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5 ‘foreigners’ killed in ‘US strike’
Dawn ^ | September 05, 2008 | Our Correspondent

Posted on 09/04/2008 8:59:16 PM PDT by csvset

MIRAMSHAH, Sept 4: Five foreigners were killed in a missile attack by a suspected unmanned US plane in the Momadkhel village of North Waziristan on Thursday.

Sources said that the drone fired three missiles at a house owned by tribesman Ferman Dawar near the Afghan border at about 4pm. Local people said the plane flew at low altitude over the area.

There was an explosion and the house caught fire, the sources said, adding that villagers retrieved five bodies and rescued three injured people from the debris of the house. Their names could not be ascertained, but official sources said that they were all Arabs.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; alqaeda; arabs; drone; islam; mohammedanism; pakistan; strike; taliban
Attack of the Drones continues...
1 posted on 09/04/2008 8:59:17 PM PDT by csvset
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To: Dog; Cindy; Straight Vermonter

Drone Strike Ping


2 posted on 09/04/2008 9:00:18 PM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset

I wonder if they ever found molecules of that tub of guts Adam Gadahn?


3 posted on 09/04/2008 9:04:14 PM PDT by Tex Pete (Obama for Change: from our pockets, our piggy banks, and our couch cushions!)
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To: csvset
Different account of the same strike.

Four militants killed in Waziristan missile strike

MIRANSHAH: At least four militants were killed and five wounded when three missiles fired by an unmanned aircraft hit a house in Muhammad Khel village in North Waziristan Agency on Thursday. Three missiles targeted the house of tribesman Rehman Wali in the village bordering Afghanistan, about 35 kilometres east of agency headquarters Miranshah, security officials said.Residents said a pilotless drone flew over the area for five hours before making the attack at about 5pm.Area resident Azeemullah Wazir told AP the house was known to host foreigners. He said he heard three blasts and later saw Taliban militants surround the site. haji mujtaba

4 posted on 09/04/2008 9:05:20 PM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset

Stuff happens.

Thank you csvset for this ping.


5 posted on 09/04/2008 9:05:42 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: csvset
Arabic foreign fighters in Pakistan? Who would have thunk it?

The grim Reaper is doing it's business.


6 posted on 09/04/2008 9:08:23 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: csvset

The Fast and The Furious: Talibani Death Race 2008


7 posted on 09/04/2008 9:08:53 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Tex Pete

It seems as though Adam “Lumpy” Rutherford” Gadahn has been scarce lately. Perhaps he’s dead? It would be nice to know that a couple of Hellfires blew his sorry ass up.


8 posted on 09/04/2008 9:09:36 PM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset
Residents said a pilotless drone flew over the area for five hours before making the attack at about 5pm.

5 hours? Were the militants sleeping... or afraid to make a run for it! Seems these days, you can't run or hide for long.

9 posted on 09/04/2008 9:10:29 PM PDT by OCC
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Were the militants sleeping... or afraid to make a run for it!

Weak from fasting? Ramadan and all that.. Piling in to a pickup probably would have had the same result... Boom!

10 posted on 09/04/2008 9:17:22 PM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset

From “THe Hunt for Red October”

“Oh no, not again!”


11 posted on 09/04/2008 9:18:25 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Jeff Head

That’s an awesome platform. They seem to know that they’re buzzing around, yet.. Boom!


12 posted on 09/04/2008 9:19:23 PM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset

They don’t make houses in Pakistan like they used to.

Need to buy more home insurance.


13 posted on 09/04/2008 9:19:56 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Dog

Do you have anything to add to the discussion about Adam Gadahn on this thread?


14 posted on 09/04/2008 9:20:46 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: csvset

Bush’s policies have these animals hiding in caves and hovels by day and night, fearing for their lives, never knowing when the Predators or Reapers who lurk in the sky, hunting them, will end their wretched existance.


15 posted on 09/04/2008 9:21:39 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: csvset

awesome. die terrorist bastards.


16 posted on 09/04/2008 9:22:55 PM PDT by steel_resolve (We are living in the post-rational world where being a moron is an asset)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

How many Safe Houses does Al Qaeda own? One less.


17 posted on 09/04/2008 9:27:43 PM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset
Piling in to a pickup probably would have had the same result...

Exactly! Hope they were on radios or cell phones screaming "what the F do we do now!".

18 posted on 09/04/2008 9:43:18 PM PDT by OCC
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To: csvset
Local people said the plane flew at low altitude over the area.

