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2011-05-09 India-Pakistan

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Posted by ryuge 2011-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US DEFIES PAKISTAN [sovereignty] AGAIN: FIRST DRONE STRIKE SINCE BIN LADEN RAID KILLS TWELVE, "suspected Militants" in Darta Kel region of North Waziristan.

Death toll has since been reduced to EIGHT.

* SAME > WHITE HOUSE: NO APOLOGIES FOR VIOLATING PAKISTAN AIRSPACE [or SSSSHHHHH Pak sovereignty].

* TOPIX > WHITE HOUSE: DRONE STRIKES + [Abbottabad-style]SPECOP RAIDS TO CONTINUE DESPITE PAKISTAN PROTESTS.

* SAME/TOPIX > PAK AIR CHIEF: AIR DEFENSE RADARS NOT ACTIVE BEFORE BIN LADEN RAID [05/2nd] | NO FOREIGN AIR FORCES OR HELICOPTERS ALLOWED TO VIOLATE PAK AIRSPACE IN FUTURE.

Hence, of course, the post-Abbottabad US Drone strike.

PAK Air Force to shoot down US Drones from now on iff ordered by Islamabad.

* TOPIX > ANALYSTS: PAK GOVT. ROLE IN HIDING BIN LADEN SHOWS JIHADIST INFLUENCES.

Islamists, MilTerrs in the ranks.

IIUC, Radical Islam's = MilTerr's Banzai Camels,etc. wear Pak Mil Armor, Hoofs, GPS which were prolly purchased by Pak wid Milyuhns-n-Dilyuhns of US $$$ Aid???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-05-09 00:55|| 2011-05-09 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Boooo! (Thumbs down)

Posted by Griting Smith6978 2011-05-09 13:56|| 2011-05-09 13:56|| Front Page Top

#3 According to The Daily Mail' they published the wrong name. Just saying...

Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-09 14:07|| 2011-05-09 14:07|| Front Page Top

#4 The maroons will probably get the local head of Oxfam or such killed.

Posted by Pollyandrew 2011-05-09 14:55|| 2011-05-09 14:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Better to out him in the paper than try to whack him in the street using the now-discredited "robbery gone wrong" scheme.

Assuming they don't get the head of some NGO killed, I can see a certain advantage to having the Chief of Station being well known:
"Hey, look! Isn't that the CIA Station Chief?"
"Ah, the game is afoot. Let us follow him!"
Meanwhile, on the other side of town...

Posted by SteveS 2011-05-09 15:49|| 2011-05-09 15:49|| Front Page Top

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