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2012-12-02 India-Pakistan
Mullah Nazir orders out Mehsud Taliban fighters
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Posted by Fred 2012-12-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [336148 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan 

#1 From what i have seen/read Pakistan supports Nazir/Haqquani/Bahadur whilst the US support TTP.This the war that is going on in the Tribal areas.
Posted by Hupusosing Grinese3585 2012-12-02 11:48||   2012-12-02 11:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Why in the name of all that is holy would the U.S. support the Pakistani Taliban, Hupusosing Grinese3585?
Posted by trailing wife 2012-12-02 12:41||   2012-12-02 12:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Because they're Goat-tail sauce is perfect for BBQing?
Posted by Charles 2012-12-02 13:27||   2012-12-02 13:27|| Front Page Top

#4 TW

The Pakistani Taliban are targeting the Paks whilst the Nazir,Haqquani and Badahur are targeting the US/Nato in Afghanistan.

Its a covert war going on imo.
Posted by Hupusosing Grinese3585 2012-12-02 18:05||   2012-12-02 18:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Good Taliban=Pak supported.

Bad Taliban=US supported.

Read up on General Beg and Hamid Gul.They have been saying it for years.

In Iraq we were fighting Iranian backed militia in the Shia areas and in Afghanistan we are fighting the Pak army backed Taliban.

The hit on a nato base is not coincidence.Its the Paks fighting back for hitting one of their assets.

Pak army hold the cards re Mullah Omar/Haqqanni & Co.

Time will tell if i am right.
Posted by Hupusosing Grinese3585 2012-12-02 18:22||   2012-12-02 18:22|| Front Page Top

#6 If you dont think we are not fighting Iran or Pakistan using Covert methods see an example in the US press

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/covert-war-us-iran/story?id=15174919
Posted by Hupusosing Grinese3585 2012-12-02 18:31||   2012-12-02 18:31|| Front Page Top

#7 http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/columns/06-Mar-2012/pakistan-is-facing-covert-war

http://www.thenation.com/article/secret-us-war-pakistan
Posted by Hupusosing Grinese3585 2012-12-02 18:41||   2012-12-02 18:41|| Front Page Top

#8 The Pakistani Taliban are targeting the Paks whilst the Nazir,Haqquani and Badahur are targeting the US/Nato in Afghanistan

Its a covert war going on imo.
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Agreed. But American drones are hitting the TTP, et al in Waziristan and such, which suggests the TTP a not our fair haired boys.

In Iraq we were fighting Iranian backed militia in the Shia areas and in Afghanistan we are fighting the Pak army backed Taliban.

Agreed, again.

That we are fighting a covert war in Pakistan as well as Iran I don't doubt, though I wanted to respond to your posts before reading your articles -- I'm tired today, and therefore a bit slow with such things. But I'm pretty sure we aren't siding with the TTP -- they send their people off to Afghanistan to fight when things are slow at home, or so it seems to me. Hamid Gul has always been full of conspiracy theories, after all -- everything is the fault of the CIA, Mossad, and/or the Indian secret service, whose name escapes me at the moment... but never, ever a consequence of ISI plotting.
Posted by trailing wife 2012-12-02 20:29||   2012-12-02 20:29|| Front Page Top

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