Thanks for your post #171. Interesting information and links about Mohammad Afzal Sodagar at the homelandsecurityus website.
Thank you P Galt.
As the Pakistani military continues the slow push to regain control of the settled district of Swat, suicide bombers struck in two locations, one at a sensitive weapons facility near Islamabad. The most deadly attack occurred in Swat in the Northwest Frontier Province after a suicide bomber hit a police checkpoint near Matta, where the Pakistani Army just established a presence. Ten were killed, including two children and three police.
But the attack at a Pakistani Air Force base in Kamra, while only injuring seven, has far more serious implications. The Kamra complex is a likely location for Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. The suicide bomber targeted a bus filled with 35 children of Pakistani Air Force officers. The driver, a conductor, and five children were wounded in the strike.
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/12/suicide_attack_at_pa.php
NATO retakes Taleban town after militants change sides
Tue 11 Dec 2007
BRITISH troops stormed into Musa Qala yesterday as Taleban fighters fled their fortress town. Soldiers from the 2nd Yorkshire Regiment, the Green Howards, pushed into the city with the Afghan army, as president Hamid Karzai revealed many local insurgents had swapped sides ahead of the overwhelming British assault.
He said: "The Afghan Taleban, they met with me. They said that they wanted to swap sides, and that is what has happened."
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http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1929492007