"My 72 virgins aren't what I was expecting..."
Posted on 09/14/2010 7:37:52 PM PDT by csvset
MIRANSHAH: A missile strike Wednesday killed at least 14 militants in North Waziristan, security officials said, the third attack in less than 24 hours.
Twelve missiles were fired in the attack which took place on a house in Dargah Mandi village on the outskirts of Miranshah. - DawnNews
Any video? I really dig the blasts.
Wow, that many missiles on a single target?
They didn’t want the occupants of that house simply dead - they wanted them in tiny smithereens dead!
how do they know it was drones/missiles?
maybe it was self detonation of unstable munitions,
or maybe G*d responding to Muslim taunts.
How do you say Nobel Peace Prize Winner in arabic?
how do they know it was drones/missiles
I hope ir was...that would be the second thing Obama has done right since american idiots elected the incompetant one to be our president. The other thing he did right was expand on the number of troops in Afghanistan
“Whole lot of droning going on.”
Good to see. I wonder if the Pakistani military is helping out. We know Pakistani intelligence is against us.
I hope it was a target rich environment.
Looks like somebody needs to bag a HIGH value target before November!
They buzz around the sky sometimes for hours before they come in.
[spit..]
BINGO!
I’m sure there are videos. I just lack the clearance to access them.
"My 72 virgins aren't what I was expecting..."
US drone strike kills 11 militants in Pakistan
By blade Created 15/09/2010 - 04:33
US drones fired off a volley of missiles targeting Al-Qaeda linked fighters in a tribal area of northwest Pakistan Wednesday, killing at least 11 militants, security officials said.
The pre-dawn attack -- the third in less than 24 hours -- was directed at the Haqqani network, a Pakistan-based group which is one of the toughest foes for foreign forces in neighbouring Afghanistan.
"Several US drones fired seven missiles at two militant compounds early this morning, killing at least 11 militants," a senior security official told AFP. "The missile strike targeted militants of the Haqqani network."
The attack took place in the village of Dargah Mandi village on the outskirts of Miranshah, the main town in the troubled North Waziristan tribal district where US missiles killed 15 militants in two separate attacks Tuesday.
Another security official in Peshawar and a local intelligence official confirmed Wednesday's strike and the death toll.
"They were Pakistani Taliban attached to the Haqqani group," the intelligence official in Miranshah said.
Residents said there was panic in the village as the noise of drones was heard just before dawn.
"As the US drones came over the village people started shouting and running here and there shouting 'run, drones have come,' a local tribesman told AFP, requesting anonymity for fear militants might harm him.
Residents said the targeted houses were owned by a local tribesman Bacha Khan, who had rented them out to militants, and were destroyed in the attacks.
Created by Afghan warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani and run by his son Sirajuddin, the network is linked to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and has become a particularly prickly thorn in the side of US-led forces trying to bring security to eastern Afghanistan.
A fresh surge in US missile strikes has killed 75 militants since September 3 in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt, which Washington has branded a global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and the most dangerous spot on Earth.
On Tuesday, 11 militants were killed in a drone attack on the village of Bushnarai in Shawal district, a known stronghold of Taliban warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur which is populated by Arab fighters.
Another four militants were killed that day in Qutabkhel village south of Miranshah when US drones fired missiles on militant vehicles, officials said.
With Pakistan struggling to cope with devastating floods that have hit 21 million people in the country's worst humanitarian disaster, Islamist militant violence has picked up in recent weeks with a wave of major bombings.
The Taliban last week threatened Pakistani security forces with more suicide attacks to avenge US missile strikes, which have become a key tactic in the US-led fight to reverse the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.
An Islamist militant bombing campaign has killed more than 3,700 people and fanned instability across nuclear-armed Pakistan since July 2007.
Under US pressure to crack down on Islamist havens along the Afghan border, Pakistan has in the past year stepped up military operations against largely homegrown militants in the area.
Officials in Washington say the drone strikes have killed a number of high-value targets including Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud and help protect foreign troops in Afghanistan from attacks plotted across the border.
The US military does not as a rule confirm drone attacks, but its armed forces and the Central Intelligence Agency operating in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy pilotless drones in the region.
Over 1,070 people have been killed in more than 125 drone strikes in Pakistan since August 2008, including a number of senior militants. However, the attacks fuel anti-American sentiment in the conservative Muslim country.
Al-Qaeda announced in June that its number three leader and Osama bin Laden's one-time treasurer Mustafa Abu al-Yazid had been killed in what security officials said appeared to be a drone strike in North Waziristan.
JUST THINK.
Use this on the ‘invaders’ from Mexico .. Just Once and .. No more Illegal Alien problem!!
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