I do not know if it is better to have them in Pakistan or Afghanistan, but here they come:
http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/07/24/d40724100390.htm
Humanitarian crisis looms as Afghan refugees flee Pak al-Qaeda hunt
AFP, Kabul
Aid workers and Afghan officials are struggling to avert a looming humanitarian crisis as thousands of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan pour across the border fleeing Pakistani army operations to hunt al-Qaeda-linked militants.
Over 20,000 refugees have already crossed the border into Afghanistan's insurgency-hit southeastern provinces, many of them leaving Pakistan after decades with only hours to pack what little they can carry, aid workers said.
"Because of the military operations in South Waziristan many refugees have been forced to leave and because they have no time to pack or gather their things they face difficulties when they come back to Afghanistan," UN refugee worker Paul Stromberg told AFP.
The refugees are streaming into the Taliban stronghold of Paktika province over border crossings where the UN and aid organisations have no presence, said Stromberg, senior repatriation coordinator the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's southeastern provinces bordering Pakistan are a hotbed of Taliban-led insurgency. The Afghan government, the UN and most aid organisations have pulled out fearing attacks on their workers.
That headline really ticks me off. They are not "refugees", they are al-Qa'ida and Taliban terrorists. And it is not a "humanitarian crisis", its the losing side bugging out.
Hey, UN idiots, this is a war, and in all war their are winners and losers. In this war, it's the terrorists that are the losers, and they will be treated accordingly. Get used to it. (Better yet, stay the hell out of where you have no business being.)
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--Boot Hill
Refugees?
Or...conscripts?
It didn't work for Ayman. That Gangikhel Valley north of Shkin is too flat and too wide, and anything crossing it spends too much time in the viewfinder.
It's a numbers game. If he looks like all the rest, no shiny new Toyota SUV, no white robes, and if he's lucky and is one of the ones who doesn't get stopped, he might make it.
Bin Laden had the better approach, a small party and a seam. You can't shoot what you never see, but you sure can shoot all that you see if you can dial up carriers and TLAMs on the sat phone without drawing Hellfires. Trying to overwhelm US firepower isn't a wise move.
Mr. Z, meet Mr. CBU.
Still sure this is the big rush. No reports have Paks in the valley yet. The military has deceived us before, claiming that Shakai was twenty clicks west of Wana for almost a week, but the word got out eventually, and it will if the Paks are much deeper than has been reported too.
People talk, and time will tell.