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Commanders among eight militants killed in Orakzai Agency
[Dawn] The security forces claimed to have killed eight beturbanned goons including three commanders and secured strategically important positions in Mamozai area of  Orakzai Agency... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... on Tuesday. Official sources said that security forces also destroyed two hideouts of beturbanned goons in Botakhel area of the tribal region. They said that forces launched an operation in the area, which was considered a stronghold of beturbanned goons in the troubled Orakzai Agency. Security forces backed by artillery launched offensive to flush out beturbanned goons from the area, the sources said. An official said that beturbanned goons vacated their positions after heavy shelling. He said that eight beturbanned goons were killed and their two hideouts were destroyed in the artillery shelling. He said that three commanders were also among the dead. The killed bully boy commanders were identified as Wahid Ilyas, Ihsanullah and Mohammad Din. Also, warplanes targeted suspected positions in the area adjacent to Khyber Agency. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... no loss of life was reported from the area. In North  Wazoo Agency, four persons including two children were maimed when mortar shell hit a residential compound in Spelga village on Monday night.Earlier beturbanned goons fired two rockets at the base of paramilitary forces 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... . However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Security forces retaliated with heavy artillery and mortar firing. The residents of the area said that a shell landed in a house in Spelga Village and injured two children, a woman and a man. The injured were shifted to the agency headquarters hospital in Miranshah. Beautiful Downtown Peshawar encounter In Peshawar, a bully boy commander was killed during an encounter in Mashogagar area on the outskirts of Peshawar on Tuesday, police said. An official said that a police party was sent to the area when they got information about presence of four beturbanned goons there. The beturbanned goons tried to escape in a motorcar when the law enforcers approached the area, he added. The official said that upon seeing the police party, the beturbanned goons left the motorcar and opened firing on law enforcers with automatic weapons. During the encounter, he said, one bully boy was killed while his three accomplices managed to escape. The killed bully boy was identified as Umer, a commander of Taliban in Khyber Agency, he added. The official said that nobody had approached police to receive the body of the killed bully boy commander. He said that one hand grenade, one pistol and many cartridges were recovered from the possession of the bully boy. Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... police claimed to have recovered an kidnapped girl from Badhber and locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a man involved in her kidnapping. A police front man said that on the complaint of Mumtaz, a resident of Sar Dheri in Charsadda, police raided a house in Badhber and recovered a girl, who was kidnapped by Shahid. He said that the girl was kept in chains inside a room. A case against the accused was already registered at Sar Dheri cop shoppe, he added. Posted by: Fred 2012-06-28 |
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