State Dept to Hire Contractor to Run Air War Along Afghan-Pakistan Border
by Jason Ditz,
December 09, 2011
With tensions along the Afghan-Pakistan border already dramatically higher after the late November US attack on a pair of Pakistani military bases, it is now being reported that the US State Department is hiring a contractor to serve as the “aviation adviser” for the tense border, to help coordinate the air war on both sides of the border. It is unclear how Pakistan’s deployment of an air defense system along the border will impact this position.
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MvGuy
December 9th, 2011 at 9:48 pm
"a contractor"……….. MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm Gee, I wonder why it isn't Blackwater, Halburton… or KBR…??? OOOOO No…. And the WINNER is….."a contractor" Yay… Bravo… Fantistico…!! But why all the secrecy….?? If they don't/cant tell who the contractor ius…… Wellm, UI'd say that uis a sure sign of trouble… Bad history and/or a crony selection process…. Close to WHICH General…???
Putting more idiots on an impossible job does not make things possible..!!!!!!!!!!
camus10
December 10th, 2011 at 12:21 am
Joint Special Ops state tactics are getting absurd
just read some report citing a Pk mil commission (interviewed over 100 witnesses) coming out with the OBL execution report and how the Seals got thru the air-defenses. First word is they may expose the OBL execution was a fake double or Seals flew in with a real OBL bod-on-ice and planted on scene. This Pk report is due by late december
Aarky
December 10th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
But it does lead to the high probability that bad things will happen.
Aarky
December 10th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
What could possibly go wrong? Knowing the stupidity of some of the State ploys/plots, this group will probably be in charge of sabotaging that proposed gas pipeline from Iran to Pakistan.
John_Muhammad
December 10th, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Contractor = Mercenary. They better pray none of them is captured; mercenaries don't get a lot of leniency in anyone's court.