But human rights groups question how the five to six hundred Al-Qaeda operatives that the government claims were holed up in the area came to be based there in the first place. Locals interviewed independently say that some of those captured are in fact innocent local people from Wana, not foreign militants.
政府声称有五、六百名"基地"分子被关押在这一地区。但人权组织对这些人怎么会最初以此为基地提出质疑。接受独立采访的本地人说有些被俘虏的人其实是无辜的瓦纳人，而不是外国武装分子。