[BITList] pak armt simmers!

[x50type at cox.net]

      the US gives BILLIONS of dollars [by the way, anyone could buy pakistan for a couple of billion – apparently no one wants it!] to help sustain their counter-terrorism efforts – eh! 
      and this bodes poorly for US hopes of an expanded paki effort against islamist militants. so why are we even bothering? the paki army has turned out to be next to useless for the US – great for terrorists.
      ct


      Anger simmers in Pakistani army over bin Laden raid
      By Karin Brulliard, Thursday, May 19, 10:05 AM 
      ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — As Pakistan’s powerful military leaders seek to overcome extraordinary public criticism following the killing of Osama bin Laden this month in a Pakistani garrison city, they are also facing seething anger in barracks across the country.

      Some of the outrage among the ranks stems from shame that the Pakistani military failed to locate bin Laden or detect the stealth U.S. raid on bin Laden’s compound, according to officers and military analysts. But most of it is directed toward the United States, an ally that has given billions of dollars to help sustain Pakistan’s counter-terrorism efforts but is now voicing rising concern that the country’s military is not dedicated to that fight. 

      Members of Pakistan’s army, by some accounts the world’s fifth-largest, have said little publicly about the U.S. operation to kill bin Laden in Abbottabad. But interviews with officers suggest a raucous and broad internal debate — one that is unlikely to undermine the institution, military analysts said, but that bodes poorly for U.S. hopes of an expanded Pakistani effort against Islamist militants. 
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