Posted on 01/18/2006 2:33:00 AM PST by Reform4Bush
Pakistani investigators said on Wednesday they had found two empty graves at the site of a controversial United States airstrike, a day after officials said up to five foreign militants died in the attack.
But there was no information about the identities of the insurgents who died in the raid on a remote tribal village, despite initial US intelligence reports that al-Qaeda's Egyptian number two Ayman al-Zawahiri may be among them.
Officials said local militants may have shifted the bodies before burial to stop Pakistani or US authorities DNA testing the remains and finding out who was killed in Friday's missile attack.
Residents of Damadola village in Bajur tribal agency, however, have reported that 18 civilians died in the attack, for whom as many graves were dug, and that no militants were in the area.
"The residents dug 18 graves but buried 16 people and two graves were left vacant before they covered them over," said a senior security official, citing a report by intelligence officials in the region.
On Tuesday the regional administration chief of Bajur said the missile strike was aimed at foreign militants invited to a dinner and that four or five were killed -- the first such public confirmation by Pakistan.
The tribal administration said two local militants, Maulana Faqir Mohammad and Maulana Liaqat, had removed the bodies of the foreign extremists killed in the attack to "suppress the actual reason of the attack", but gave no evidence.
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Interesting comment, but I suppose it could be a generic reason as opposed to a person in particular being the reason.
fyi
This has probably already been mentioned, but what were these "innocents" doing inviting this terrorist to dinner?
Another darn wedding probably. It's not a real wedding without a terrorist or two hanging around.
ROFLMAO!! I know I had a couple at my wedding. One of them hadn't even been born yet.
It's truly amazing that this idea that inviting the "Z" man to dinner might just bring you a drone bomb though your hut for an after dinner desert is completely overlooked by the MSM
We got somebody they don't want us to know about. It's interesting that Zawahiri hasn't come out with a tape taunting us.
"but gave no evidence."
but that is all that will be quoted by liberals
"This has probably already been mentioned, but what were these "innocents" doing inviting this terrorist to dinner?"
Bingo!
They should have gone for a picnic in a local mosque. Nobody'd dare blow that up.
It would be odd if he HADN'T already made a number of tapes to be brought out for various possibilities, including a bomb with his name on it.
Those terrorists are really the life of a wedding!
"Those terrorists are really the life of a wedding!"
and more recently the death too......lol
Terrorists and their families are all legitimate targets. A familial extension of the Bush Doctrine. You harbor them...you die too.
"Another darn wedding probably."
The Predator drone was being flown by Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn.
No"body" was in those graves.
$25 mil, and a reputation for being more ruthless than the neighboring tribe; can cause people to dig up bodies. Just sayin'
Thanks...no reason for missing bodies other than someone is hiding some...body!!!
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