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Wednesday, January 01, 2003
posted by gbarto at 3:18 AM:
Pakistani, U.S. Troops Exchanged GunfireSkirmish on Afghan border ended with U.S. airstrike against its ally in war on terror. – Marc Kaufman
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Dec. 31 -- U.S. military authorities announced today that a brief shootout erupted between U.S. and Pakistani troops along the Afghan border Sunday, prompting the U.S. forces to call in an F-16 warplane that dropped a 500-pound bomb on the Pakistanis to end the clashThe conflict prompted this stunning insight:
[T]he shooting raised again the question of whether some Pakistani soldiers and tribal leaders still sympathize with their Taliban neighbors, whom they long supported until the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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