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Drone kills 2 in North Waziristan
[Pak Daily Times] A US drone strike targeting a bad boy compound killed at least two suspected forces of Evil in the tribal region near the Afghan border on Friday, officials said.The strike took place in the Anghar area, 10 kilometres south of 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... , the main town of North  Wazoo tribal region. "A US drone fired two missiles on a bad boy compound, killing two suspected snuffies and wounding two others," a security bigshot told AFP. Another security official also confirmed the attack and casualties that took place after midnight.The identities of those killed in the strike were not immediately known but they appeared to be of Central Asian origin, the official said. A third security official in Miranshah said two Taliban fighters were maimed in the fresh attack and were identified as "Punjabi Taliban". "One of them, Aslam alias Yaseen, is linked with attacks on Pakistain Army headquarters in Rawalpindi and another attack on (the) naval base in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ," the security official told AFP. In May 2011, a group of heavily armed snuffies besieged Pakistain Navy air base in Karachi, destroying two US-made P-3C Orion surveillance aircraft, an attack that took 17 hours to repel and left 10 military personnel dead. That assault came three weeks after US special forces killed the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... in the garrison town of Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... , and was the deadliest on a base since the army headquarters was attacked in October 2009. Last week a dronezap  on a seminary linked to the feared Haqqani bad boy network in Hangu District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... killed at least six people. The attack, which bad boy sources said killed the Haqqanis' spiritual leader along with five others, was extremely unusual in that it was mounted outside Pakistain's tribal areas on the Afghan border. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-30 |
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