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By Zeeshan Haider
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Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:11am EDT
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities blocked a vital supply route for NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan on Thursday after the killing of three soldiers in two NATO cross-border incursions, officials said.
Trucks and fuel tankers for foreign forces in Afghanistan were stopped at the Torkham border post in the Khyber tribal region near the city of Peshawar, hours after the raid.
"Yes, the NATO supplies have been stopped. It has been done locally," a senior security official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Aircraft from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) initially crossed the border in the Kurram region briefly while targeting suspected insurgents who were firing on a coalition base from a position inside Afghanistan, the statement said.
They were then fired on by people in Pakistan, and crossed the border again to target that group.
"Operating in self-defense, the ISAF aircraft entered into Pakistani airspace killing several armed individuals," the statement said.
The statement did not say if ISAF thought those killed were border guards, and when asked for clarification, an ISAF spokeswoman said both sides were still investigating the incident.
"This is the third incident of its kind during the past week," the Pakistani military said in a statement. Three soldiers were wounded, it said.
CRUCIAL ALLY
Pakistan is a crucial ally for the United States in its efforts to stabilize Afghanistan, but analysts say border incursions and disruptions in NATO supplies underline growing tensions in the relationship.
The United States has already stepped up missile strikes by its pilotless drone aircraft on militant targets inside Pakistan.
The bulk of non-lethal military supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan moves through Pakistan.
"PROFOUND CONCERN"
The border row occurred as CIA chief Leon Panetta began a previously scheduled visit to Pakistan for talks with top military and political figures.
Panetta met President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, army chief General Ashfaq Kayani and the head of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shuja Pasha.
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Sep 30, 2010 8:50am EDT
We need to get out of Afghanistan and Iraq and let those people drown in their own blood. We need to stop listening to the oil barons and war profiteers when they spew out their fear mongering. The cost is too great…we are drowning in our own debt and blood.
tgs10
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Sep 30, 2010 9:04am EDT
That seems to be the methodology used by the military over there. Kill 20 innocent civillians, police, journalists, or military personel to kill 1 suspected terrorists. People in the US seem to think this is ‘okay’ and don’t understand why the population over there don’t like them and why the millitant groups continue to gain support and members.
Keep killing civilians to ‘terrorists’ on a 20 to one ratio and see how quickly you win the hearts and minds of the people. But no tears when the next 9/11 happens.
Kevin5069
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Sep 30, 2010 9:47am EDT
Our incredibly corrupt Pakistani “allies” have been in bed with the Taliban for years. The ISI routinely feeds them intelligence information and much of the Pakistani military is sympathetic to their cause and gives them aid and comfort, or at best simply ignores them. If the Pakistani government want to play hardball and close our only land supply route to Afghanistan, let them understand what the consequences might be. I recommend they go to the Classics section of the local university library and check out and read Xenophon’s “Anabasis”. And ponder the motto that the Marines coined in Iraq: “No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy.” In other words, if you think you are up to it: “Bring It!”
Kinnison
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Sep 30, 2010 9:54am EDT
Kevin5069’s post exemplifies all that is wrong with liberal America. The US says it defended itself from men firing upon them. Pakistan says they were innocent border guards — yet with no other evidence, Kevin automatically believes his own country is lying, and the militant Islamic nation a fountainhead of truth of justice.
If Kevin5069 was ever forced to live in Pakistan for even 48 hours, he’d revise his opinion instantly. Lucky for him, the US is still here protecting his freedom to make idiotic remarks.
ttowntom
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Sep 30, 2010 9:57am EDT
Some one you can trust? Stupid Yankees
BubbaTheGreat
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Sep 30, 2010 9:59am EDT
Really? 20 for 1? Really? Where did you come up with that figure? It’s all about oil? Really? We haven’t taken any oil, we don’t even buy it. So really? We are targeting the people that plan and bankroll the attacks all over the world, we’re not carpet bombing entire areas in the hope of destroying anyone and anything like every other country in the world does. We can’t even fire at anyone until they fire on us first. If you don’t understand the conflict, then why don’t you educate yourself before you comment? These people want to destroy the world so that their God can rebuild it, Period, and they don’t care if you sing kumbaya, or if you’re as politically correct as a Disney movie, they will tie you in a chair and slice off pieces of your child and feed them to a dog in front of you, before they kill you. So you can write your terrorist pen pal and try to spread the love, but some people can not be reasoned with, there is evil in the world that just needs to be stopped.
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Sep 30, 2010 10:11am EDT
Pakistan has come out in the open now by stopping NATO supplies that it is no more an dependable ally of US. So US must devise alternatives immediately lest its war effort in Afghanistan against ‘Talibans/Al-Quaida suffers too much.
vksaini
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Sep 30, 2010 10:19am EDT
Listening to the peacenik libs, you’d think there was no such thing as terrorism before civilization began its war against those benelovent charitable organizations, Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Tell us oh erudite progressives, how do you win the hearts and minds of fanatics whose negotiating position is “submit, convert, or have your head sawed off”?
4mommy
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Sep 30, 2010 11:01am EDT
Afghanistan is ungovernable because the people have not been allowed to educate themselves. Because of this, their response to everything is based on emotion/subjectivity/intuition instead of logic/objectivity/facts. You can’t reason with people in that frame of mind because they do not have the available mental resources to negotiate.
Pakistan is not much better. They have been slowly eroding to an Afghanistan-style environment since the 1990’s. I suspect Pakistan will eventually fall to religious zealots.
The World (not the U.S.) should be developing a Pakistani contingency plan for the safeguarding and evacuation of their nuclear weapons. Once the Pakistani nukes are safe and removed from the region, we can let Afghanistan and Pakistan melt down into their natural states – middle age backwards cesspools.
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