Insurgents Forced Out Of Pakistan's Tribal Havens Form Smaller Cells In Heart Of Nation -- Washington Post
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- Militants forced to flee their havens in Pakistan's mountainous tribal areas are establishing new, smaller cells in the heart of the country and have begun carrying out attacks nationwide, U.S. and Pakistani officials say.
The spread of fighters is an unintended consequence of a relatively successful effort by the United States and Pakistan to disrupt the insurgents' operations, through missile strikes launched by unmanned CIA aircraft and a ground offensive carried out this fall in South Waziristan by the Pakistani army.
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My Comment: This will now make it easier for Pakistani intelligence agencies to infiltrate the Taliban organization. By breaking them up and denying them their safe havens, they will now be easy to pick up and/or stick out in the urban centers that they have decided to hide in.
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