Posted on 01/19/2006 6:20:41 AM PST by Coop
Edited on 01/20/2006 5:17:42 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Terrorist names associated with Damadola, Pakistan strike:
1- http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wopaki0119,0,1187977.story?coll=ny-world-big-pix
2- http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/18/world/main1218527.shtml
3- http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=126910®ion=2
4-http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/01/18/pakistan.airstrike/
5- http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060119/ts_nm/security_pakistan_qaeda_dc;_ylt=AhOQYGilRdQg3uV1sRVAYjCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-
6- http://smh.com.au/news/world/alqaeda-leaders-listed-as-killed/2006/01/19/1137553712024.h
7- Pakistan hunts for pro-Taleban clerics who were at Al Qaeda dinner, 20 Jan
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Update: the clerics [Mohammed and Ali] returned to lead funeral rites for the victims. Then they came back again to lead a large protest against the allegedly CIA-led sortie.
Mohammed and Ali mobilized around 8,000 armed men to fight US forces after its invasion of Afghanistan following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, Pakistani officials said.
The two are already wanted for harboring terrorists, and the government has outlawed their Islamic group, Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi, or Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law. In May last year, security forces raided their homes in Hewai, arresting at least a dozen suspected terrorists from Uzbekistan.
This link has a different scenario, at least at the end of the event. See paragraph 8:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:iwW-o9bwx5kJ:www.saag.org/%255Cpapers17%255Cpaper1677.html+Mamond++Pakistan&hl=en
...an official said Sunday. The man, who was not identified, was picked up in Damadola village, the remote hamlet where U.S. missiles struck Jan. 13, the security official said on condition of anonymity according to official policy. The man arrested was a relative of Faqir Mohammed...
It also suggests that the surveillance was more than just our airborne Predator assets.
13. In a search operation for the six missing soldiers, hundreds of regular soldiers of the Pakistan Army were flown into the area in helicopters and they surrounded the Khasokhel village.Even as the Pakistani Army action to recover the missing soldiers was continuing, unidentified aircraft, allegedly belonging to the US forces across the border in Afghanistan, attacked the house of a local pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Noor Muhammad in the Saidgai village, three kilometres from the Afghan border, allegedly killing eight tribesmen and wounding 19 others. The Maulana himself escaped. According to the local residents, an American helicopter landed in the village and took away two tribesmen, whom the Americans suspected of having knowledge about the whereabouts of bin Laden and al-Zawahiri. 14. The operation of January 13, 2005, in the Bajaur Agency followed this incident.
Maybe. Although I think your assumption is correct, it could also be a post-event reconstruction by various means.
I just found an old Jang article from Jan '05 about a crashed Predator in or near Dandi Saidgai even back then they were watching that area...
If our guess is correct, then I'd peg that assignment at a pucker factor of about 7!
OSLO (AP) — Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Tuesday there were indications that al-Qaeda members were killed in a U.S. airstrike near the Afghan border on Jan. 13. "Investigations have found that there are foreigners there, that is for sure, in the general area," Musharraf said of the airstrike in Damadola, a village in northern Pakistan.
Thanks for the ping.
...it appears that the CIA undertook the mission with help from American loyalists and retainers within the Pakistani intelligence establishment.
While one wing of the establishment led by PM Shaukat Aziz insists that no terrorists were killed in the bombing, various Pakistani officials, including his own ministers, have confirmed terrorist deaths to the media.
It now transpires that the reason for this confusion is that one wing of the Pakistani establishment has no clue about the underhand working of the other...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1565109/posts?page=4
But as we can see, I have my suspicions about his status: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1565109/posts?page=5#5
...[i]n an interview with CNN's Richard Quest at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Musharraf said he believed around five or six al Qaeda operatives were killed in the raid.
But he added that the attack was an unjustified violation of an agreement that Pakistani forces should handle operations against al Qaeda inside their own territory.
Pakistan summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest shortly after the attack.
"We were disappointed," Musharraf told CNN. "Intelligence is coordinated between our two countries, and there is cooperation on both sides at a strategic and tactical level. So it's a disappointment and we hope this is not to be repeated.
"But at the same time, while we are angry at the violation of sovereignty by the U.S., I am also angry at the violation of sovereignty by al Qaeda."
Musharraf is playing this well -
As well as can be expected, I suppose. I wouldn't wanna be him.
U.S. posts wrong photo of ‘al-Qaida operative’
...[f]or a year and a half, the U.S. government has been asking for the public's help in finding Midhat Mursi al-Sayid 'Umar, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, a dangerous al-Qaida operative. But now intelligence officials admit to NBC News they were using a photo of a different man...
The good news is it likely doesn't matter, thanks to this Damadola strike. [grin]
Dead body of any Al-Qaeda member in Bajaur not found: Shaukat Sultan
ISLAMABAD: Pak Army Spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan Tuesday said that Pakistan Security forces did not yet find any dead body of any Al-Qaeda militants in the US airstrikes on Bajaur.
He stated this while talking to VOA in Islamabad, saying officials were investigating the numbers and identities of the Al-Qaeda militants killed in the attack.
To a question, he responded that Pakistani security forces were searching Al-Qaeda No 3 Aiman Al-Zawahairi in the rugged Pakistan mountainous areas.
He said efforts were in full swing aimed to arrest terrorists hide in the country and important targets for the country military were Al-Qaeda top commanders.
Shaukat Sultan denied to comment on the video tap of Aiman Al Zawahairi. http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=92742
I'm assuming you posted a map of some kind, only it doesn't come up, no matter what tricks I try. What's going on?
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