Team Infidel
Forum Spin Doctor
Washington Times
September 2, 2008
Pg. 12
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan’s army claimed Monday to have routed Taliban militants in a stronghold near the Afghan border but turned up no sign of Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.
Afghans say Monday that foreign forces broke this window in an early morning raid in Kabul by international troops. Locals protested what they consider the murder of civilians.
The government ordered a halt to the operation to allow some of the 300,000 families who fled air strikes and combat in the Bajur region to return home for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
However, officials reported that troops fired on militants seen moving toward a security post late Monday, and that stray mortar shells killed at least two civilians.
U.S. officials recently stepped up calls for Pakistan to put more pressure on militants using bases in its remote tribal areas to mount crossborder attacks also on NATO and government troops in Afghanistan.
September 2, 2008
Pg. 12
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan’s army claimed Monday to have routed Taliban militants in a stronghold near the Afghan border but turned up no sign of Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.
Afghans say Monday that foreign forces broke this window in an early morning raid in Kabul by international troops. Locals protested what they consider the murder of civilians.
The government ordered a halt to the operation to allow some of the 300,000 families who fled air strikes and combat in the Bajur region to return home for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
However, officials reported that troops fired on militants seen moving toward a security post late Monday, and that stray mortar shells killed at least two civilians.
U.S. officials recently stepped up calls for Pakistan to put more pressure on militants using bases in its remote tribal areas to mount crossborder attacks also on NATO and government troops in Afghanistan.