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Suspected US missiles kill 7 in Pakistan
AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/11/09 | Zarar Khan - ap

Posted on 03/12/2009 1:57:32 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

ISLAMABAD – Missiles believed fired from a U.S. unmanned plane slammed into a house used by militants in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing seven people, a government official and a witness said,

The identities of the victims in the attack in Kurram region were not immediately known.

A senior official in the region said the house targeted was believed to be frequented by Islamist militants. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

Villager Ismail Khan said spy planes were seen hovering over the area shortly before the attack, adding that local militants had retrieved seven bodies from the destroyed house.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: drone; fata; missiles; nwfp; pakistan; strike; suspected

1 posted on 03/12/2009 1:57:32 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
and the missile ain't talking
2 posted on 03/12/2009 1:58:27 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: NormsRevenge

I have to say, I’m a little surprised Obama is allowing these attacks to continue.

Of course, he was the guy who said he’d invade Pakistan. lol


3 posted on 03/12/2009 1:58:31 PM PDT by Slapshot68
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not a duplicate thread, tho an identically titled one was posted 3/1/09

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196981/posts


4 posted on 03/12/2009 1:58:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Obama - quick, surrender now before we win...


5 posted on 03/12/2009 2:06:02 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: NormsRevenge

And privately, Obama cries.


6 posted on 03/12/2009 2:06:15 PM PDT by Gator113 (For America to survive, Obama must fail.....)
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To: Gator113

Obamma will stop this action as soon as he gets the teleprompter to work


7 posted on 03/12/2009 2:08:50 PM PDT by shadeaud ("If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin)
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To: NormsRevenge

No appeals to the Supreme Court either.


8 posted on 03/12/2009 2:16:53 PM PDT by Parmenio
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To: Slapshot68

He has to....its play offense...or risk a strike here at home.....he ain’t no dummy.


9 posted on 03/12/2009 2:19:08 PM PDT by Dog (Obama: no one messes with Joe ..... yeah because picking on a retard is wrong.)
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To: Dog; Ernest_at_the_Beach; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; PhilDragoo

According to Biden, this strike killed 0.035 extremists, 2.5 semi hard core Taliban and 3.575 poor Arabs who were only in it for the money. Or some figure close to that.


10 posted on 03/12/2009 2:27:38 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (my tagline is over-stimulated)
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To: NormsRevenge

The right way to reach out to the Taliban.


11 posted on 03/12/2009 2:39:09 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Finally, some good news! Hell, post it again tomorrow.


12 posted on 03/12/2009 2:47:20 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: atomic conspiracy

Your tag still has me chortling. We should have a post with the top 100 tags at FR.


13 posted on 03/12/2009 2:49:15 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: NormsRevenge

Most likely HELLFIRE II missiles.

Developed by the HELLFIRE/Ground LASER Designator Project Office at Redstone Arsenal as the tank killer for the Apache helicopter, HELLFIRE is now killing islamofascists from Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).

We love the smell of HELLFIREs in the morning!


14 posted on 03/12/2009 2:54:38 PM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar
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To: BOBTHENAILER

Only Biden labels Talaban Islamofacists Terrorist as moderates.

The minute the last one quits wasting oxygen and leaving a carbon footprint, the better off all of us will be.


15 posted on 03/12/2009 2:57:30 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foriegn/domestic terrorists, or tax evaders?)
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To: chuckles

Many thanks. At one time somebody did post a list of top RF taglines. It’s kind of an art form here, so it might be time for another such list.


16 posted on 03/12/2009 2:57:53 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The strike was by 4 Hellfires on an old madrassa run by the Haqqanis. Confirmed that most of the dead were Afghan Taliban but also Uzbeks. That would indicate a high value Al Qaeda target was there.
So far 15 KIA and at least 14 wounded.

This was a big gathering, 4 Hellfires, something big went down.


17 posted on 03/12/2009 3:04:57 PM PDT by gandalftb (An appeaser feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last......)
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To: gandalftb

BOOM BOOM!!! Out go da lights!!! da da da da da da da....


18 posted on 03/12/2009 3:08:12 PM PDT by Paloma_55 (I may be a hateful bigot, but I still love you)
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To: gandalftb

Woah. Groovy.

ah yes... “Hellfire: We you care enough to send the very best”.

Good hunting, guys... wherever you are...


19 posted on 03/12/2009 3:09:56 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: NormsRevenge
and not a single woman and child or wedding party was killed... our aim must be getting better
20 posted on 03/12/2009 5:28:54 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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