Posted on 10/07/2007 9:57:29 PM PDT by milestogo
SHEKHANANDEH, PakistanThe stocky, bearded man they call the Subidar is an encyclopedia of the jagged mountains and insular tribes here along Pakistan's northwestern border. As a retired career officer now on contract to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), he would be just the man to enforce his government's declared policy: to stop Taliban and allied guerrillas from crossing into Afghanistan to attack U.S. troops.
But the Subidar's mission is just the opposite, say U.S., Afghan and Pakistani sources. Working from his home in this village, and reporting to the ISI office in the nearby town of Chitral, he recruits and organizes guerrillas to make those attacks, the sources say. In Afghan districts just over the border, guerrilla attacks have escalated this year, killing at least six U.S. soldiers since June.
President Pervez Musharraf and senior Bush administration officials say Musharraf is America's best friend in the war against al-Qaida and its Islamic extremist allies in this region. But the case of the Subidar (the Urdu-language title means "captain") appears to illustrate assertions by many scholars that Pakistan is deeply divided and playing a double role. Its ruling army denied any knowledge of the Subidar, whose name is being withheld by Newsday because he could not be reached directly to comment on this story.
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Not much of an escalation. 2 soldiers dead per month?!
Venereal Disease kills more than that.
What needs to happen is Mushraff quit toe tapping and allow a intense bombing campaign to wipe out all those terorist villages along the border.
The “Taliban”, another name for Islamic fundamentalism, “Al-qaeda”, Or any other name they go by, has been enjoying a supply build up given to them by the Iranians, and Ruskies. (how ironic it is that they are now supporting the same Islamic terrorists they fought for well over 10 years)
We have to step up and mow down the forest and stop this endless game of running around and stomping out little fires.
Or we will die the death of a thousand cuts.
Pinpoint strikes do work (and can be effective - but you need very good HUMINT) you could literally drop 2000-pounders by the dozens day and night and not do any real effective damage....
The area simply is not made for effective mass bombing campaigns.
Zawahiri, UBL, G.H, M.O, these guys have to be put in the ground....
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