Maidan è una roccaforte dei talebani e la base dell’imam filo-talebano Maulana Sufi Mohammad

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Local residents examine a damaged school caused by Wednesday’s roadside bombing in Shahi Koto, a village of Pakistani district Lower Dir, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. The deaths of three American special operations soldiers in the roadside bombing in northwest Pakistan drew unwanted attention to a U.S. program of training local forces to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida - a little-publicized mission because of opposition here to American boots on Pakistani soil.