Source: NPR via Wasim Srroya
Pakistani men who worked for the Taliban attend a class at Mishal, an army-run rehabilitation center in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, on July 5, 2011. This and similar centers are trying to re-educate men taken in by the Taliban, who ruled Swat before the military drove out the insurgents in 2009.
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A Pakistani army officer named Col. Zeshan is giving a tour of a jihadi rehabilitation center secreted in the hills of northwest Pakistan’s Swat Valley.
“This place was also captured by the Taliban,” he says, walking me around the heavily guarded complex. “The army took over this place from them … when the war was going on.”