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Pakistan admits possibility of al-Qaeda escape
An unknown number of Al-Qaeda-linked militants may have escaped a army siege of tribal villages near the Afghan border, a senior local security official admitted today. "The possibility of some militants managing to escape the area through various routes is not out of the question," a top security official for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) told AFP. "However tight the cordon may be, we cannot put troops shoulder to shoulder and, therefore, the possibility of one or two men slipping through at night cannot be ruled out."Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-03-25 |
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