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| Pakistan army frees 30 at army HQ, ending siege |
| 2009-10-11 |
| This is an A-Pee article. Click the link for the whole thing. Pakistani commandos raided their own army's headquarters Sunday to free 30 people held hostage by Islamist fighters who staged a brazen attack on the compound while wearing military uniforms. Three captives and four hostage-takers were among those killed in the 22-hour-long drama that ended with the capture of the attackers' ringleader, an army spokesman said. One way or another, he was captured dead. The audacious assault on the nerve-center of the country's military establishment showed the strength of militants allied with al-Qaida and the Taliban ahead of a planned army offensive on their heartland in South Waziristan along the Afghan border. It also signaled that any push there would be met with more attacks across Pakistan. Don't laugh. I'm sure the same thing could happen to the Pentagon. The government said the siege had steeled its resolve to go through with the South Waziristan offensive, calling it "inevitable." The United States and Pakistan's other Western allies want the country to take more action against insurgents also blamed for soaring attacks on U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. Now can we get unfettered use of drones? |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #6 TOPIX > LOCALS, FOREIGN TERRORISTS PREPARE TO FACE PAKISTAN ARMY IN WAZIRISTAN; + HILLARY CLINTON:PAKISTAN NUKES SAFE DESPITE GROWING MILITANCY. * SAME > PAKISTAN'S NEW "ZONE OF MILITANCY" [xpanding across the Afghanistan border steadily deep into Pakland]; + AFGHAN MINSTER: US NO LONGER IN SERIOUS FIGHT AGZ MILITANTS [POTUS BAMMER + OBAMA ADMIN easing up the pressure on the Burqua Boyz]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-11 22:34 |
| #5 Now can we get unfettered use of drones? link Musharraf ... said the US should not grudge Pakistan the right to take “essential measures” in response to the threat of an attack from India. That right, he said, would extend to any use Pakistan might make of US drone aircrafts. |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-10-11 11:51 |
| #4 Or that views American ways as the ultimate. Have y'all noticed that the Pakistani Army's announcements sound awfully like the kind we issue in Iraq, even more so than in Afghanistan? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-10-11 08:41 |
| #3 What sort of antiterrorist force takes prisoners? The terrorists can be re-used. They'll be given the choice of life in prison or jihad against India. |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-10-11 08:38 |
| #2 One that's American trained. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-10-11 07:29 |
| #1 What sort of antiterrorist force takes prisoners? |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-10-11 07:13 |