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2009-11-11 India-Pakistan

Troops in control of over 80 percent of Mehsud areas

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 Let's look at it.

The Paks are killing Taliban to the tune of 10%...in combat if you kill 10% of an enemy unit that unit is HURT bad. A Division with 10% KILLED is destroyed as an effective unit. Wounded to killed is five to seven times that. See how well a man with a wounded leg does in February in the mountains. That will be educational, aint no doctors in the Hindu Kush, dearest.
Ever seen an amputation performed with just a can opener?

The Taliban are hurt..they are running. They have LOST THE INITIATIVE. In six months they will be bandits stealing goats and scratching themselves with no shoes. The locals will be potting them without Army even being required.

The PAK strategy has taken all three of the Taliban concentration centers in the South, that's 80% of their former territory. The PAKS control the roads and they will also eventually control the heights...this is a roads and peaks sort of war. The Taliban are outgunned. They will be sectioned off and chopped up.
the North of Wazoo is NEXT. They saw what happened in the South, they will want to "negotiate".

When they do the PAKS will move into the borders of Wazoo with Afghanistan. If we were smart we will move in as well with money to buy the local leaders and to plan markets and show some "progress" and spread cell phones and import goats.

South Wazoo can be bought, and probably with goats. Dont give the money to PAKS, they will keep it for their own jing jing. Give it to goat dealers and contract that wheeler dealer named Mahmoud who is related to the local cousin of the Goombah of Upper Putz who can build a whatever and take the credit. Get lots of informers and put them all in the rolodex on the Computer. Make sure Uncle gets his cut regularly and who cares about the girl's school. That can wait.

Allah is Beneficent, pay me. Here, buy your wife a new pair of earrings. And get back to me on who dont like all the happy happy. More goat?

Posted by Angleton9 2009-11-11 08:47|| 2009-11-11 08:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Angleton, you are assuming the Pak Army reports of Talis whacked are anything close to accurate. They never have been in the past. Off about an order of magnitude.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-11-11 11:07|| 2009-11-11 11:07|| Front Page Top

#3 I hope you're right, Angleton9. But Glenmore raises one point. A second is that, as far as I can tell, the Pakistani army is only going after the Pakistani Taliban groups, not the Afghan Taliban groups. That is, those Taliban who aim to drive out the Coalition are being left strictly alone if not actually being aided, while those Taliban who presume to threaten the home turf are being whacked about the head until they give up their foolishness.

Posted by trailing wife 2009-11-11 13:29|| 2009-11-11 13:29|| Front Page Top

#4 DAILYTIMES.pk > OSAMA IS ALIVE, SAYS HEKMATYR.

ARTIC > AAJ.TV = Among other, HEK claims that RUSSIA + IRAN were prepping to "INVADE" AGHANISTAN wid 17,000 troops in league wid AHMED SHAH MEHSUD???

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-11-11 22:39|| na]">[na] 2009-11-11 22:39|| Front Page Top

#5 WAFF > MEMRI > AL-JAZEERA = TALIBAN SEIZE WEAPONS AND AMMO FROM [three?] MILITARY POSTS EVACUATED BY US FORCES [NURISTAN Province under Taliban control, NOT AFGHAN-KABUL Govt?]. Talibs also repor able to arrest many many AFGHAN GOVT. MIL-POLICE Members???

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-11-11 23:27|| na]">[na] 2009-11-11 23:27|| Front Page Top

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