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5 Pakistanis killed in US raid
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/23/content_2990772.htm ^
| 2005-05-23
| Xinhua News
Posted on 05/23/2005 12:19:24 AM PDT by Deetes
BEIJING, May 23 -- Five tribesmen have been killed in an airborne raid by US helicopters in north Pakistan.
Authorities in the tribal area said five men of the Madakhel Wazir tribe were killed Saturday night after the US helicopters fired rockets. Pakistani military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan confirmed the raid but was unclear about the casualties.
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TOPICS: Extended News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: pakistan; wot
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:19:24 AM PDT
by
Deetes
To: Dog; Straight Vermonter; TexKat; Wiz
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:21:18 AM PDT
by
Deetes
(God Bless the Troops)
To: Deetes
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:25:54 AM PDT
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: ARCADIA
Wouldn't that be a treat !!! I think I would take a couple days off a celebrate :)
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:31:56 AM PDT
by
Deetes
(God Bless the Troops)
To: Deetes
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posted on
05/23/2005 12:36:29 AM PDT
by
Wiz
To: Deetes
Another 20 shells fired by coalition forces from Afghanistan landed on the Pakistani border but caused no damage. They had to have been after a big fish to risk civilian casualties.
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posted on
05/23/2005 2:52:05 AM PDT
by
whershey
(www.worldwar4.net)
To: ARCADIA
No, but one of them was one inch, one and quarter when excited.
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posted on
05/23/2005 3:18:57 AM PDT
by
razoroccam
(Then in the name of Allah, they will let loose the Germs of War (http://www.booksurge.com))
To: nuconvert
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posted on
05/23/2005 6:51:32 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: AdmSmith
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posted on
05/23/2005 6:51:46 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: Deetes
Why isn't this glorious news agency gloriously reporting instead about the glorious deaths of Tibetan monks at the glorious hands of the glorious People's Republic of China Army, as opposed to reporting what the Imperialist Running Dog Capitalist War-mongering Round-eyed Fascist Americans are doing?
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posted on
05/23/2005 6:55:20 AM PDT
by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: nuconvert; Deetes
Thanks, here is more info:
http://www.dawn.com/2005/05/23/top6.htm By Pazir Gul
MIRAMSHAH (North Waziristan), May 22: Five tribesmen were killed in an attack by US helicopters in the Lawara Mandai area of the North Waziristan agency on Saturday night, officials said. Another 20 shells fired by the coalition forces from Afghanistan's Paktika province landed near Lawara Mandai, but did not cause any damage, eyewitnesses said.
Director-General of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan confirmed that several shells and rockets fired by the coalition troops had landed near Lawara Mandai. "We don't know about the casualties," the ISPR chief told Dawn on phone on Sunday. He said the matter would be taken up with the coalition authorities.
He said that the coalition commanders on the other side of the border had informed their Pakistani counterparts about the operation in the area and certain rounds had landed in the Pakistani territory on Saturday night. "There is report about collateral damage," he said, adding that he had no information about casualties in the area.
Maj-Gen Sultan said that the army troops had already been deployed in the area along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. However, authorities in Miramshah, the agency's administrative headquarters, said that five men of the Madakhel Wazir tribe were killed after two US helicopters had fired rockets. The names of the victims could not be ascertained.
They said that the US helicopters had intruded into Lawara Mandai up to one kilometre, and two fighter jets flying at a high altitude also violated Pakistan's airspace.
Sources said that the Pakistani security forces did not react to the attack. The army has recently set up two base camps in Ghulam Khan and Lawara Mandai areas of the North Waziristan agency. A senior military official said last week that the border had been sealed to stop cross-border movement of suspected militants.
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posted on
05/23/2005 6:58:23 AM PDT
by
AdmSmith
To: Deetes
"They said that the US helicopters had intruded into Lawara Mandai up to one kilometre, and two fighter jets flying at a high altitude also violated Pakistan's airspace."
This has not happened much in the past. Sounds like we were after high value targets to have done this.
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posted on
05/23/2005 7:06:09 AM PDT
by
ryan71
(Speak softly and carry a BIG STICK)
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