T-Day Prep Underway
Could AQ-Hour be approaching? BBC: Paks prep to assault Taliban and al-Qaeda strongholds in Waziristan.
Troops are amassing around Pakistan’s tribal district of South Waziristan in readiness for an offensive against the Taliban there, officials say.
Army spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas confirmed the army intended to launch an operation against Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban.
Despite reports of shelling in the area in recent days, there was no word on when a sustained offensive might begin.
Baitullah Mehsud’s group is blamed for a string of deadly attacks in Pakistan.
He has his stronghold in South Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, an area also rumoured to be the hideout of Osama Bin Laden.
The Paks apparently have had enough. Not a decade too soon. It isn’t the first time they’ve assaulted into the tribal region, but thanks to overreaching murderousness by the Pak Taliban, the political will could actually be there to actually do the job this time, especially on the heals of success in Swat. It can only help if in fact there is a thaw in the offing between the Paks and the Indians, as NYT is reporting, if that encourages the Pak Army to ease off its the traditional Hind-ward focus and deal with a real and immediate threat.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:00 pm Comments (1) on Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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June 17th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Lots of upheaval in the Dangerous Parts of the World. It’s either very encouraging, or very, very scary.