Wounded Taliban treated in Pakistan

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PAKISTAN is allowing Taliban fighters wounded in battles with British and other Nato forces in Afghanistan to be treated at safe houses.

The Sunday Times found Taliban commanders and their fighters recuperating in the city of Quetta last week and moving freely around parts of the city.

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Among the most defiant was a young commander who had been shot in the calf last month while fighting British troops in Gereshk, a town in the Afghan province of Helmand, and who had returned to Quetta to be treated. “Fighting the British is as easy as eating a loaf of bread from my hand,” he said in a soft voice. “Fighting the British is much easier than the Americans. They have no faith.”

The proof that Taliban are using Quetta for rest and recuperation — if not also for training as widely suspected — is embarrassing for President Pervez Musharraf, who is due to receive Tony Blair, the prime minister, today. Musharraf has long denied claims from the Afghan government that his military intelligence is providing support and safe havens for the Taliban.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2459906,00.html

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1. bush didnt finish the job - instead he trashed iraq nt

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2. This article's not unique.

There have been others like it in the last few weeks; after the heavy fighting Disciples came across the border in a few places to lick their wounds.

But, since fighting the British is so easy ... this particular "young commander" (probably a recent madrasseh graduate?) must have shot himself. Because he obviously lost.

Fortunately there have been a few suicide bombers in Pakistan lately, so some of the Disciples apparently have decided that their fight is local. Now, if they could just close the schools the Disciples graduate from.