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| Baitullah denies role in recent suicide attacks |
| 2007-02-09 |
| Baitullah Mehsud, a local Taliban commander from South Waziristan, has rejected the government’s allegations that he is involved in the recent spate of suicide attacks in the country. Senator Saleh Shah of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal said that he and 21 other tribal elders met Mehsud at an undisclosed location on Wednesday and the militant commander had denied that he was behind the terrorism incidents. “I had announced I would seek revenge for the Zamzola attack in anguish over the violation of the peace agreement by the government, but I have repeatedly denied my role in attacks in Peshawar, Dera Ismail Khan, Tank and Islamabad,” Shah quoted Mehsud as telling the tribal elders. Mehsud had made a peace agreement with the government on February 5, 2005, but swore to avenge a January 16 airstrike by the army on an alleged Al Qaeda camp in the Zamzola area of South Waziristan in which more than 30 alleged terrorists were killed. In an interview with BBC a day after the airstrike, Mehsud said that he would avenge the attack and six days later a military convoy was targeted in a suicide attack in North Waziristan, leaving four soldiers dead. Senator Shah told Daily Times that the South Waziristan political agent had asked the tribal elders to meet Mehsud. A spokesman for NWFP Governor Ali Jan Orakzai declined to comment on the issue. Shah said the peace committee which had brokered the Sararogha peace accord in February 2005 would now meet Orakzai to discuss the situation with him. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Perv start by throwing the MMA out of Parliament!!! |
| Posted by: Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2007-02-09 05:24 |