Posted on 07/02/2007 8:35:21 AM PDT by IrishMike
KARACHI - Since last September, North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in Afghanistan have been pressing Islamabad for the right to conduct extensive hot-pursuit operations into Pakistan to target Taliban and al-Qaeda bases.
According to Asia Times Online contacts, NATO and its US backers have gotten their wish: coalition forces will start hitting targets wherever they might be.
Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf is expected to make an important announcement on extremism during an address to the nation in the next day or two.
The ATol contacts in Islamabad say that coalition intelligence has pinpointed at least four centers in the tribal areas of North Waziristan and South Waziristan on the border with Afghanistan from which Taliban operations inside Afghanistan are run. These bases include arms caches and the transfer and raising of money and manpower, the latter in the form of foot-soldiers to fight with the Taliban-led insurgency.
Operations inside Pakistan might be carried out independently by the United States, probably with air power, by Pakistani forces acting alone or as joint offensives. In all cases, though, the US will pull the strings, for instance by providing the Pakistanis with information on targets to hit.
Musharraf has apparently already told his military commanders, the National Security Council and decision-makers in government of the development.
Officially, both NATO and Pakistan deny any agreement on hot-pursuit activities. Major John Thomas, spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force, told Asia Times Online, "The ISAF would not strike any targets across the border. That is not part of our mission. We work with the Pakistani government closely on cross-border issues. The ISAF does not have a counter-terrorism mission that I know of."
(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...
Better late and on our side than never.
Pretty bold
I wonder how much money he will get.
I wonder how much money he will get.
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What ever it takes,
let the killing begin.
I blame Bush.
Mushariff has snuffed a fair number of jihadis to date. I hope this comes to pass.
Could be.
Al qaeda people (Iraqis ans Iranians) have been captured entering Packistan, joining the Taliban ?
And the Pakistan army have been having a tough time ...
...’Pakistani security forces have arrested three suspected Al-Qaeda militants on the porus Pakistan-Iran border while trying to enter the restive Balochistan province.
The infiltrators, including two Iraqis and one Iranian, were trying to enter the Taftan area into Balochistan province, the border authorities said.
Fake ID cards were recovered from the suspected foreign militants, who were being put through intensive interrogation, PakTribune online said quoting unnamed official sources.
The police had nabbed three militants suspected to be Al-Qaeda activists from southwestern Balochistan region earlier this month. Pakistani security agencies arrested former Taliban defence minister Mullah Obaidullah Akhund from a hotel in Quetta in March.
Pakistan’s northern area bordering Afghanistan has been a haven for foreign Islamist militants who have been engaged in violent activities in different parts of the world, including Afghanistan, Chechnya, China and India.
Pakistan, a key ally of the United States in its war on terror, has deployed at least 90,000 troops in its northwestern tribal areas to flush out remnants of the Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, and their local supporters.
Efforts to flush them out of their hideouts in the tribal areas, where they have received patronage from the local warlords, has put them in direct conflict with the Pakistan Army, which has suffered heavy losses while engaging the militants’.......
If true...this is big.
Good news...al Qaeda and the Taliban should be very nervous.
FWIW
Perhaps Geroge figures it is time to get some heads on some pikes. Musharraf is a dead man walking. He knows it and we know it. Maybe he figures its time to take a few with him as he goes down.
Damn impressive vehicle.
What’s it getting miles per gallon ?
See post #13
That's a friggin 4WD A-10...
Look OUT.
I don't think it matters ... if it gets where you are going safely! LOL
1. You'll never know.
2. It will all be paid in Swiss francs in Liechtenstein.
3. If he really comes through, it will be cheap at twice the price.
WARNING VIOLENT AND GRAPHIC!!!
This is remarkable film footage.
This is a night vision movie from Iraq, showing live action against Iraqi insurgents. The pictures were taken from an AC-130 Specter gunship two and a half miles from the target. The guys in the picture are setting up a roadside bomb and planning to ambush an American convoy which followed a short while after the pictures were taken. They were setting up the ambush and were pacing off the distance from the bomb to where the convoy was to pass by.
Turn your sound up. The level of effort these Specter crews put forth to control the enemy's antics is commendable, and their marksmanship with those electronically controlled 40mm cannons is astounding.
WOW. I hope he has good body guards. And I’m not even close to joking when I say that.
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