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2008-01-30 India-Pakistan

18 Orakzai tribes form Lashkar against Taliban

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 This is AWESOME news!

Posted by crosspatch 2008-01-30 01:29|| 2008-01-30 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 woder how long it bwill last though

Posted by sinse 2008-01-30 06:45|| 2008-01-30 06:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Huge news! Sounds like enough was enough and we can't blame them. Now will they fight alongside our boys?

Posted by Icerigger 2008-01-30 06:53|| coonlakebeach.com]">[coonlakebeach.com] 2008-01-30 06:53|| Front Page Top

#4 18 tribes

Nice round number. Wonner if there are any "18's" assisting this outstanding effort?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-01-30 07:04|| 2008-01-30 07:04|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm sure there were more tribes that were sick of the bullsh*t and intend to fight, but were scared to sign on publically. Some of the smaller clans are possibly more dangerous anyway.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-01-30 07:50|| 2008-01-30 07:50|| Front Page Top

#6 The Talibs will take a page from Iraq and attack the bigwigs at the top. Muslim leaders are always looking out for #1, so if they feel threatened personally, then they'll fold quickly enough.

Interesting that "any tribe breaching the pledge would be punished with Rs 10 million in fine and a hundred houses of the tribe would be burnt down.": kinda suspected that was what was required to get their attention.

After the killing of three levies personnel by local militants in Orakzai Agency on Saturday night, 18 tribes of the agency have decided to form a Lashkar (tribal army) against the Taliban to flush them out of the area, reported BBC Urdu on Tuesday.

IIRC, levies are "tax collectors" (i.e. collects the bigwig's 'cut'). Took hitting the bigwigs in the pocketbook for them to get serious.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2008-01-30 07:58|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2008-01-30 07:58|| Front Page Top

#7 if Gen Petraues were organizing this, Id have confidence.

Some Pakistani "Political Agent", not so much

Posted by Dopey Flotle8127 2008-01-30 10:30|| 2008-01-30 10:30|| Front Page Top

#8 There's are article above the US finishing a new base in Afghanistan's Kunar province, just three kilometers from Bajaur Agency in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

Check out this map.

Not far to this Orakzai Agency for our guys! An Orakzai Awakening? These guys know what happened in Iraq....

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2008-01-30 11:40|| 2008-01-30 11:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Ptah, I think tribal levies are drafted soldiers for those second tier units that don't get boots nor bullets.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-01-30 11:42|| 2008-01-30 11:42|| Front Page Top

#10 18 Orakzai tribes form Lashkar against Taliban

Ima reel impressed, hummmm... a metaphor/simile is called for with sum alternate English for fun

like a group of picayunish pols promising to fight taxes while making the gubbermint like an elegant female friend and my wallet more diminutive..

Posted by RD">RD 2008-01-30 13:03|| 2008-01-30 13:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Ummm, What was that lie now?

You know, the one about the Taliban having the "Hearts and Minds Of the People"?

Yeah Right.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-30 15:55|| 2008-01-30 15:55|| Front Page Top

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