Stung by the cross-border excursions of US forces into the FATA, and targeted by Pakistani Taliban for collaborating with the US in their war against terror, government troops fired into the air near the Pakistan/Afghanistan border, ostensibly to repel an American ground force:
A senior security official based in Islamabad told the AFP news agency that the helicopters had been repelled by both army troops and soldiers from the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC).
“The helicopters were heading towards our border. We were alert and when they were right on the boundary line we started aerial firing. They hovered for a few minutes and went back,” the official said.
“About 30 minutes later they made another attempt. We retaliated again, firing in the air and not in their direction, from both the army position and the FC position, and they went back.”
A Pakistani military spokesman, Maj Murad Khan, said he had no information “on border violation by the American helicopters”.
The US military in Afghanistan also said it had no information on the incident.
Apparently a Paki helo re-supplied Taliban forces in Afghanistan last year.
From Murdoc online.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3733901&c=ASI&s=LAN
…You know, if we have bombers that are invisible to radar, why the hell aren’t we using them? You have to wonder just how long this would be going on if there was a very good possibility that after you landed from your Taliban VERTREP, your helo – and the base – would suddenly vanish.
Mike