{"id":23565,"date":"2011-05-24T05:58:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T09:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23565"},"modified":"2011-05-24T11:36:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:36:19","slug":"6-taliban-hold-off-the-pakistani-army-for-16-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23565","title":{"rendered":"6 Taliban hold off the Pakistani Army for 16 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary sends us a link to a story about something that must be pretty embarrassing for the Pakistani Army. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/d7f23e7a-855b-11e0-ae32-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1NGHldOrp\">Financial Times<\/a> link (registration required);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The strike on the PNS Mehran base, by six well-armed militants, launched on Sunday night, raged for 16 hours as army forces tried to regain control over the high-security area.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve Pakistani security personnel were killed in the latest attack on military installations across Pakistan; 15 were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The militants\u2019 targets were two P-3C Orion maritime surveillance aircraft, the \u201ceyes and ears\u201d of Pakistan\u2019s navy in anti-submarine warfare, supplied to the country by the US during the past year. One aircraft was destroyed; another damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Defence analysts said the strike on sophisticated military assets was intended to undermine confidence in the military\u2019s ability to protect its most prized assets, including the country\u2019s nuclear arsenal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine a determined attack by a large Taliban force (probably seven or more is sufficient) on a nuclear facility. The six invaders&#8217; first round was a rocket fired at the aircraft &#8211; their primary targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary sends us a link to a story about something that must be pretty embarrassing for &hellip; <a title=\"6 Taliban hold off the Pakistani Army for 16 hours\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23565\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">6 Taliban hold off the Pakistani Army for 16 hours<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}