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May 20, 2008

Pakistan Just Might Finally Be Getting Serious About Cleansing Tribal Areas Of Extremists

If we can go by what some recent reporting shows, Pakistan is serious about cleansing the tribal areas of terrorists and militants: Amid US concerns about talks between the new government and the rebels, the Pakistani military flew in reporters to show how it has sealed off the main access points to a nearby region where Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud is based. On one of the peaks which loom over Spinkai, Brigadier Ali Abbas tells how the 2,000 men of his brigade surrounded some 600 Taliban rebels guarding access to Mehsud's den in January. To the north and west,... ... more

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