[Dog]

This smells like a black ops...Delta and or SAS or a combined force.. I've read there were five men killed inside the house along with the women and children and puppies and kittens...:-)

It was a nasty fire fight at close quarters....the attackers really want whomever was in that house.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Anyway this would tie in with the story that the Paki's almost got Zawahiri :

Pakistan army 'just miss' Zawahiri

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Rehman Malik, the adviser to Pakistan's prime minister on security affairs, said on Monday they also received a report al-Zawahiri's wife had been in the tribal region of Mohmand. Pakistani forces stormed the location but did not find the couple, he said, without indicating when the raid took place.

[archy]

Delta and or SAS or a combined force

Pretty good bet, see links in post #18. But there are also a couple of the folks who were among the first to go into Afghanistan waaaay back in late 2001, as well as some *civilians* who speak pretty good Pashtun Mahsit dialect.

Or, maybe it was just some bikers there for the local pool tournament....