Pakistan blames US coalition for troops' death

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

Pakistan blames US coalition for troops' death
By RIAZ KHAN – 34 minutes ago

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — U.S.-led coalition forces along the volatile Afghan border launched an airstrike that killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops, Pakistan's army said Wednesday. The military condemned it as an act of aggression within Pakistan's border that "hit at the very basis of cooperation" in the war on terrorism.

The incident late Tuesday followed a reported clash between Afghan forces and Taliban militants in the same area. The Taliban said eight of its fighters died in the skirmish.

The Pakistani army said the coalition airstrike hit a post of the paramilitary Frontier Corps and was a "completely unprovoked and cowardly act."

It launched a strong protest and reserved "the right to protect our citizens and soldiers against aggression," the military said in a statement. The statement said the clash in the Mohmand tribal region "had hit at the very basis of cooperation" between the allies in the war on terror.



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[OwnedByFerrets]

1. Damned Terrorists

[Doctor_J]

2. Winning hearts & minds not just in Iraq, but all over the ME

I am sure when Cheney hears of this, his reaction will be

[ohio2007]

3. Did the marines get # 2 as he conducted his spring offensive ?

just a few days ago, CNN reported this;
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/09/afghanistan.pakistan.ap/index.html

So maybe in a few months what happened during this "spring offensive" will slowly be leaked as is the normal routine with death notices;


Dozens feared dead in Afghan border clash



Arif Yousafzai

PESHAWAR: Taliban and Afghan National Army backed by American forces have traded severe firing in Sooran Dara area of Mehmand and Bajaur Agencies on Afghan border late Tuesday evening.

Sources told this correspondent that Afghan National Army backed by American forces and gunship helicopters clashed with Taliban when the former on a tip-off attacked a Taliban hideout in the Sooran Dara area.

Unconfirmed reports receiving from the Dara revealed that dozens of Taliban and Afghan National Army are feared dead in the clashes.

Pakistan Tehrik-e-Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umer talking to this correspondent via phone from an undisclosed location said that clashes erupted in Sooran Dara area when American and Afghan National Army backed by gunship helicopters and jets attacked Taliban on the Afghan border.

He said that Afghan National Army and American forces and their jets also violated the territorial limits of Pakistan and continued to fly over Mehmand and Bajaur Agencies for few minutes.

Asked about the casualties, he said that though jets had been seen pouring bombs on Taliban but the number of casualties could not be ascertained immediately. He said that Sooran Dara was one of the strongholds of Taliban and Pakistan army had no presence in this area. It was the responsibility of Pakistan army to protect its boundaries but the job is being done by Taliban, he added.
Meanwhile, a foreign news agency quoted a government official saying that a pilotless US drone was suspected to have fired a missile into a Pakistani area on the Afghan border, but there was no word on the target or casualties.

"There was an attack by a spy plane close to the Afghan border but we don't have information about casualties or damage," said the government official based in the region. He declined to be identified.



http://thepost.com.pk/Ba_ShortNewsT.aspx?fbshortid=3072&bcatid=14&bstatus=Current&fcatid=14&fstatus=Current



Wonder what things would be like if Bhutto wasn't killed by the people who lived in this very same area;
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN0131761420071001


At any rate, this is where Barak is quoted as saying he wants to take the offensive.Breaking a few eggs is expected;

Pakistan fury over U.S. 'hot pursuit' attack

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/11/pakistan.troops.killed/index.html

[ohio2007]

4. Militants kill woman "U.S. spy" in Pakistan

KHAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants in Pakistan executed a woman after accusing her of being a spy for the U.S. and a prostitute, and said others would face the same fate, a government official and villagers said on Wednesday.

It was the first time that a woman had been killed in northwest Pakistan after being accused of spying although militants have killed many men they accused of helping U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan.

The body of the unidentified woman was found dumped beside a road near the town of Khar in the Bajaur region on the Afghan border, a hotbed of support for al Qaeda and Taliban militants.

A note was found with the body, a government official said.

"She was killed because she was an American spy and a prostitute and those who found doing such activities will face the same fate,"
snip

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSISL23780820080611

collaborators are not civilians.

The pieces coming together about what happened along the afghan border ?




A regular Mata Hari but instead of a firing squad,

the one in Pakistan got strangled.
http://www.esto.es/bellydance/english/en_mata_hari.htm