longwarjournal.org - 12/30/2008
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NATO's vital supply link through the Northwest Frontier Province has been shut down as the Pakistani military launched an operation to clear the Taliban from the area.
"Supplies to NATO forces have temporarily been suspended," Tariq Hayat Khan, the Khyber agency's political agent, told ...
longwarjournal.org - 12/28/2008
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Taliban suicide bombers struck on both sides of
the Durand Line, killing 51 and wounding score more...
in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The suicide attack in Pakistan took place in the settled district of Buner in the insurgency-infested Northwest ...
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Taliban suicide bomber strike in Pakistan, Afghanistan
longwarjournal.org - 12/26/2008
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As tensions rise between India and Pakistan over
last month's terror assault in Mumbai, the Pakistani is...
withdrawing troops from the tribal areas and redeploying to the eastern border with India. Pakistan's redeployment of forces from the ...
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Pakistan deploys troops from tribal areas to the Indian ...
longwarjournal.org - 1/2/2009
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The US has struck for the second time
in two days in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of...
South Waziristan. An unmanned US Predator aircraft fired missiles at an abandoned girls' school in the village of Madin in the Lahda region. Four ...
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US hits South Waziristan in second strike
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Bill Roggio: Pakistan shuts down NATO supply line through the Khyber Pass
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Tuesday, 30 December 2008 The military launches and operation in the Jamrud region outside of Peshawar, where the Taliban has taken control. This is the third time the route has been closed since September. read ...
Pakistan shuts down NATO supply line through the Khyber Pass
Flopping Aces —
... NATO’s vital supply link through the Northwest Frontier Province has been shut down as the Pakistani military launched an operation to clear the Taliban from the area. “Supplies to NATO forces have temporarily been suspended,” Tariq Hayat Khan, the Khyber agency’s political agent, told reporters. The main road between Peshawar has been closed as the military launched attacks using “artillery, tanks and, helicopter gunships,” link. ...
Pakistan Closes NATO Supply Line to Afghanistan. Again.
Weekly Standard Blog —
... The Pakistani government has shut down NATO's vital supply link to forces based in Afghanistan as the military has launched an offensive to clear the Taliban in a region just on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Peshawar. This is the second such operation launched in this area by the Pakistani military in six weeks. Clearly the first operation failed. ...
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Obama's Vietnam
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... . Yet Afghanistan is not the former Yugoslavia, and if Holbrooke thinks he can impose a new Dayton on the rebel Afghans and the increasingly resentful Pakistanis, he is apt to run up against the same brick wall that has stymied would-be conquerors for 2,000 years, including the ...
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