Pakistan 'Taleban' in peace deal:BBC in denial

According to the BBC this means "...the deal offers the government an exit from a military strategy that has largely failed. "

Now, who exactly said that?

The BBC's Barbara Plett in Islamabad says some observers believe the deal offers the government an exit from a military strategy that has largely failed.

That would be the same BBC Plett who "started to cry" as a dying Yasser Arafat left the West Bank in 2004.

So, this Palestinian terrorists loving left wing BBC reporter "says" "some observers" "believe" and that passes for journalism at the BBC?

Ok, let's think for a minute. In Afghanistan, the Taleban are being hunted down and killed at an increasing rate. Usual encounters end with 25-50 Taleban dead and none or one coalition killed. Just the other day over 200 Taleban were killed with few losses on our side. This kill ratio has been maintained since the beginning of the year.

Now, on the Pakistan side, as Pounce points out, the Pakistanis have flooded the border area, forming a hammer and anvil situation. The coalition is smashing the Taleban on the Pakistani anvil. But this is increasing support for the Taleban, at least that's what she claims.

Dozens of soldiers have been killed in North Waziristan over the past year and local support for the Taleban seems to have increased rather than decreased, she says.

Well, excuse me if I don't take the word of a left wing BBC terrorist sympathizer for it. Besides, if what she says is true, how do you explain this:

Local Taleban supporters, in turn, have pledged not to harbour foreign militants, launch cross-border raids or attack Pakistani government troops or facilities.

Plett's answer to that?

Observers say meeting these conditions could be difficult, as the Taleban has support on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghan border.

Unnamed "observers say". Plett's get out of jail free card.

Note the map Pounce links to. The coalition is at stage 3 of the drive to rid Afghanistan of the Taleban. Look where stage 3 is located.

What a miserable disgrace the BBC is.

UPDATE

The London Times sees things exactly opposite the Beeboid.

"Border deal threatens to close trap on Taleban"

Major Scott Lundy, a Nato spokesman, said that some of the militants were in fortified compounds, while others were moving in the open. The militants are spread across an area of several hundred square kilometres. “They are contained,” Major Lundy told The Times. “It is a complex battle space. Some [Taleban] elements are fixed, others are moving.”

Major Quentin Innes, another Nato spokesman, said: “We are closing the circle on the Taleban — we have got the Taleban in a bit of a trap.”

Speaking of casualties during the recent British part of the operation, the Times notes that there have been 260 Taleban killed with 5 lost on the British side (14 more were killed in a plane accident)