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Al-Qaida allies will negotiate; Pakistani tribesmen are accused of harboring foreign terrorists
; BANNU, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani army cordon tightening around...traveled eight hours over dirt paths and rutted roads to reach Bannu, a town on the edge of the tribal belt. Clad in sandals...mountains, descending during the cold season to a town near Bannu. The government has shown little confidence in ...
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Pakistani Taliban besieged, but confident.(WORLD)
; ...Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Bannu, Pakistan -- The 26-year-old Pakistani...fighters interviewed recently in a basement in Bannu, say that the NATO and US forces in Afghanistan...Islamabad, agrees. They have been targeting Bannu every second day, she says. Though Maulana...
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Pakistanis believed to harbor al-Qaida ready to negotiate Tribesmen insist they have no terrorists as troops close in
; BANNU, Pakistan -- A Pakistani army cordon tightening around their mud-brick compounds, leaders of a tribe along the Pakistan...crackdown on a suspected al-Qaida den, so the bearded old men traveled eight hours over dirt paths and rutted roads to reach Bannu, a town on the edge of the tribal belt. Clad in sandals, ...
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Gunmen Briefly Seize School in Pakistan
; ...flee. The standoff began Monday morning in Bannu district, near North Waziristan, when seven...human shields," said one police official in Bannu. He spoke on condition of anonymity because...authorized to comment. Many residents in Bannu, about 90 miles south of Peshawar, said...
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Tribe on border insists bin Laden's not there
; ...Associated Press Tuesday, April 13, 2004 Bannu, Pakistan -- A Pakistani army cordon tightening...over dirt paths and rutted roads to reach Bannu, a town on the edge of the tribal belt...descending during the cold season to a town near Bannu. The government has shown little confidence...
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Pakistan pressures mountain tribes
; BANNU, Pakistan -- With a Pakistani army cordon tightening around...traveled eight hours over dirt paths and rutted roads to reach Bannu, a town on the edge of the tribal belt. Clad in sandals...mountains, descending during the cold season to a town near Bannu. The government has shown little confidence in ...
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Two women beheaded by Islamic militants in Pakistan
; Villagers spotted the decapitated bodies on the outskirts of Bannu, a city in a region where extremists are waging a violent campaign...away. A note found with the bodies identified the victims as Bannu residents and accused them of "doing acts of obscenity", a term...
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Rocket attack fails in Pakistan
; ...From Journal Sentinel wire reports Monday, September 8, 2003 Bannu, Pakistan -- Attackers fired three rockets at a small airport...military official said Sunday. The attack happened late Friday in Bannu, about 155 miles southwest of the capital, Islamabad, a military...
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International Briefs
; ...hit two houses, a mosque and a shop in Bannu, a troubled city in North West Frontier...said. A doctor at the main hospital in Bannu said the bodies of nine people killed in...Waziristan, the tribal region closest to Bannu. Ex-Gitmo inmate kills himself to avoid...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The other Taliban; Pakistan.(Pakistan's Islamic militants fight back)
; ...militants in northern Pakistan SOLDIERS block the road from Bannu, in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NFWP), to Miran...ambush. Several thousand townspeople fled 30 miles (50km) east to Bannu. Even there they seem terrified, telling tales of sandbagged...
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