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NATO deploys troops to Pakistani aid effort
2005-10-22
NATO says it will send up to 1,000 troops to help hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors in the rugged mountains of northern Pakistan, who have yet to to receive aid. But the measures fall far short of matching an appeal from top UN aid official Jan Egeland, who has urged the alliance to mount a massive airlift to rescue stranded survivors. Mr Egeland has called for an effort on the scale of the 1948-49 Berlin airlift to the beleaguered people of Soviet-blockaded West Berlin.

"There is no question of the alliance doing that. That was Berlin after World War II and this is Pakistan now - there is absolutely no comparison," said one NATO source. Helicopters are the only means of getting quickly deep into the Himalayan foothills of Pakistani Kashmir and North-West Frontier Province where 51,000 people are known to have died. That toll, in addition to some 1,300 killed on the Indian side of Kashmir, is expected to climb much further with large areas still unreached and the harsh Himalayan winter looming.
Posted by:Fred

#2  not good enough to shoot him.

Put him on a spit with abunch of hogs.

Baste in barbacue sauce and feed to dogs.

Posted by: 3dc   2005-10-22 15:12  

#1  

If they happen to run across this guy - I hope they shoot the f**ker.
Posted by: DMFD   2005-10-22 12:04  

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