BF2S Forums Pakistan troops ordered to open fire on US raiders

Last edited by TheAussieReaper (2008-09-16 22:56:48)

Last edited by rdx-fx (2008-09-16 23:09:26)

rdx-fx wrote:

Put another way, the Pakistani military & intelligence services couldn't wipe their own ass, given both hands, a flashlight, and $100 billion dollars in US toiletpaper...

TheAussieReaper wrote:

Comparing the poor Pakistani military intelligence isn't exactly fair when you look at the current US intelligence shortcomings. Republicans will blame it on Clinton cutting spending, Dems blame it on the poor running and handling of the separate intelligence agencies, etc. And it's pretty clear that the Pakistan intelligence agencies don't have anything near as sophisticated as that.

TheAussieReaper wrote:

I do think that the US requesting free travel into Pakistan, guns blazing is just the recipe for disaster. It only takes one village to be raided by US troops on Pakistani territory and you would be starting a war. It's that simple. The request that US troops avoid crossing the border isn't an unreasonable one.

TheAussieReaper wrote:

If terrorists flee into Pakistan and cross the border, it's becomes Pakistans problem. They will have to deal with it as best they can. But you cant expect Iraq insurgents to be chased by the US into Afghanistan, then fighting with Al Qaeda, both groups chased into Pakistan and the US having free reign to hit potential targets with gunships and airstrikes on a free and sovereign nations soil.

TheAussieReaper wrote:

a simple air strike

TheAussieReaper wrote:

Swinging your dicks all over Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and then where, India? Gimme a break.

rammunition wrote:

lets hope Pakistan teach not just America but the whole world how to deal with invading terrorist scum

Last edited by Mek-Stizzle (2008-09-17 05:40:24)

meanwhile, $90 million of abovementioned $100 million goes into the hands of every anti-American group in the region, and the other $10 million goes towards Abdul Quadeer Khan's f**king retirement fund or something....

Pakistan tribal chiefs warn US on raids
LEADERS of an estimated 500,000 tribesmen who have so far remained largely neutral over the conflict in Afghanistan warned last night they were poised to support al-Qa'ida and the Taliban unless US forces retreated from their strategy of attacking targets inside Pakistan.

In a major jolt to Washington's new policy of allowing cross-border raids in defiance of the Government in Islamabad, key tribal elders were reported to have met and warned that they were also prepared to raise an army to fight coalition forces in Afghanistan.

"If America doesn't stop attacks in the tribal areas, we will prepare a lashkar (army) to attack US forces in Afghanistan," Pashtun tribal chief Malik Nasrullah Khan was reported as saying in Miranshah, the largest town in North Waziristan, which has been the target of repeated US attacks in the past week.

"We will also seek support from the tribal elders in Afghanistan to fight jointly against America."

In the complicated fabric of tribal affiliations along the 1300km Durand Line that nominally separates Afghanistan from Pakistan, Malik Nasrullah is regarded as a powerful figure.

Only last month, he led a group of tribal elders in declaring support for government moves against militancy in the Kurrum Agency - a region beset by sectarian strife involving the Taliban.

In the past, Malik Nasrullah has been regarded as a moderate, but his change of position follows repeated US cross-border raids that, the Government in Islamabad insists, target mainly innocent civilians and are serving to sign up new recruits for al-Qa'ida and the Taliban.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2008-09-17 06:00:04)