The War on Terror: Pakistan's Role (Destroying peoples homes)

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/17/nfcnn.07.html

<snip>STARR: Now, General Barno also confirming publicly for the first time that if those Pakistani villagers in those tribal regions don't cooperate and stop sheltering al Qaeda elements, that the Pakistani military essentially is destroying their homes. It is a very rough policy that they are undertaking there.

And as far as the U.S. military goes, well, for the moment, they're staying on the Afghan side of the border. But as the winter snows melt, if this strategy of trying to pressure the al Qaeda out of Pakistan works, and they start moving towards Afghanistan, well, U.S. military forces will be on that side of the border in the mountains waiting to see if they can catch them --Wolf.