Oh, and the tone of the piece goes right with this booga-booga BS!!!!
"Success of Pakistani offensive in doubt" by Laura King, Los Angeles Times | June 30, 2008
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - When government troops pushed their way into a local warlord's stronghold just outside one of Pakistan's major cities over the weekend, what they found followed a familiar pattern.
With plenty of warning from officials that troops were coming, Islamic insurgents in the mountainous Bara district outside Peshawar, the provincial capital, melted away, disappearing into a remote valley to the north.
Pakistani authorities declared yesterday that the district had been restored to their control. But residents said they expected the militants to return whenever it suited them.
Moreover, almost no one in Bara's dusty, deprived main town had anything bad to say about the vanished warlord, Menghal Bagh, an illiterate bus driver-turned-cleric. Bagh maintained law and order, people said, and the shadow government he set up in recent months was more effective than the state-sanctioned one.
No wonder the people like him!!
The military operation to retake Bara and the rest of the Khyber tribal agency - home to the Khyber Pass, a key supply route for Western forces across the border in Afghanistan - was deemed a success by Pakistani authorities, who said yesterday that mop-up efforts might continue for some days.
That's what is behind the WHOLE THING!
NATO's SUPPLY LINES have been threatened -- although, NOT IN SO MANY WORDS in the AmeriKan MSM!!
God, are they terrible or what?
And don't you love how invaders win battles and wars so quickly, huh?
The operation involved hundreds of paramilitary Frontier Corps troops backed by tanks, artillery, and armored vehicles.Pakistan's tribal northwest is predominantly Pashtun, the same ethnic stock as most of the local Taliban-linked groups. In this part of the country, the war against the militants, which began in 2001 when President Pervez Musharraf sided with the United States against the Taliban in Afghanistan, has never been popular.
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Oh, COME ON!!!!
Americans, if someone came over here and BOMBED YOUR HOUSES to the GROUND, KILLED FAMILY MEMBERS and DESTROYED your community, HOW WOULD YOU FEEL?
Would it make the invaders POPULAR with you, Americans?!?
I'm sorry, but AmeriKa's MSM SUCKS!!
And since it is ALL the SAME PLACE:
"As war intensifies, civilian deaths soar
KABUL - The number of civilians killed in fighting between insurgents and security forces in Afghanistan has soared by about 65 percent in the first half of this year, to almost 700 people, a senior UN official said yesterday. The figures reveal that civilians are bearing a heavy burden in the nearly seven-year war, particularly from increased militant attacks. John Holmes, the world body's humanitarian affairs chief, said the insecurity was making it increasingly difficult to deliver emergency aid to poor Afghans. "Most of those casualties are caused by the insurgents, who seem to have no regard for civilian life, but there are also still significant numbers caused by the international military forces," he said (AP June 30, 2008)."
Yeah, blame it on the "militants" -- meaning ANYONE who OPPOSES NATO OCCUPATION!!
Of course, Muslim deaths are a brief in the paper while I have two articles on nothing Israel!
