Since the border guards and paramilitary police in the tribal territory are recruited from the tribes, the Taliban can also recruit, bribe or coerce these troops to fire on NATO and Afghan forces. Border patrol bases are often used for this, and NATO air strikes and artillery will be used to support the NATO and Afghan ground troops that are under attack. Since Pakistan officially denies that their paramilitary forces often work for the Taliban, they declare that the casualties from NATO forces defending themselves are "unprovoked attacks on Pakistan." That fiction works for a while in the Pakistani media, but most Pakistanis know better.
Background here.
And denying NATO supplies only hurts Pakistan: Less income from trucks, less stuff to steal, and NATO will just bring it in from the north.
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The Good news of the day: The 6000 Pinoys working or studying in Egypt are still safe.
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The bad news of the day: More cases of human birdflu in Indonesia and Egypt.
the really really bad news of the day:Dutch Scientists are making a more infectious form of bird flu. Oh, it's not a danger unless it escapes from the lab, so we're all safe.
Or are we?
The really bad news of the day is not in the tabloids but NPR:
News of the results raised red flags for Dr. Thomas Inglesby, a bioterrorism expert and director of the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
"It's just a bad idea for scientists to turn a lethal virus into a lethal and highly contagious virus. And it's a second bad idea for them to publish how they did it so others can copy it," says Inglesby.
can you say "Captain Tripps"?
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the most dangerous drugs to take? Blood thinners.
Since they were shown to lower heart attack rates in the 1950's, they have been "in" and "out" for treatment...because of the side effects. I suspect this report will result in them being used less (and more folks having heart attacks or strokes).
low blood sugar from diabetic drugs is also in the list: Which is why the trend toward "tight control" of the blood sugar is being phased back to be a little less tight: Better a slightly high blood sugar than brain damage or a car wreck from low blood sugar.
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and the really important news of the day: Mexico holds the Zombie record.
Nearly 10,000 people have paraded in Mexico City dressed as zombies in what organisers claim is the biggest "zombie walk" ever held.
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