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| India-Pakistan |
| US drone kills 5 militants in northern Pakistan |
| 2012-08-18 |
| A MISSILE launched from a U.S. drone struck a suspected militant hideout in a tribal region in northern Pakistan where allies of a powerful warlord were gathered Saturday, killing five of his supporters, Pakistani officials said. The strike in North Waziristan against allies of Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a militant commander whose forces frequently target U.S. and other NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan, comes amid speculation over whether Pakistan will launch an operation against militants in the tribal region. The U.S. has pushed Pakistan repeatedly to take such a step and earlier this week U.S. Secretary of DefenCe Leon Panetta told The Associated Press that Pakistan was preparing an operation targeting the Pakistani Taliban in North Waziristan. Pakistan has been reluctant to undertake an offensive there, saying its military is already overtaxed by fighting in other tribal areas and parts of Pakistan. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 And both our troll's posts have now been erased forever. I'm not sure what it intends to accomplish -- there's no link to be followed by the gullible, nor any message for the otherwise gullible, just strings of more or less random words, |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-08-18 20:39 |
| #2 Heh, Colon Troll. I ain't touching that! As for the drone-zapped jihadis, I don't see what the problem is. They love death, we give it to them. We're a consumer-driven society, after all. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-08-18 18:26 |
| #1 I'm amazed at the stupid tenacity and dumb messaging our Colon Troll™ continues to demonstrate. Perhaps an early low AI/IQ bot? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-08-18 18:07 |