Pakistani Troops Ready to Launch Fresh Anti-Terror Offensive in Tribal Reg

[demdave]

Pakistani Troops Ready to Launch Fresh Anti-Terror Offensive in Tribal Region


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani forces have drawn a bead on a cluster of remote hideouts along the Afghan border and promised Thursday to send thousands of soldiers in a fierce crackdown if tribesmen there do not hand over al-Qaida terrorists by April 20.
Critics, however, said announcing the deadline makes it easy for terrorists to flee ahead of the operation, as they did when Pakistani forces last month allowed a top al-Qaida terrorist to get away in South Waziristan.

This time, Pakistani forces have shifted their focus to North Waziristan, and more specifically to a group of mud compounds along a forbidding mountain range straddling the Afghan border in the forested area of Shawal.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA761F4TSD.html

[cspiguy]

1. HOHOHOHAAHAAHAAHAAHOOHOO, whew!

stop it! your killing me!

[bemildred]

3. Oh, come on.

It will go much better this time. Really.
How much resistance can a few mud huts put up?

[Barrett808]

2. My impression is that they've already lost Waziristan

And that there is real danger the Pakistan armed forces will turn on Musharref.