05-12-2009, 09:22 PM
<b>Pakistani claims of high Taliban casualties 'wildly exaggerated' - US officials</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->US military and intelligence officials are expressing skepticism about Pakistani claims of high Taliban casualties as the fighting spreads in the volatile northwest.
<b>The Pakistani military's daily reports of hundreds of Taliban fighters killed in the districts of Swat, Shangla, Dir, and Buner are "wildly exaggerated," a senior US intelligence official who is closely watching the operations in Pakistan told The Long War Journal.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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