Posted on 10/25/2008 8:32:50 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
LOI SAM, Pakistan – Pakistan's army captured a key militant stronghold near the Afghan border, a breakthrough in a bloody push against the Taliban and al-Qaida that has claimed 95 civilian lives, the military said Saturday.
Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said troops on Saturday captured Loi Sam, a town in the Bajur region sitting on a vital intersection connecting the border to three neighboring Pakistani regions.
"Now we have complete control in this area from where miscreants used to go to Afghanistan," Abbas told reporters flown into Bajur on a military helicopter Saturday. "Miscreants have been expelled or killed."
Pakistan's army launched an offensive in Bajur in early August, saying the region had become a "mega-sanctuary" for militants waging an intensifying insurgency on both sides of the frontier.
U.S. officials praised the operation, saying it had helped reduce violence on the Afghan side of the border.
However, there has been no halt to the regular American missile strikes on suspected militants hideouts in other parts of Pakistan's wild frontier region, despite Islamabad's protests the attacks violate its sovereignty.
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God’s love to you, even if you aren’t in harm’s way.
It’s so nice to see a “sane” person during this crazy election time.
Take care!
Oh, I’m about half sane. :-)
Half is good...better than most. ;o)
You take good care of you.
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