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Pakistan arrests pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Muhammad
AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/26/09 | Riaz Khan - ap

Posted on 07/26/2009 7:07:50 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Pakistani police on Sunday arrested pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Muhammad, who brokered a peace deal between the government and militants in the Swat Valley that has since faltered.

Muhammad negotiated a truce with the government in February that imposed Shariah, or Islamic, law in Swat in exchange for an end to two years of fighting. But it was widely seen as an acquiescence to Taliban control of the valley.

The deal collapsed in April when the Taliban advanced into neighboring districts, triggering a military offensive that prompted a spree of retaliatory attacks by militants in the northwest and beyond.

Mian Iftikhar, information minister for the North West Frontier Province, said Muhammad was arrested for encouraging violence and terrorism.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arrests; cleric; muhammad; pakistan; sufi; taliban

1 posted on 07/26/2009 7:07:50 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

How long before he “escapes”?


2 posted on 07/26/2009 7:09:33 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BunnySlippers

LOL

At least they got him off the streets..

he looks like a Furry Freak Brother to me..


3 posted on 07/26/2009 7:34:17 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: NormsRevenge
he looks like a Furry Freak Brother to me..

LOL. I'll say... he played the Pakistani government like a fiddle with that last truce deal.

Sufi muhammad arrested

4 posted on 07/26/2009 7:52:37 AM PDT by Dinah Lord
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To: NormsRevenge

When will people learn that “peace deals” with radical Islam don’t work?


5 posted on 07/26/2009 8:22:53 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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