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...Pushed out
The Pakistani Taliban, allies of the Afghan Taliban, have lost ground in army offensives over the past year.
They were pushed out of the Swat valley, northwest of Islamabad, and in October the army began an offensive in the fighters' South Waziristan bastion on the Afghan border.
The offensive was extended to Orakzai in March as many of the fighters who fled the South Waziristan operation took refuge there and in Mohmand.
Hundreds of fighters have since been killed in air raids in the two regions.
Jet fighters killed about a dozen fighters in attacks in Orakzai region on Friday, Pakistani security officials said.
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RIZ KHAN
Battling religious extremism
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2010/05/201051275855894250.html
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Hey, Marc, earlier in this thread you stated that Saudi Arabia was the only country that had a sword on its flag. This is wrong. Sri Lanka has a lion holding a sword on its flag. Angola has a sword-like panga (I think it's called) on their flag. I don't know if this is to symbolize agricultural production, revolutionary struggle or both.
Weapons are found on a number of other national flags--Kenya, Lesotho and Swaziland have spears, Haiti has cannons, and Mozambique goes contemporary with a stylized AK-47.
I don't know of it's significant, but none of the foregoing (except of course Saudi) is a Muslim country.