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If he were to acknowledge that Islamic law endorses the legitimacy of armed resistance against Western forces in Muslim territory, he could give a green light to the very students he claims he is trying to keep off the militant path.

Pakistan's president alleged that the brother of Pakistan's opposition leader, Nawaz Sharif, "tipped off" the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) about impending UN sanctions following the 2008 Mumbai attacks, allowing the outfit to empty its bank accounts before they could be raided.

Security forces withdrew, they said, leaving civilians to try to fight off the militants.

Herojit's father started selling his land to pay off the militants' demands.

He said vigilantes armed with homemade guns tried to hold off the militants.

"The peshmerga advanced on Jalawla from several directions" before dawn, he said, adding that they had already taken back several positions, cutting off the militants.

Anbar provincial officials have been urgently requesting reinforcements to hold off the militants, but the government in Baghdad has been slow to respond or to arm local Sunnis.

The soldiers held off the militants for almost an hour but fled when no reinforcements arrived, according to parents of the missing girls who later encountered the soldiers sheltering in the bush surrounding the town.

The Iraq government has now officially requested the United States to engage in airstrikes to stave off the militants' advance, and the US military is considering whether it has sufficient intelligence to carry out effective drone and other air operations.

Other Pakistani analysts have another theory: that while General Musharraf and senior military leaders firmly back the crackdown, some lower level members of the army, Frontier Corps and intelligence services may be continuing to tip off the militants.

French commanders are convinced that they have cut off the militants' routes of supply and trafficking.