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Sun 07 Jul 2009Pakistan planes bomb Taliban
Pakistani warplanes bombed Taliban positions in the northwest today, killing at least five insurgents, residents said, as militants distributed leaflets warning area tribesmen not to rise up against them.
Fighting has intensified in northwest Pakistan over the past two months, since the military went on the offensive to push back an expanding militant movement that had raised fears for the stability of the nuclear-armed US ally.
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