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(回答先: アフガニスタンジハードニュース（5/4） 投稿者 ドメル将軍 日時 2002 年 5 月 04 日 23:24:59)
Heavily Armed Fighters Threaten Civil War in Pakistan
May 05, 2002
Source: Undisclosed,
US Special Forces scouring Pakistan's lawless frontier region for Taliban and Al-Qaida have angered heavily armed tribesmen, who warn they are ready to do battle if the American soldiers don't leave soon.
President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday that the U.S. deployment consists of "hardly a dozen" communications specialists.
But tribal leaders say dozens of U.S. forces are involved in the searches, with the main zone of operation apparently being the southern end of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, a semiautonomous region along the Afghan border.
"People are very angry.
They have closed down the bazaars in Miran Shah before.
They don't want the Americans here.
Anything can happen," said Farmadullah, a member of a regional security force made up of men chosen and armed by the various tribes.
Like many Pakistanis, he uses one name.
The tribes were inflamed by Pakistan's decision a month ago to let U.S. forces join Pakistani forces in the search for Taliban and al-Qaida believed to be in the area, where a deeply conservative version of Islam is practiced.
The fact that the Americans would only be part of joint patrols did nothing to mollify the fiercely independent tribesmen, who before the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan had never allowed the Pakistan army into their territory.
"It will be a civil war.
It is what the Americans want, to create such a situation to destabilize Pakistan," said Ajab Khan, a 67- year-old owner of a small variety store in Bannu, a tribal town about 25 miles northeast of Miran Shah.
"We're the strongest of all the tribes.Be careful. People are angry and they can do anything," said 28-year-old Waheed, squatting outside a grand mosque with pale pink minarets selling a traditional sweet dish.
Last week's raid by a joint U.S.-Pakistani military force on a religious school, or madrassa, in Miran Shah was a special sore point.
In Mir Ali, another tribal town barely 10 miles from Miran Shah, Islamic clerics with voluminous turbans and shaggy, unkempt beards Saturday told hundreds of men with ammunition gunbelts strapped to their chests, and rocket launchers and machine guns by their side, to be ready to do battle if another madrassa is raided.
"We will not allow any American soldier or Pakistani soldier to enter our madrassas.
It is against our tradition, against our religion," Mohammed Dinda told the heavily armed audience gathered at Mir Ali's Nizamia-ul Aloom madrassa.
Meanwhile, across the border, Canadian troops took part in an air assault on Saturday into a mountainous area of eastern Afghanistan, the second major operation in a week in pursuit of al-Qaida and Taliban forces.
Several hundred Canadian infantry soldiers, along with a number of American and local Afghan troops, were deployed by helicopter from Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, said Col.
John Collin, the senior Canadian officer in Afghanistan.
The Canadian-led operation to gather intelligence and clear an area of al-Qaida and Taliban militants will run simultaneously with the British one in southeastern Afghanistan that began Monday.
Military officials said the latest operation was not connected with the British one, but said both were part of a campaign to deny al-Qaida sympathizers the ability to operate in Afghanistan.
"This operation demonstrates our ability to reach out and touch terrorism anywhere in this country," said Lt. Col.
Christopher Pease, the American deputy commander of the task force.
The British were pushing forward with their sweep on Saturday, but after covering 20 percent of their targeted area, they reported no contact with the militants, and their only discovery was 2,000 rounds of rifle ammunition in a cave, a spokesman said.
The military would not reveal the area of the operations begun on Saturday or any specific target within it but said it was an important mission and of interest for intelligence gathering for future operations.
The area is in very inhospitable territory, among the most difficult that the troops in the American-led Afghan coalition have tackled so far, but officials anticipate finding important information, Pease said.
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