War on Terror
Pakistan: Strange Meeting With the Uzbin Taliban, the killers of French soldiers
By: Sara Daniel, Le Nouvel Observateur
The guard examined the camera, rummaged around in the dead soldier's things, then, in exchange for a bank note, allowed the man and his booty to pass. In this completely deliquescing country where everything is up for sale, the personal effects of the French soldiers pilfered during the attack could soon turn up in Kharkhano, the market held at the border of the Khyber Agency. One wanders in this bazaar of Taliban war plunder between displays of canteens, knives, American Army flak jackets on which soldiers' names still figure. On the first floor, a little more hidden, lasers and weapons. And all that with the benediction of the border guard who counsels us to leave. How did we reach this point seven years after September 11, although the United States had made Pakistan its favoured ally in the war against terrorism and lavished over $10 billion of military aid on it? "It's appalling to see to what extent the Americans were fooled by Musharraf - who made them believe he could bring order to the tribal regions, while he had neither the means, nor - most especially - the will to do so," concludes the analysis of Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, one of the top specialists in the Taliban.
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