Pakistan signs peace pact with pro-Taliban militants

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL72538.htm

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Pro-Taliban militants and the Pakistani government reached a peace deal on Tuesday under which the militants agreed to stop attacks in both Pakistan and across the border in Afghanistan, negotiators said.

Hundreds of Pakistani troops and militants have been killed in the Waziristan region as the government has attempted to push its authority into semi-autonomous tribal lands on the Afghan border as part of efforts in the U.S.-led war on terrorism. snip

The agreement was signed on a dusty football ground at a college in Miranshah, the main town of the North Waziristan region.

Scores of members of the tribal council, most in turbans and with long beards, watched as a Pakistani army commander, Major General Azhar Ali Shah, embraced representatives of the militants after the pact was signed.

Many members of the al Qaeda network and the Taliban fled to Waziristan after U.S.-led forces overthrew the Taliban in Afghanistan in late 2001.

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1. Is Pakistan now officially a terrorist state by WH standards?

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2. The REAL culprits

are in the large Pakistani cities...Karachi, Rawalpindi, Peshawar...sometimes living in luxury under the patronage of ISI.

Most of the "higher up" Al Qaeda have been captured in cities. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (#3) was captured in an area where the Pakistani army lives...

So this "Peace Pact" with Taliban is not going to help much on the "War on Terror".

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3. The real culprits? Where is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?

Do you know? Has he been indicted of anything? Charged with a crime? Trial date set? Anything?

You are making conclusions using the same sources that gave us the "Winnebagos Of Death" my friend.

Don


http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/09/1047144871928.html

We have your sons: CIA

March 10 2003
By Olga Craig
Kuwait

Two young sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, are being used by the CIA to force their father to talk.

Yousef al-Khalid, 9, and his brother, Abed al-Khalid, 7, were taken into custody in Pakistan in September when intelligence officers raided a flat in Karachi where their father had been hiding.

Mohammed fled just hours before the raid but his sons and another senior al-Qaeda member were found cowering behind a wardrobe in the apartment.

The boys have been held by the Pakistani authorities but this weekend they were flown to America where they will be questioned about their father. CIA interrogators confirmed that the boys were staying at a secret address where they were being encouraged to talk about their father's activities. "We are handling them with kid gloves," said one official. "After all, they are only little children, but we need to know as much about their father's recent activities as possible. We have child psychologists on hand at all times and they are given the best of care."

Mohammed, 37, is being held in solitary confinement at the Bagram US military base in Afghanistan. He is being subjected to "stress and duress" interrogation techniques.