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Al Qaeda, Taliban men regrouping in Pak: Report

Captured Taliban militiamen said that close to 1,000 Taleban and Al Qaeda fighters are hiding in Pakistan, protected by sympathetic Islamic clerics, according to an agency report on Tuesday.

The report said that the renegade fighters are protected by Pushtoon leaders in North West Frontier Province, an area where Pakistan government's authority is limited.

Many Taliban militiamen interrogated by the US army are convinced that interim Afghan Prime Minister Hamid Karzai's hold on power depends on US support and once the Americans are gone, the Northern Alliance dominated Afghan administration will have trouble dealing with the various other Afghan factions.

"I am waiting for the big war," Mullah Towha, former chief of security for the Taliban governor of Afghanistan's Nangharhar province, was quoted as saying in the report.

"America and Britain will have to leave one day, and then we will have a jihad against those Afghans who fought against other Muslims," he said.

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