATO supplies from crossing the border through Torkham in either direction. A transporter who runs a terminal at the border where NATO trucks park before they cross confirmed the closure. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Torkham runs through the famed Khyber Pass and is the main crossing to Afghanistan from Pakistan, the country through which NATO ships about 30 percent of the non-lethal supplies used by its Afghan-based forces. A short stoppage will have no effect on the war effort, but it is a reminder of the leverage Pakistan has over the United States from the supply routes to landlocked Afghanistan running through its territory.....snip~
Not good.....the Pakis closed the pass down immediately. They stated their Army check points had been set up recenty to counter attacks from militants they say are coming out of the Eastern parts of Afghanistan. Kunar and Nuristan. Note the piece states where the US has already pulled our Troopers out of those areas.
Course we now have Gen. Allen of the Marines saying he is going to being running Spec Ops out of there by this summer. Removing most of our Marines from Combat. Yet this area is dominated by militants. Who attack both Pakistan and Afghanistan. The East is where all those Spectacular Attacks have come from.
Topping it off Pakistan has already been told by Afghanistan that if it goes to War with the US the Afghanis will side with Pakistan. So now here comes the big part. The US and Obama is going to have to say sorry again and Publicly to the World. Which we did last time. Obama and the Dems use to talk all that shit about our perception in the World. This is the 5th major screw up with Pakistan with events like this one and for dropping bombs on civillians.
Does it matter what the Pakis actions are? One thing is clear somebody called this airstrike in. How many times are we going to apologize? Especially when we know evidence points to to the Pakis misleading us and kinda holding us up from doing our job. What is this perception the Dems want the World to have of us? What that we are fuck-ups? That when we get it wrong. That we are man enough to say Sorry! :rolleyes:
AP – 50 mins ago.....
Pakistan: 25 troops dead in NATO helicopter attack.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters of firing on two army checkpoints in the northwest and killing 25 soldiers, then retaliated by closing a key border crossing used by the coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan.
The incident Friday night was a major blow to already strained relations between Islamabad and U.S.-led forces fighting in Afghanistan. It will add to perceptions in Pakistan that the American presence in the region is malevolent, and to resentment toward the weak government in Islamabad for co-operating with Washington.
In a statement, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani strongly condemned the alleged NATO attack, and said government was taking it up "in the strongest terms with NATO and the U.S.
A Pakistani customs official told The Associated Press that he received verbal orders Saturday to stop all NATO supplies from crossing the border through Torkham in either direction. A transporter who runs a terminal at the border where NATO trucks park before they cross confirmed the closure. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Torkham runs through the famed Khyber Pass and is the main crossing to Afghanistan from Pakistan, the country through which NATO ships about 30 percent of the non-lethal supplies used by its Afghan-based forces. A short stoppage will have no effect on the war effort, but it is a reminder of the leverage Pakistan has over the United States from the supply routes to landlocked Afghanistan running through its territory.....snip~
Not good.....the Pakis closed the pass down immediately. They stated their Army check points had been set up recenty to counter attacks from militants they say are coming out of the Eastern parts of Afghanistan. Kunar and Nuristan. Note the piece states where the US has already pulled our Troopers out of those areas.
Course we now have Gen. Allen of the Marines saying he is going to being running Spec Ops out of there by this summer. Removing most of our Marines from Combat. Yet this area is dominated by militants. Who attack both Pakistan and Afghanistan. The East is where all those Spectacular Attacks have come from.
Topping it off Pakistan has already been told by Afghanistan that if it goes to War with the US the Afghanis will side with Pakistan. So now here comes the big part. The US and Obama is going to have to say sorry again and Publicly to the World. Which we did last time. Obama and the Dems use to talk all that shit about our perception in the World. This is the 5th major screw up with Pakistan with events like this one and for dropping bombs on civillians.
Does it matter what the Pakis actions are? One thing is clear somebody called this airstrike in. How many times are we going to apologize? Especially when we know evidence points to to the Pakis misleading us and kinda holding us up from doing our job. What is this perception the Dems want the World to have of us? What that we are fuck-ups? That when we get it wrong. That we are man enough to say Sorry! :rolleyes: