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Military warns tribes of action
| "Yeah! Youse're gonna get it!" |
 PESHAWAR: A senior military official on Tuesday threatened the tribes in North Waziristan Agency with a military operation if they did not expel foreign terrorists from their areas. "You people should flush them out, otherwise the military will start an operation," Brig Sajjad of the Pakistan Army told a jirga (council) of Utmanzai tribes in Miranshah, regional headquarters of North Waziristan Agency. "We have been telling you people that there are foreign terrorists in North Waziristan, but you don't listen. We don't want to repeat what happened in South Waziristan Agency," he told Utmanzai elders.
| "It would be so embarrassing!" |
However, tribal elders sought some time to discuss the problem. "We need some time to discuss it among ourselves and we need the government to share its intelligence on foreign terrorists with us," the tribal elders said.
| Yeah, yeah. Been there. Done this. Substitute "south" for "north" Waziristan, somebody else's names for Nek Mohammad and Abdullah Mehsud. |
Posted by: Fred 2005-04-20 |
