December 2, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald
U.S. officials gave Pakistan soldiers the wrong location when asking for clearance to attack militants along the border last weekend, Pakistani military officials said today. The strike resulted in the deaths of 24 soldiers and a major crisis in relations between Washington and Islamabad. The claim was the latest in a series by mostly anonymous officials in both countries, which try to explain what happened before and during last Saturday’s bombing of two Pakistani border checkpoints by U.S. aircraft. Continue Reading
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