Jalaluddin Haqqani
Posted on 09/07/2008 10:35:28 PM PDT by HAL9000
THREE KILLED, 20 HURT IN SUSPECTED U.S. DRONE ATTACK ON PAKISTANI VILLAGE USED BY TALIBAN COMMANDER-WITNESSES
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Blast rock Pakistani stronghold of Taliban commander
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Huge explosions were heard on Monday in a Pakistani village close to the Afghan border where a religious school founded by an old friend of Osama bin Laden is located, witnesses said.
"I could see smoke rising from Dandi Darpakheil," a resident of Miranshah, the main town of the North Waziristan tribal region, told Reuters, referring to the village where veteran mujahideen leader Jalaluddin Haqqani's madrasa is located. "There were three huge blasts," he said. (Reporting by Haji Mujtaba; writing by Zeeshan Haider; editing by Simon Cameron-Moore Alex Richardson)
Or, as Barack Obama would say, “Pockeystahn.”
Predator above,
unseen, a dot in the sky.
Al Qaeda flambe
Thanks for the haiku.
Long beard and specs mean wisdom, innit? So it aint right I bin killed, dunnit?
“Pockeystahn”
That’s how they people in Pakistan and India refer to it. Regardless, how come 20 injured. Shouldn’t they have been killed too? Time to arm and head back out to finish the job.
One can only hope that we finally got Bin Laden. (That is, if he isn’t dead already). Go US Miltary!
Click, click, BOOM!
Missiles targeted commander Haqqani’s house, madarssah in N Waziristan
MIRANSHAH: Seven guided missiles have been fired from US spy planes in Miranshah and adjoining areas in North Waziristan in which several people feared dead.
According to sources, the guided missiles targeted the madarssah and house of Afghan commander Jalaluddin Haqqani in Miranshah.
Commander Haqqani was surfaced during war against Russia in Afghanistan and his guerrilla activities gave tough time to Russian forces during wartime.
One of Haqqani's younger sons said his father and son Sirajuddin had been away from the house at the time.While the senior Haqqani is believed to be in poor health and less active, Sirajuddin has been leading the Taliban faction.
"Haqqani and Sirajuddin were in Afghanistan at the time of the attack. They are alive," Badruddin, the commander's third son, told Reuters by telephone.
US missile attack kills six in Pakistan
Indo-Asian News Service
Monday, September 08, 2008, (Islamabad)
Six persons, including three women, were killed and 20 others injured in a missile strike by unmanned US drones on a house and a seminary linked to a key Taliban commander Jalauddin Haqqani in Pakistan’s restive North Waziristan tribal region on Monday.
The suspected drones operated by the US-led forces in Afghanistan fired six to seven guided missiles at the seminary in Tanda Darpakhel, two kilometres from Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan.
Four missiles hit a madrassa run by senior Taliban leader Jalaluddin Haqqani while three hit nearby houses. A news agency quoted official sources and local residents as saying.
Three female seminary students and three labourers were among the dead, official sources said, but other sources said that among the killed were three militants.
Whether Haqqani, who is a close aide of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar was present in the area or not at the time of the strike, was not known.
The Pasthun leader of Khost in Afghanistan has not seen since the fall of the Taliban regime in Kabul in 2001.
Taliban fighters surrounded the area around the madrassa and did not allow people to approach the site. North and South Waziristan tribal regions are considered strongholds of the Pakistani Taliban led by Baitullah Mehsud.
Since last week, Pakistan’s tribal belt has witnessed a sharp increase in attacks by drones operated by US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan. More than 40 people have died in these attacks.
Twenty people, a majority of them women and children, were killed in a raid in South Waziristan by gunship helicopters and commandos of the coalition forces on September three.
That attack marked the first time that US-led ground forces from Afghanistan had intruded into Pakistan.
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080064528&ch=9/8/2008%202:45:00%20PM
Black socks with sandals?
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