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2008-07-12 India-Pakistan

8 Pak soldiers hurt in Afghan border cross fire

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Posted by Fred 2008-07-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 your soldiers didn't do squat to stop the Taliban, did they? F*ck off then

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-12 00:13|| 2008-07-12 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 but some shells fired by the ANA hit the Pakistani post

Ooopsie!

Posted by Abu Uluque6305 2008-07-12 11:46|| 2008-07-12 11:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like the ANA training is paying off.

Posted by ed 2008-07-12 12:05|| 2008-07-12 12:05|| Front Page Top

#4 From what I have read, this event seems to have been Talibunnies firing simultaneously on both the Paks and the ANA in order to try to incite an 'event'. But our eyes in the sky were watching, and blowed up the mortar team.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-07-12 17:41|| 2008-07-12 17:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Clever, clever Taliban Lions of Islam!

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-07-12 19:07|| 2008-07-12 19:07|| Front Page Top

#6 not so clever:
"Insurgents simultaneously fired at targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan on the evening of July 10," ISAF reported in a press release. Afghan police in Paktika province and a Pakistani military unit along the border in South Waziristan reported taking mortar fire at the same time, the US military stated. Eight Pakistani soldiers and four Afghan police were reported wounded in the initial attack.

The US military determined the origin of mortar fire to have started at two points inside Afghanistan and returned fire with artillery and a laser-guided GBU-13 bomb dropped from an F-15. The US fires were "verified to have hit the origins of insurgent fire."

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-12 20:35|| 2008-07-12 20:35|| Front Page Top

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