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Interrogation of tribal men begins
Search operation for Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters has been shifted to Fata - a semi-autonomous region of Pakistan - and the political administration of South Waziristan Agency has started interrogating the tribals about their possible involvement in providing refuge to the fleeing fighters. Really? That was fast. It's only been... um... eight months. Official sources said the government wanted to take action against those people who might have provided refuge to the Taliban and Al Qaeda men or helped them in fleeing to other safe areas. This should be good... Ladha Subdivision Assistant Political Agent Nek Daraz Khan Dawar summoned some tribesmen to his office in Makeen, and told them that the administration had received information about the visits of the fighters to some influential people of the Shabikhel clan - a sub-clan of the Mahsud tribe. But the tribesmen expressed ignorance about any such activity, saying if their fellow tribesmen were found in contact with the suspect terrorists, they would have no objection to any crackdown launched by the government in their agency to nab the culprits. "Nope. Wudn't us. You find any Bad Guys, you can have 'em. Where you thinking of looking for them, hmmm?" Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-05-04 |
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