Posted on 02/29/2008 5:24:28 AM PST by Dog
Any chance all four were there? Since there were four ‘guests’ taken out, per reports.
I think the Pakis are turning a blind eye to our special operators. They will cleain each time it was explosives in the house that the militants set off by accident. It also seems the locals are not as pissed off now by the increasing ‘accidental explosions’. I am sure Dr. Ayman and his cohorts must be having a little trouble sleeping these days know 72 virgins may be waiting for them at any moment.
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Looks like Gadahn Pearlman was blown to bits in the January strike and I’d wager his notebook computer and hard drive are in our possession.
Dog, this is such great news, that I'm gonna try to break it up a little for you and everyone else.(Wish me luck!!)
PESHAWAR - At least 13 militants, including some foreigners, were killed and 11 others were critically injured as three missiles, allegedly fired by the US forces, hit a house in Kaloshah area of Wana District in South Waziristan Agency on Thursday, eyewitnesses said.
Immediately after the attack, the militants encircled the area and local people were barred from entering the site. However, the locals informed that three missiles fired from an unknown direction hit the house of Malik Khel Wazir at Shero Village, Kaloshah Azam Warsak area at midnight, killing at least 12 people, mostly foreigners, and injuring 11 others critically.
Several rooms of the house were completely destroyed in the attacks. Exact identity and strength of the foreigners killed in the incident has not yet been determined, but the locals informed that they were either from Arab countries or Central Asia. An Al-Qaeda fugitive from Egypt is also reported to be among them.
However, the officials claimed that there was a seminary near the house, which was used by the militants as a shelter. The killed persons were buried in the area, while the injured were admitted to local and Wana hospitals. It is highly believed that the US forces, either from Afghanistan side or from Arabian Sea, fired the missiles.
It merits mentioning that this is the second attack of its kind in a month. Earlier, a missile hit a hideout at Mir Ali town, killing 12 people including top Al-Qaeda commander Abu Laith Al Laibi, on January 29.
AFP adds: A suspected US missile strike destroyed an Al-Qaeda and Taliban hideout in the country’s tribal area Thursday, killing 13 alleged militants including several Arabs, security officials said. Residents of Azam Warsak village in South Waziristan told AFP that a house was blown up by a missile fired from a pilotless drone and the loud blast was heard kilometres away in the rugged valley.
US drones have launched several strikes on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border targeting members of Osama bin Laden’s network, although Islamabad never confirms such attacks due to issues of national sovereignty. “A house used as a den by Al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban militants was hit by a missile. Thirteen people were killed and around 10 were wounded,” a senior Pakistani security official told AFP. “There was no immediate information about the presence of any high-value target,” the official said.
A security source based in Peshawar said the missile was fired by a US drone at about 2:00 am Thursday. The militants were using the house as an “operational base” for attacks on NATO-led and US troops in Afghanistan, as well as a meeting place for Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants, the official said. A spokesman for the US-led coalition force based in Afghanistan said it had “no reports” that either it or the separate NATO-headed force were involved in the strike.
Chief military spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas told AFP that information from the area indicated that the deaths were caused by explosive material stored in a house. “As per our information it was an explosion caused by explosive material in a house,” Abbas said, adding that the blast reportedly killed 10 to 12 people. All of their nationalities were not known, he said.
Hat tip Longwar Journal for this list..
Egyptian al Qaeda known to be operating in Pakistan’s tribal regions:
• Abu Khabab al Masri: Al Qaeda's Weapons of Mass Destruction expert and master bomb maker. He is also known as Also known as Midhat Mursi.
• Abdul Rahman al Masri al Maghribi: A senior al Qaeda military commander who is also believed to be Ayman al Zawahiri's son-in-law.
• Abu Ubaidah al Masri: A senior al Qaeda operative who served as the former operations chief in Kunar, Afghanistan.
