200 American Forces Already In The Land Of Pakistan

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The US Military has apparently stationed 200 of its soldiers in the land of Pakistan. That number was two times more than what they had revealed earlier. Whereas, earlier the American special envoy, Richard Holbrooke said that "there was no American forces in Pakistan". And that number does not include the number of personnels who had carried out intelligence operations for America and the security contractors in Pakistan.

The news regarding the presence of the American forces in Pakistan began to be discussed since three American soldier were killed by an IED last week. The New York Times reported that those American soldiers disguised themselves by wearing Pakistani dresses, however, their vehicle was equipped with jamming devices using radio frequency meant to deactivate bombs detonated using remote control. "However, the Taliban could still penetrate into their ranks and carried out the bombings." 131 people were wounded according to the report by The New York Times.

The military told The Times that besides the death of the three soldiers on that day, "12 other service members had been killed in Pakistan since 11th September 2001."

The three American soldiers killed were the specially formed personnels of the Special Operations and “civil affairs” forces. The American forces had been “quietly working on the development projects” in Pakistan. This was considered as a part of the efforts to train the local (Pakistan) forces as counter-opposition acts (in this case the Al Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban). However, these efforts by the American-Pakistanis are still hidden due to the fear that these could be made as propaganda tools by the Taliban to win the hearts of the people of Pakistan. "Last summer for example, the American military trainers distributed foods and water in the refugee camps occupied by more than one million people in the Swat Vallley after the big battle between the Taliban and the Pakistani forces there. However, these aids distributions by America was also done in secret."

Guarding the secrets of the American involvement in Pakistan and exposing them in the media had become a dilemma for the medie themselves. This could mean giving the opposing party (the Taliban) chances to create even bigger propaganda that Pakistan has actually been invaded by America just like its neighbour, Afghanistan.

Looks like the war between the Taliban and Pakistani military would become more violent with the direct involvement of the American forces. This would surely invite the supporters of jihad all over the world to come in droves to Pakistan in order to help their brothers in iman. History will repeat itself, like in the 80’s where brave men from all over the world came to Pakistan to train militarily followed by their exodus to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet which eventually retreated all over the place after stumbling in Afghanistan.