Outtake:CNN:
Pakistan's military said Tuesday that its forces have taken over a Taliban stronghold during the ongoing ground offensive in the tribal region of South Waziristan. Pakistani security forces have secured Sararogha and have started to clear the town of weapons and ammunition, the military said. It comes a day after its forces gained control of Kaniguram, another key Taliban stronghold, which the military says its forces have now completely secured.
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Pakistan's army has launched three similar offensives in Kaniguram and Sararogha since 2004 without success, sometimes agreeing to peace deals that eventually fall apart.
Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas recently told CNN that this time a peace deal is not an option.
"Certainly there is no scope of a peace deal," Abbas told CNN. "It is a fight to the finish."
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While there were three previous attacks they were not similar in one major regard. Each of those attacks used about 10 percent of the force that Pakistan is now applying. As I have often noted it is the force to space ratio that is important in counterinsurgency operations. You have to have adequate forces to cut off enemy movement to contact and...
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