| Daily Times - Site Edition | Saturday, November 09, 2002 |
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US forces kidnap 3 tribal policemenBy Hayatullah Khan
MIR ALI: US military personnel ‘kidnapped’ three tribal border policemen from Pakistan’s North Waziristan Agency, official sources said Friday.
The three unarmed Khasadars or tribal cops were kidnapped on November 3 by US forces on the Pakistan side of the border area of Lwara, official sources of the political administration of the North Waziristan Agency in Miranshah said. The Americans, however, released two of the kidnapped Khasadars on Thursday after four days of captivity, the officials said. “But the third cop is still in the custody of the American commandos,” they added. The officials said the cops were taken to Afghanistan from the Lwara Tochi Scouts-manned check-post that monitored the border areas in the agency.
Sources told Daily Times the Americans were regularly patrolling the Pak-Afghan border to check on movements of the Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives.