Posted on 09/11/2008 10:49:08 PM PDT by HAL9000
via translation -
Pakistan: new missile apparently American, 11 or 12 dead
MIRANSHAH (Pakistan) - A new missile apparently fired by a drone of the American army came to Afghanistan Friday killed 11 or 12 people in the north-west Pakistan, where Washington wants to eradicate the dens of Al-Qaeda and Taliban have assured local officials.
The new strike comes after an exchange of acrimonious About between Washington and Islamabad, however, its ally in its "war against terrorism": the USA have threatened to expand military operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan bordering the Afghanistan, Pakistan has vowed to oppose "any price".
The missile hit a house Tol Khel, on the outskirts of Miranshah, the main town in the tribal district of North Waziristan, considered a stronghold of Taliban Pakistani harbouring and supporting foreign fighters of Al Qaeda, told AFP a senior local government, under cover of anonymity.
"This attack just before dawn, destroyed homes and killed 11 or 12 people," said this source.
Bad luck for those in safe places that weren’t.
Ping
The Orkin man doesn’t try to sort out the good roaches from the bad roaches...
Wonder what they will do when the B-52's start doing their thing.
Something tells me McCain will really take the gloves off.
Pakistan does have nukes, after all.
Anyone notice that AFP sure seems to have very intimate access to the taliban?
Their nukes are not a deterrent against action on our part at all.
Musharraf and Bhutto were Plan A.
Time for Plan B, and I have a feeling that McCain isn't going to be too worried about what the maniacs that are hiding Bin Laden think about our forces going after him and his network.
Support (harbor) a terrorist, you ARE a terrorist.
‘Nuff said.
That’s because AFP reporters have the “Taliban spokesman” on their speed dial, and publish whatever he says as truth. I’d say they are rooting for the Taliban.
MAD works well with the US, Russia and China.
I’m not quite as certain it works for a area dominated by a faith that only offers one sure-fire way to get into that whore-house-in-the-sky they call paradise, and that is to die in jihad.
How many American cities are you willing to trade for Karachi? Is every city in all of Pakistan worth as much as Duluth in your mind? No, we need to be a bit more subtile and circumspect in achieving our goals there.
But achieve them we will.
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