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The News International, Monday, June 22, 2009
The multi-faceted war against the Taliban develops new faces – and fronts – almost daily. The big guns have finally opened up on South Waziristan, reputedly the ‘hideout’ of Baitullah Mehsud – though whether he is there or elsewhere nobody seems to know for sure. F-16 fighters have been used in a ground-attack role (for which they are less than ideal) to bomb three suspected Taliban training facilities in South Waziristan, killing or wounding several insurgents. In other unidentified parts of South Waziristan the Taliban fired on our troops starting a firefight that went on for several hours. Nobody was able to say how many Taliban were killed or wounded. Reportedly, troop deployments into South Waziristan have now been completed and all roads that may be used to escape from the area have been blocked by the army. Probably. Our elderly helicopter gunships (a model no longer in production for which genuine spares are difficult to source) have attacked Kund Serai, Wara and Serwekai and troops have fired rockets at unspecified targets from Tanai Fort as well as having dug in on the heights in Madijan. The Jandola-Wana road which has been held by the Taliban for the last three years ‘is to be secured’ (as in it is not yet secured and we will probably have to fight for it) and all-in-all it looks to have been a busy day for the military.
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