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Gunships kill 80 at religious school --continued from 10/30
Rolled over to 11/1 for a second day at request. Keep it clean. AoS at 0005 EST 11/1.
PAKISTANI helicopter gunships destroyed an Islamic school allegedly used as an al-Qaeda-linked training camp near the Afghanistan border, killing up to 80 suspected militants.

Local leaders, however, insisted most of the dead were teenage students, many of whom were “reduced to bits and pieces”, and protests erupted against the Pakistani Government and its ally the US.
Gonna play hell with the madrassa fall recruiting season.
The airstrike that targeted a madrassa in the troubled Bajaur tribal agency was one of the biggest ever in Pakistan's frontier region, where many al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents have sought sanctuary since 2001.

“Information we have received from certain local sources and intelligence sources suggests there may be about 80 dead,” chief military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan said. “We had information about the presence of 70 to 80 miscreants, including some foreigners, who were engaging in militant training in this madrassa and we carried out an operation using gunship helicopters and precision weapons,” he said. “Most of the compound was destroyed.”
Posted by: tipper 2006-11-01
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