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| Taliban alliance only against US, says Maulvi Nazir |
| 2009-02-26 |
| The top three Taliban factions in Pakistan have unified "only to act together against the United States", Taliban leader Maulvi Nazir told Ahmedzai Wazir elders in South Waziristan in a meeting earlier this week, a tribal elder told Daily Times on Wednesday. A delegation of Ahmedzai Wazir elders met Maulvi Nazir, the Taliban chief in Wana, to ask him why he had formed the 'United Council of Mujahideen' without consulting them, a senior member of the delegation said. "Gul Bahadar (the Taliban chief in North Waziristan) and I have reached an understanding with Baitullah Mehsud (the chief of the defuct Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) to fight the US together, because we are concerned over the surge in American troops in Afghanistan," Nazir reportedly told the delegation. He denied the groups had joined hands against Pakistani troops. US President Barack Obama has ordered 17,000 additional troops into Afghanistan and Washington is currently meeting top officials from Islamabad and Kabul to put together a new strategy on tackling the Afghanistan problem. Maulvi Nazir told the Ahmedzai Wazir elders that the understanding with Baitullah did not mean a merger of the three groups. "Each group will have its own independent status and emirates, and each group will be sovereign in their territory," the Taliban leader said. Maulvi Nazir did say who had helped them forge the alliance, the delegation member told Daily Times. "I think someone from across the border may have influenced the move," he added. The understanding comes despite serious differences between Maulvi Nazir and Baitullah Mehsud over Uzbek fighters among the latter's ranks. The Ahmedzai Wazirs and Maulvi Nazir had made a peace deal in April 2007 after the latter flushed out the Uzbek men from the area. The new understanding alarmed the tribesmen the foreigners might return to their land. "We told Maulvi Nazir if his understanding with Baitullah brings any harm to our areas, then the peace accord we reached with him will also be in jeopardy," the delegation told the Taliban chief, the elder said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 So, now that we know the ground rules, there should be no issues with us raining down Hellfires on their sorry asses about every five minutes? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-26 10:11 |
| #1 sounds like a declaration of war from a country since they control Pakistain, bomb awat at the shithole |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-02-26 00:36 |