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Originally Posted by Damien
I didn't think this was disputed. I thought it was widely known that elements within Pakistan were streaming into Afghanistan (and vice-versa), which is why none of the countries involved wanted to leave Afghanistan for risk of leaving a nuclear state at the mercy of Terrorists.
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It was disputed by the Liberal members of CF, if I remember one poster claimed that returning soldiers were claiming to be fighting 'Johnny Taliban' not Pakistanis. In my experience soldiers at the time returning, claimed that they were fighting Pakistanis and that they had killed the Taliban ten times over. The claim was that Pakistanis were coming over the border attempting to take over the (at the time) deserted poppy fields. This was also around the time when the government put a gagging order on soldiers returning. (If I remember this was around the time of Op Herrick 7/8)
The involvement of Pakistan was played down, it wasn't until Obama mentioned it in his election campaign did it suddenly become news and 'OK' for the previous deniers to jump on the bandwagon.