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US homes in on militants in Pakistan (US base just across the border now operational)
Asia Times ^
| 01/30/08
| Syed Saleem Shahzad
Posted on 01/29/2008 5:52:21 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
US homes in on militants in Pakistan
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
KARACHI - Another piece of the United States' regional jigsaw is in place with the completion of a military base in Afghanistan's Kunar province, just three kilometers from Bajaur Agency in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Pakistani intelligence quarters have confirmed to Asia Times Online that the base, on a mountain top in Ghakhi Pass overlooking Pakistan, is now operational. (This correspondent visited the area last July and could clearly see construction underway. See A fight to the death on Pakistan's border Asia Times Online, July 17, 2007.)
The new US base is expected to serve as the center of clandestine special forces' operations in the border region. The George W Bush administration is itching to take more positive action - including inside Pakistan - against Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaeda militants increasingly active in the area and bolstering the insurgency in Afghanistan.
(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghan; alqaeda; pakistan; taliban
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To: AdmSmith; nuconvert; FARS
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posted on
01/29/2008 5:52:51 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
That Title!
/h
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posted on
01/29/2008 5:54:13 AM PST
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(To Err Is Human. To Arr is Pirate. To Unnngh! is Freeper.)
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
Don’t blame me.:-)
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posted on
01/29/2008 5:56:24 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: Alas Babylon!; American_Centurion; An.American.Expatriate; ASA.Ranger; ASA Vet; Atigun; Ax; ...
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posted on
01/29/2008 6:11:10 AM PST
by
ASA Vet
To: TigerLikesRooster
LOL! I read it about 3 times and went WTF? Then realized it was hoNes.
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posted on
01/29/2008 6:11:43 AM PST
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(To Err Is Human. To Arr is Pirate. To Unnngh! is Freeper.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
01/29/2008 6:17:17 AM PST
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
01/29/2008 6:18:09 AM PST
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: TigerLikesRooster
LOL! I just checked the source and it, too, says "Homes"
I love it.
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posted on
01/29/2008 6:20:00 AM PST
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: Tennessean4Bush; DCPatriot
To: Constitution Day
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posted on
01/29/2008 6:24:46 AM PST
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
A homing pidgeon ‘homes’ in doesn’t he?
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posted on
01/29/2008 6:29:27 AM PST
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: Dog
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posted on
01/29/2008 6:31:17 AM PST
by
Cap Huff
To: blam
Pidgeon Housing"The Pidgeon Company (TPC) Housing team is able to place you in the ideal corporate apartment home to suit your specific needs and budget.
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posted on
01/29/2008 6:32:24 AM PST
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: TigerLikesRooster
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage confirms that home in on is the original phrase, dating from about 1920. Hone in on has become common enough that it now merits a mention in the dictionary, but home in on is still considered the correct phrase.
BTW, hone in on started becoming more common when George Bush the elder used it in a campaign speech in 1980. William Safire, among others, jumped on him for it.
To: blam
“A homing pidgeon ‘homes’ in doesn’t he?”
Yep, and that apparently is where the phrase came from.
To: DCPatriot
To: gracesdad
Well, isn’t it interesting that few made comments on the real content of the article?:-)
This thread turned into English lesson.
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posted on
01/29/2008 6:39:26 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
"This thread turned into English lesson." You ought to visit and see what happens to every one of my archaeology - anthropology threads.
And, don't even post an article with the word 'evolution' in it.
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posted on
01/29/2008 6:49:27 AM PST
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: Constitution Day
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posted on
01/29/2008 6:54:26 AM PST
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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