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COMMENTS: Flogging in Swat
London-based Elizabeth Palmer on CBS obtained online video from the Swat Valley of Pakistan to illustrate her story about the central government ceding control of the province to Taliban guerrillas. Her grainy footage showed a public flogging, the punishment for a female teenager accused of adultery under "their harsh interpretation of Islamic justice." Palmer quoted President Asif Ali Zardari: "The Taliban are not going to be in control of any part of my country." Scoffed Palmer: "They already are."
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