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US drone targets compound in Kurram
[DAWN] A US drone fired a missile at a compound in the Mata Sangar area near the Afghan border in  Kurram Agency...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... on Sunday night, sources said. They said that the missile was fired at the compound at around 9pm, but no casualty was reported. Mata Sangar, a hamlet, lies near Ghuzgarhi south of Parachinar. Locals said that the missile hit a mosque which was also used as a ’resting’ place. They said that planes had been hovering over the area for the last three days. The sources said that the compound, which came under attack on Sunday night, belonged to Lion of Islam ’commander’ Bashrat Khan, affiliated with the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain. It was the fourth dronezap in the Ghuzgarhi area since October that left around 40 suspected gunnies dead, including some fighters belonging to the Haqqani network  .Officials believed that the area had a concentration of Pak and Afghan Taliban and was inaccessible. Posted by: Fred 2017-12-20 |
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