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2008-09-16 India-Pakistan

Pakistan orders troops to open fire if US raids

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Posted by john frum 2008-09-16 17:34|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Good.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-16 18:01|| 2008-09-16 18:01|| Front Page Top

#2 on Brit Hume's show: Adm Mullen is traveling to Pakland after the Baghdad turnover. The Paks are now, you guessed it, backing down from these claims. They say the AP quoted the Pak General "out of context". Heh. More likely, Mullen wants to give him the rundown of the consequences of such an action and the blowhards backed down

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-16 18:40|| 2008-09-16 18:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Go ahead. Stock up on body bags, though.

Posted by Parabellum 2008-09-16 19:43|| 2008-09-16 19:43|| Front Page Top

#4 It still amounts to the same situation as if the DEA and the FBI both raid a drug house at the same time. While they may argue over who is in charge, the drug house is still going to be out of business.

That is, the US and Pakistan may shoot in each other's direction, but the Taliban and al-Qaeda will be in the middle of the gunfight.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-16 20:03|| 2008-09-16 20:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Moose? Why would the ISI authorize strikes on their own tool?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-16 20:35|| 2008-09-16 20:35|| Front Page Top

#6 HMMMM, HMMMMM, this is interesting - PAKISTAN's GOVT in Islamabad must be aware by now that RUSSIA COVERTLY FEARS ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION AND ISLAMIST-INDUCED NEW BREAKUP OF RUSS AND RELATED TRANS-REGIONAL DESTABILIZATIONS [China, India, etc], and that RUSS WANTS TO SET UP A RAPID REACTION CENTRAL ASIAN/CAUCASIA MIL SECURITY ALLIANCE-ORG WID ITS FORMER CENTRAL ASIA SSRS [Kazakh, Uzbeks, Taijiks, etc.] AS PER SCO-CSTO, indicative as per Russ latent fears of its own anti-US Muslim-Islamist Allies [IRAN]. Pakistan also has its MilPol ties wid CHINA + NORTH KOREA.

IMO PAKISTAN may be trying to redo GEORGIA CONFLICT except vv CHINA, NOT RUSSIA > Iff so, the question then becoms WILL NUCLEAR CHINA, FACING ITS OWN INTERNAL MUSLIM/ISLAMIST THREAT, OVERTLY OR COVERTLY DESIRE AND TOLERATE A FORMAL = PERMAN US-NATO/EU MIL PRESENCE IN SOUTH-/SW ASIA [+ JAPAN + SOKOR, etal US Allies]???

TSARIST/KIEVAN RUSSIA, the post-1917 Revol + Cold War USSR, + now post-COLD WAR/USSR RUSSIA had all contin to proclaim their historical EURO-CENTRICITY > CHINA, on the other hand, DOES NOT. CHINA WILL INTERPRETE A FORMAL = PERMAN US-NATO/EU MIL PRESENCE IN PAKISTAN = SOUTH ASIA AS A DE FACTO THREAT TO ITS INTERESTS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-09-16 20:48|| 2008-09-16 20:48|| Front Page Top

#7 ION IRNA > INDIAN PREZ: TRANS-BORDER INTERVENTIONS FUELED THREAT OF TERRORISM [ + LEFT-WING EXTREMISM + INSURGENCY/MILITANCY/
NAXALITE RADICALISM, etc]. THE DANGEROUS NEAR-TERM CHALLENGES FACING CONTEMPOR INDIA, espec as per Sovereignty, National Integrity, and Identity.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-09-16 20:55|| 2008-09-16 20:55|| Front Page Top

#8 TOPIX > INDIAN MILITANTS ASSERT RIGHT TO FREEDOM, PROGRESS, AND SELF-DEFENSE.; + INDIAN REBELS VOW NO END TO STRUGGLE FOR RIGHTS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-09-16 20:59|| 2008-09-16 20:59|| Front Page Top

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