Taliban+in+South+Waziristan

The infamous militia group known as the Taliban have their home base set in Southern Waziristan. South Waziristan in a desolate wasteland with many mountains, hills, craters, and valleys. Recently a few reporters were allowed to go to South Waziristan accompanied by military soldiers. When the reporters arrived in South Waziristan they were told the battle plans against a small outfit of Taliban infantry. There were three squads, they would all approach from different sides and converge on the Taliban camp. The U.S. and Pakistany military had about 28,000 soldiers in these three squads. After a massive firefight where the U.S. and Pakistany eventually won, the soldiers walked down into the valley and searched the mud huts. They found military grade guns along with a passport to Germany for a well known terrorist suspected for aiding in the 9/11 bombings. The army still has a long ways to go though, there are still major Taliban compounds existing that need to be overtaken.

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To me this is a great story of how the Taliban are finally being decemated, one terrorist cell at a time. The CNN and TIME articles both had a few pictures of U.S. and Pakistany soldiers. But, the CNN article had an entire video devoted to this topic. The video was taken by the reporters when they were in South Waziristan. The CNN article was also comprised of many small paragraphs whereas the TIME paragraphs were bigger yet had about the same amount of description and information.

By: Nick Dietrich