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| Pakistan army surrounds village that hid al-Qaida |
| 2002-09-03 |
| Well, not the entire Pak army... Hundreds of Pakistani soldiers were sent to a remote region of northwest Pakistan on Monday after tribesmen offered refuge to six suspected al-Qaida men, authorities said. ... But a whole bunch, you betcha... The government was negotiating with the tribesmen to hand over the men, officials said on condition of anonymity. The soldiers had virtually surrounded the village of a few hundred people. The nationalities of the six men were not released, but they were believed to be from a Middle Eastern country. Oh, wotta surprise that is. I wonder if they were Muslims, too? They were stopped before Monday near a paramilitary checkpoint, about 100 miles southwest of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, the officials said. It wasn't immediately known whether the six fugitives were still in Jani Khiel village, but government officials were meeting elders to demand they hand the men over for interrogation. So far they have refused. "Nope, nope. You can't have 'em..." ... since civilized people want nothing to do with them. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |