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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Sunday, June 22, 2008

That's new and ugly

A new tactic along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.
A woman and three children were killed when rockets launched from about 300 meters (yards) inside Pakistani territory landed near the eastern town of Khost on Saturday, close to a large NATO base, provincial governor Arsala Jamal said. Eight people were wounded in the attack, most of them women....

Around the same time on Saturday evening, a rocket fired from Pakistan hit a hospital in the northeastern Afghan province of Kunar, killing a man and wounding another man and a woman, the provincial governor said.

Also at the same time, three artillery shells fired from Pakistan landed in an Afghan army camp and three more close to a NATO base in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika, the alliance said. There were no casualties, but NATO forces returned fire.

Also, from the Guardian today,
The Pakistani Frontier Corps has been heavily infiltrated and influenced by Taliban militants, sometimes joining in attacks on coalition forces, according to classified US 'after-action' reports compiled following clashes on the border.

....there are 'box loads' of such reports at US bases along the length of the Pakistan-Afghan border.
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