Pakistanis Protest US Supply Line Into Afghanistan

[douglas9]

Source: Associated Press

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- More than 10,000 Pakistanis protested Thursday against allowing U.S. forces to ship supplies through Pakistan into Afghanistan in a sign of growing pressure on Islamabad to harden its foreign policy.

It was one of the largest rallies against the government since it took office in March. Militants have attacked trucks using the critical Khyber Pass route several times in recent weeks.

The protesters -- backers of Jamaat-e-Islami, a hard-line Islamist party -- also decried U.S. missile strikes targeting al-Qaida and Taliban leaders in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas along the Afghan border and Pakistani military offensives against Islamic insurgents in the area.

Banner-toting demonstrators chanted ''Down with America'' and ''Jihad is the only solution of America'' as they marched along a key road in the main northwestern city of Peshawar, led by national party chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/18/world/AP-AS-Pakistan.html?pagewanted=print

[acmavm]

1. Keep killing civilians and I suppose people would get a little sick

of it.

:sarcasm:

[Mari333]

2. Vietnam Part Two..n/t

[High Plains]

3. Thank goodness Obama will get us out of Afghanistan....oh, wait...

No he won't; he's going to get us in deeper. Oh, boy.

[cosmicone]

4. It is time for the US to realize that Pakistan is not an ally...

supplying Pakistan with funds and weapons is only like feeding a rattlesnake in the hopes that it won't bite.

[No Elephants]

5. Bush did not break only Iraq. In more ways than one, he's come pretty close to breaking the planet