Pakistan steels for army assault on Waziristan

2009/06/15 08:31:47 @Reuters: International News

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan braced for militant reprisals on Monday as the army conducted softening-up operations ahead of an assault on the stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, one of al Qaeda's main allies. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=a50hG3BQ1Hc:7uf1wkAGyls:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=a50hG3BQ1Hc:7uf1wkAGyls:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=a50hG3BQ1Hc:7uf1wkAGyls:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=a50hG3BQ1Hc:7uf1wkAGyls:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=a50hG3BQ1Hc:7uf1wkAGyls:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/a50hG3BQ1Hc" height="1" width="1"/
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