Americans draw blank in Pakistan terror hunt Tribal opposition has seen the US operation falter. Philip Sherwell reports from North Waziristan

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: June 9, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The hunt for al-Qaeda leaders by American special forces secretly deployed in Pakistan's lawless border tracts with Afghanistan is faltering, hit by angry opposition from local tribesmen and last week's withdrawal of key Pakistani military specialists.

In the remote tribal districts of North and South Waziristan, where neither the British in the past nor Pakistani authorities have succeeded in imposing their writ on the heavily-armed locals, no significant breakthroughs have been achieved since the search for fugitive al-Qaeda and Taliban forces was launched six weeks ago.

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