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Suspected U.S. Strike Kills Six in Pakistan
AP ^ | 12/11/08 | Associated Press

Posted on 12/11/2008 12:29:43 PM PST by Pistolshot

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. strike killed six people Thursday on the Pakistan side of the Afghan border, a lawless region believed to be a stronghold of Al Qaeda, two intelligence officials said.

The identities of those killed in the attack was not immediately known, the officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

"At present, local Taliban have surrounded the destroyed house, and they are not letting anybody get close to it," said one of the officials.

Citing agents and informants in the field, the officials said six people were killed in the strike late Thursday in a village near Azam Warsak in South Waziristan.

The United States is suspected of carrying out more than 30 missile strikes against militant targets on the Pakistan side of the Afghan border since August.

The attacks have killed scores of militants, but angered Pakistani leaders, who say they undermine their own war on terror.

Most of the missiles are believed launched from unmanned spy planes that take off from neighboring Afghanistan.

Washington rarely confirms or denies the attacks. However, the U.S. military has said that the Taliban and other radical Islamist groups based on the Pakistan side of the border carry out attacks on American troops in Afghanistan.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fata; islam; jihad; mohammedanism; mohammedanism122008; nwfp; objectinmirrorcloser; pakistan; taliban; trashem; waziristan
I wonder who they got this time.
1 posted on 12/11/2008 12:29:44 PM PST by Pistolshot
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To: Pistolshot

Here’s hopin’ a big ‘un bit it.


2 posted on 12/11/2008 12:31:10 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: Pistolshot
Achmed, what is that noise?
3 posted on 12/11/2008 12:32:27 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Pistolshot

“At present, local Taliban have surrounded the destroyed house.....”

Hum, sounds like a great time to have strike #2, same place!


4 posted on 12/11/2008 12:32:48 PM PST by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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To: Pistolshot

Knock, knock. Candygram.


5 posted on 12/11/2008 12:39:48 PM PST by vietvet67
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To: Pistolshot

It done blowed up really good!


6 posted on 12/11/2008 12:46:34 PM PST by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: b4its2late

Al Jezeera will report that the dead are: The Bride, the Groom, two children, a puppy and a kitten.


7 posted on 12/11/2008 12:54:39 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Pistolshot

If the Talliban flocked to the scene, why was there no second strike?


8 posted on 12/11/2008 12:57:21 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Save America......... put out lots of wafarin (it's working))
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InComing!!

An unmanned Predator drone. Six suspected militants were killed
Thursday when a missile apparently fired by a US drone struck a
house in a Pakistani tribal district known to be a Taliban stronghold,
an official said. (AFP/USAF/File/US Air Force)

9 posted on 12/11/2008 2:18:50 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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