Nato enquiry report blames both US, Pakistan..

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Re: Nato enquiry report blames both US, Pakistan..

@yazdi

The United States military report lends credence to that theory: the officials said it finds that NATO did not inform Pakistan that the operation on the border was taking place, and thus the Pakistani soldiers would not have known to expect allied forces near their posts. NATO and Pakistani forces are supposed to inform each other when launching operations on the border precisely to avoid the kind of mistake that took place on Nov. 26.

The second American mistake came when the airstrikes were called in. The Americans apparently gave the Pakistani Army the wrong coordinates that were to be struck by Apache attack helicopters and an AC-130 gunship, the officials said.
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Another safeguard also failed, according to the report: Pakistan never told NATO it had established the border posts, which had been up for about three months, said a Western official in Kabul. Both sides are supposed to inform each other when setting up new positions along the border, another measure intended to avoid strikes against each other.

Two US faults: Did not inform of operation so close to Pakistani border, gave wrong coordinates to Pakistan. According to Pakistani military, they already informed US/NATO of Pakistani posts, doesn’t make sense that a post will exist for 3 months and neither US/NATO noticed nor Pakistanis informed them.