It's off the web.
Neither the New York Times or Boston Globe would deign to cover this:
"Militants free 6 Pakistani troops" by Ishtiaq Mahsud/Associated Press September 5, 2007
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan --Militants on Wednesday freed six soldiers who were among more than 100 Pakistani troops abducted over the weekend near the Afghan border, an intelligence official said.
The soldiers were freed in Ladha, a village in the South Waziristan tribal region, and handed over to members of a jirga or tribal council, the official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make comments to the media.
Militants released the six soldiers as a "goodwill gesture" to the jirga that has been trying to negotiate the soldiers' release, he said.
[Geeze, these "goodwill terrorists!"]
The soldiers were abducted as they traveled in a convoy through South Waziristan. The army says more than 150 troops including army and paramilitary soldiers went missing after they were trapped by fighting between pro-government tribesmen and militants. Other officials said the troops were abducted.
[Went missing? Or defected?]
Militants have claimed they are holding more than 300 troops, and now demand that authorities withdraw forces from the area and free 15 of their fighters who have been arrested in recent weeks in Pakistan.
Pakistan has deployed some 90,000 troops to its border regions. But in recent weeks Pakistani forces have faced a deteriorating security situation in the region.
On Tuesday, militants freed 10 other troops four days after they were kidnapped in Mohmand, another tribal region south of South Waziristan, a security official said."
[Those six guys didn't want to stay, huh?
And what 's with the Pakistani army's impotence?
You know what I think?
I think we need to start TALKING to those folks in the hills, rather than DROPPING BOMBS on them and KILLING THEM!!!]
