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| 4 soldiers killed in Held Kashmir |
| 2007-11-10 |
| A deadly four-day gunbattle between government troops and suspected militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir ended on Friday, police and army officials said. Four soldiers and three suspected militants were killed in the fighting as government forces battled militants in Pattan, a town 30 kilometers north of Srinagar, said Col Majinder Singh, an Indian army spokesman. The firefight started late on Tuesday when suspected militants hurled grenades and opened heavy gunfire on an army patrol in the town, Singh said. One soldier was killed on Tuesday and two others on Wednesday. On Friday, an army officer was killed when suspected militants opened fire on advancing troops. However, a police officer at the scene said that a bullet fired by his own colleague during the gunbattle killed the army officer. Troops recovered the body of a suspected militant on Friday morning, said the police officer. The officer said six soldiers including an army officer and a civilian were also wounded in the gunbattle. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Steve, What do you and John think would happen if American and Indian forces combined even for a freeking exercise? The muzzie world would explode especially the Paki one. I would rather see India play its role in isolating the Jihadis and killing them off one by one and blocking further expansion in Kashmir. Then I would like to see Pakistan find a way to swallow hard and let us jointly rip the heart out of the Taliban and Binny in the Weirdostans and NWFP. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-11-10 12:26 |
| #4 Makes you wonder what the Indian and US troops could do together in joint training ops. I would guess that the Indian army has a full-size mock training facility for urban combat; perhaps US and Indian troops would train together and learn from each other. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-11-10 09:36 |
| #3 State Response to Insurgency - The Case of Jammu By Thomas A. Marks |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-11-10 08:14 |
| #2 In almost 2 decades of counter-insurgency, the Indian Army has never used artillery or airpower. It has never used helicopter gunships or used air delivered munitions against buildings. Because of the danger to neighboring homes or mosques, it uses anti-tank weapons sparingly. That means several day long gun battles, with soldiers vulnerable as they do things the hard way. That means losing officers like Major Verinder Singh at Pattan village for the sake of 3 lice ridden jihadis. 4 for 3. Not good. |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-11-10 07:59 |
#1   Indian policemen running for cover during a gunbattle in Pattan, Kashmir. Three Indian army soldiers were killed and six injured in a gunbattle with Islamic militants that also left three terrorists dead.    Indian army soldiers run towards the scene of a gun battle as a villager ducks for safety in Pattan, north of Srinagar,          Indian army soldiers search a villager during a gun battle in Pattan, north of Srinagar |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-11-10 06:16 |