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India-Pakistan
Hundreds flee as ‘operation’ launched in Swat
2007-10-27
MINGORA/PESHAWAR: Security forces battled with armed supporters of rebel cleric Maulana Fazlullah here on Friday, killing one militant and injuring three others, while bodies of four abducted security personnel were found on a roadside, witnesses and officials said. Two civilians were also killed in the clashes, as hundreds of residents of Imam Dheri started leaving the area fearing a full-scale operation, Online reported.
Any drums? Can't have a lashkar without drums.
Maulana FazlullahÂ’s spokesman Sirajuddin confirmed the attack on the clericÂ’s headquarters in Imam Dheri and the death of a militant. He said that an 80-member delegation was heading for Islamabad to hold talks with the federal government on the invitation of Political Affairs Minister Amir Muqam when the security forces besieged FazlullahÂ’s headquarters.

“Heavy weapons and helicopters were used when the forces surrounded Fazlullah’s headquarters,” security sources told Daily Times.
Excellent! Did they level the place?
The local Taliban set up barricades at Sharialm, Chaprial and Shakar Dara in Matta Tehsil on Friday morning and took ‘suspicious’ people hostage at gunpoint, locals told Daily Times.
The Pak troops should take 'suspicious' local Talibs hostage. Then shoot them.
Three Frontier Corps personnel and a policeman were reportedly among the ‘suspicious’ people the Taliban took hostage from the Chaprial and Pir Killi areas of Matta Tehsil. The militants later dumped the bodies of the four law enforcement personnel in Shakar Dara.

NWFP Home Secretary Badshah Gul Wazir said they received “unconfirmed reports” of the abducted soldiers’ killing. The militants paraded the soldiers’ bodies in their vehicles while holding the head of a soldier in the air to show their barbarity, he added. A journalist of a local television channel was also taken hostage in Imam Dheri on suspicion of being an “undercover agent”, but was released after four hours.

Military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad said army helicopters joined the operation, and troops were sent to the region as reserves to help local authorities maintain law and order, if requested, AP reported.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  I keep telling these idiots, napalm puts an end to this kind of crap. If you're constantly in fear of being burned alive, you don't have much incentive to harm others. Putting the fear of military forces into these idiots would go a long way to stopping this sh$$. Nukes are just bigger and hotter napalm.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-10-27 15:34  

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