Pakistan militants focus on Afghanistan

[Contrary1]

Here we go. Look for more military casualties in Afghanistan, while Bushco and his accomplices (MSM) brag about how fewer troops are lost in Iraq, since that is where their "war" is.


"RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - In early June, about 300 fighters from jihadist groups came together for a secret gathering here, in the same city that serves as headquarters to the Pakistani army.

The groups were launched long ago with the army's clandestine support to fight against India in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. But at the meeting, they agreed to resolve their differences and commit more fighters to another front instead: Afghanistan.

"The message was that the jihad in Kashmir is still continuing but it is not the most important right now. Afghanistan is the fighting ground, against the Americans there," said Toor Gul, a leader of the militant group Hezb-ul Mujahedeen. The groups included the al-Qaida-linked Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, banned by Pakistan and branded terrorists by the U.S., he said.

The U.S. military says militant attacks in eastern Afghanistan have increased 40 percent this year over 2007. And for two straight months, the death toll of foreign troops in Afghanistan has exceeded that of Iraq. On Sunday, nine U.S. soldiers were killed in an ambush in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, the deadliest single attack for the U.S. since June 2005..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25665381/

[TwilightGardener]

1. What happened to Iraq being the "new central front of the war on Al Qaeda and terra"?

This was repeated endlessly by BushCo and the neocons as our primary reason for "surging" and staying. They even got poor Petraeus to spout this nonsense.