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| India-Pakistan |
| Pakistan strikes Al Qaeda camp, 4 dead |
| 2007-05-22 |
| MIRANSHAH, Pakistan - Pakistani troops backed by helicopter gunships Tuesday stormed a suspected Al Qaeda camp in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan, killing at least four foreign rebels, officials said. Soldiers raided the training camp at Zargarkhel village in North Waziristan after militants refused to meet a peace delegation flown in by helicopter and opened fire, military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said. Arshad told AFP the security forces had cordoned off the area after ‘confirmed reports that miscreants were operating a terrorist training facility in Zargarkhel.’ ‘A peace committee of (pro-government) tribal elders was flown to the area by helicopter to negotiate but the militants started firing,’ Arshad said. ‘We retaliated and the firing is going on.’ Training materials including explosives had been seized, although the final death toll was not yet available, he later told a private television channel. Security officials said four foreign militants were killed.‘This is an Uzbek training centre which has been busted. The dead were foreigners,’ one official told AFP on condition of anonymity. ‘Ground troops and Cobra gunships are carrying out the operation.’ Musharraf said in a television interview at the weekend that Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network was present in Pakistan’s tribal areas in the form of ‘foreigners’ including Uzbeks and Arabs. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 Only reason it happened was the terrs were delinquent in paying their dues to Islamabad... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-05-22 13:18 |