Pakistan Tied To Deadly 2007 Ambush On U.S. Officers, Afghan Officials

The Envoy via Yahoo News ^ | 27 Sept 2011 | Laura Rosen

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In May 2007, Pakistani government troops and intelligence officers opened fire on a group of American military officers and Afghan officials they had been meeting with to discuss a border dispute, killing one U.S. officer, Maj. Larry J. Bauguess, and wounding three others. Then American and Pakistani officials hushed up the incident, the New York Times' Carlotta Gall reports, in a detailed reconstruction of the May 14, 2007, ambush at Teri Mangal, in northwest Pakistan:

"The border meeting was called, and a small group of Americans and Afghans — 12 men in total — flew by helicopters to Teri Mangal, just inside Pakistan, to try to resolve the [border post] dispute," Gall writes. A five-hour meeting between the Americans, Afghans and Paksitani officials ensued.

"Then, just as the American and Afghan officials were climbing into vehicles provided to take them the short distance to a helicopter landing zone, a Pakistani soldier opened fire with an automatic rifle, pumping multiple rounds from just 5 or 10 yards away into an American officer, Maj. Larry J. Bauguess Jr., killing him almost instantly," Gall reports. Bauguess, 36, with the 82nd Airborne Division, was married and father of two young daughters.

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Given the fact we've had two recent incidents in Kabul that have had links to Pakistan, it looks like other incidents are coming to light. Seems like this leak of a 2007 incident is right out of the Obama admin SOP: Bush's fault!

[KarlInOhio]

You can't say that or Pakistan won't be our friend anymore.