Pakistan Closes Supply Route After NATO Attack on Security Post
NATO Helicopters Attacked Pakistani Base, Killing Three Soldiers
NATO’s Sunday raid into Pakistan was no isolated incident, it seems. Attack helicopters crossed the border yet again today, attacking a Pakistani military security post and killing at least three soldiers.
NATO was quick to claim the attack counted as “self defense,” as well as insist that they weren’t even sure they really crossed the border. Today’s raid was said to be the fourth time this week the helicopters have crossed into Pakistani airspace to launch attacks.
Pakistan condemned the attack as “aggression” and announced they were closing a key NATO supply route through the Khyber Pass in protest. The military also threatened other, non-specific retaliation.
The US is claiming that communications with Pakistan are deteriorating, and says the attacks came without permission of the Pakistani government because they couldn’t get in touch with anybody. It seems however that specific attacks on Pakistani military sites is only going to worsen the relationship, a key source of supplies for the war in landlocked Afghanistan.
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pendulum
September 30th, 2010 at 11:38 am
how can total hatred of an invader get worse?
Valerianus
September 30th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Whether Pakistan will make the supply cut off permanent remains to be seen, but if that happens, things could get very interesting as the FedGov soldiery is forced to rely on airlifts and whatever they can truck in from the Soviet Union, er I mean the Central Asian republics.
V for Vendetta
September 30th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
"The US is claiming that communications with Pakistan are deteriorating, and says the attacks came without permission of the Pakistani government because they couldn’t get in touch with anybody." Well, duh! If you keep blowing up your so-called "allies" how are you supposed to get "in touch with anybody." Anyway, the Pakistani idea to shut down the supply line was a good one. That might be the only way the immoral, unjustified, aggressive Af-Pak war can be ended.
aeskylos
September 30th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Stickier and stickier goes the war in Afghanistan. Too much death, too much money and not enough reason to be in there. Oh sure, the thing is great if you are a pentagon officer or a military supplier, but the burden has become unbearable on the backs of us dumb taxpayers.We should have been out of there a minute ago.
John D.
September 30th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
..Pakistan needs to ban all US, and NATO involvement on their soil. Everywhere the US, and NATO are lives are destroyed, and reckless destruction of the infrastructure is rampant. Let's hope that Pakistan takes NATO to task…Now!