[Peace-discuss] End the war against Pakistan (II)

[C. G. Estabrook]

       US Helicopters Attack Pakistan, Killing Over 34
      NATO Confirms Apache Helicopters Launched Attacks Against Pakistani Territory
      by Jason Ditz, September 26, 2010

NATO spokesmen are confirming tonight that a pair of US Apache helicopters 
crossed the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan, launching an attack against 
tribesmen in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) which killed 
at least 34 people, with higher tolls expected.

NATO says that the tribesmen they attacked were believed to be the same ones 
responsible for an attack against a NATO base in the Khost Province of 
Afghanistan. The Khost Province borders FATA’s North Waziristan Agency, a 
regular target for US drone strikes.

Though it is not the first time US forces have crossed the border and launched 
attacks into Pakistan, such attacks have been exceedingly rare (and followed by 
angry reactions from Pakistan’s military and civilian government). NATO has also 
repeatedly tried to distance itself from previous attacks, insisting there is no 
basis for crossing the border.

NATO depends on Pakistani territory as a supply route for its troops in 
land-locked Afghanistan, and following a pair of 2008 raids by US troops into 
Pakistan the nation’s government briefly blocked the supplies. With many, many 
more NATO troops in Afghanistan now than in 2008 the supply route is all the 
more vital, though simultaneously all the more fragile.

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/09/26/us-helicopters-attack-pakistan-killing-over-34/