Sweet revenge as FC kills 13 rebels Arabs among five held in Mohmand Agency Fakhar-e-

GHALANAI: After continued beheading of the Frontier Corps personnel for the last two days the security forces managed to take revenge by killing 13 of the local rebels when they attacked the forces to seek release of their arrested colleagues. Earlier, while checking at Chamkh, the security forces arrested seven insurgents, including five burqa-clad foreigners, on Tuesday. While the arrested insurgents were being taken to the headquarters, about 60 of the local rebels attacked the security forces to secure their release. The forces retaliated the attack. The fighting continued for about two hours and resulted in the killing of 13 insurgents near Zeri Kandaou and Nasapai. The forces also used artillery firing and mortar shelling from the headquarters. Body of one of the rebels was taken to the Forces heaquarters in Ghalanai.The bodies of other killed rebels were taken away by insurgents while fleeing. Three of the arrested foreigners, Mohammad, Ali and Khalid, belong to Saudi Arabia, Abdullah to Libya and Habibullah is from Kunar province of Afghanistan. The other two arrested, Haji Firdous Khan and Shad Ali are the local Taliban. Security in Mohmand Agency has been tightened and closed to all kinds of traffic. Search operation was also carried out in Mandi Bazar and local jirga was also convened. Later briefing the media at Ghalanai F.C camp, the spokesman of security forces said that some of the rebels made good their escape from the battlefield. The spokesman said in the two hours fierce fighting heavy gun fire was used by both the sides. He said the foreigners were active in Crater Kandaro and Kong Khowzai for the last many days and had attacked the Chamakh checkpost also. He said they wanted to weaken Pakistan and to bring bad name to Islam. They are also receiving funds and infiltrating the country from Afghanistan. Hand grenades, Klashnikovs, foreign passports and many important documents were also recovered from their possession A thorough investigation would be conducted from the arrested rebels, the spokesman said. He said the burqa-clad were entering the area with the help of local people while Afghan national was accompanying them as an interpreter. There was no casualty from security forces' side, he concluded.