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160 NATO Vehicles Torched By Militants in Pakistan
Gateway Pundit —
... torched by radicals make it into Afghanistan. A security official stands among burnt military vehicles on the outskirts of Peshawar December 7, 2008. Hordes of Pakistani militants set on fire 96 trucks carrying Humvees and military vehicles for Western forces in Afghanistan in a raid in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Sunday, police said. (REUTERS/Ali Imam) They were screaming "Allah-o-Akbar" as they set the vehicles on fire. Reuters reported: Hordes of Pakistani militants set on fire 96 trucks ...
“Strategic Depth”
Neptunus Lex —
Pakistan’s support for the Taliban was always rooted in their desire to maintain a “strategic depth” against historical nemesis India - the world’s largest democracy has fought three major wars against the world’s most dangerous country.
With Islamabad only 200 good highway miles from the Indian border and ethno-sectarian tensions ever at a boil, the risk of some punitive expedition by the larger and better equipped Indian military is a threat that Pakistan takes seriously. If push came to shove - and a nuclear exchange was somehow avoided - the Hindu Kush would be a formidable redoubt from whence to rest, re-arm and re-sortie.
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Cutting Through the Crap Regarding the Religion of Perpetual Psychopathic Aggrievement
Ace of Spades HQ —
... all as understandable responses to mistreatment. We are left to wonder why Muslims here, there and everywhere seem to be so badly mistreated and respond to such mistreatment in such drearily predictable fashion, which is to blow other people (and sometimes themselves ) up. I'd quote more but I think they rapped me last time I ran an extended quote from them. Read the whole thing. It's worth it. At Least Time They Mostly Did Property Damage: Like fellow "militant" Bill Ayers, I guess, who also ...
