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2009-12-05 India-Pakistan

Al Qaida will try to provoke India-Pakistan war: Gates

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Posted by Fred 2009-12-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1 ION DAILYTIMES.pk > PETRAEUS: MULLAH OMAR SPENDS MOST OF THE TIME [iff not all His time] IN PAKISTAN???

* SAME > FEAR GRIPS GARRISON CITY AFTER MOSQUE ATTACK + TERRORISTS TARGET PINDI GARRISON
[VARIOUS ON-BASE DEPENDENT COMMUNITY > e.g. Retiree areas, PAKI MWR, shops. etc.].

Posted by Josephmendiola">Josephmendiola 2009-12-05 00:52|| na]">[na] 2009-12-05 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Translation "India should refrain from responding to Paki attacks".
We all can guess Indian response. Though, personally, I'm curious how Indians will translate the following phrases: "India is not Israel", "worthless, brainless Beltway trash"; into diplomatese.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-12-05 05:01|| 2009-12-05 05:01|| Front Page Top

#3 The two senior officials told a hearing on President Obama's new Afghan policy at the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that they had taken such threats very seriously.

But when a Pakistani-American crashes a state dinner for the Indian Prime Minister, poses for pics with Jewish Rahm Emanuel, the social secretary gets booted a month before and her replacement lists herself as a "guest", not showing up to help clear the list with Secret Service, it is merely a little boo-boo.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-12-05 10:41|| 2009-12-05 10:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, what has been downplayed in that affair was how both the protocol and the security breach potentially endangered the visiting Indian PM.

Posted by lotp 2009-12-05 14:43|| 2009-12-05 14:43|| Front Page Top

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