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| Seven US, Pakistani soldiers hurt in firing on helicopter | |
| 2003-04-20 | |
| Three US soldiers and their four Pakistani counterparts were injured when their helicopter received hostile fire near Dera Bugti in Balochistan. The helicopter was fired upon by automatic weapons, most likely by AK-47 assault rifles when it was on a reconnaissance mission in Dera Bugti region. Although the sources were tight-lipped about their mission, it is believed that the military officials of Pakistan and United States were combing the area to find possible hideouts of Osama Bin Laden. The helicopter returned to Jacobabad airbase where it made a crash landing. The sources said the injured US soldiers were later shifted to Oman for further treatment. Four Pakistani army personnel, who were also injured, were evacuated to Quetta for medical treatment. One of the injured Pakistanis was an army colonel, the officials said. Dera Bugti, a tribal region of Balochistan, is currently tense as the federal government is contemplating a military operation in the area to punish the tribesmen for their violent protests against the exploitation of their gas reserves. The tribesmen had blown up the main gas pipeline supplying the gas to upcountry in protest against the failure of government and the gas companies to honour the agreement with the local tribes that guaranteed jobs and basic civic amenities to the local people. Since the federal government is getting ready for a military operation against the local tribes, the presence of the military helicopter in the area would have alarmed the local people prompting them to shot it down.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #9 Must be a new Anonon,agin. Seems we've kick that Pak-U.S.Aid$ horse a couple of times hear.Go home little boy,I hear your Mama calling. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-04-21 08:04:41 |
| #8 Mojo.. He's a troll. He doesn't HAVE a mind... C'mon, I know that's in the minutes somewhere... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-04-20 21:58:04 |
| #7 What, first we're Stalinists, now we're Nazis? Make up your mind, kid. |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-04-20 21:34:32 |
| #6 True or False or Too Complex to Understand?: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html The difference between Holocaust Denial and Bush Jihad Subsidy Denial, is one of degrees, not kind. I am aware that the Volk, likes their "faith based" Reich, but mostly: their Fuhrer. |
| Posted by: Anonon 2003-04-20 19:07:29 |
| #5 When I was a little kid I though the term oxymoron referred to someone that was cut off from oxygen when they were born. Now I know that it is another term for troll, heh heh... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-04-20 18:54:46 |
| #4 "Please explain the neo-Stalinist, personality cult that binds Americans to the over-achieving jackass who pollutes the White House. " I'm a little confused here - over-achieving jackass? Is that someone who's so dumb they keep kicking your ass over and over again? |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-04-20 18:15:27 |
| #3 Sweetie, it's obvious that you have never spent time in a country with a personality cult. Or Stalinism, old school or neo-. And, quite frankly, this is the first time I've ever heard one of your ilk refer to the president as an "over-achiever". Thanks for the laughs......now, please go back to the kiddie table. And no banging on your high chair, or the Easter Bunny's going to take your candy back, m'kay?? |
| Posted by: Baba Yaga 2003-04-20 14:54:34 |
| #2 Oh, look, an Easter troll! |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-04-20 14:19:54 |
| #1 Folks: Balochistan and North West Frontier Province are run by pro-Taleban jihadis. Yet the Bush government allows tens of millions of US aid dollars to filter into these degenerate entities, under Pakistan's federal-provincial redistribution formula. Bush is subsidizing the murder of Americans. Please explain the neo-Stalinist, personality cult that binds Americans to the over-achieving jackass who pollutes the White House. Americans have taken an unnecessary $1,000,000,000,000 economic hit, in order to indulge this dirtbag's quixotic attempt to unite the so-called "common faiths of Abraham." America was a "faith based" sick puppy until its people established a secular state. Don't let Bush-Norquist fanaticism drive it into the ground. |
| Posted by: Anonon 2003-04-20 12:56:39 |