File photo shows Pakistani paramilitary soldiers man a post at a mountaneous area in Wana, the main town of the country's South Waziristan district bordering Afghanistan. Shots were fired when US-led coalition helicopters based in Afghanistan neared the border with Pakistan, officials said Monday, but there were conflicting accounts of the incident. (AFP/File/Noor Wazir)From Yahoo News/AP:
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani troops fired on two U.S. helicopters that intruded into Pakistani airspace on Sunday night, forcing them to turn back to Afghanistan, a senior Pakistani security official said on Monday.
It was the second such incident in a week, and reflects frayed relations with the United States over Pakistan's failure to act more forcibly against Islamist fighters in the tribal lands bordering Afghanistan.
The number of missile attacks by U.S. drone aircraft in the remote tribal areas has multiplied in recent weeks.
The helicopters violated the border in the area of Lowara Mandi, 40 km (25 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region, at around 9 p.m. on Sunday, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
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My Comment: Cooperation between U.S. and Pakistani forces in defeating the Taliban has fallen apart. The Pakistanis true colors are now showing .... even after the bombing of the Mariott Hotel in Islamabad.
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