Posted on 09/18/2001 8:30:10 AM PDT by surfer
Taliban point scud missiles at city
The Taliban has pointed scud missiles at the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Jet fighters are patrolling the skies over the country as tensions rise in the region.
Local tribesmen in the area are urging people to raise arms in support of the Taliban.
They have dug trenches and deployed anti-aircraft missiles, surface-to-surface missiles and rocket launchers, according to local sources.
The tribal areas of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province run for over 250 miles (400 km) along the border with Afghanistan.
Although part of Pakistan, the area has never been brought under government control and Pakistani law does not apply there.
Many locals are involved in smuggling and drug running. All of them own weapons, from the ubiquitous Kalashnikov AK-47 to heavy artillery pieces. Some even have tanks that were brought across the border during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
Peshawar, the regional capital, is just 36 miles from the Afghan border. The vast majority of the city's residents are Pathans, the same ethnic group as the Taliban. Over two million Afghans live in and around Peshawar.
Story filed: 15:44 Tuesday 18th September 2001
Yesterday, you stated they had no Scuds, today you are attempting to downplay the numbers. Do you have a source for your info ?
As I stated yesterday, It is foolish to underestimate your adversaries.
http://www.cdiss.org/98aug2.htm
thats what i learned last night, and on Sky News a military expert downplayed the issue of Scuds, saying that their operational status was "highly questionable".
It's true, earlier yesterday i had no idea they possessed Scud missiles, I'm sure a lot of people thought that too, so I did a little research and found that they did in fact stumble across a couple of ex-soviet launchers a few years ago.
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I tend to agree the Scuds are over rated as a weapon, serving as a terror weapon. But lets not forget that over 100 Americans were killed by Scuds it the Gulf War.
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