[BITList] pak navy - reeling!

[x50type at cox.net]

    Easy come – easy go!
    [two P-C3’s destroyed]
    ct
    PS    why are we even playing with pakistan?




    Humiliation deepens for Pakistan military 
    May 24, 2011 - 1:14PM 
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    AFP 

    A siege on a big naval base in the heart of Pakistan's biggest city that took 17 hours to quell heaps humiliation on a military still reeling from the fallout over Osama bin Laden, experts say.

    Up to six Taliban fighters, armed with rocket-propelled grenades, explosives and automatic rifles, crept under cover of darkness to place ladders against the walls of the Mehran base in Karachi and climbed over barbed wire to enter.

    They managed to destroy two P-3C Orion aircraft, costing an estimated $US36 million ($A34 million), which had only been delivered by the US a year ago.
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