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| US Military Advisors to head for Pakistan soon |
| 2008-09-21 |
| (PTI)US military advisors in dozens may soon be heading for Pakistan to train its army in counter insurgency and the specialised warfare course could begin in matter of weeks, according to a top US military commander. "The US and Pakistan have cleared remaining obstacles, so the long delayed team may arrive in Islamabad within weeks", Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff was quoted by Los Angeles Times on his return from a key visit to Pakistan. Washington for months has urged the Pakistani to accept a training team. Pakistan resisted, asking for additional weaponary and equipment some US officials believe is best suited for its standoff with regional rival India, the Paper said. But now, Mullen told the paper the primary stumbling block had been the fact that Pakistan could not build the proposed training site, near the western town of Peshawar, quickly enough. He said the two sides had now agreed to use an alternative site, north of Pakistani capital Islamabad. " We're still going through adminstrative delays, but I do see it happening", Mullen said adding " I think It's in the next few weeks". |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Hopefully these advisors will be language trained special forces. We will have to vet the Pakis like we did the Vietnamese when working with them in Vietnam or the Afghans that we work with. We won't always be right. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-09-21 19:56 |
| #9 Ahgan War will continue... Must have truncated something or push the wrong commands. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-09-21 19:50 |
| #8 Most likely you are going to have to work with the Pakis and keep tabs on them on an ongoing basis. Pakinstan ISI is a den of intrigue and full of Taliban and AQ and sympathizers. It is difficult to invade a country of 180 million people. The next best thing is to work with Pakis and try to stem the Taliban/AQ problem in Pakistan. If Pakistan gets controlled, Afghanistan ought to quiet. There cannot be havens in Pakinstan for AQ. We will see another 911 and the Afghan was will continue without end if this problem continues to fester Pakistan. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-09-21 19:49 |
| #7 How you gonna vet 'em? Pak military records? Yeah, those are reliable. |
| Posted by: mojo 2008-09-21 15:44 |
| #6 US trainers always leave out one or two "tricks" I sure hope so, plus I hope they put RFID tags & GPS units in the equipment they sell them. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-09-21 15:19 |
| #5 IIRC, US trainers always leave out one or two "tricks" when training non-US nationals in any top-of-the-line courses, John. Most of the time it's not critical, except when fighting US counter-insurgency forces. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-09-21 15:17 |
| #4 Hope they "vet" the people being trained so that they are not Taliban or AQ. All we need is a bunch of Western well-trained AQ/Taiibunnies. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-09-21 10:19 |
| #3 I'll stop short of using the "Q" werd, but I certainly hope this was all very well thought out. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-09-21 10:14 |
| #2 Force 17 marches again. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-09-21 10:04 |
| #1 The US and Pakistan have cleared remaining obstacles gorb's interpretation: Gov't officials are running scared. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-09-21 03:15 |