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2010-06-09 India-Pakistan

Pak: 50 NATO trucks torched on Motorway, 4 people dead

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Posted by Fred 2010-06-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1 ION TOPIX > WORRIED ABOUT AFGHAN WAR, US SEEKS TO SOOTHE AZERBAIJAN, to help secure + keep open AFPAK logistical land routes + central hubs despite Militant convoy attacks.

* SAME > AZERI POLITICIAN: US PLANS TO DEPLOY [UN-disguised] MILITARY FORCES ON ARMENIAN BORDER WID IRAN, ostensibly under the guise/cover label of "UN Peacekeeping Forces".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-06-09 01:23|| 2010-06-09 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 "Unidentified" militants? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say they're Muslim. Whichever Lashkar-e-Taiba, Taliban, Al Qaeda group they happen to align themselves with is immaterial.

Posted by American Delight 2010-06-09 06:40|| http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/ 2010-06-09 06:40|| Front Page Top

#3 ISI involvement most likely.

Pak Army and Iran Govt our biggest foes in the region!

Posted by Paul2 2010-06-09 09:22|| 2010-06-09 09:22|| Front Page Top

#4 @#3 uh....NO!
The biggest problem in that region is Iran and the Mad Mullahs.
Yes, the ISI does play both sides of the fence in certain areas, but on the whole, their interests(and most Pakis) and the Americans, are intertwined.
In the last few years the ISI has rid itself of many though not to be loyal to the government.So in my view they are more reliable today than at times in the past.
The Pakistan military has had an interesting role in Paki society and the formation of Pakistan itself.
Read up on it.

Posted by Mike Hunt 2010-06-09 11:58|| 2010-06-09 11:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Damnable supply routes.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-06-09 12:54|| 2010-06-09 12:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Swskoff

June 6th, you asked me if Pegasus Bridghe is still there. Unfortunately it was weel past midnight here and I didn't see it in time.

So the answer is no. The bridge was replaced when the canal was widened. However the original is in a D-Day museum.

On other news: "Les Ailes de l'espoir" a monument in Omaha Beach funded by French citizens from their own pockets that the Chirac government tried to demolish is still standing.

I have also learned of a French association http://www.asp82airborne.org/
whose goal is supporting the members of the 82d airborne and is headed by former French members of the Jedburg (like the SAS but tougher) units.

Finally there is "Les fleurs de la mémoire" http://fleursdelamemoire.free.fr/ (Flowers of memory) an association whose members flower or fund the flowering of the graves of American soldiers fallen in Normandy.

Posted by a 2010-06-09 16:20|| 2010-06-09 16:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Merci boucoup.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-06-09 16:28|| 2010-06-09 16:28|| Front Page Top

#8 ISI involvement most likely.

Not likely. Attacks in the past have been done by gangs who usually 'ask' for insurance-money, as in 'dat's a nice lorry - shame if'n sumptin happened to it.

It'd also be nice if once in a while you'd post a comment other than your usual mindless boiler-plate (kudos for not using exclamation points this time, tho).

Posted by Pappy 2010-06-09 21:44|| 2010-06-09 21:44|| Front Page Top

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