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| India-Pakistan |
| ‘Stingers went to Iran by mistake’ |
| 2006-05-10 |
| Pakistan did not supply Stinger missiles to Iran and only 35 missiles reached Iran that too by mistake, said Lieutenant General (r) Hameed Gul, the former director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence. Talking to a private TV channel, Gul said the Inter-Services Intelligence had supplied 50 to 70 Stinger missiles to former Afghanistan prime minister Gulbadin Hekamtyar. He said most of the missiles should have been exhausted because of redundancy in their batteries, and only few of them might still be operational. “The number of attacks on United States aircraft in Afghanistan by the Taliban shows the militants might have acquired anti-aircraft missiles from elsewhere,” he said. |
| Posted by:john |
| #4 “The number of attacks on United States aircraft in Afghanistan by the Taliban shows the militants might have acquired anti-aircraft missiles from elsewhere,” he said. Arrogant bastard. "from elsewhere" Since the article doesn't reference an exact timeline, this statement seems more like a bankshot? According to Michael Yon things are 'hotting' up in a big way in Southern Afghanistan/Balochi/Waziri areas again, He believes this is no time for the US to be turning over control to the Euros/Canada and that we should be leading instead. |
| Posted by: RD 2006-05-10 22:27 |
| #3 I think we can arrange to mistakenly drop 35 2,000 pounders over Pakistan, don't you? I think key ISI facilities would be appropriate. Oh, and Gul's various homes would be fine, as well. S'only fair. |
| Posted by: Omulet Elmart2345 2006-05-10 22:19 |
| #2 What the general meant to say was that it was a mistake that the Stingers were shipped, that shipment was supposed to be nuclear warhead components. |
| Posted by: RWV 2006-05-10 22:13 |
| #1 Mistake, hell. What he means is it was a mistake they got caught. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-05-10 22:04 |