Posted on 01/08/2010 9:45:44 AM PST by NormsRevenge
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Suspected U.S. missiles killed four people in northwest Pakistan on Friday, the latest in a surge of such attacks since a suicide bomber staged a deadly assault on CIA employees just across the frontier in Afghanistan.
The attack was the sixth in just over a week in North Waziristan, an unusually intense bombardment that also follows repeated calls by the United States for Pakistan to do more against militants there blamed for attacks on American and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
The area is the stronghold of the Haqqani network, an Afghan Taliban group with links to al-Qaida. Its militants are responsible for cross-border attacks and could have played a role in the Dec. 30 attack that killed seven CIA employees in Khost province, analysts believe.
The U.S. does not comment on the strikes or their targets. It has carried out more than 50 of them since last year, most by unmanned plans believed operated by the CIA with the cooperation of Pakistani intelligence. They have been more common since the Obama administration took over.
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The hits keep coming..
Buy HeLL Fire stock..
No no these aren’t US missiles
just lighting bolts from Allah.
“Suspected”? Have they interrogated them yet? Or do the missiles now have appointed defense counsel?
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