• Sheikh Essa: An Egyptian cleric based out of North Waziristan who advocates expanding the Taliban's jihad in Pakistan. "Local adherents of the takfiri ideology, like Sadiq Noor and Abdul Khaliq, have grown strong and spread the word in North Waziristan." the Asia Times reported on Jan. 1. "Former members of jihadi outfits such as Jaish-i-Mohammed, Laskhar-i-Taiba and Lashkar-i-Jhangvi have gathered in North Waziristan and declared Sheikh Essa their ideologue."
Great post Dog!!...BTTT !!
You know, the funniest was when we had attacked Afghanistan, helping the Northern Alliance, etc, I remember al Jazeera reporting that Taliban and Al Qaida fighters were basically whining that we weren’t “fighting fair.” They were incredulous that we were bombing and strafing from the sky (B52s, AC130 ops) while they were fighting on horseback with swords.
lol
I’ve been out of town quite a bit, does anyone know if that American terrorist from Marin Co. Calif., has been killed yet? I think his first name is Adam?
You gotta love this part:
However, the locals informed that three missiles fired from an unknown direction hit the house...
Where's Time magazine....that's 24 people???
And did the missile have PID before it launched? Were any prior efforts made to remove innocents? Why didn't they send an advance inquiry about the ratio of killers to toddlers, wives, and grandparents?
Wuterich probably caused this....maybe Tatum. Definitely, Chessani should be charged for not sending in an investigative team with this number of bodies.
well, given the hiders were armed, malicious and capable of killing everyone in the shelter, I guess they gave them room.
No telling what one does when confronted with people like these.
Yeah it does mess with their heads. It’s demolishing them.
Someone got the memo in Pakistan because this is a great job by very good and brave men.
My thoughts exactly. Time should have McJerk over there in South Waziristan so he can report on these events as they take place, him waiting two or three months just doesn’t cut it.
He’s friendly with the Taliban so I’m sure they’d invite him into their homes for bread and a bed, he’d surely meet some explosive people.
There has been no official confirmation but it is widely believed that the "American Taliban" Adam Gadahn (sic?) was turned into a ball of pink mist in January.
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The kind that just "blow his mind!"
MSM Analyst: The inability for the Bush Administration to find al-Libi is a horrible stain on Bush’s tenure. He’s a major playor who thumbs his nose at Bush and..
Reporter: This just in. al-Libi was killed by an airstrike
MSM Analyst: al-Libi was a meaningless bit player. It really means very little.
Well said...You’ve captured the pathetic rantings of the media to a tee!
Now that you bring it up, yeah! :-)
When the news came out about Al Libi and (hopefully) Adam Ghadan, I took the whole family out for dinner, and blew through $100 before drinks.
If the MSM won't report the victories of freedom over enslavement, then it's up to us to celebrate them.
Cool!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967984/posts
Adam Gadahn Rumored Killed
The Long War Journal ^ | 2/9/2008 | Left Coast Republican
Posted on 02/10/2008 3:16:03 AM PST by Left Coast Republican
By Bill RoggioFebruary 8, 2008 6:49 PM Gadhan.jpg
Adam Gadahn.
One day after a Pakistani newspaper reported al Qaeda propagandist Adam Gadahn may have been killed in the same airstrike that killed al Qaeda leader Abu Laith al Libi, the rumor remains unconfirmed.
Speculation over Gadahn’s presence at the al Qaeda safe house in North Waziristan began on Jan. 29, the day of the airstrike. An unnamed US official denied Gadahn was killed in the strike. But on Feb. 7, The News reported, based on statements from Western sources, that Gadahn was killed in the airstrike.
Gadahn was believed to be en route to the village of Khushali Tari Khel to attend an “an important meeting with other senior al-Qaeda commanders for planning the so-called spring offensive against US and NATO troops in Afghanistan,” The News reported. Two other al Qaeda leaders, Abu Obeida Tawari al Obeid, a Saudi; and Abu Adel al Kuwaiti, were also reported killed in the North Waziristan airstrike.
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