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Pakistan: US missile strike suspected in 2 deaths
Yahoo News (AP) ^ | 12/16/8 | NAHAL TOOSI

Posted on 12/16/2008 5:03:25 AM PST by BullDog108

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A suspected U.S. missile strike killed two people in Pakistan near the Afghan border, officials and a witness said Tuesday, as two U.S. senators visited Islamabad amid flaring tensions over the Mumbai attacks in India.

The Monday night strike in Tabi Tolkhel village, in the North Waziristan tribal region, appeared to be the latest in a surge of alleged U.S. missile attacks on militant targets in Pakistan's northwest border region, long bedeviled by al-Qaida and Taliban extremists. More than 30 have been reported since August.

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Two down, a million or so to go....
1 posted on 12/16/2008 5:03:25 AM PST by BullDog108
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To: BullDog108

John Kerry and Kit Bond were visiting. A little more salt for the various wounds.


2 posted on 12/16/2008 5:09:40 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspell)
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To: BullDog108
I love the Hellfire solution...

And so appropriately named -- because that's where it sends 'em!



               Sheik Yassin's last ride...




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3 posted on 12/16/2008 5:15:01 AM PST by JCG
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To: JCG

I hope they didn’t have a deposit on that wheelchair.


4 posted on 12/16/2008 5:16:39 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (I'll give Obama the same amount of respect the left gave Bush)
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To: theDentist
John Kerry and Kit Bond were visiting. A little more salt for the various wounds.

LOL!

There are a lot of good links on that Yahoo news page.

5 posted on 12/16/2008 5:17:31 AM PST by BullDog108 (A Smith & Wesson beats four aces)
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To: BullDog108

I especially appreciated the link next to Kerry’s photo that read, “sideshow”.


6 posted on 12/16/2008 5:28:39 AM PST by G Larry (BarackÂ’s character has been molded by extremists)
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To: G Larry

Yeah, that is pretty accurate, huh?


7 posted on 12/16/2008 5:38:50 AM PST by BullDog108 (A Smith & Wesson beats four aces)
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To: BullDog108

Two people; that sure was a small wedding.


8 posted on 12/16/2008 5:49:26 AM PST by askrenr (Slightly to the right of Attila the Hun.)
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To: JCG

JCG, is that a pic of a wheelchair or was the sheik wearing a hoop-dress at the time of his death?


9 posted on 12/16/2008 11:30:27 AM PST by Towed_Jumper (Stephen Hopkins: Founding Father who had Cerebral Palsy.."My hand trembles, my heart does not.")
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