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| More troops, tanks move into Waziristan, 10 Taliban killed |
| 2009-10-15 |
| TANK: At least 11 Taliban were killed and seven injured when jet planes bombed the group's hideouts in South Waziristan on Wednesday, said officials, as more soldiers and tanks moved into the agency for an expected offensive. Political Administration officials told Daily Times that two jet planes bombed Taliban hideouts in Maidan, Tangi, Bodaizai, Kacha Langar Khel, Sam, Ragh and Salairogha areas of Ladha teshil, killing 11 Taliban. That's a smidgeon over 1.5 Talibs at each site... ... smudged over each site, as it were ... Also, eight members of a family were killed and one injured in airstrikes in Sarokai tehsil, said locals, and political authorities confirmed the civilian casualties. Thousands of civilians have fled South Waziristan in anticipation of a military offensive. The Reuters news agency quoted officials as saying on Monday that the military was sending more soldiers into mountains overlooking Makeen, a Taliban stronghold, while other soldiers were approaching from another direction. "We've seen many tanks coming here since yesterday. Some went to their camp while others were deployed in the mountains," said a resident of Shankai village. The Mighty Pak Army seems to be giving the bad boyz ample opportunity to withdraw to adjacent areas. The element of surprise will consist of discovering that there aren't any Talibs left there, therefore no threat. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 Wonder why is was so HARD to get them to go all out like this before (cough)BUSH Because the Pakistanis' pets slipped their leash? Or maybe because there's an aid-package in the works for Pakistan, and it's not going to be a walk-through on the vote? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-10-15 21:23 |
| #2 Golly, play4keeps, you sure are awfully energetic for 3:00 in the morning in your part of the world. We can indeed hope the mighty Pakistani army is finally taking all the hatred turned against them very personally for a change, given they were perfectly content to ignore the same threat to the civilian population of Pakistan until it was well established a mere 60 miles from the nation's capitol-- do remember they (in the form of the ISI, through whose ranks much of the officer corps has passed, at one point or another) created quite a few of the groups they are now fighting. But to be perfectly honest, my dear, you do your cause no good by hearkening back to the man who has been out of office for the better part of a year. Even PBS has moved on -- did you see the Frontline special, "Obama's War"? The Washington Post has an interview with the producer you'll find useful, with a link to the film, if you missed it. And do remember, my dear, that although Western journalists are likely to refer to all the terror groups as "Taliban", there are Taliban groups (generally Punjabi) that aim at the conquest of Pakistan proper, with its sprawling cities, cultivated landscape, and nuclear bombs -- of interest to the Pakistan army and authorities -- and there are Taliban groups (generally Pashtun/Pakhton) that aim to reconquer Afghanistan -- of interest to the US-led alliance fighting in Afghanistan, but supported even yet by the Pakistani army as fulfilling their own aims to control Afghanistan as the Pakistani hinterland. So things are a bit more complicated than they appear on the surface. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-10-15 07:12 |
| #1 Something big is gonna happen really soon the hornet nest is very close.I wish the PAK Army the best I F#C)$^*$ HOPE OBL IS AROUND WHEN THE SH*T GOES DOWN. All while a MQ-9 Reaper pet the Taliban and al-Qaeda right on Head. Hmmm Wonder why is was so HARD to get them to go all out like this before (cough)BUSH GRAB YA POPCORN HATERS EVEN YALL GONNA LOVE THIS MOVIE. |
| Posted by: play4keeps 2009-10-15 06:09 |