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2003-09-19 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Steve 2003-09-19 10:56:14 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I was hoping a particular 40 square mile area in the Northwest frontier was levelled.

Posted by Yank 2003-9-19 11:21:33 AM|| 2003-9-19 11:21:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Bet the fields were not entirely empty when the packages were dropped.

Posted by john 2003-9-19 11:23:44 AM|| 2003-9-19 11:23:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 3? One is either a miss or an abort to a safe area. Two is strange. Three is a large target or a demonstration of rug bombing.

Posted by Shipman 2003-9-19 12:21:22 PM|| 2003-9-19 12:21:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Humm, part of this operation?:
U.S. troops fought a one-hour gunbattle with suspected Taliban after coming under fire near Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistan, the military said Friday. The fighting occurred Thursday near a U.S. base at Shkin, in Paktika province, which has been the site of near-daily skirmishes and rocket attacks. The soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division fired back with small arms and artillery and called in American warplanes for close air support, according to a statement from Maj. Ralph Marino, a spokesman at Bagram Air Base, the U.S. military headquarters.
The fighters retreated toward the Pakistani border, Marino said.

I don't have a map that shows if Paktika province in Afghanistan borders the Pak town of Wana. Anyone?

Posted by Steve 2003-9-19 12:46:27 PM|| 2003-9-19 12:46:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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