Terrorists targeted in 'hot pursuit' campaign
Attacks plotted after ally fails to address trafficking by renegades
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Posted: October 16, 2010
10:40 pm Eastern
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President Obama signs plan to aid Pakistan
A recent "hot pursuit" strike into Pakistan by the U.S. military is creating waves of reaction across the region, and underscores a level of dissatisfaction with the government there for its inability – or refusal – to halt the attacks by al-Qaida-backed terrorist groups affiliated with the Taliban, including the notorious 313 Brigade led by Ilyas Kashmiri, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
In addition to the 313 Brigade, other groups that continue to come under the protective umbrella of the Pakistani government – but are killing U.S. and allied troops – include the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, or IMU, the Islamic Jihad Union, or IJU out of Uzbekistan, and the Jalaluddin Haqqani network which to date has racked up the most U.S. kills, according to officials.
Given those links, the U.S. decision to send helicopters in hot pursuit of terrorists in Pakistan and to hit their sanctuaries hasn't exactly pleased the Pakistani government.
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The most recent hot pursuit resulted in the accidental death of two Pakistani security personnel, which led to the government shutting down a vital logistical route through Pakistan used to supply U.S. and allied troops in Afghanistan.
Insurgents took advantage of the bottleneck that resulted and destroyed more than 160 fuel and other supply vehicles.
The issue that forced the U.S. to launch such hot pursuits was due to the inability – or the purposeful lack of desire – by the Pakistani army to pursue terrorists when they returned from their attacks inside Afghanistan to their sanctuaries in the Kurram Agency of the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas, or FATA.
The responsibility of going into the Kurram Agency to hit the Taliban sanctuaries had belonged to the Pakistan army. While Pakistan army officials claim they are mounting ground and air strikes against the terrorists, there has been no reduction in cross-border attacks into Afghanistan by these groups, especially the Haqqani network, according to sources.
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