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| US jets bomb Waziristan Agency |
| 2002-10-19 |
| Warning! If you have a heart condition, don't read! Since the source for this is the Baluchistan Post this entire account must be taken with a hefty grain of salt, which is bad for you... After missile attacks on the US camp in the Urgun area of Afghanistan, US bombers retaliated to target Pakistani tribal areas of Damasar and Lowar Mandi in North Waziristan Agency. Hmmm... You mean the ground surveillance radars picked up the launch sites and they happened to be in Pakland? Ain't that interesting? Reliable sources told The News that on Wednesday night, unknown assailants targeted the US air base of Urgun with five missiles, which caused huge losses to US troops present in the camp. According to tribal and official sources, after the missile attacks on the US camp at 2 am, two US helicopters arrived the area and taken the injured and alleged slain troops to some unknown place. However, it was not confirmed that how many troops were died and injured in the missile attack. Yep. The hated Merkins are dropping like flies... Later, US fighter planes B-52 [sic] were seen while heavily bombarding the area bordering Damasar situated at distance of 45 kilometres from Miran Shah, headquarters, North Waziristan Agency. The area, occupied by paramilitary troops, known as Tuchi Scouts while for the first time in the half century old history of the country, Pakistan's regular army has also been deployed there recently after the Bush administration asked its ally to do so. That paragraph doesn't make any sense to me, either... Instead of targeting their desired areas in Afghanistan, the US B-52 planes targeted Pakistan's Damasar and Lowara Mandi areas with five missiles. According to official sources in Miran Shah, these attacks on Pakistan's tribal areas, have sent a wave of shock among the already charged tribesmen against US and its allies engaged in their so called war against terrorism in Afghanistan. Whether they happened or not... Major Izhar Ahmad Bajwa of Pakistan Army has collected devices, which were dropped by the US fighter planes in night. Bajwa was reported to have visited the affected area and met people. However, no loss of life was reported due to these missile attacks as four missile were said to have fell on the area at the distance of 100 meters of Tuchi Scouts camp while the remaining two were fell about 800 meters of the camp. Shucks. No corpses. I'm so disappointed... Despite several attempts by this scribe, none of the officials of political administration North Waziristan Agency were available for their official version. They probably haven't heard the story yet... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Baluchistan? Didn't the MMA win that one? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-10-19 12:15:36 |