Seeking Truth and Trust in Pakistan - Democratic Underground

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Seeking Truth and Trust in Pakistan

Envoy Tries to Convince Refugees That U.S. Is on Their Side.

SHAIKH SHAHZAID CAMP, Pakistan -- U.S. envoy Richard C. Holbrooke, red-faced and sweaty, sat on the dirt floor of a stifling tent as Aslam Khan, a 38-year-old laborer, spoke haltingly of his family's panicked flight from a Pakistani army offensive against Taliban forces in their mountain village, three hours north of here.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/15/AR2009061503236.html?hpid=topnews

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