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Coventina

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Fri May-29-09 12:17 PM
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Pakistan ups Taliban chief reward

Source: BBC

Pakistan has increased its reward for a Taliban chief in the Swat valley to 50m rupees ($600,000, £372,000).

The figure is more than 10 times the original bounty for radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah.

Officials acted after Pakistani Taliban leaders warned of more bomb attacks in cities in retaliation for a government offensive in the north-west.

Authorities in Peshawar have banned public gatherings a day after at least 10 people died in two separate attacks.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8074285.stm

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ohio2007

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Fri May-29-09 07:22 PM
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1. unidentified man orders the execution of the children of Pak soldiers

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"STRIKE SOLDIERS' KIDS"

The military released on Wednesday what it said was a tape of an intercepted telephone call between the Taliban spokesman in Swat, Muslim Khan, and an unidentified militant in which Khan says soldiers should be attacked.

"Strikes should be carried out on their homes so their kids get killed and then they'll realize," Khan said on the tape, which was broadcast by media.

The unidentified man on the tape said orders had gone out to strike wherever possible.

Mohammad Naveed Khan, chief of police in North West Frontier Province, of which Peshawar is capital, was defiant. "The battle is on and we'll keep fighting," he told reporters.

The government posted a reward of 5 million rupees ($60,000) for the capture, dead or alive, of the Taliban leader in Swat, Fazlullah, and smaller bounties for 20 of his comrades.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090528/ts_nm/us_pakistan_violence

I'm sure a holy man wouldn't boast the logic that killing children in order to terrorize the parents into refusing to fight is a sound battle plan to win hearts and minds.

would he?

it seems he wouldn't stoop that low ..........

Gotta be Pak propaganda kool aid
:sarcasm:

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maddezmom

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Sun May-31-09 05:52 PM
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2. kick

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Old Coot

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Sun May-31-09 05:53 PM
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3. Bounty placed on heads of top Taleban commanders in Swat

Source: The Times

Pakistan mounted a hunt for top Taleban commanders as it vowed to wrap up a military operation in the Swat Valley within two to three days. The announcement comes after the capture of the main city in the region on Saturday.

The Government announced rewards worth hundreds of thousands of pounds for the capture of Mullah Fazalullah, the Taleban leader in Swat, and more than a dozen of his commanders, who are accused of killing civilians and security personnel. Military authorities suspect that they might have slipped into the lawless tribal regions near the Afghan border after troops cleared most of the Swat Valley in the past four weeks.

There is also a fear that a large number of Taleban fighters might have disappeared along with more than two million people who have fled the fighting in Swat. A senior security official told The Times that while second and third-tier Taleban commanders in the valley had either been killed or captured there was still no trace of the top leaders.

The Government has therefore increased the bounty for Mullah Fazalullah to 50 million rupees (£380,000). Syed Athar Ali, the Defence Secretary and a retired lieutenant-general, told a meeting of defence ministers in Singapore yesterday that the militants were limited to 2 to 3 per cent of Swat and that the operation would end within days.

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6401498.ece

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imdjh

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Sun May-31-09 05:53 PM
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4. Somewhat unrelated- What would you suppose is the chance of some peon collecting that reward?

Seriously. I've never been to Pakistan, but I'm guessing that it's not like the US where if you wanted to collect the reward and you had the information, you could get a lawyer who could take you in and guarantee that you get credit and get paid the reward.

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Xipe Totec

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Sun May-31-09 05:53 PM
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5. Is Bill O'Rielly one of them? n/t

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ohio2007

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Sun May-31-09 05:53 PM
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6. This story was mentioned friday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3898159

Maybe the lack of responses as to why these good old boys are wanted were not very clear

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Old Coot

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Sun May-31-09 05:53 PM
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7. Sorry, I must have missed it Friday. nt

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