Posted on 06/10/2008 11:13:40 PM PDT by HAL9000
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ISLAMABAD -- (UPDATE) At least 10 Pakistani soldiers were killed and nine were wounded when a missile fired from Afghanistan hit their border post early on Wednesday, security officials told Agence France-Presse.The incident happened after fierce clashes between Pakistani paramilitary troops deployed in the Mohmand tribal region and Afghan forces who claimed the area was part of their territory, the Pakistani officials said.
"Sometime after midnight a missile fired from the Afghan side struck our post resulting in the martyrdom of at least 10 soldiers including a commanding officer. Nine soldiers were wounded," one security official said.
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bkmark
I don’t know if this is the same missile strike from previous threads. Some of the earlier articles did have info about our Helos being up in the area where the Paki and Afghan troops were lighting each other up.
Could have been a Predator strike and then later the helos hit whomever was fighting with the Afghanis.
Will have to keep an eye on this.
pong
Ya that, and I think there was a couple other threads and a few articles I browsed.
I really, really doubt that it could have been a missile from a Predator. The Air Force is careful to a fault about firing on innocents from a UAV. There has to be a lot more to this story.
“There were rumours about clashes between Nato and Pakistani troops in the area. The ISPR spokesman, however, denied the rumours.” - Dawn.com
That is what I am thinking. If there was a Predator strike earlier in the day I think this may have been ( 2 separate incidents) some CAS for the Afghanis (just speculating)
It seems to be a busy area — at least in print.
It sucks to be duplicitous turds.
Question is, were the Pak soldiers innocent? All the news coming out of there suggests that the Pakistani military is still supporting the Taleban which they created.
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