Incoming commander of the 101st Airborne Division U.S. Maj. Gen. Jeffrey J. Schloesser, left, is escorted to the media after a handover ceremony at the main U.S. base at Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday April 10, 2008. The 101st Airborne Division is taking over in Afghanistan, replacing the 82nd Airborne after 15 months in the country. The U.S. now has some 32,000 troops in the country, the most since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.From The Daily Times (Pakistan):
LAHORE: A new war could begin if Pakistan does not step up its fight against terrorists, Maj Gen Jeffrey J Schloesser of the US Army said in a report published in an American weekly on Sunday.
“If militants escape into Pakistani territory and Islamabad does not step up, a new kind of war could well begin,” he said.
According to the report, Gen Schloesser, who leads 19,000 US soldiers operating on the frontier, estimates that his forces are facing some 7,000-10,000 insurgents in eastern Afghanistan – a higher number than previously disclosed by any US commander.
He said he planned to keep his troops operating deep inside Taliban territory this winter. He hoped they would be able to take advantage of the mobility to seek out any safe havens and facilitation areas and any places the terrorists can go for ‘rest and recreation’ in Afghanistan. He said he would give terrorists the options to flee, get killed or captured, or reconcile.
My Comment: A rare moment of clarity, as well as stating the obvious. I cannot confirm this story from the other major media networks.
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