I'll take the report at face value, but CUI BONO?
"NATO base is hit; 3 Afghans killed; Militants' fire is returned across Pakistan's border" by Amir Shah, Associated Press | June 23, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants in Pakistan fired rockets at NATO bases across the border in Afghanistan, killing three children in a village and prompting the alliance to launch a pair of retaliatory artillery strikes, officials said yesterday.
The clashes could heighten diplomatic tension over Pakistan's inability to stop Islamic militants from operating from its territory - and whether forces in Afghanistan have the right to strike back.
NATO said five rockets were fired at one of its bases in Khost province overnight. At least one hit a house in Kunday, a small village which sits between two military bases, killing the three children. Another hit a NATO base, injuring an Afghan man.
And if those bases were not there, those people would be alive, wouldn't they?
Relatives of the children carried three caskets, draped in colorful cloths, to a graveyard for burial yesterday morning. NATO said its forces responded "in self-defense" to the attack with artillery fire on the launch site inside Pakistani territory.
In an earlier attack Saturday, three rounds of "indirect fire" - which often refers to mortar or rocket attacks - landed near a NATO outpost in neighboring Paktika province, the alliance said. Three more landed in an Afghan army compound. No casualties were reported.
NATO said those rounds also came from inside Pakistan and responded to them with artillery fire.... Afghan and US officials blame surging violence in Afghanistan in part on efforts by the new Pakistani government to make peace with Taliban militants on its side of the mountainous frontier....
Relations were further strained when US warplanes apparently bombed a Pakistani border post in the Mohmand tribal region this month, killing 11 Pakistani troops... it remains unclear why the Pakistani post was struck."
C'mon!
And all that money we have poured into Afghanistan?
WASTED!
"FARAH, Afghanistan - .... Some units have fought effectively alongside US forces, but others remain mired in cronyism and Mafia-like criminal enterprises....
Which is what the intent of the invasion: to reopen the drug routes the Taliban had shut down and which the New World order depends open for loads of undocumented wealth.
Read the blogs; U.S. soldiers are guarding drug routes for crying out loud.
In Bala Buluk, Panian's 14 trainers live in a spartan compound next to district police headquarters. They have run about 100 police officers through an eight-week police academy in Herat, about 140 miles to the north....
The Taliban control much of the countryside in Farah Province, where their fighters plant roadside bombs and mount occasional ambushes. A roadside bomb killed four Marines earlier this month...."
Huh? We haven't cleared them out lickity-split quick yet?
If you want to read more about this debacle, go here
