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A Jihad Between Neighbors
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The Pakistanis deny condoning cross-border attacks, even tacitly. They say they're negotiating with the tribals from a position of strength: Mehsud's men took a beating earlier this year in their sanctuary in South Waziristan. The Pakistani military brought a group of journalists to a former Mehsud stronghold in the village of Spinkai last week. The mud-and-brick homes stand empty now, apparently abandoned in haste. The Army has dynamited and bulldozed the bazaar and several walled compounds that were identified as bomb factories and schools for suicide bombers. Mehsud's fighters are nowhere to be seen. "We have the entire Mehsud territory encircled," says Maj. Gen. Tariq Khan, the regional military commander. "Nothing moves in this area except my troops." But that's not entirely true. While the military controls the main roads to the rest of Pakistan, the Afghan border remains wide open. And the Army is preparing to "thin out" its troop presence, pulling back to the largest villages and relinquishing the countryside to Mehsud and his men.
The worst of it is that Islamabad's peace efforts are almost sure to prove useless. Previous deals with tribal militants have collapsed after no more than a few months, the most notable examples being a ceasefire with Mehsud in early 2005 and a similarly doomed attempt in North Waziristan in 2006. Each time, the Army honored its pledges to free captured militants, return their weapons and pull back its troops to neutral areas. The militants, meanwhile, seized the chance to regroup, ignoring their promises to end the flow of fighters to and from Afghanistan and to expel Qaeda Arabs and other foreign jihadists from tribal lands.
Like those deals, the one on the table now has no enforcement provisions—and this one doesn't even bother to ban cross-border attacks. "Every time we go through this drill, the main interest of the Pakistanis is to relieve themselves of being attacked by militant forces," says an experienced Western military officer in Islamabad who asks not to be named speaking so bluntly about his hosts. "They are much less concerned about the militants crossing into Afghanistan." Pakistan's soldiers and their new civilian leaders may welcome the break in the violence for now. But the jihadists across the border will be coming home someday.
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