25 Pakistani soldiers reportedly killed in NATO helicopter shelling - Dawn.com

Afghans say commando unit was attacked before airstrike was called on Pakistan

Both sides said they believed they were attacking insurgents along the border. A senior Pakistani defense official acknowledged that Pakistani troops fired first, sending a flare, followed by mortar and machine-gun fire, toward what he said was “suspicious activity” in the brush-covered area below their high-altitude outpost barely 500 yards from the border.

According to Afghan security officials, their commandos were engaged with U.S. Special Operations troops in a nighttime raid against suspected Taliban insurgents when they came under cross-border fire and called in an airstrike.

looks like somebody had them shooting at each other.

classic trick.

classic boondoggle initial reporting and assumptions.

“We told them, hold your horses, these are ours,” the official said. While repeated urgent appeals went up the coalition chain of command, he said, the airstrike continued for an hour and a half against two Pakistani border positions and a contingent of troops.

“You cannot win any war without the support of the masses,” Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told CNN. “We need the people with us.” Gilani said that “business as usual” with the United States could not continue.

another brilliant deduction, Watson

Possible Setup!

WASHINGTON (AP) — NATO and Pakistani forces may have attacked one another in a tragic case of mistaken identity — each thinking the other side was Taliban, according to the first battlefield accounts after the worst incident of fratricide since the Afghan war began. ......

U.S. officials are also investigating the possibility that the Taliban may have lured a joint U.S-Afghan patrol into attacking friendly Pakistani border posts, according to preliminary U.S. military reports.

Did the Taliban set up Pakistan and Afghans ?

Did Pakistan factions loyal to the Taliban arrange this "incident"?

Did Afghan factions loyal to the Taliban arrange this "incident"?

Did outside influences lure all sides into this "incident"?

This didn't happen that long ago,

It only got an mere mention on the news,

Will be forgotton already in 99.9% of the west's minds already,

I feel that the same wont be true on the other side.

And for many years to come.

Kind Regards,

Elf.