http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\13\story_13-9-2009_pg7_10

Fazlullah decides to surrender?

LAHORE: Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat chief Mullah Fazlullah has decided to 
surrender, a private TV channel quoted its sources as saying on Saturday. 
According to the channel, he had been wounded and was in hiding in a cave. 
The law enforcement agencies had cordoned off the area of his hideout, the 
channel added. Security forces had been told to complete the operation in 
Swat before Eid, the channel concluded. daily times monitor

-----

The source could be a sympathizer, who expects Fazlullah to be dead soon (as 
I do) and who will then claim that Fazlullah offered to surrender but was 
killed anyway.
Fazlullah has broadcast countless death warrants against Pakistanis in NWFP, 
on his now dead FM radio antenna. Zawahiri constantly does the same via the 
internet, but I think Zawahiri would prefer to be taken alive. He will 
betray others to save his own skin. He has done so before, according to "Dr. 
Fadl" anyway. And a suspiciously large number of Zawahiri's former buddies 
have died while Zawahiri himself lives on. But he's running out of buddies, 
and he knows it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6180589/Taliban-announces-surrender-in-Swat-Valley-after-leader-Maulana-Fazlullah-arrested.html

Some reports say that he has allowed himself to be taken alive. If true, 
that's even better news than what I expected, which was his death, for it 
demonstrates that he regards "martyrdom" as great for other Muslims but not 
for himself.

The News (of Pakistan):

ISLAMABAD: Highly informed sources told The News that the dragnet around 
Maulana Fazlullah and his band of close associates has really been tightened 
and his arrest, or elimination, at the hands of security forces could happen 
within the next 24 hours.

According to a source, captured Taliban leader Muslim Khan is singing like a 
canary and has reportedly pinpointed a couple of most secret hiding dens of 
his commander. The source also indicated that the ‘arrest’ of Muslim Khan 
may well be a negotiated surrender with security forces giving it the cover 
of being an arrest to retain Muslim Khan?s credibility and protect his near 
and dear ones from Fazlullah?s deadly reprisal against any perceived act of 
betrayal.

According to another highly reliable source, Muslim Khan, had been of late 
trying to broker a deal through certain elements whereby his life would be 
spared in lieu of his spilling beans leading to the arrest or killing of 
Fazlullah and some of his other top commanders.

APP adds: eight militants, including three Afghans, were killed and nine 
others sustained injuries, while a security personnel embraced Shahadat in 
the ongoing operation Rah-e-Rast, said a media update of the Inter-Services 
Public Relations (ISPR).

Five terrorists were killed and nine others apprehended in a search 
operation in Smater area near Banjot. A soldier also embraced Shahadat, 
while another sustained injuries in an exchange of fire with the militants 
in the area, the ISPR said.

During a search operation in Chinar area, security forces killed three 
Afghan terrorists, it added. Two terrorists were apprehended in Bandai 
village near Khwazakhela and two others voluntarily surrendered in Barshaur 
and Uzbak Banda.

During search operations in Qambar, Kuza Bandai and Nao, seven suspects were 
apprehended and 10 others voluntarily surrendered to security forces in Kala 
Killay and Gul Jabba near Kabal.

--------

I hope it's all true. It spells not just total destruction of the Swat 
Taliban, but total disgrace and discredit as well.

Larry Hammick wrote:

[snips]

> I hope it's all true. It spells not just total destruction of the Swat 
> Taliban, but total disgrace and discredit as well. 

I recall a British Home Secretary or similar of the time trumpeting much 
the same about having have whupped the IRA ... just days before Canary 
Wharf was attacked.

The gravestones you are perhaps hastily erecting may well have the 
inscription, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated".