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2008-10-27 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2008-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 New pilot program? Love those IT guys!

Posted by Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-10-27 03:56|| 2008-10-27 03:56|| Front Page Top

#2 The sad thing about a jihadi killed by a drone is, he still gets the 72 virgins, but they are blow up dolls. Sucks.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-10-27 05:39|| 2008-10-27 05:39|| Front Page Top

#3 More goodness from this Sunday strike:
Suspected US strike kills Pakistani Taliban commander
A Taliban commander and at least 15 others died in a suspected US missile strike on a militant training camp in Pakistan's tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, officials said Monday.
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Officials said Haji Omar Khan, a lieutenant of veteran Afghan Taliban chieftain and former anti-Soviet fighter Jalaluddin Haqqani, died in the incident in the lawless South Waziristan area on Sunday. "The death toll has gone up to 16 as six more bodies have been recovered from the site. Senior Taliban commander Haji Omar died in the strike," local administration official Mawaz Khan told AFP.

Two lower-level Taliban commanders from neighbouring North Waziristan tribal district, identified only as Waheedullah and Nasrullah, were among those killed, security officials and residents in that area said. They had gone to meet Omar at his camp, along with five militants from North Waziristan who also died. The others killed were mainly guards of the commanders.
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Khan, a member of Pakistan's feared Wazir tribe, was active in attacks on US-led and NATO troops across the border in Afghanistan, local residents and security officials said. He was a cousin of late Taliban commander Nek Mohammed, who was killed in 2004 in one of the first apparent US missile strikes in the region.

"Omar was sending fighters into Afghanistan and commanded them in several outings. He did not have any political affiliations and was linked to Haqqani," a security official said on condition of anonymity.

Posted by ed 2008-10-27 08:46|| 2008-10-27 08:46|| Front Page Top

#4 I still like ARCLIGHT strikes, but these drone attacks are growing on me. Let the US buy and begin using 40,000 drones, all flying over the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. They don't have to actually DO anything, but the mere sight of them will probably drive the locals even more crazy than they are anyway.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-10-27 13:33|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-10-27 13:33|| Front Page Top

#5 ahhh...cockles get sum Monday warmpth!

warmpth = sum gud radiant heat and sum fair share of wampum!!

:)
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Posted by Red Dawg ">Red Dawg 2008-10-27 19:01|| 2008-10-27 19:01|| Front Page Top

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