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India-Pakistan
Nato says "likely" it caused Pakistan casualties
2011-11-27
[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

#3  Bloggers = Pundits aren't worried so much about a US-Paki rift as they are PAK-vs-Afghan conflict, espec since Nuclear Pak is Nuclear China's BFF while Nuclear India is Not-Yet-Nuclear Aghanistan's new BFF.

Islamabad is denying that its troops fired twice at Afghan forces in cover, support of the Taliban.

versus

* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > ISRAEL BLAMES [accuses] PAKISTAN, IRAN OF USING TERRORISTS AS PROXIES FOR FANATIC POLITICAL AIMS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-11-27 23:35  

#2  they were likely firing cover for Taliban forces.
Posted by: Frank G   2011-11-27 14:44  

#1  Firing 'warning shots' at US aircraft engaged in combat will often earn you a Darwin Award nomination.
Posted by: Glenmore   2011-11-27 13:51  

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