See: Pakistan's Death Squads
"Taliban gun down tribal elders in Pakistan" by Associated Press | September 25, 2009
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Militants ambushed a convoy of prominent anti-Taliban tribal elders in volatile northwestern Pakistan yesterday, spraying their cars with gunfire and killing nine people, police said.
The members of the anti-Taliban citizens’ group were traveling from the Machikhel area to meet security officials in Bannu district when their three-vehicle convoy was attacked by insurgents, Police Officer Mohammad Ghani Khan said. Pakistani authorities have urged tribal elders to speak out against the Taliban, and in turn the militants have killed scores of local leaders.
With government backing, some elders have raised militias, known as lashkars, to battle the insurgents. The militias have been compared to Iraq’s Awakening Councils, which helped US forces turn the tide against Al Qaeda there. Nine bodies were recovered from the bullet-riddled cars, including at least four tribal elders who had opposed the Taliban in the region, said Ajaz Khan, another police officer. Six people were hospitalized with injuries, he said.
Armed local residents came out of their homes and fought off the Taliban after the ambush, preventing them from killing the survivors, Khan said. Witness Inayatullah Khan said tribesmen killed two militants in the gunbattle. Security forces later arrived in the Khaisur area and joined the fight. The ambush followed a separate attack by militants who killed two members of another anti-Taliban committee yesterday in the Swat Valley to the northeast.
The assailants struck as members of the “peace committee’’ slept in the Sertelegram area, Mayor Mohammad Ibrar Khan said. Security guards fought the militants and killed several of them, although no bodies were recovered, he said. Local people formed the Sertelegram group last week to protect their area from Taliban fighters who controlled the valley until July, when a major offensive by the Pakistani Army scattered them. The formation of militias has angered the Taliban, leading to deadly attacks.
In a third area, the Kanju district, thousands of armed citizens gathered at the Saidu Sharif airport, fearing a possible Taliban comeback and pledging to protect their area.
Taliban flying back in are they? Pffffttt!
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It is hard to know whether to believe this stuff or not. Thousands were out, huh, and it just gets one sentence? I thought the MSM would play that up more.
Of course, MAYBE they found out WHO Al-CIA-Duh really is, and that's why the MSM is minimizing it.
