Predator drone, Global Hawk's are not armed yet.
Posted on 01/31/2008 3:45:55 AM PST by Dog
MIRAMSHAH, Jan 30: Militants retrieved and buried on Wednesday the bodies of 12 foreigners who had been killed in a missile attack on a residential compound in the Khushali Toorikhel area of North Waziristan on Monday night.
Local people said the identity of the militants killed in the attack remained unknown but according to unconfirmed reports seven of them were Arabs while the other five from central Asian.
The compound, located about three kilometres south of Mirali town, is owned by Abdus Sattar, a driver, who survived the attack.
A large number of militants had surrounded the site to get the bodies which the later buried in a local graveyard.
“Militants are still keeping the local people away from the place,” a villager told Dawn on phone. He said that unmanned air vehicles had hovered over the area on Wednesday.
The attack is a mystery because it is still not known who had fired the missile.
Some local people claimed that a drone had fired the missile but officials have been keeping quiet.
“I heard the sound of a plane just before the explosion,” said the man who identified himself as Zaheer Gul.
Several places in the North Waziristan have come under attack in the recent past. A house was attacked in Mosaki village in Mirali tehsil in December 2005 in which Al Qaeda’s operational commander Hamza Rabia was killed.
Meanwhile, militants attacked a security base in the Razmak sub-division of North Waziristan on Wednesday.
According to sources, two army soldiers were killed while another was injured in the afternoon attack.
They said that the militants had sneaked into Razmak from the adjacent Makin area where security forces had launched an operation against supporters of Baitullah Mehsud.
Global Hawk maybe? cool.
This has the feel of Damadola.
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Predator drone, Global Hawk's are not armed yet.
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Seven tourists among the dead.
Definitely Queda.
Militants retrieved and buried on Wednesday the bodies of 12 foreigners
How are we going to find out who they were?
I guess we blew the chance for a second strike. I have often felt that funerals would make good target-rich environments.
You can tell alot if you know who attended the burial. Think of this as a mafia funeral and the FBI taking pictures of who comes and goes....same thing. I would guess this site has been watched in real time since the missile struck...
I have always wondered why there isn’t another strike about 30 minutes after the first strike to get all the sympathizers?
The only armed, acknowledged, UAV is a Predator.
Maybe it was a Reaper, the more heavily armed variant of the Predator. I wonder if any are in service yet? Anyone know?
Are Egyptians classified as Arabs?
Are you counting the Reaper as a Predator?
Hopefully, we shall hear many many similar reports coming out of the border areas between A and P.
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