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India-Pakistan
Mortars fired from Afghanistan kill 8 in N Waziristan
2011-01-15
[Pak Daily Times] Mortars allegedly fired from Afghanistan killed eight people in North Wazoo on Thursday, officials said. Two intelligence officials said the mortars hit a house in Tity Mada Khel village in the North Wazoo tribal area and killed eight people, including five men and three women. According to two other officials, 11 people were maimed in the attack. It was not immediately clear who fired the mortars.
Posted by:Fred

#2  What's wrong with your peoples? We focus on a bizzare range for a small bore mortar and ignore....

Tity Mada Khel

WTF? I mean WTF?

Posted by: Zombie Hillary Lover   2011-01-15 09:47  

#1  Given that the fire was accurate, and that the effective range of the US 81mm mortar is 5,935 m, I'm thinking we did it, depending on how far the village was from the border.

http://mapsof.net/north_waziristan_agency
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-01-15 09:25  

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