Militants kill 38 in Northwest Pakistan:
News Article
According to the article:
"Suicide attackers struck a police headquarters and a military convoy on Sunday in Pakistan's northwest, killing as many as 38 people in an intensifying anti-government campaign in an area long known as a haven for the Taliban and al-Qaida.
Militants in the Afghan border region disavowed a 10-month old truce with the government that critics said gave them a safe haven from which to launch attacks on Afghan, U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
The government has deployed thousands of troops to the region to thwart calls by extremists for a holy war to revenge the bloody storming of Islamabad's Red Mosque last week, and the region's Islamic militants are increasingly training their attacks on the soldiers _ and apparently other government targets as well. "
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Remember the Red Mosque! A continued intensification of fighting will almost certainly occur. This area of Pakistan is almost a separate entity and the government of Musharraf has little control. Pervez Musharraf has vowed to "crush extremists" :
Pakistan's President Vows to Crush Extremists
Will this result in a civil war in Pakistan?
-Zeno