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Noose Tightening Around Perv: NATO Commanders Steaming
 Commanders from five Nato countries whose troops have just fought the bloodiest battle with the Taliban in five years, are demanding their governments get tough with Pakistan over the support and sanctuary its security services provide to the Taliban.
| So you didn't buy Perv's eyewash, eh? |
Nato's report on Operation Medusa, an intense battle that lasted from September 4-17 in the Panjwai district, demonstrates the extent of the Taliban's military capability and states clearly that Pakistan's Interservices Intelligence (ISI) is involved in supplying it.
| I'm pleasantly surprised to hear that the NATO commanders will say that publicly. |
Commanders from Britain, the US, Denmark, Canada and Holland are frustrated that even after Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf met George W Bush and Tony Blair last week, Western leaders are declining to call Mr Musharraf's bluff. "It is time for an 'either you are with us or against us' delivered bluntly to Musharraf at the highest political level," said one Nato commander.
| Perv already decided that. |
"Our boys in southern Afghanistan are hurting because of what is coming out of Quetta," he added.
The Taliban use the southern province of Balochistan to co-ordinate their insurgency and to recuperate after military action. The cushion Pakistan is providing the Taliban is undermining the operation in Afghanistan, where 31,000 Nato troops are now based. The Canadians were most involved in Operation Medusa, two weeks of heavy fighting in a lush vineyard region, defeating 1,500 well entrenched Taliban, who had planned to attack Kandahar city, the capital of the south. Nato officials now say they killed 1,100 Taliban fighters, not the 500 originally claimed. Hundreds of Taliban reinforcements in pick-up trucks who crossed over from Quetta waved on by Pakistani border guards were destroyed by Nato air and artillery strikes.
| Excellent! Now just hit 'em whilst they're still in Quetta. |
Nato captured 160 Taliban, many of them Pakistanis who described in detail the ISI's support to the Taliban.
Nato is now mapping the entire Taliban support structure in Balochistan, from ISI- run training camps near Quetta to huge ammunition dumps, arrival points for Taliban's new weapons and meeting places of the shura, or leadership council, in Quetta, which is headed by Mullah Mohammed Omar, the group's leader since its creation a dozen years ago.
| And what a coincidence, the ISI operation is remarkably similar to the structure created for the Kashmir terrs. |
Posted by: Captain America 2006-10-06 |
