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| It was a brutal commando operation that lasted barely 30 seconds. When the guns fell silent, five kidnappers were dead and so was one of their Chinese hostages. |
| The Pakistan government says the kidnappers were loosely linked to an underground organisation called the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. |
| The kidnapping this week of the two Chinese engineers working on a dam project is an unpleasant reminder for the Pakistan government about the lawlessness in South Waziristan, the wild, untamed region that borders Afghanistan. |
| For months there have been rumours Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri were flitting from one hideout to another in the region. The Pakistanis have launched massive strikes in Waziristan but, by the time they |
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