Exclusively in the new print issue of CounterPunch One nation’s
minor accident is another’s barbarous catastrophe  Cross-Border
Incident   “Pakistan Rejects US Findings on Deadly Air Strike”
was a typical headline on December 23,  following the Pentagon’s
“Department of Defense Statement Regarding Investigation Results
into Pakistan Cross-Border Incident.”  The “incident” involved
hours of US airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistan army soldiers and
wounded 13 more in Mohmand Agency in northwest Pakistan on
November 26. And if this is what the Pentagon calls an
“incident” it makes you wonder how they would refer to the
slaughter of 24 US soldiers in similar circumstances.  It is
hardly surprising that the Pakistan army’s first reaction to the
investigation report was that it is “short on facts,” if only
because the Pakistani account of events was not considered in
any way.  The story, now, is that Pakistan refused to take part
in the inquiry, and, like all effective propaganda, the yarn has
a modicum of truth.  Pa