http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news- ... -airstrike
Video of Airstrike: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... 4637.story
Taliban vow to avenge US airstrike
...but, here's a little Taliban negotiation 'bad faith' snapshot...The Pakistani border post came under fire in Mohmand Agency when US planes targeted Taliban fighters fleeing after an attack on Afghan and NATO forces late Tuesday. Eleven troops from paramilitary Frontier Corps were killed and 13 more were injured.
According to Taliban's claim, eight of their comrades also died in the airstrike that was strongly condemned by Pakistani officials.
The US Defence Department called the airstrike near the border a legitimate act of self-defence.
"US forces, operating on the border of Pakistan in Afghanistan territory, came under attack from hostile forces and, in self-defence they called in an airstrike, which took out those forces that were attacking them," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said.
Analysts said the bombing would further complicate US-Pakistan relations already strained since March, when the new Pakistani government opened peace talks with local Taliban who launch cross-border attacks on NATO-led international forces in Afghanistan.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/ ... s_ta_1.php
Pakistan releases Taliban leader, signs peace deal with outlawed Taliban group
By BILL ROGGIOApril 21, 2008 3:46 PM
("No, no, Jalil. You don't have to run. The Americans will never cross the border and come after us. Fvcking stupid Americans."Trading Taliban leader for “peace”
Within weeks after the new central and provincial governments signaled it would revive negotiations with the Taliban in the Northwest Frontier Province and the lawless tribal areas, Pakistan has freed a senior Taliban leader jailed since 2002. After signing a six-point agreement with the Tehrik Nifaz-e-Shariah Mohammadi, the government released Sufi Mohammed, the leader of the radical Taliban group.
Sufi Mohammed is one of the most dangerous Taliban leaders in the Northwest Frontier Province. As the ideological leader of the outlawed Tehrik Nifaz-e-Shariah Mohammadi (the TNSM, or the Movement for the Implementation of Mohammad's Sharia Law), he has close links with the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban as well as senior al Qaeda leaders...
...The release of other senior Taliban leaders may be forthcoming. The Taliban have called for the release of Sufi along with Maulana Abdul Aziz, the radical leader of the Red Mosque, and “five Afghan Taliban and the three men arrested on charges of allegedly plotting Benazir Bhutto’s assassination — Aitzaz Shah, Hussnain and Rafaqat,” the Daily Times reported. The Taliban are demanding their release in exchange for Tariq Azizuddin, Pakistan’s ambassador to Afghanistan.
Azizuddin was kidnapped in February 2008 while traveling through the Khyber tribal agency on his way to Kabul. The Taliban demanded the government release Mansoor Dadullah, the former military commander of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, the former defense minister for the Taliban, is also in Pakistani custody.
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