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2004-01-31 Afghanistan
Pakistan Adopting a Tough Old Tactic to Flush Out Qaeda
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Posted by tipper 2004-01-31 3:23:12 AM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 looks like this year is gonna be crunch time for pakmanistan,what with the 'spring offensive' coming up and Musharraf realising his time up if he can't sort his shit hole country out. Guess he must be gutted now his 'country' may fall apart but frankly i don't care as long as they catch Bin-Laden.Be kinda helpfull if India just nuked em.
Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-1-31 4:36:44 AM||   2004-1-31 4:36:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Amen, Jon. I couldn't agree more.
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2004-1-31 4:58:07 AM||   2004-1-31 4:58:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The United States indirectly helped pay for hundreds of hard-line religious schools that produced anti-Soviet fighters.

Kinda tenuous, but that was then and this is now. You work down your list of enemies knocking them off one at a time. Strategy 101.

"We don’t like the Americans, and there will be a fight."

This is like saying you don't like martians. How many Americans have you actually met Mr. Jihadi.

And this is a classic piece of leftist it-must-be-someone-elses-fault-think.

is the product of decades of government neglect and the anti-Soviet jihad of the 1980’s, according to Pakistani analysis.

I didn't check the source - BTW there should be Rantburg convention that you state the source of any article. It wouldn't be suprised that this was mainstream media like NYT. God, journalists are morons!
Posted by phil_b 2004-1-31 6:17:09 AM||   2004-1-31 6:17:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "Our tribes will rise against them," he said. "We don’t like the Americans, and there will be a fight."

Kinda reminds me of that mythical arab street thingee.
Posted by Evert Visser  2004-1-31 7:05:24 AM|| [http://chinditz.blog-city.com/]  2004-1-31 7:05:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Phil_b, try putting your cursor over the title and look down at the bar at the bottom of the page. In this case it shows that it's from the nytimes.com. Works for me. If you 'click' on the title you'll get the original unedited article. That is, of course, if it wasn't posted by a troll.
Posted by Gasse Katze 2004-1-31 8:27:45 AM||   2004-1-31 8:27:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 In this case it shows that it's from the nytimes.com.

Too funny!
Posted by Analog Roam  2004-1-31 9:59:33 AM||   2004-1-31 9:59:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Pakistan Adopting a Tough Old Tactic to Flush Out Qaeda

New York Times reporters appear to take considerable pleasure in flaunting their ignorance. This tactic is tough by British, but not by Pakistani standards. Massacre and exile were some of the tactics used by kingdoms on the Indian subcontinent before the British came on the scene. The Arab conquest of what is now Pakistan was certainly accompanied by both tactics on a large scale. When Syria's Hafez Assad bombed Hama and Iraq's Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurds, they were merely continuing an ancient Muslim tradition. British tactics were mild. When Musharraf starts using Muslim tactics, we'll know he's serious about rooting out al Qaeda.
Posted by Zhang Fei  2004-1-31 10:24:24 AM||   2004-1-31 10:24:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Beginning to look like Perv got a message - we want Binny by summertime.

Or else what, I wonder ? What 'pressure' are we using ?
Posted by Anonynoony 2004-1-31 10:52:40 AM||   2004-1-31 10:52:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 How about a missile defense system for our new friends the Indians?
Posted by Frank G  2004-1-31 11:08:11 AM||   2004-1-31 11:08:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Those "inaccessible crags" need a few hundred thousand tons of napalm delivered into them. Give the arab mutts something to think about as they chat on their sat phones.

And the 'Spring Offensive' is gonna be entertaining, oh yeah. Maybe the 4th should come home via iran and afghanistan.
Posted by 4thInfVet 2004-1-31 11:42:29 AM||   2004-1-31 11:42:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 4thInfVet - I agree, only using napalm is now a "war crime". I still think we need to deliver a few hundred loads - most on the Pak/Afghan border, the rest on a certain building in Brussels. We know the GPS coordinates.
Posted by Old Patriot  2004-1-31 6:21:13 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm]  2004-1-31 6:21:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I like the part about the tribal members bulldozing and dynamiting the houses of the eight men that refused to surrender. A nice touch, obviously inspired from the Israeli Playbook. Heh heh.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-1-31 11:20:47 PM||   2004-1-31 11:20:47 PM|| Front Page Top

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