Taliban leader flees to Afghanistan

BBC:

One of the most wanted Taliban leaders in Pakistan has escaped to Afghanistan and is planning new attacks on Pakistani forces, he has told the BBC.

Maulana Fazlullah founded the Swat Taliban to enforce a hardline version of Islamic law.

The government at first accepted his demands, but later accused the militants of reneging on a peace deal and sent troops into the valley.

Maulana Fazlullah was said by officials to have been wounded or killed in July.

"I have reached Afghanistan safely," Maulana Fazlullah told BBC Urdu.

"We are soon going to launch full-fledged punitive raids against the army in Swat."

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We need to find this guy and stop him. That will be harder to do because of Obama's dithering on increasing troop strength, but if we are asking Pakistan to attack those who are attacking us in Afghanistan we should do the same for them. It is in the interest of both Pakistan and the US, not to mention Afghanistan too.

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