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COMMENTS: The Tribesmen of the North West Frontier
"The Pakistani army recently took journalists on a rare visit to Bajour," Richard Engel told us in the latest feature in NBC's Hot Spots series. Pakistan was the theme and Bajour is the site of a two-month-old offensive along its north west frontier with Afghanistan. "The army has deputized thousands of local tribesmen, who turned on the Taliban," Engel reported, delivering striking videotape of armed-to-the-teeth irregulars, "but their loyalty is untested." That party of journalists included Nick Schifrin (embargoed link) of ABC who filed his report Thursday. No sign yet of whether CBS joined in the Waziristan adventure.
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