The Pakistani Army recently took control in Sararogha, a town in the South Waziristan region that militants had claimed as their capital. Tyler Hicks/The New York TimesPakistan Army Success In South Waziristan Leaves Trail Of Ghost Towns -- Times Online
The mud compound with part of its outer wall destroyed by artillery fire was used as an al-Qaeda training facility, until a few weeks ago.
Jihadi literature and guerrilla training manuals, mostly in Arabic, lay scattered in a corner, along with DVDs of Osama bin Laden’s sermons and a cache of weapons hurriedly abandoned as insurgents fled from the Pakistani Army.
Officials told The Times yesterday, during a tour of the captured militant stronghold of Ladha, that it had been a centre for military, as well as ideological, training. “We have intercepted communications that reveal the presence of a large number of foreign fighters in the area, mostly Arabs and Uzbeks,” Brigadier Farrukh Jamal said.
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