Pakistan Army Hunts Militants, Elders Urge Truce

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4613075&pageNumber=0

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But anger is growing among the largely autonomous region's heavily armed tribesmen, who have sheltered foreign Muslim fighters for years and whose support would be invaluable in the hunt for militant leaders, including Osama bin Laden.

Tribal elders called for a cease-fire on Sunday to collect and bury the dead. The army said it was considering the request.

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Villagers on the border complain that for years they were told the foreign fighters who battled the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s were heroes of Islam, but now they're told they are terrorists to be hunted down.

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"These people can not be tamed by force. This is their history, against the British Empire as well as against the Soviet Union. How can the Pakistan army control them using force?"

...on television the other night. "Making the villagers understand there will consequences" for not giving up the terrorists. It is an effective British method that has proved itself in the past or words to that effect.

Sounds like the villagers in the hinterlands have to suffer and die for a PR campaign to serve the chimp when his war in Iraq is obviously being lost.