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India-Pakistan
Indian troops kill three Pak terrs in Kashmir
2006-01-16
SRINAGAR, India - Indian soldiers have killed three key Pakistani members of a hardline Islamic terrorist militant group waging an insurgency in Indian-ruled Kashmir, police said on Sunday. Two of the terrorists militants from Lashkar-e-Toiba were killed during a 12-hour long gunbattle late Saturday in the southern Poonch district, a police spokesman said. He identified the pair as Abu Bilal and Abu Saqui. Two others escaped. “The four were in a meeting when security forces launched a raid based on a tip-off,” the spokesman said.

Another Lashkar terrorist militant, Abu Maaz, was killed during a gunbattle in the neighbouring district of Doda late Saturday, police said. “All three were Pakistani terrorists nationals and served as Lashkar’s self-styled district commanders,” the spokesman said, calling their deaths a “major setback” for the terrorists militants.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  216 virgins report for duty.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-01-16 19:52  

#2  Their rules of engagement don't allow the use of heavy weapons so they can't call in an airstrike or for helicopter backup.

If the area is built up, their use of anti-tank weapons is restricted as well.

So with the terrorists holed up, it is a matter of firing, ceasefire, calling on the terrorists to surrender, bringing in the local imam to beg them to surrender, more gunfire etc.
Posted by: john   2006-01-16 14:23  

#1  2 of 4 killed in a 12 hour gunbattle?
Sounds like the keystone kops again.
Posted by: Skidmark   2006-01-16 03:42  

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