Pakistani militant base attacked

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Friday, 26 October 2007, 08:07 GMT 09:07 UK

Pakistani militant base attacked

Troops have surrounded and attacked a stronghold of
a leading militant in the district of Swat in northern
Pakistan, local police say.

It is not clear if the pro-Taleban militant, Maulana
Fazlullah, is inside the hideout.

On Thursday an attack in the main town of Swat left
at least 17 soldiers and a number of civilians dead.

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"Heavy weapons are being fired, and there have been
more than a dozen explosions. I can see black smoke
rising from the hills," a local journalist told the
BBC news website.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7063333.stm

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Related: Troops Attack Stronghold of Cleric - AP

Yesterday: Blast Targeting Military in Northwest Pakistan Kills 30 - VOA News

I was ready to take a bunch of pills and go back under my table for a minute there. World War Three can't start on the weekend it just wouldn't be fair.

"security forces". How can such a basic component be just left out?

I saw an article two days ago that said the Paki govt. planned to "impose its authority" along the border region. It is thought the leadership of "the red mosque' fled to this area........

We need to get the GOP gone in a hurry or all hell is going to break loose. The GOP lives in a fantasy land where killing and destruction is entertainment. Stuff they grew up watching on TV. They are completely divorced from reality while people in Pakistan are embroiled in it. Reality must return to America or we are doomed.

after the Soviets cut and run from Afghanistan. The void they left was filled with ISI supervision......
just saying,
they made this bed since the US made no attempt to exert 'influence' on the Afghan warlords traditional ways of life after the void was created.

operation swat?

jesus, you can't make this shit up.

(actually an emir) before Babe Ruth!

It's supposed to be a beautiful place with lakes and mountains and valleys, like Kashmir.

Source: BBC News


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7065397.stm

nt

Militants in north-west Pakistan have beheaded six security officials and killed seven civilians in apparent reprisals for an army attack.
The army attack on the stronghold of pro-Taleban militant Maulana Fazlullah on Thursday left at least 17 soldiers and a number of civilians dead.

The bodies of the guards reportedly had notes saying they were American agents.

Swat is one of a number of areas near the Afghan border where militants have been gaining control in recent months.



Reports say the civilians who were killed were dragged out of a minibus.

A local resident told Associated Press news agency the bodies of the security officials had notes on them reading: "It is the fate of an American agent. Whoever works for America will face the same fate."

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In July at least 10 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a militant attack in Swat.

It was part of a wave of attacks on the army in response to the security forces' storming of the radical Red Mosque in the capital, Islamabad, that left more than 100 people dead.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7065397.stm


..interesting that this increase in action happens on the heels of a Musharraf rival that challenges to take over the country in a presidential election.

;)

I doubt the UN will take interest in areas outside of the probes going on in Iraq and Afghanistan;
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3044947

I bet the UN couldn't find Pakistan on a map let alone Africa and its many troubled nations civilian death tolls.
/sarc

is to go into the tribal areas full force and reestablish government control. It's why there were suicide bombings greeting her arrival back in the country.

of being a Cheny stooge ?

I mean, the notes on the beheaded bodies said they "worked" for the US. ;)
The soldiers should have stayed away from the local gift shops,mingling with the local population,providing income to the shop owners.

Ya know, if the three soldiers and three paramilitary members didn't mingle with the local culture, they wouldn't have been kidnapped.



Bhutto is against the 'locals' wishing to impose Sharia laws in the unfriendly territory


"Imposed." Not "voted in," or even "instituted."
"Imposed."
The forcible subjugation as inferiors of women and religious minorities.
"Imposed." An Islamic supremacist system that denies the freedom of conscience, stones adulterers, and amputates the hands of thieves.


no, Bhutto will be seen as a * stooge


/ mindless screed

Pro-Taliban fighters have beheaded 13 civilians and security officers in northwest Pakistan after government troops launched an assault on Maulana Fazlullah, a pro-Taliban cleric.

Officials said the beheadings took place in the Swat valley in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

The region is where soldiers had clashed with fighters loyal to the cleric, who has been driving a campaign to introduce pro-Taliban laws.

The military deployed more than 2,000 troops to the region in an effort to crack down on attacks launched against government leaders and security forces.

According to Badshah Gul Wazir, the provincial home secretary, the fighters had abducted three police and three paramilitary officers shopping at a bazaar in Matta, on the outskirts of Swat, and had beheaded all of them.

He said the bodies and severed heads were then paraded in front of local residents to scare them.


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Violence first erupted in Swat in July, when fighters had launched revenge attacks on the army after government troops stormed the Red Mosque.

Fazlullah is known as Mullah Radio for his fiery radio speeches in which he calls for the imposition of Islamic Sharia law and for attacks on Pakistani security forces.

Pakistan has around 90,000 troops in the tribal belt combating Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters who fled Afghanistan in 2001, as well as their Pakistani supporters.

More than 250 people, including about 50 soldiers, were killed in battles in the tribal region of North Waziristan earlier this month.


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B9AC2132-96FB-4560-ABFA-01D854827AB6.htm

They want the "church" to run their little state,
nothing more then getting their way by having "a few heads roll"


;)