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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House
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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4400)5/29/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette  Read Replies (1) of 12475
 
USA alarmed by the use of Stinger by the Pakis,Af-gooons.(Oh really?)

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Meanwhile, external affairs ministry officials pointed out that the international community, especially the US, are alarmed by the apparent use of Stinger missiles by the Pakistani intruders among whom a substantial number of Afghan war veterans are present. They said ironically, it was the US which supplied billions of dollars worth of arms and ammunition to the Afghan mujahideen via Pakistan to counter the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

The officials indicated the Americans have r long been worried that a large number of Stinger missiles had been purloined from Pakistan when given to Islamabad for safekeeping. They alleged that the infamous Ojheri blast occurred after Pakistani officials deliberately set fire to the Ojheri arms depot to thwart the CIA which wanted to inspect the US-supplied arms and ammunition. MEA officials claimed the Pakistani authorities had already removed many Stinger missiles from Ojheri and did not want the US to know about this.

As underscored by American officials in Washington yesterday, the Stinger missiles could now be in the possession of Islamic radicals in Afghanistan, many of whom have a pathological hatred against all things American. This appears to have constrained the US not to interfere in the Kargil conflict.

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