ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 26, 2008
AP: Pakistan Moving Troops Toward India
Sources: Thousands Being Switched From Afghan Border (And Al Qaeda Pursuit) As Post-Mumbai Tensions Rise Between Nuke Powers
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The move represents a sharp escalation in the stand off between the nuclear-armed neighbors and stands to weaken Pakistan's U.S.-backed campaign against al Qaeda and Taliban close to Afghanistan.
Two intelligence officials said the army's 14th Division was being redeployed to Kasur and Sialkot, close to the Indian border. They said some 20,000 troops were on the move. Earlier Friday, a security official said that all troop leave had been canceled.
An Associated Press reporter Friday witnessed a column of about 40 trucks shifting soldiers out of South Waziristan.
The intelligence officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
Indian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
An Associated Press reporter in Dera Ismail Khan, a district that borders the Afghan-frontier province of South Waziristan, said he saw around 40 trucks loaded with soldiers heading away from the Afghan border.
India is blaming Pakistan-based militants for last month's attacks on Mumbai. Islamabad has said it will cooperate in any probe, but says it has seen no evidence backing up India's claims.
Both countries have said they hope to avoid military conflict, but Pakistan has promised to respond aggressively if India uses force, an option the Indian government has not ruled out.
Pakistan has deployed more than 100,000 soldiers in Waziristan and other northwestern regions to fight Islamic militants blamed for surging violence against Western troops in Afghanistan.
A senior security official refused to comment directly on Friday's troop movements, but said, "Necessary defensive measures have been taken, they are in place and Pakistan's armed forces are prepared to tackle any eventuality."
He asked his name not be used, citing the sensitivity of the situation.
Pakistan and India have fought three wars since their independence from Britain in 1947.
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Less than a dozen men cause the removal of thousands of troops from the fray.
Effective, to say the least.
The BBC in particular in the way they report is always done with this cute smug smirk style.
Now that British empire of global-finance is crumbling, the oligarchs are getting the war they need to reduce the earth''s population and start over their IMF/World Bank central banking schemes.
It''s disgusting.
The problem for us in the near future is our forces that will be effectively isolated in Afghanistan. Unless NATO can secure a land route for resupply and if need be, an escape, we are left to nothing but potentially hostile air corridors.
I don''t think we should be choosing sides in this but if it comes down to a fight for survival, we will find ourselves at odds with the Pakistanis.
Take a peek at the book; George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, it can be found on the net, just do a search, and see how the bankers connived the world into World War II. See how Prescott Bush Bert Walker, Samuel Pryor, Averell Harriman and a host of others made billions of loaning money to Hitler and Stalin both, as well as the British and the Americans.
Until we as citizens of the world stand up to the bankers and the arms dealers around the world and take away the power they hold over every nation, there will never be any hope of world peace. Because they don''t want peace, they just want to money.
Posted by Downtowner97
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Nah, its not our problem, just let thousands of innocent people die. You about as sensitive as a box of rocks. It''s the attitude of people like yours that allows millions of people to die, and the attitude that the big bankers, and the arms makers relish. I''d rather be poor than to live rich on the spoils of war, and I have lived poor, so I know what the consequences are.
This is Pakistan''s way to open the door for US backed troops to make more aggressive cross-boarder raids into these "uncontrolled" areas and hit the terrorists in their homes.
http://www.sinhala.net/LocalNews/SinhalaNet_Full_News.asp?ID=4352#NewsViewBM
I agree, it''s time to bring our men and women home and let these fools have at it. We need to protect our own borders, not all these other countries.
Posted by downsteamjim at 04:20 PM : Dec 26, 2008
LOL!! Right on Downstream, The sheep and donkeys should run for cover.
I love this planet!! Hope no one blows it up any time soon.
Now that the global financial empire is crumbling, it''s time to go back to the medieval period where the empire was maintained by drug trafficking, piracy and slavery.
The British purposely drawn up borders around peoples who had different cultures like an atom has different sub-atomic particles.
This was done so that at a moments notice the British could stage a terrorist attack amongst rival radical groups with drug money and quickly start a war!
The British rule by ''divide and conquer'' and they have managed to blind the American people with ''denial'' and by embarrassing real accounts of conspiracy.
It''s an efficient system, question is how long will the peoples of the world put up with it?
And fortunately we now will have a president with an IQ higher than the Neocon Chimp that the Repugs stuck us with for 8 long years!
Posted by jbrown88881 at 06:05 PM : Dec 26, 2008
India attacks Pakistan from the East and Obama attacks Pakistan from the West as he said he would. A pincer movement (aka) Nut cracker attack.
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by impeach___w
December 28, 2008 10:44 AM PST
- Finally! We learned something. Instead of invading with our ground troops, we''ll let the neighboring enemies fight it out. When the powers in the arena are both weakened, it will be much easier to rule the entire region.
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See all 25 CommentsIt is too bad we already armed Pakistan and al-queda via the ISI as we have done with every single one of our other previous enemies to date.