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India-Pakistan
US will not be price 'gouged' by Pakistan: Panetta
2012-05-28
[Dawn] US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993....
 vowed Sunday not to let the United States be "gouged" by Pakistain on the price it charges for overland deliveries of American military supplies to Afghanistan.

Pakistain closed the land route to US supplies in November as punishment for a botched US air strike that mistakenly killed 24 Pak soldiers, but have been in negotiations to reopen the border crossing.

US defense officials have said the Paks are demanding several thousand dollars for every truck crossing its border with the supplies, up from $250 per truck before the closure.

"We're not about to get gouged in the price. We want a fair price," Panetta said on ABC's "This Week."Without the Pak supply lines, the United States has had to rely on a much longer, more expensive northern route to resupply its forces in Afghanistan.
Posted by:Fred

#3  KMART [WalMart?] "BLUE NIGHT" SPECIAL ...

versus

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > DPC: SUPPLY LINES REOPENING TO INCITE SALALA-STYLE ATTACKS.

* TOPIX > NO REOPENING OF NATO SUPPLY ROUTES [or else]: JUI CHIEF.

* SAME > ISLAMABAD JUSTIFIES US$5000 CONTAINER FEE.

OOOOOOO, you knew they would.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-05-29 00:03  

#2  Ask yourself once the Afghan war ends how will Pakistan survive financially?Their main income post war will be drugs via Afghanistan and International extortion via home grown jihadi terrorism.
Posted by: Fester Clunter7205   2012-05-28 16:02  

#1  Â“It is so difficult to understand and itÂ’s so disturbing that they would sentence this doctor to 33 years for helping in the search for the most notorious terrorist in our times,” Panetta said.

Difficult for some possibly. A very effective strategy actually. The more attention the US places on the release of Dr. Afridi, the more likely it is the Pakistani masses (aka feckless little people who vote and sometimes riot), will divert their attention from their own Pakistani government's complicity in the Bid Laden affair. Obviously the money strapped Taliban who were not part of the original scheme, now want their cut...via the ISAF transport system. It's the way business is done in that part of the world.

Let's end the theater shall we? Source operations can be very difficult and comlex. US Intelligence paid for access and source reporting. They did not pay for source protection.

Next time, let's not use high profile medical professionals and Doctors with placement and access like Dr. Alfidi and MAJ Nidal Hasan as intelligence sources. A pattern is being developed and things can obviously go dreadfully wrong.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-05-28 07:50  

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