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Afghanistan
Taliban Claims To Have Captured 300 Pak Army Troops
2007-08-31
About 100 Pakistani soldiers who were missing and feared captured by pro-Taleban militants have been found, the army says. The militants had claimed they had seized 300 men in south Waziristan.

But the military said the soldiers in the convoy which had lost contact were sheltering in a valley during a storm and would return to base on Friday. "There is no suggestion of kidnapping or fighting," Major General Waheed Arshad told the AFP news agency.
"No, no, certainly not!"
A Muslim militant group had said it had taken the troops because the government was not honouring a recent peace deal.

There has been rising violence in the region in recent months, with at least 60 soldiers and 250 militants killed. Several peace deals between the government and rebels have collapsed.
Surprise, surprise.
US officials have described the tribal areas near the Afghan border as an al-Qaeda safe haven. Earlier in the week 18 soldiers were freed by militants following a deal brokered by tribal chiefs.
Posted by:Anonymoose

#2  Zenster, let me summarize your post in 3 words: red on red.
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-08-31 09:06  

#1  I hope the militants terrorists behead all of them.

Nasty as it sound, it will help bring about a few things:

1.) The military will think twice about allowing themselves to be captured.

2.) A wedge will be driven between military and terrorist forces.

3.) It might cause enough outrage whereby any displays of public sympathy for the terrorists would elicit serious government crackdowns.

As it stands, there is far too much alignment between terrorist and Pak military forces. This needs to be broken and if a whole bunch of Pakistan's corrupt and ineffectual military must to die in order for that to happen, then so be it.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-08-31 00:25  

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