Meanwhile in Pakistan

A senior Pakistani military officer said a NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani troops on the border with Afghanistan last month was pre-planned, newspapers reported on Friday, comments likely to fuel tension with the United States.

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[Major General Ashfaq Nadeem, director general of military operations in Pakistan] ruled out the possibility that NATO forces may have thought they were firing on militants, who often move across the porous frontier and attack Western troops.

One newspaper reported that he told the Senate committee that militants do not leave themselves exposed on mountain tops, like the ones where the Pakistani border posts were located.

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The Daily Times said Nadeem described the attack as a plot while another newspaper quoted him as saying it was a “pre-planned conspiracy” against Pakistan.

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Now, why would he think such a thing?