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Pakistan Taliban: 'We are prepared for a long war'

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By PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN

NOVEMBER 3, 2009 14:53

A Taliban spokesman denied Tuesday that Pakistan's government won a series of battles in its offensive in tribal South Waziristan, saying the militants were drawing soldiers into a trap. "We are prepared for a long war," Azam Tariq told an Associated Press reporter by telephone. "The areas we are withdrawing from, and the ones the army is claiming to have won, are being vacated by us as part of a strategy. The strategy is to let the army get in a trap, and then fight a long war." Tariq also denied army claims that hundreds of militants have been killed, saying only 11 have died so far. In mid-October, the Pakistani government launched an offensive in the South Waziristan tribal region, viewed as the main stronghold in the country of both the Taliban and al-Qaida.

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