Drone missile kills five near Miramshah (Martial Law,US predators in Pakistan, good combo)

dawn ^ | 11/03/2007 | By Our Correspondent

[milwguy]

Looks like our boys found a HVT and took him and his cronies out with a Predator and a few Hellfires. The fact that the militants acted s oqucikly to surround the place and remove the dead indicates it was probably a big target.

[jiggyboy]

“It looked as if nothing had stood there before,” a resident of the area said.

[ASA Vet]

PING

[InvisibleChurch]

It would sure be nice if Fox News would cover today’s events. I hate relying on CNN.

[Westlander]

[Porterville]

Looks like India and the United States have a new mission..

[VOA]

They said that one of the missiles did not explode while the
other hit the target, razing the compound. “It looked as if nothing had
stood there before,” a resident of the area said.

(from the french): "The more things change, the more they remain the same."

Maybe someone in the UAV program has been watching History Channel's
"Dogfights", especially the Vietnam-era shows.

When you absolutely, positively want to cap the b@$tards,
"ripple-fire" those missles!


(I'm a non-aviator, never-served civilian, so I hope I understood
correctly that "ripple-fire" is the term for launching more
than one missle in quick succession to up the possibility of
hitting the target.)

[SauronOfMordor]

Whenever I see that drone, I think the design was based on the Flying Nun

[compuguru]

Funny, from the same site (latest news page) is reported:

N. Waziristan: 8 killed, 7 injured in explosive material blast Peshawar, Nov 3 ( PPI): At least eight persons were killed and seven others injured when explosive material went off late Friday in Danda Darpa Khel area of North Waziristan Tribal Agency. Official sources said the explosive material was stored in a house. (Posted @ 10:40 PST)

http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/03/welcome.htm (about half-way down the page)

[Melchior]

Miram Shah is very close to the Afghanistan border and served as the jumping off point for mujahideen bound for the former Bin Laden camp at Khost in Paktia province. It is likely tha this was a very good hit.

[bert]

.....US military did not carry out a missile strike ......

This was a CIA missle

[ricks_place]

Hello Taliban! Welcome to hell!

No Delights! No Peace! No Virgins!

[Wings-n-Wind]

It’s a Stinson V-77 with an autopilot!!

[SunkenCiv]

found link here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920424/posts?page=80#80

[SunkenCiv]

The compound is located near the madressah of Taliban leader Jalaluddin Haqqani.

I would like that better if it read, "The compound is located near the former location of the madressah of Taliban leader Jalaluddin Haqqani" -- iow, two targets hit.

[Walkingfeather]

They did blowed up real good.... Kind of interesting here... hell fires pack a punch but I dont think enough to level an entire compound. Wonder if they have super charged them or are using a new missile?

[AmericaUnited]

The Pentagon said the US military did not carry out a missile strike on Friday in the Waziristan region. “There was no indication that there was any US military asset,”

Hehe! It's was a CIA asset.

[maine-iac7]

It would sure be nice if Fox News would cover today’s events. I hate relying on CNN.

I doubt we'll be getting real time - in terms of day to day - updates...and what we do get will be a mere shadow of what is really going on and who and what are doing what - whose coordinating with whom and so on/ And AMEN to that!

We do not need every move broadcast nor do we need the armchair generals, MSM pundits and traitor dimRats spouting off.

Let's pray this is a pincher op with US and Mushie - hoping that Mushie's usual tactic of lobbing a few bombs and then pulling back was because of constraints on him, that may be null and void...I hope that's the case -

[Mamba56]

There is a thermobaric version of the Hellfire, AGM-114N as well as a blast/frag version, AGM-114M. Both of these beauties make a VERY satisfying bang.

[redgolum]

Maybe OBL level?