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Pakistan: 4 Afghans caught in brazen weekend raid
By ASIF SHAHZAD,Associated Press Writer AP - 50 minutes ago
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Four militants captured in a brazen weekend raid on a military base in Pakistan's northwest came from across the border in Afghanistan, the military said Monday.
The paramilitary camp was attacked early Sunday by about 600 militants, most believed to be from Afghanistan, sparking a major clash that left six security troops and 49 insurgents dead.
The raid in Pakistan's Mohmand tribal agency suggested sophisticated cross-border coordination and the continued strength of the Taliban militancy in the isolated region despite a Pakistani military offensive.
The Pakistani Frontier Corps said in a statement Monday that four militants captured in the battle came from Afghanistan's Kunar province, directly across the border. It identified each by name but did not say how they had been captured, where they were being held or if they would be charged with crimes.
Also Monday, the bodies of two men killed by Taliban militants for allegedly spying for the United States were found in the North Waziristan tribal region to the south of Mohmand.
The men, brothers aged 25 and 30, were found shot to death early Monday with notes pinned to their bodies accusing them of passing on information in exchange for money, tribal police official Abdul Qayyum Khan told The Associated Press.
The deaths bring to 13 the number of people executed as suspected U.S. spies since Dec. 21, according to Khan.
The two were abducted a week ago as they attempted to flee with their families, Khan said. Their bullet-riddled bodies were found just outside Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan.
Khan said Pakistani bank notes were stuffed in their mouths and the messages found on their bodies warned others they would meet the same fate if they helped the Americans, who have launched a series of missile strikes against suspected Taliban targets in areas along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
The killing of alleged spies has grown more common in recent months, perhaps in response to the success of the U.S. missile strikes launched from pilotless drones. The U.S. is suspected in about 30 missile strikes in northwestern Pakistan since mid-August _ nearly all of them in North and South Waziristan, two semiautonomous tribal areas considered al-Qaida and Taliban strongholds.
Meanwhile, tribesmen continued to block the southwestern supply route for NATO forces in Afghanistan at Chaman to protest the killing of one of their members in a raid by Pakistan's anti-narcotics force.
Trucks and other vehicles were blocking the main Quetta-Chaman highway, forcing about 100 trucks carrying NATO supplies to park, according to the region's deputy police superintendent, Mohammad Qasim.
No damage or injuries have been reported in the protest, which started Sunday.
Tribal elder Abdul Qahar Wadan said the tribesmen were prepared to keep up the blockade until their demands were met.
"We will not let anybody open the highway until a judicial inquiry is ordered into the raid and a criminal case is registered against the officials involved in it," Wadan told The Associated Pres.
Most NATO supplies travel through the famed Khyber Pass to the north, where they have been attacked by Taliban militants, although a smaller number get to Afghanistan by a second land crossing at Chaman.
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Associated Press writers Ashraf Khan reported from Karachi, Matiullah Achakzi in Chaman, and Zarar Khan from Islamabad.
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