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Posted on 06/27/2008 6:28:31 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
By June 27, 2008 3:14 PM
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Wanted poster for Siraj Haqqani. The image is a composite photo. Click to view. |
The Taliban has launched yet another attack on a US outpost in Afghanistan from inside Pakistan. A Taliban rocket teams fired at a US outpost in Paktika province in eastern Afghanistan from two sites early this morning from two sites: one within Afghanistan and another about 400 meters across the border in Pakistan. Four rockets struck near the military base, but no casualties were reported.
The military responded by attacking the two sites and notifying the Pakistani military of the attack. US forces lobbed artillery rounds at the launch sites in Pakistan and hit the site inside Afghanistan with fire from aircraft. No Taliban casualties were reported.
Today’s rocket attack is the second such strike launched from inside Pakistan reported this week. The Taliban fired rockets at a US base in Paktika on June 21. One Afghan woman and three children were killed in the attack..
The Taliban have launched a series of attacks against district centers and Afghan and Coalition forces in Paktika and neighboring Paktia province over the past week as part of an attempt to destabilize the eastern region and overrun Afghan government centers.
Twenty-two Taliban were killed after Afghan police repelled attacks on two district centers in Paktika province and one in Paktia province on the night of June 24.
(Excerpt) Read more at longwarjournal.org ...
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Here we go.
The taliban has a way of getting killed off each time they attack.
If the Paki government doesn’t do something to shut down the Taliban in their own country, then they need to just shut up if we take care of it for them...
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Too bad we can’t get India to do a little house cleaning....like ALL of Pakistan!
Ping.
Our guys aren’t playing by the rules in Nam. You shot at us we shell and bomb you.
Pakistan ping
I was always skeptical of the whole “Pakistan alliance”. Pakistan was never an ally. We basically paid them to keep a lid on the Taliban. They only pretended to do that, while failing to see it for what it was: a safe haven. And now we are seeing the consequences.
We could send a million troops into Afghanistan and still have the same problem. The problem being Pakistan.
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