Posted on 02/03/2010 5:27:28 AM PST by Cardhu
Three US soldiers are among at least 10 people killed when a blast hit a convoy near a school in north-west Pakistan.
Police said around 70 people, including 63 school girls and a US soldier, were injured in the bombing in Lower Dir.
The soldiers were believed to have been training Pakistan's Frontier Corps in counter-insurgency operations.
The two governments deny substantial numbers of US troops are based inside Pakistan, where public opinion is strongly opposed to their presence.
The US embassy has declined to comment on the killings.
Taliban presence
Military spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas told the BBC that the US personnel were attached to the Frontier Corps as military trainers.
Pakistan's Frontier Corps is a paramilitary force responsible for operations against militants in the volatile north-west, near the Afghan border.
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Pakistan?
Wonder WTH a unit of U.S. soldiers were doing in Pakistani territory?
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a bombing at a newly renovated school in northwest Pakistan in which three American soldiers were killed.
“We claim responsibility for the blast,” Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq said.
“We will continue such attacks on Americans.”
Al Jazeera.
Code Pink and Cindy Sheehan will not be amused.....................
The US embassy said three US military personnel who were due to attend the opening of the school were killed, and two others wounded.
The embassy condemned the “vicious terrorist bombing” in the Lower Dir district, where Pakistan launched an assault to drive out Taliban militants last year.
The soldiers were in the region as part of a small US mission to train members of the Frontier Corps to better fight al Qaeda and the Taliban, Pakistan’s army said
However, there would seem to be an ugly leaks game being played out between both sides Intel assets of late. Starting with the CIA hit. Or igniting with the CIA hit.
Though, perhaps the Pak-Taliban just got lucky here with the U.S. footprint showing up.
Frontier Corps training, eh?
The Pakistanis are sure to hit back hard.
My guess is the bad guys in the ISI are mad we are killing their partners with missiles in the bush. This is payback. It is my hope we are running a counter operation with the good guys in the ISI and are watching for the rats to scurry out of the nest. I can hope.
Did you see the O’Reilly Factor last night? There was a segment about our special forces now conducting capture-kill operations in Pakistan of al-Q/Taliban-types.
God rest their brave souls.
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Do you mean that segment that O’blowhard kept cutting off the knowledgeable ones to continue spewing?
He only let the two guests speak 3-4 words before cutting them off and bloviating about the topic.
I no longer watch Bill O’bloviate
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You’re joking, right?
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