Posted on 10/17/2009 9:32:38 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
hmmm...don’t tip yourself.
Well...if I had known! Infrastructure is vital to a unified state. I extend my thanks to the American tax-payer, one and all, and to the service units, contractors, specialists, and engineers that make it happen in Afghanistan.
My thought is that it may be an eastern example one of those ancient (Roman) roads one sees sometimes in Europe. A fragment of an old Successor state road, for example.
The problem is that while we ignore our own borders we treat other’s borders with the utmost respect.
See Cambodia/Laos during the Vietnam war for a reprise.
Unfortunately, Norm, the Paks still consider the Haqqanis, Gul Bahadar and Mullah Oman and the Quetta Shura to be the “good Taliban” - i.e. the ones who are only ambush killing Afghans and Coalition forces across the border.
edit: Mullah Omar
“That is and has been the stronghold...Is Pakistan finally wising up??”
Nope, the first $1.5 billion aid installment check cleared.
Lessee -
Only Anti Pakistan Talibs targeted -
Anti American Talibs untouched -
Some will fight, others melt away into Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan or north and east into Chitral, Gilgit, Baltistan, Kashmir -
No US anvil on Afghan side -
It’s a topsy turvy looking glass world - especially when we refuse to accept the duplicity of the Pakistanis and their skilful,adroit handling of the American policy elites.
Here’s a look - from longwarjournal....
The article is from the Times of London and even they buy the fiction of Imam as “renegade” rather than a integral instrument of Pakistani strategic policy as conducted via its non government proxies - an NGO even, but for jihad and Pakistan.
Imam was defending in Pakistan the allegation that the jihadi Ilyas Kashmiri, alleged by Pakistan to have died in an air strike and who somehow :>>> turned up alive, was formerly a member of Pakistan’s SSG, an elite commando group once led by (sound the trumpets), former President Musharraf!
Who is Colonel Imam?
Today western intelligence agencies believe Imam is among a group of renegade officers from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) who continued to help the Taliban after Pakistan turned against them following the attacks of September 11, 2001 [note: this list includes Hamid Gul, Javid Nasir, and Zahirul Islam Abbasi, Aslam Beg, and Khalid Khwaja].
United Nations officials and Afghanistan’s intelligence service have reported sightings of him in the Afghan provinces of Helmand and Uruzgan. It is a charge he shrugs off, claiming that at 65 he has not worked for almost eight years.
“I wish I could do it but they don’t need me any more,” he says. “My students are far ahead of me now. They are giving a lesson to the world. I am very proud of them.”
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Imam was Pakistan’s consul-general in Herat when the Taliban captured the city in 1995 from Ismail Khan, the mujaheddin commander, who claims the ISI agent oversaw the whole Taliban operation. From there he guided the Taliban as they took over the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif and Jalalabad and eventually captured Kabul.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2009/10/who_is_colonel_imam.php#ixzz0UPFXYuVP
More proof of ISI collusion with the Taliban
Great pic!
The photographer is a good friend and a great guy!
Note: this topic is from October 17, 2009. Thanks NormsRevenge.
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