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Missile strike kills 12 in Pakistan tribal belt
Dawn (PK) ^ | 02.28.07

Posted on 02/28/2008 1:04:00 AM PST by Perdogg

At least 12 people, most of them Arabs, were killed when a missile struck a house early Thursday in a Pakistani tribal region, officials and residents said. Residents in Azam Warsak village in South Waziristan told AFP that the home was destroyed by a missile fired from a pilotless drone and the loud blast was heard miles away in the rugged valley. Security officials said they had received a report that a “guided missile” fired from neighbouring Afghanistan had hit a house belonging to a local tribesman known to have links with the Taliban.

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TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: pakistan; southwaziristan; swaziristan; waziristan
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1 posted on 02/28/2008 1:04:02 AM PST by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

According to the BBC World news, neither the US/NATO nor Pakistan has commented.

This could be big.


2 posted on 02/28/2008 1:07:28 AM PST by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg
This could be big.

please, pretty please with sugar on top...

3 posted on 02/28/2008 1:20:45 AM PST by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562436/posts)
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To: Perdogg

The world is a little nicer today.


4 posted on 02/28/2008 1:25:58 AM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: Perdogg
What's news is that the media didn't try report that it was a "wedding" or "birthday party".
5 posted on 02/28/2008 1:27:43 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: ARE SOLE

It feels nicer.

I hope my feeling is correct.


6 posted on 02/28/2008 2:06:01 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Womans intuition? I hope you are correct too.

Regards


7 posted on 02/28/2008 2:09:26 AM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: ARE SOLE

Yep and pure, unadulterated speculation.


8 posted on 02/28/2008 2:16:11 AM PST by Cindy
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To: All

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9 posted on 02/28/2008 2:28:56 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Maybe it was Osbama’s local campaign HQ.


10 posted on 02/28/2008 3:08:49 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: Perdogg
At least 12 people, most of them Arabs, were killed when a missile struck a house early Thursday in a Pakistani tribal region

This is bound to dampen Arab tourism to the region.

11 posted on 02/28/2008 3:38:52 AM PST by tx_eggman ("they want to be judged on their intentions, not their results" - libtards official motto)
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To: Perdogg

Has a DNA recovery team been put on standby? This could be really good news..


12 posted on 02/28/2008 3:39:08 AM PST by SueRae
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To: Oldexpat

I don’t know, but I’m always the optimist.


13 posted on 02/28/2008 3:43:51 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Caipirabob
“What’s news is that the media didn’t try report that it was a “wedding” or “birthday party”.”

I heard it was the son’s first beheading party.

14 posted on 02/28/2008 3:45:08 AM PST by Londo Molari
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To: Perdogg

So if they weren’t all “Arabs”, what were they ?


15 posted on 02/28/2008 4:22:53 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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“So if they weren’t all “Arabs”, what were they ?”

People who picked a really bad time to stand next to some Arabs.


16 posted on 02/28/2008 4:30:44 AM PST by ex-NFO
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People who picked a really bad time to stand next to some Arabs.

Ha, collaborators.

17 posted on 02/28/2008 4:32:38 AM PST by Rush4U (unnamed source)
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To: cinives
Pakistanis, Persians, Baluchistani, Afghans, Americans, Kosavars, ....
18 posted on 02/28/2008 4:35:56 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The women got the vote and the Nation got Harding.)
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To: ex-NFO

LOL


19 posted on 02/28/2008 4:40:05 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: cinives
So if they weren’t all “Arabs”, what were they ?

You do know, don't you, that the 'tribal people" in Waziristan and Baluchistan, and the afghans, and the Pakistanis, are not arabic people?

20 posted on 02/28/2008 4:57:25 AM PST by WL-law
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