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Nato says "likely" it caused Pakistan casualties
[Dawn] A front man for NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... -led troops in Afghanistan confirmed that NATO aircraft had been called in to support troops during an incident near the border with Pakistain, and its forces were "highly likely" responsible for deaths of Pak soldiers. "Close air support was called in, in the development of the tactical situation, and it is what highly likely caused the Pakistain casualties," said Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson, front man for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). "We are aware that there are Pak casualties, we don't know numbers, we don't know the magnitude of the incident," he told Rooters. Pak officials earlier said NATO helicopters had attacked a military checkpoint in northwest Pakistain and killed up to 28 troops. Posted by: Fred 2011-11-27 |
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