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“An unmanned US drone made low flights over the Miranshah bazaar and adjacent areas in the North Waziristan Agency...”

Miranshah: Native: Miram Shah, is located 39 km (24 mi.) SSE of the notorious terrorist hotbead of Khowst, Afghanistan. U.S. forces have permenant installations both at Khowst (including a long runway) and south of Khowst, along the Pakistani border.

On the map below, Miram Shah can be found nearly in the center of the map. Khowst is the second city north of Miram Shah.

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To orient yourself, find Pesawar, Pakistan on the map below (upper center) and in the map above (upper right corner).

--Boot Hill

28 posted on 07/02/2004 5:43:49 PM PDT by Boot Hill

To: Coop; Cap Huff; Ernest_at_the_Beach

29 posted on 07/02/2004 5:46:39 PM PDT by Boot Hill

Nice map-that looks like we could make one hell of a ski resort there one day.

35 posted on 07/02/2004 8:38:14 PM PDT by treeclimber ("We will hunt the terrorists in every dark corner of the earth. We will be relentless." GWB)

To: Boot Hill; Dog

To my mind, the key is that Miram Shah is on the Tochi river. I'd bet Dollars against donuts that Osama's crew has to stay in or near the river valleys (logistics, stealth, etc.), and that would be why, to me, that the drone was going in for a closer look.

It's also worth noting that the French have leaked at least two different stories to AFP that we've almost gotten Bin Laden at two different times and places.

36 posted on 07/02/2004 8:44:03 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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