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Suspected missile strike in Pakistan tribal area: officials
afp.google.com ^ | June 2 2008
Posted on June 2, 2008 3:21:44 AM PDT by Dog
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) — A suspected missile strike destroyed buildings including a mosque in a Pakistani tribal area early Monday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, security officials said.
At least two blasts ripped through the compound in Spilga, a village on the outskirts of Miranshah, the main town in the Taliban stronghold of North Waziristan, the officials told AFP.
No casualties were reported after the explosions, which happened shortly after midnight (1800 GMT), said the officials who are based in the region.
Officials in Islamabad said they had no details.
Missile attacks attributed to US-led forces in neighbouring Afghanistan in the past have claimed the lives of several militants in Pakistan’s volatile tribal belt.
More than a dozen people were killed in a missile strike in the Bajaur tribal region in May. The Pakistani military said it had lodged a protest with the US-led coalition over that attack.
“Dozens of rebels killed in Afghan strikes”
(AFP)
2 June 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “HERAT, Afghanistan - Afghan security forces under attack in northwestern Afghanistan called in NATO air strikes in heavy clashes that left dozens of Taleban fighters dead, authorities said Monday.
The deputy governor of Badghis province, Abdul Ghani Saber, told AFP that around 55 Taleban were killed in the fighting late Sunday.
NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed that it had carried out air strikes in the area and said its information was that 10 insurgents had been killed.
The clash was in the remote Bala Murghab district, near the border with Turkmenistan, and it was impossible to independently verify the death toll.
“Yesterday, about 300 to 400 Taleban attacked our police posts in Bala Murghab district. With the help of coalition air support, we killed about 55 Taleban,” Saber said.
The toll was based on intelligence from the area, he said. Some of the bodies had also been recovered.
A regional police spokesman, Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, said his information was that “about 46 Taleban were killed and more than 30 others have been wounded.”
The ISAF media office in Kabul said the force had sent in aircraft after an attack on police.”