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U.S. drone kills five insurgents in Miranshah
At least five Orcs and similar vermin were killed in a US drone strike in northwest of Pak on Thursday, local officials said.The strike took place in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... near Afghan border, Pak security officials said. A security official said that two missiles were fired by a US drone on a compound used by Death Eaters in Spalga town near Miranshah in which five Death Eaters were killed. Miranshah is the main town in North  Wazoo region, known as stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaeda linked of Death Eaters.Pakistain, after a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... air strike on 26 Nov. 2011 on two Pak checkpoints near Afghan border that killed 24 Pak troops, blocked the NATO supply route into Afghanistan and asked US officials to vacate Shamsi airbase which was used for US drone operations in Afghanistan and Pakistain. US resumed drone operations on January 10. Recently many Orcs and similar vermin have been killed in US drone strikes in Pakistain. US officials recently said that eight of al-Qaeda's top 20 leaders were eliminated in the past year, mostly in US drone strikes. Posted by: 2012-02-16 |
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