8 short snips with links
Things are heating up in Pakistan
I got this in the mail a couple of days ago:
Australian Broadcasting Company
January 1, 2002
US bombs hit Pakistan town after border clash (excerpt)
The US military has bombed an abandoned religious
school on Pakistani territory after a gunbattle
between US and Pakistani troops on the border with
Afghanistan, Pakistan officials said on Tuesday.
The US military said one of its soldiers had been
wounded in Afghanistan on Sunday local time in an
exchange of gunfire with a Pakistani border guard.
A Pakistani official said two border guards were also
injured.
Pakistan is a close US ally in the war on terror and
says it has stationed 60,000-70,000 troops on the
Afghan border to help track down remnants of Osama bin
Laden's Al Qaeda network and leaders of the Taliban
regime that sheltered them.
The wounded American was part of a unit conducting a
mission with Pakistani forces along the Afghan border
when a disa!
greement appeared to break out, according
to a statement released by the US military at their
Afghan headquarters at Bagram air base.
"A Pakistani border scout opened fire with a G3 rifle
after the US patrol asked him to return to the
Pakistan side of the border," the statement said.
"That individual and several others retreated to a
nearby structure.
"Close air support was requested and one 500-lb bomb
was dropped on the target area."
Mohammad Khurshied, a local official in Pakistan's
South Waziristan tribal area close to the Afghan
border, later said a seminary in the Pakistani town of
Angor Adda had been hit by US warplanes.
A Pakistani intelligence official said two bombs were
dropped on Pakistani soil, but he reported no
injuries.
The US military said the incident happened near the
Afghan village of Shkin, which lies on the border with
Pakistan.
"We are working with the Pakist
a! nis for an accurate
battlefield damage assessment from the incident," it
said.
Mr Khurshied said a series of talks between US and
Pakistani military officials on the border had
resolved differences surrounding Sunday's incident.
The US statement did not give details of the joint US
and Pakistani mission or say whether it was taking
place inside Pakistan or Afghanistan.
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The following is snipped from http://www.msnbc.com/news/854409.asp?0dm=C25LN
As thousands of Pakistanis prepared to demonstrate Friday against the possibility of a U.S.-led war against Iraq, American troops based in Afghanistan threatened to complicate U.S.-Pakistani relations by asserting they have the right to cross the border into Pakistan in hot pursuit of enemy fighters.
The following is snipped from http://www.msnbc.com/news/853747.asp?0dm=N2BLN
An unmanned U.S. drone aircraft crashed Wednesday during a routine surveillance mission over southwestern Pakistan, not far from a facility used by American troops for operations in Afghanistan, police said.
The following is snipped from http://www.dawn.com/2003/01/03/top6.htm
A high-level inquiry into the incident of the United States bombing of a Madressah (seminary) in North Waziristan Agency following an exchange of fire between Pakistani border guards and US Marines has been initiated by defence authorities.
The following is snipped from http://app.com.pk/news/n2.htm
Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat Friday denied claim of
The following is copied from http://www.freeman.org/m_online/bodansky/axis.htm
This marked escalation in the ISI's support for the Islamist insurgency and terrorism in Kashmir is a direct by-product of Pakistan's national security policy and grand strategy. Ms. Bhutto has repeatedly emphasized the centrality of the annexation of the entire Kashmir for the long-term development of Pakistan. The new rail-line that will connect Karachi and Central Asia must pass through Indian-held Kashmir to be engineeringly and economically effective. Ms. Bhutto's Islamabad considers the opening of the road to Central Asia by using Pakistan as the region's gateway to the Indian Ocean as the key to the growth of Pakistan's commercial activities. Kashmir is also Pakistan's true gateway to the PRC and into Central Asia -- the path of the new Silk Road. And there lies the future and strategic salvation of Pakistan.
America's Role in policing the new Silk Road http://www.google.com/search?q=rail%2Ckashmir%2Cpakistan%2Cindia%2C%22America%27s+role%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
The Eurasian Land Bridge http://www.nex.net.au/users/reidgck/LAND-B.HTM
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