[Times-UK] Anthony Loyd - The map, sketched by a Taliban commander, is of a stretch of territory fought over in Bajaur between the Pakistani Army and the insurgents. Weapons caches, assembly areas and rendezvous points have been carefully marked and coded. More than 400 Pakistani soldiers have been killed or wounded since August in Bajaur, the tribal district agency said to be the haunt of Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Discovered along with the map in a series of recently captured tunnel complexes are radio frequency lists, guerrilla warfare manuals, and bombmaking instructions. "They were training people here," said Col. Javed Baluch. "There were students here taking notes on bombmaking and guerrilla warfare. They were well-trained and well-organized." A Western diplomat in Islamabad claimed last month that among those killed by a Predator drone strike in the tribal area - there have been at least 18 drone attacks there in the past 12 weeks - were members of a terrorist cell planning an attack on Britain.
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