Posted on 11/01/2008 8:58:08 AM PDT by gandalftb
MIRANSHAH/ WANA: A total of 33 people, majority of them foreigners, were killed in two separate U.S. drone strikes in Pak-Afghan bordering areas of North and South Waziristan late Friday.
In the first attack two missiles were fired that destroyed a vehicle and a house in Mir Ali, a town in the troubled North Waziristan tribal region that is a known hub of Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, sources said.
The latest targeted an Al-Qaeda operative, possibly an Iraqi, but officials citing local intelligence reports said he was not believed to be among the dead.
Officials gave the targeted militant's name as Abu Akasa Al-Iraqi. Local residents said the strike hit the house of a Pakistani tribesman named Amanullah Dawar.
In another attack two missiles were fired, killing seven persons, including six foreigners.
The missiles were fired on a house of tribesman named Faz-e-Haq (AKA Sher Zaman) in Dhok area of Wana (S Waziristan), destroying the house completely.
According to Arab TV Qari Tahir Yaldelshev, an al-Qaeda commander, was the target of the attack.
The attack killed six foreigners besides a local tribesman.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenews.jang.com.pk ...
He runs the Uzbek thugs-for-hire that are the front row muscle for Baitullah and al Qaeda.
He provides the Black Guard - personal security for UBL and Z.
Too bad we couldn't capture him, he would know where UBL and Z are.
Anyway this is very good news if it is true, need confirmation. Also unconfirmed that Taliban commander Maulvi Mohammad Nazir was in the house.
The other (N Waziristan)strike:
Abu Akasa, AKA Abdur Rehman Abu Akash, AKA Haji Akasha Khan, AKA Iraqi Malang, is an Iraqi national that showed up in 1996, longtime AQ organizer, was staying at Asori village, 4 km. S of Mir Ali, N Waziristan, with Maulvi (cleric) Amanullah of the Dawar tribe. He was AQ's finance operative in the area and was in a video in April, pledging jihad, etc. He didn't get along with the locals, not good thinking.....
Finally, it does not look like we killed Maulvi Umar, the Taliban spokesman, in a missile strike on his cave two weeks ago, as I had reported. He was there and was wounded, but survived.
Great Shot!
He may not have been killed, but he spent the night at the local Holiday Hut Inn.
Did I even know there was a Waziristan, let alone a North Waziristan?
All’s well that ends well.
That's the Paki verrsion of what we used to call "Indian country." Ungovernable lands full of barbarians.
Then the name really seems to fit somehow!
LOL
Too little, too late George.
We’ve been conducting PC wars across the globe
far too long.
Oh to be in command of a few dozen orbiting drones loaded to the teeth. After cleaning up the entire border region, I would forgo the hellfire and add a .223 minigun to strafe the remaining trash.
Not too late, but still too little.
I have hint for the local tribes people. Don’t let foreign terriorist stay in your house.
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Waziristan (N. and S.) are two agencies in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.
This interactive map isn’t 100% (and the story that goes with it is so-so) but it does show you where things are and who some of the players are.
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/pakistan703/history/map.html
Important to realise: these are very rugged, mountainous areas. The border Afghan-Pak is ill-defined (Durand line) and porous and hard to patrol, with the same tribes arrayed across the border without regard to the white man’s governments and preferences. The mountains divide up the tribes so that someone who lives in one valley may never interact (except over rifle sights) with a villager across a mountain but only three miles away.
The best prep for going there, actually, is to read Kipling. (The stories and novels, more than the poetry). Nothing important has changed in these hundred years.
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33? That’s some nice shooting, and even nicer intel. Must have caught them during one of their wedding parties.
Thanks! (Though it’s not on my present itinerary...)
USA hits 2 homers with the bases loaded.
Without question - If we got Yuldashev, huge.
The confirmation that we took out Khalid Habib only furthers the likelyhood that we could very well be on Yuldashev tail as well......I’m sure these strikes are related regardless whether we put Yuld’s in the ground this time or not....
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