Posted on 02/29/2008 5:24:28 AM PST by Dog
PESHAWAR - At least 13 militants, including some foreigners, were killed and 11 others were critically injured as three missiles, allegedly fired by the US forces, hit a house in Kaloshah area of Wana District in South Waziristan Agency on Thursday, eyewitnesses said. Immediately after the attack, the militants encircled the area and local people were barred from entering the site. However, the locals informed that three missiles fired from an unknown direction hit the house of Malik Khel Wazir at Shero Village, Kaloshah Azam Warsak area at midnight, killing at least 12 people, mostly foreigners, and injuring 11 others critically. Several rooms of the house were completely destroyed in the attacks. Exact identity and strength of the foreigners killed in the incident has not yet been determined, but the locals informed that they were either from Arab countries or Central Asia. An Al-Qaeda fugitive from Egypt is also reported to be among them. However, the officials claimed that there was a seminary near the house, which was used by the militants as a shelter. The killed persons were buried in the area, while the injured were admitted to local and Wana hospitals. It is highly believed that the US forces, either from Afghanistan side or from Arabian Sea, fired the missiles. It merits mentioning that this is the second attack of its kind in a month. Earlier, a missile hit a hideout at Mir Ali town, killing 12 people including top Al-Qaeda commander Abu Laith Al Laibi, on January 29. AFP adds: A suspected US missile strike destroyed an Al-Qaeda and Taliban hideout in the countrys tribal area Thursday, killing 13 alleged militants including several Arabs, security officials said. Residents of Azam Warsak village in South Waziristan told AFP that a house was blown up by a missile fired from a pilotless drone and the loud blast was heard kilometres away in the rugged valley. US drones have launched several strikes on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border targeting members of Osama bin Ladens network, although Islamabad never confirms such attacks due to issues of national sovereignty. A house used as a den by Al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban militants was hit by a missile. Thirteen people were killed and around 10 were wounded, a senior Pakistani security official told AFP. There was no immediate information about the presence of any high-value target, the official said. A security source based in Peshawar said the missile was fired by a US drone at about 2:00 am Thursday. The militants were using the house as an operational base for attacks on NATO-led and US troops in Afghanistan, as well as a meeting place for Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants, the official said. A spokesman for the US-led coalition force based in Afghanistan said it had no reports that either it or the separate NATO-headed force were involved in the strike. Chief military spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas told AFP that information from the area indicated that the deaths were caused by explosive material stored in a house. As per our information it was an explosion caused by explosive material in a house, Abbas said, adding that the blast reportedly killed 10 to 12 people. All of their nationalities were not known, he said.
Somehow it doesn't seem cost effective to use a multimillion dollar missile.
LOL, bigtime!
They are amazing, aren’t they, the prosecutorial forces in politically-correct fairyland?
What I think they’re engaging in is “selective application of the Rules of Engagement” and selective application of rules regarding collateral damage between fire/air support vs infantry/ground forces.
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/
Did a U.S. Airstrike Get The Big Z?
Media reports describe another U.S. airstrike within Pakistan, targeting a home that was a suspected Taliban safe house with foreign fighters.
Bill Roggio notes, “One report indicates an “al Qaeda fugitive from Egypt” was among those killed, sparking rumors that Ayman al Zawahiri was the target of the strike.”
But before we break out the party hats, Roggio also notes, “several senior Egyptian members of al Qaeda are known to operate in Pakistan’s tribal areas. These include Abu Khabab al Masri, Abu Ubaidah al Masri, Abdul Rahman al Masri al Maghribi, and Sheikh Essa. Abu Khabab, Abu Ubaidah, and Maghribi were believed to have been killed in the January 2006 Damadola airstrike but the reports were false.”
Keep your fingers crossed.
UPDATE: Two interesting items from the Asia Times, if true. One, allegedly the Predator drone came from Peshawar Airfield, making this a joint Pakistan-NATO operation. Two, the building was allegedly a militant compound disguised as a madrassa.
Campaign angle in all this? Well, the Democrats have looked increasingly silly, and have taken flak from non-conservative, clear-eyed observers of the war in Iraq (like the Washington Post) for insisting that the war is lost, no matter how much progress is made on the ground in Iraq. Another key part of both Hillary and Obama’s playbooks is endlessly moaning, “we’ve forgotten the real war, we’re losing the war in Afghanistan, we’ve been distracted from al-Qaeda.” Democrats looked silly when they claimed the Iraq buildup was distracting from fighting al-Qaeda, just as the U.S. and Pakistan captured Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
02/29 12:39 PM
Just a joke for those in Palm Beach County.
;) Hope for a balmy day!
ah, yes... now THAT gave me a nice warm fuzzy feeling inside to think that that little snot-nosed twerp might've been turned to 'splody-bits.
He hasn't turned up in the last month or so. Maybe it was true...
War is never cheap.
Last I heard he was still in jail. He’s got another 18yrs to go.
The thought of that traitor going to hell makes our weekend even nicer.
You know, I don’t even care if he goes to hell or not. I’ll let God sort that out.
I merely wanted for him to feel what it’s like, if only for a few microseconds, to suddenly fly in lots of directions at once.
It’s too bad that it probably didn’t hurt much. Maybe it did. But not for long.
Hopefully if he went to hell, he was aware of what happened and the bad choices he made in life.
Hope the intel source enjoys the well deserved reward for making the world a better place.
Maybe he could go to heaven anyway?
In my concept of heaven there’s a 24-hr shooting range with free ammunition, and live targets like Adam Gadahn. Since it’s heaven and nobody truly dies, he gets to start fresh again... every day, forever... :-)
Thanks, for your reply. I am speaking of a different Adam. This one converted to Islam and has been a propaganda minister with the Taliban and Al Qaeda. His last name is Gahdan or something similar. See post #40.
One man’s heaven is another’s hell!
One man’s heaven is another’s hell!
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