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India-Pakistan
US Drone Kills 7 Militants in North Waziristan: Officials
2012-07-31
[Tolo News] A US drone attack Sunday killed at least seven forces of Evil in North Waziriatan, officials said, days before the country's intelligence chief visits Washington with the contentious raids likely to be discussed.

Attacks by unmanned American aircraft are deeply unpopular in Pakistain, which says they violate its illusory sovereignty and fan anti-US sentiment, but US officials are said to believe the attacks are too important to give up.

In Sunday's attack, the second in the month of Ramazan, missiles struck a compound in Khushhali Turikhel village of the troubled North Wazoo tribal district, which lies on the border with Afghanistan.

"US drones fired six missiles into a bully boy compound. At least seven forces of Evil were killed," a security official told AFP.

"It is not immediately clear if there was an important bully boy killed in the attack."The toll might rise as forces of Evil search for colleagues buried under the rubble of the compound, the official said, adding that missiles also hit and destroyed two bully boy vehicles.

Local intelligence officials confirmed the attack and casualties.

Khushhali Turikhel lies around 35 kilometres (20 miles) east of Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
, the main town of North Waziristan which is considered a stronghold of bully boys.

Drone strikes are likely to be a major issue when Pakistain's spymaster, Lieutenant General Zaheer ul-Islam, holds talks in Washington on August 1-3 with his CIA counterpart.

Washington regards Pakistain's semi-autonomous northwestern tribal belt as the main hub of Taliban and al Qaeda forces of Evil plotting attacks on the West and in Afghanistan.

Ten forces of Evil were killed on Monday in a similar attack in Shawal area of North Waziristan. In a drone attack at the start of July, six forces of Evil were killed and an attack on June 4 killed 15 bully boys, including senior Al-Qaeda figure Abu Yahya al-Libi.

There has been a dramatic increase in US drone strikes in Pakistain since May, when a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
summit in Chicago could not strike a deal to end a six-month blockade on convoys transporting supplies to coalition forces in Afghanistan.

On July 3 however, Islamabad agreed to end the blockade after the United States apologised for the deaths of 24 Pak soldiers in botched air strikes last November.

Islam's trip on Wednesday marks the first Washington visit in a year by the head of Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence and signals a thaw in relations beset by crisis since US troops killed the late Osama bin Laden
... who has won the race to that place where we all eventually end up...
near Islamabad in May 2011.

In protest at US drone attacks, local Taliban and Pak warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur have banned vaccinations in North and South Waziristan, putting 240,000 children in the region at risk.

They have condemned the immunisation campaign as a cover for espionage. In May, a Pak doctor was nabbed
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
for 33 years after helping the CIA find bin Laden using a hepatitis vaccination programme as a cover.
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