Reaper delivers Hellfire killing 9 in Pakistan
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BTW, none of the stories mention the Reaper by name, but it is the only drone that can fire more than two missiles.
Bill Roggio has more on the strikes and says the death toll is now 20.
A suspected U.S. drone fired three missiles into Pakistan's North Waziristan region, killing nine people, intelligence officials and residents said, in the first such strike since Barack Obama became U.S. president.It usually takes a week or so for the names of the al Qaeda/Taliban dead to slip out. Since they were described as foreign militants, that usually means al Qaeda. In most cases the foreigners are Arab. The AP in its latest report put the death total at 10.Frustrated over what it sees as Pakistan's failure to stem the flow of al Qaeda and Taliban militants from its lawless tribal regions into Afghanistan, the United States stepped up cross-border attacks last year.
The missiles hit a house in a village 2 km (1 mile) west of Mir Ali, a major town of the region on the Afghan border, the officials said.
"Nine bodies have been pulled out the rubble," Ismail Wazir, a villager told Reuters by telephone.
He said the owner of the house, two brothers and three nephews were among the dead while intelligence officials said some foreign militants were also killed.
There was no information on the identify of the foreign militants.
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BTW, none of the stories mention the Reaper by name, but it is the only drone that can fire more than two missiles.
Bill Roggio has more on the strikes and says the death toll is now 20.
Pakistan always whines when we go in there and conduct OPs but they seem to be either unwilling or unable to deal with the threat, the Taliban has the power to close schools. That tells me that Pakistan has no effective Government and should be glad that we're helping them take control of their own country. They complain because we either make them look incapable (which they are) or corrupt(which they are ,again)
ReplyDeleteMusharref needs to STFU! Pakistan is being treated unequally because most terrorists hijacked him and his government to live peacefully amongst terrorist sympathizers.
ReplyDeleteMusharaf says the $10 billion dollars in US aid is "pitance" for Pakistan who's fighting terrorists. Well, it makes you understand why terrorists thrive there, wouldn't it?
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