Also interesting... trying to flush out the roaches.

19 posted on 09/04/2008 9:45:42 PM PDT by OCC
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To: Jeff Head; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Here’s to the troops driving the Predator and to Ern, to recover well.


20 posted on 09/04/2008 9:49:30 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: OCC

The Taliban’s dreaded Spring Offensive was successful — Many died.

The Taliban’s feared Summer Offensive was successful — Many died.

The Taliban’s promised Fall Offensive will be successful — Many will die...

The Shit Magnets in Iraq and Afghanistan are quite powerful and effective — drawing militant Islamist barbarians to their death like moths to a flame..
It’s almost like shooting over a baited field... Is that legal?


21 posted on 09/04/2008 9:54:31 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: csvset
"owned by tribesman Ferman Dawar near the Afghan border at about 4pm. Local"

And the place was probably illuminated by an infrared or ultraviolet laser from miles away by our Special Forces. Or they were closer and just gave the coordinates.

22 posted on 09/04/2008 10:09:42 PM PDT by BobS
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To: river rat
It’s almost like shooting over a baited field... Is that legal?

It is for now.. we will see what happens in November.

23 posted on 09/04/2008 10:21:13 PM PDT by OCC
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To: Southack

I STILL think Sylvester Stallone missed his calling as a comedian. Joe Paturbo was the best in Death Race 2000.


24 posted on 09/05/2008 12:24:16 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.")
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To: csvset
5 ‘foreigners’ killed in ‘US strike’

Oh my goodness, we are killing "foreigners" on PURPOSE! Those poor Sweeds, Germans, Austrians, Spaniards, Dutch, Frenchman, Englishman, how could America be so heartless?...

Oh, you mean to tell me those "foreigners" were ISLAMIC terrorists? Then WHY DIDN'T you say so in the first place?...

Because the powers that be in our government and State department along with those in the media have deemed it “politically incorrect” to admit that the followers of Islam, the so-called "Religion of Peace" are terrorists who want to destroy America and the West and want to convert, enslave or kill all of us "infidels" who do not worship their false "god" or believe in their false "prophet" and sexual child molester Mohamed?

25 posted on 09/05/2008 4:30:32 AM PDT by Jmouse007 (tot)
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To: csvset
5 ‘foreigners’ killed in ‘US strike’

Oh my goodness, we are killing "foreigners" on PURPOSE! Those poor Sweeds, Germans, Austrians, Spaniards, Dutch, Frenchman, Englishman, how could America be so heartless?...

Oh, you mean to tell me those "foreigners" were ISLAMIC terrorists? Then WHY DIDN'T you say so in the first place?...

Because the powers that be in our government and State department along with those in the media have deemed it “politically incorrect” to admit that the followers of Islam, the so-called "Religion of Peace" are terrorists who want to destroy America and the West and want to convert, enslave or kill all of us "infidels" who do not worship their false "god" or believe in their false "prophet" and sexual child molester Mohamed?

26 posted on 09/05/2008 4:31:03 AM PDT by Jmouse007 (tot)
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To: Jmouse007

No, the Persians and Asians who populate Pakistan and Afghanistan refer to Arabs as “foreigners.”

That’s the reference, and that’s why it’s repeated in the Dawn article.


27 posted on 09/05/2008 6:43:10 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

I stand... er sit corrected. That said, there is an tremendous effort being made to expunge “Islamic terrorist”, “Islamic terrorism”, “Islamic fascism”, etc... from public discourse when dealing with Islamic terror.


28 posted on 09/05/2008 7:01:55 AM PDT by Jmouse007 (tot)
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To: csvset

There once was a man named Dawar
Whose house was bombed from afar
He put up some guests
who needed a rest
Now they reside in a jar.


29 posted on 09/05/2008 7:15:13 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic ("And how can this be? For I am the Kwisatz Haderach! " - Barack Obama)
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To: reagan_fanatic

LOL!! May I steal your poem?


30 posted on 09/05/2008 8:58:18 AM PDT by Ben Hecks (McCain/Palin: I'll pick two pilots over two lawyers anytime)
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To: Ben Hecks

Sure!


31 posted on 09/05/2008 9:10:21 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic ("And how can this be? For I am the Kwisatz Haderach! " - Barack Obama)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Thanks! (I”m an old car nut myself)


32 posted on 09/05/2008 10:59:55 AM PDT by Ben Hecks (McCain/Palin: I'll pick two pilots over two lawyers anytime)
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