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India-Pakistan
The Taliban Regroups in Bajaur
2006-11-06
Executions, rebuilding of madrassa, further anti-government statements issued in wake of Chingai airstrke; more Taliban assassinations in Waziristan

Less than a week after the airstrike that destroyed the Chingai madrassa housing Taliban fighters and serving as an al-Qaeda training camp, local al-Qaeda chieftain Faqir Mohammad continues to openly flaunt his control of the region. Faqir's Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat -e-Mohammed, essentially a Bajaur wing of the Taliban, has executed it second 'spy' for his purported role in the attack.

“The bullet-riddled, mutilated body of local tribesman Mohammed Jan Khan was found on a dry stream bed in a mountainous area near Chingai village,” reports Dawn "Three tribesmen who saw the body said it had a note in Pushto language attached to it, saying Khan had been spying for American and Pakistan troops in the area for a long time and had been under observation.”
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#1  We keep hearing again and again about the "regrouping" or "rebuilding" or "resurgent" Taliban. They're like one of those sports franchises that hasn't been above .500 in a generation* -- every year is a "rebuilding year," and their eternal battle cry is "wait'll next year!"

Why is it, do you suppose, that the Taliban has been in a rebuilding cycle for five years now?

*E.g., Cleveland Indians 1958-93.
Posted by: Mike   2006-11-06 08:56  

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