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| India-Pakistan |
| Taliban take control of Khar suburbs |
| 2008-08-11 |
| At least seven people were killed and more than 20 injured in fighting between the militants and security forces in Bajaur Agency on Sunday, as Taliban occupied a 15-kilometre stretch of land from agency headquarters Khar to the Jaar area. Fighter aircraft and helicopter gunships pounded militant hideouts in the agency after paramilitary troops withdrew from the Taliban stronghold of Loyesam following three days of fierce clashes. Two helicopters and two fighter jets targeted Taliban hideouts in Loyesam, Bando, Rashakai, Tang, Jaar, Haji Lawang, Yousafabad and Charmang areas until 4pm on Sunday. About 40 houses were destroyed during the bombing. Taliban fighters attacked the bombers with anti-aircraft guns in the Carela and Tang Khata areas. Hundreds of armed Taliban militants meanwhile dug trenches in Loyesam along an eight-kilometre stretch of the strategic road leading to Peshawar. Taliban also took control of temporary checkposts in Yousafabad, Haji Lawang, and Jaar abandoned by the security forces. They also blew up an abandoned checkpost in Jarmola Kilay. Witnesses said Taliban dug trenches just a furlong away from the Bajaur Scouts headquarters in Khar and occupied a bridge in Jaar. Witnesses said most of the agency is now under Taliban control. Local sources said 90,000 local residents had emigrated from the area, mostly to the neighbouring Dir district. NGOs have set up camps in the Munda area, between the Dir and Bajaur. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Radical islam isn't wasting time, aren't they, wid the US-Allies + UNO attention now being diverted to the RUSSO-GEORGIAN CONFLICT. Pragmatically, RUSS-ONLY VIEWPOINT/SCOPE > ON ONE GEOGRAPHIC HORN, IT HAS THE ISLAMIST "SURGES" IN THE CASPIAN-BLACK SEA REGION = FORMER SSRS; + LOOMING ISLAMIST PROTO-SURGES AGZ RUSS URALS/CAUCASUSIA, CHINA + NORTH ASIA [read - Russ Far East-Siberia, exclusive of Chin interests]. Taken collectively, RadicaL Islam includ IRAN, PAKIIS, etc is carving out a NUCLEARIZING BLOC AGZ THE FORMER SOVIET COLD WAR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE + NOW AGZ CHINA. * "CHESS/GAMEBOARD" OF RUSS-SPECIFIC GEOPOLITICS + RUSS MILPOL DIALECTICISM > RUSS ONLY VIEWPOINT/SCOPE again > Russ " sees" already Nuclear UNIFIED EUROPE = NATO, + potens CHINESE designs as per CENTRAL-EASTERN RUSSIA e.g. YAKUTIA-SIBERIA, + now proto-Nuclear RADICAL ISLAM = ASIAN ISLAMISM, + any NUCLEAR-AMBITIONS REGIONAL INDEPENDENTS.. IMO, Russia's Viewpoint > it may be thinking it must take Milactions now just to ensure its LT survival becuz, in reality, IT DOUBTS ITS OWN ABILITY TO MODERNIZE IN TIME TO DEFEND AND PREVAIL AGZ THE ABOVE PERCEIVED NUCLEAR THREATS. THE BORSCH OF THE MATTER > IS RUSS "HEDGING", i.e. RELUCTANTLY BUT COVERTLY INDIC IT MAY NEED EUROPE'S MIL PROTECTION IN THE FUTURE, PERHAPS EVEN TO JOIN EUROPE IN CASE OF NATIONAL COLLAPSE AGZ THE ABOVE THREATS??? IS RUSSIA BEING OVERTLY MIL AGGRESSIVE AS DENIABLE COVER FOR ANTICIPATED FUTURE NATIONAL FAILURE??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-08-11 20:25 |
| #3 I see that Khar is about 30 km NNE of Peshawar but where is Jaar? I see Khar is about 20 km North of Hwy 5, The direct road from Peshawar to Rawalpindi. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-08-11 16:40 |
| #2 Let's hope so - it would clarify targeting. |
| Posted by: Flavimble Borgia4990 2008-08-11 10:38 |
| #1 Can the Talibunnies use this position to threaten our logistics into Afghanistan? |
| Posted by: treo 2008-08-11 10:20 |