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May 18, 2009

Report: US Special Forces Sent into Pakistan
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The Wall Street Journal reports the US is sending Special Forces into
Pakistan to train Pakistan’s Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force
responsible for battling the Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters. Twenty-five
to fifty Special Forces personnel are deploying to two new training
camps in Baluchistan, a Taliban stronghold on the Afghan-Pakistani
border. A senior American military officer said he hoped Islamabad would
gradually allow the US to expand its training footprint inside
Pakistan’s borders.



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