Pakistan military admits Al-Qaeda scalp was just local militant

[UpInArms]

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/77822/1/.html

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's military has withdrawn claims it had succeeded in killing a top Al-Qaeda figure, admitting its prize scalp in a controversial military offensive was just a local militant.

The admission came after a heavily-criticised 12-day siege in tribal lands near the northeastern town of Wana, which saw 7,500 troops suffer heavy losses as they took on 500 Al-Qaeda fighters and their local allies.

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But clarifying the his comments a day later, Sultan admitted the man, idenitified only as "Mr. Abdullah" was merely a small- time local operative.

"He is not really the intelligence chief for all Al-Qaeda, but he was one of the top intelligence people in Wana for Al- Qaeda," Sultan told AFP.

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All hype and no reality - these things (big reports) are done to manipulate headlines and mislead the people.

[leftchick]

1. prize scalp?

Good lord, they really are taking chimpy*s cowboy shtick seriously aren't they?

[UpInArms]

2. the rhetoric is so skewed and icky

and warmonerging that I am generally sickened by them all.

:puke:

[teryang]

3. Bought and paid for by US tax dollars

...to purchase hundreds of millions of military hardware from the defense contractors for Pakistan, a dictatorship and main exporter of terrorism.

[tlcandie]

4. An exercise in , "over there... over there... " look this way folks...

All done while all the 9-11 hearings were going down, etc. :puke: