[R-G] Pakistan to arm village militias to fight terror

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 > The local government will distribute 30,000 rifles to villagers to help
 > security forces fight the growing strength of Taliban and al-Qaida
 > militants in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, a top official said
 > Sunday. 

   (LMAO) Don't worry, none of those rifles will wind up in the hands of the 
Taliban to be used against the US or the Pakistani gov't.

   The US "success" in Iraq of using this tactic was due to a few other 
reasons -- such as the Sunnis were losing the civil war in Iraq, and a whole 
lot of US cash to bribe them, for example -- that likely won't/cannot be 
replicated in Pakistan. Good luck with using that strategy a second time: 
history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce.

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Italian dictator who "invented" fascism.