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Swat offensive 'over in days' .. UPDATED ON: Sunday, May 31, 2009 08:10 Mecca time, 05:10 GMT

Syed Athar Ali told delegates that Pakistan's offensive in Swat would be over in days [EPA]

Pakistan has said it expects its military offensive against Taliban fighters in
the country's northwestern Swat valley will be over in two or three days.

Syed Athar Ali, Pakistan's secretary of defence, made the comments at a defence conference in Singapore on Sunday.

"Only five to 10 per cent of the job is remaining and hopefully
within two to three days, the pockets of resistance will be cleared," he said.

His comments came a day after the military said it had regained full control of Mingora, the Swat valley's main city.

Despite the military's self-proclaimed success in Mingora, Imran Khan, Al Jazeera's correspondent reporting
from Islamabad, the capital, said the military would probably find it difficult to meet its deadline for victory.

"Two to three days is an optimistic statement," he said.
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In depth: YES, Al Jazeera does have the best videos .. Aside: not one of us has a valid reason for bitching all the time.
Video: Swat's fleeing Sikhs
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/200953083958224845.html
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Pictures: slide .. refuge for Swat's Sikhs .. MUST SEE .. sharp .. short .. sadly poignant .. no you don't HAVE to, butt..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/sets/72157619002321156/show/with/3578723860/
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300000+ fled Swat Valley .. 3 week curfew, food scarce .. 286 (note) fighters killed, only 25 wounded, "ferocious"
.. how many of the poverty-ridden mercenary from war-torn Afghanistan are 100% committed
Taliban/AQ .. 100% NOT ALL .. Do you feel any empathy for the prisoner? .. many of us do ..
Video: Inside the war zone in Mingora city
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/2009528191531335919.html
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Pictures: Lahore bombing

At least 30 people were killed and scores wounded in a car-bomb
attack that destroyed a police building in Lahore on Wednesday
[AFP]
http://english.aljazeera.net/Services/Gallery/?GalleryId=200952718227388769
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SHOULD SEE 13+ .. 50% Pakistan Pashtun, makes deep rooted, sticky situation .. Pakistan army key to
stability so more pragmatic than urban civilian 'transient' governments .. Riz Khan: Obama's 'AfPak' strategy
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2009/05/20095684148133996.html

ps: imo acknowledgment of responsibility for civilian casualties should be acceptable
and in itself should not a target of scorn by even the most desolate anti-Obama people.
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1000000+ fled homes Riz Khan: The battle for the soul of Pakistan .. 3 videos ..

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/frostovertheworld/2009/05/200951785340858681.html
Interview: Asif Ali Zardari .. in above ..
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Q&A: The struggle for Swat

The hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the conflict are helping to form
a picture of the dire situation inside Swat, Dir and Buner [Gallo/Getty]
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/200956154619727525.html
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Your views: Crisis in Swat

Pakistan's major cities are on high alert following a series of explosions and
shootings that killed at least 12 people in the North West Frontier Province on Thursday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/your_views/centrals.asia/200933074743137615.html
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The fight for northwest Pakistan

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/05/2009512124821393383.html
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Talking to the Taliban .. EVERY organization has moderates ..

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/03/200939102529353355.html
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Pakistan's war .. + MUST SEE video .. yes, hyperbole .. if you
don't well you are not interested in justice .. CONSIDER ..

Rageh Omaar speaks to those who say Pakistan is paying the
ultimate price in the so-called 'war on terror' [GALLO/GETTY]

the government assault on the Islamabad Red Mosque, 2007 turning point .. "100's of young girls took direct action against popular video shops and prostitution" .. BAD MEN .. (SEE extreme Christians bombing US abortion clinics) .. QUOTES from different people .. man cleric i think .. "we want peaceful change" .. repression breeds violence .. woman head of girls school .. "hat does God want from us?" .. much voiced by Christians all over the world? YES "We do this to please our God," .. SOUND FAMILIAR? .. "But the government has not fulfilled it's duty .. when it doesn't according to the prophet the responsibility should fall on religious leaders ... we only had 14 Kalashnikovs" .. read relative .... mainly slogans ..

"WE DID NOT THINK OUR GOVERNMENT WOULD COME AND KILL US"

YES. THE 2007 GOVERNMENT ATTACK ON THE RED MOSQUE IN ISLAMABAD FUELED THE
VIOLENCE JUST AS SURELY AS THE INVASION OF IRAQ POURED GASOLINE ONTO THE FIRE.

Almost forgot. In the video a good man asks "How did you get out of the mosque?" .. HOW? .. the mother left because
those who chose to be martyrs pleaded with her to leave. She told her son, i think it was, to be brave and to die
with a bullet in his chest, so she would not be ashamed in front of the prophet. Or was it in front of her God?

One more. A man said simply, 'let them apply their policies to Israel.' You must see the question in that. 12+
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/general/2008/12/200812211123302404.html
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Witness: Pakistan in crisis



Some repeat videos and more.
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/witness/2009/05/20095268590483906.html
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"The army has said it's going to take two to three weeks to get gas, to get energy, to get electricity to the Swat valley.

"It depends in part on what your indicator is - whether you think it is routing the Taliban that means
victory or whether its repatriating 3.4 million refugees and giving them back their homes and their land."

About 2.4 million people have fled in the wake of the military's
campaign against the Taliban, joining people displaced by earlier fighting.

There are no figures of civilian casualties, but some of the displaced have told of innocent relatives being killed.

Around 300,000 people lived in Mingora until the Taliban occupied
the town in early May when the army first launched an offensive in Swat.

Also on Sunday, there were reports that 50 fighters and two soldiers were
killed in clashes in South Waziristan, in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.

Fighting there has intensified in recent days amid the offensive in the nearby Swat valley and there is an expectation
that the military will turn its focus on the area, which borders Afghanistan, once its Swat operation is over.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/200953143212940274.html

Soooooooooooooooooooo, that leads to conclusion here.

Please tell me here if i gave away too much with my notes on the videos. You know the different
learning types? Visual, auditory, kinetic etc. It helps to incorporate them all. hang on i'll get
up stretch and jump about a bit. Ok. LOL, head is clearer now.

All helps to get through the blue-blacker wonder sadness.

Must say this now. Whatever your GOD is shehe would not condone this war if it had anything to do with it.

Please consider HOW could you expect your God have EMPATHY with you if you don't have even an ounce of empathy for your so called 'enemies' here. Yes some are, but not all and many of the ones that are which they didn't feel the need.

THEY HAVE TO BE FAITHFUL TO THEIR GOD TOO. DON'T THEY?

Mutter mutter.. if only some magic dust in an invisible plane so i could coat the globe with it .. authoritarian yes .. however the deal would be it would only effect on settling .. a microsecondo .. the secret the feeling would be sooooo good free choice would never let it go .. call it Sod Dust .. SD for short .. absolutely no disrespect meant .. mostly ever .. certainly not here.

Finally, apologies for any mistakes made and a heartfelt thank you to Al Jazeera.

Feel free to make comment here. ps have to put this in ..

LOLlololololol on tv NOW .. FILTH. THE MARY WHITEHOUSE STORY. hahahahahah .. falling off chair ..
she was speaking and a couple of men interjected .. WE WANT SEX! WE WHAT SEX! LOLOL .. oops ..