Guardian Reports British & American 'Boots on the Ground' in Pakistan

That was between 2003 and 2008. Now, "Disrupting the Taliban safe haven inside Pakistan is the unspoken part of Barack Obama's 'surge' announced this month. Although 30,000 troops will be deployed to Afghanistan by next summer, the Taliban and al-Qaida leadership is believed to be sheltering on the Pakistani side of the 1,600-mile border", says the Guardian report.