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2008-07-18 India-Pakistan

Militants warn US-led forces against attack in Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2008-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 How do you say up yours in Pushtan and Arabic?

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2008-07-18 01:18|| 2008-07-18 01:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Here's a deal, guys: you stay the f*** out of Afghanistan, and we'll stay out of Pakistan. M'kay?

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-07-18 01:22|| 2008-07-18 01:22|| Front Page Top

#3 "that the groups' fighters would fight alongside the Pakistan Army"

We all know what side the Pakistan army are on dont we!

Posted by Paul 2008-07-18 05:05|| 2008-07-18 05:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Isn't that exactly what they said when we were getting ready to go into Afghanistan?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-18 08:29|| 2008-07-18 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 While I don't consider the threat much more than hot air, as comments go on Pakistani army, you have to remember who's guarding those Pakistani nukes.

This may very well be insight into the possibility that opposition forces in Pakistan have allies in critical areas.

Pakistan might be a smoking hole in the earth sooner than we think (sequel, of course, to something very egregious)...

Posted by logi_cal">logi_cal 2008-07-18 10:50|| 2008-07-18 10:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh noes! Not the Paki Army!!

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-07-18 11:59|| 2008-07-18 11:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Amar Bil Maroof Wa Nahi Anil Munkir
the dread ABMWNAM has speaked!

BTW: It translates as:
Bill the Kafirs, the goat stays with the asparagus.

Posted by .5MT 2008-07-18 12:03|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-07-18 12:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Things are pretty simple Amar Munkir. We are fighting terrorists and Taliban in Afghanistan, and when chesed they run for sanctuary on your side of the border.

Either you stop those people on your side, or we will. We will pursue them, and if you get in our way, you will die. In large numbers. Quickly.

Threaten a 9/11 attack? Fine, we will flatten your entire region.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-18 12:18|| 2008-07-18 12:18|| Front Page Top

#9 I really do wish we'd take one of these goat-rapers up on his bs and do a "shock and awe" on them the RIGHT way - a dozen B-52s with iron bombs from 45,000 feet, a couple of dozen B-1s on the deck with JDAMs and incindiaries, and a half-dozen AC-130s down low for a follow-up on the survivors, if there are any. Of course, the demoncritters would never let us wage REAL war against anyone - heaven forbid! I'm getting really sick and tired of fighting a two-front war - one in south Asia and one in Washington, DC.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-07-18 12:26|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-07-18 12:26|| Front Page Top

#10 "Bite us, sons of pigs and munkirs"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-18 13:24|| 2008-07-18 13:24|| Front Page Top

#11 I dunno. Maybe an old Israeli thign woudl work (back when they had balls)...

Run a pair of 16's or F-18s at 200 ft above his ville, going mach+, with maybe a bone trailing it on full afterburner (B-1B, rated Mach 1.2 at sealevel), and a buff to rattle the windows. Too bad we dont have an SR-71 to use... (or do we? heh)

Sonic boom would shatter tons of things. And two within seconds would be sure to indicate that it was no accident.

That would scare the hell out of the locals, and let him contemplate just how bad the screams of his children and relatives are now, and how they would be were a real attack ordered.

from af.mil...

The strongest sonic boom ever recorded was 144 pounds per square foot and it did not cause injury to the researchers who were exposed to it. The boom was produced by a F-4 flying just above the speed of sound at an altitude of 100 feet.

In recent tests, the maximum boom measured during more realistic flight conditions was 21 pounds per square foot. There is a probability that some damage -- shattered glass, for example, will result from a sonic boom. Buildings in good repair should suffer no damage by pressures of less than 16 pounds per square foot.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-18 13:36|| 2008-07-18 13:36|| Front Page Top

#12 The above would be a sort-of "We heard you, did you hear us?"

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-18 13:50|| 2008-07-18 13:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Wouldn't it be nice if we could tell these bast**** that we will pursue anyone anywhere who has shot at our troops. You come to Afghan turf. We will likely tolerate you. You shoot at us, you die. Whether it's on Afghan soil, Pak soil, or anyplace else, the results the same. We will go after you until you are captured or dead. Either way is fine with us. I know I'm daydreaming on this one, but isn't it such a lovely dream? And wouldn't it change a lot of people's behavior?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-07-18 13:53|| 2008-07-18 13:53|| Front Page Top

#14 Do they even have windows in their 7th century hovels?

Posted by Cowboy is a compliment 2008-07-18 13:58|| 2008-07-18 13:58|| Front Page Top

#15 The strongest sonic boom ever recorded was 144 pounds per square foot
144? Jeebus, is that the same as overpressure? If it is that would knock down the Sunsshine Skyway. Maybe it's measured differently.

Posted by .5MT 2008-07-18 14:00|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-07-18 14:00|| Front Page Top

#16 "Can you hear me now?"

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-07-18 14:02|| 2008-07-18 14:02|| Front Page Top

#17 I like OS's idea; and the data re: the Phantom would be ideal to use and since the US has retired all it's F-4's ( of all flavors) then we could hide behind the plausible denaibility shield. HEE-HEE, wudn't us.
Bet there are several Phantom Phliers and Phixers out there that would love to wind those J-79's back up........

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-07-18 14:06|| 2008-07-18 14:06|| Front Page Top

#18 The boom was produced by a F-4 flying just above the speed of sound at an altitude of 100 feet.

Over downtown Vegas?...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-07-18 15:48|| 2008-07-18 15:48|| Front Page Top

#19 How do you say up yours in Pushtan and Arabic?

i am not sure, but i think a hellfire knows how.

Posted by Abu do you love 2008-07-18 17:27|| 2008-07-18 17:27|| Front Page Top

#20 I'd rather they know exactly who did it and why and a big "don't make us come back there" if they squawk

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-07-18 17:59|| 2008-07-18 17:59|| Front Page Top

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