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Pakistan orders key US airbase to close after ISAF troops conduct cross border attack
The Long War Journal ^ | 26 NOV 2011 | Bill Roggio

Posted on 11/26/2011 2:04:13 PM PST by BCW

Within 24 hours of a US attack helicopters strike inside Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of Mohmand that killed more than 20 Pakistani troops, the Pakistan government has ordered the US to vacate a key airbase in Baluchistan and has closed NATO's supply lines through the Khyber Pass.

The Defence Committee of the Cabinet, a Pakistani committee chaired by Prime Minister Yousef Gilani, issued a statement calling for US personnel to leave the Shamsi airbase in Baluchistan province and the closure of NATO's supply chain to Afghanistan.

(Excerpt) Read more at longwarjournal.org ...


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; droneairbase; economy; india; inflation; mutthamed; nato; oil; pakistan; pakitrash
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To: BCW

What, last week’s check wasn’t large enough?


21 posted on 11/26/2011 3:02:32 PM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: BCW

Where else but in our great democracy can a common paperhanger rise to become both a military and diplomatic genius?


22 posted on 11/26/2011 3:07:11 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: Poison Pill

Well...Joe Biden is Senate pro temp

Wonder if likes oats and an apple ?


23 posted on 11/26/2011 3:08:03 PM PST by Popman (Obama is God's curse upon the land....)
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To: BCW
You're manning a Pakistani outpost on the Afghan border, when you spot some NATO helo gunships. Do you c) fire warning shots at them? (msnbc.msn.com)
24 posted on 11/26/2011 3:31:54 PM PST by SkyDancer ("If You Want To Learn To Love Better, You Should Start With A Friend Who You Hate")
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To: BCW

Get ALL our folks the hell outta there. Within weeks, they’ll resume what they’ve been doing for a few thousand years — KILLING ONE ANOTHER!


25 posted on 11/26/2011 4:03:03 PM PST by Dick Bachert (Obozo deserves another term: IN LEAVENWORTH. 25 to life sounds about right!)
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To: Popman

the indians who else


26 posted on 11/26/2011 4:30:41 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: troy McClure

Well, maybe not the Paki who did my first triple bypass surgery.


27 posted on 11/26/2011 6:08:38 PM PST by Ax
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