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| Suspected US missile strike kills 6 in Pakistan |
| 2008-11-19 |
| A suspected U.S. missile strike hit a village deep inside Pakistani territory Wednesday, officials said, killing six alleged militants and indicating American willingness to pursue insurgents beyond the lawless tribal regions. ... The attack was the first to hit an area outside the semiautonomous tribal belt that directly borders Afghanistan, something which could trigger extra anger among Pakistanis. Hours after the strike, a large Islamist political party warned it would block two major supply routes for U.S and NATO forces in Afghanistan that run through Pakistan unless the attacks ended. "If these missiles attacks continue, then we will ask the people to create hurdles in the way of supplies for NATO," Qazi Hussain Ahmed, chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, told reporters. The party has shown it can easily mobilize thousands of supporters at short notice. The supply lines have never been blocked by protests but militants and criminals often attack trucks traveling with them. Javed Marwat, a local government official, told The Associated Press that two missiles destroyed a house in Indi Khel village in Bannu district. Two Pakistani intelligence officials said their agents reported that militants from Central Asia were among the six killed. ... Until Wednesday, all the attacks since August were in North and South Waziristan, two tribal regions where the government has ceded much of its limited control to militants. U.S. officials say they want to help Pakistan regain sovereignty over such areas. The Bannu district, which falls under the control of the regional government, begins roughly 18 miles away from the border with Afghanistan. Two other intelligence officials, both based in Bannu, said militants had begun moving farther away from the border, including to their district and other settled areas, in an apparent bid to avoid the missile strikes. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #8 could trigger extra anger among Pakistanis Cue Islamic Rage Boy. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-11-19 18:58 |
| #7 Must have come real close, as Zawahiri just released some more spittle directed at the US. |
| Posted by: Thealing Borgia 122 2008-11-19 13:31 |
| #6 surely not a saudi national i thourgt we were allies!!!LOL!!! |
| Posted by: Paul2 2008-11-19 13:10 |
| #5 Gotta say that I've become rather impressed with the intel that allows us to make these sorts of strikes. Too bad the political will didn't exist to do similar things in Syria and Iran going back to 2005. Mighta changed a lot of things. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2008-11-19 10:57 |
| #4 go ahead and block the convoy paths sounds like more missile strikes too me |
| Posted by: chris 2008-11-19 10:08 |
| #3 AFP: According to US intelligence shared with Pakistan, al-Saudi was the main link between Al-Qaeda's senior command and Taliban networks in the Pakistani border region, an Islamabad-based senior security official said. "He was the man coordinating between Al-Qaeda and Taliban commanders on this side of the border, and also involved in recruiting and training fighters," the official told AFP. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-11-19 08:30 |
| #2 The attack was the first to hit an area outside the semiautonomous tribal belt that directly borders Afghanistan, something which could trigger extra anger among Pakistanis. *Yawn* Farting in the general direction of a koran could trigger extra anger among Pakis. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2008-11-19 08:23 |
| #1 Xinhua: A major al-Qaeda operative of Arab origin was among the five militants killed in a suspected United States missile strike in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, private TV channel Geo reported. The Geo quoted security sources as saying that the al-Qaeda militant was identified as Abdullah Azam Al-Saudi, a senior member of al-Qaeda. Ululululu! |
| Posted by: ed 2008-11-19 08:11 |