Posted on 10/20/2008 9:45:08 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
KHAR, Pakistan (AFP) – Pakistani helicopter gunships, fighter jets and artillery pounded militant hideouts in a Pakistani tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Monday, killing 12 rebels, officials said.
The strikes were carried out at militants' hideouts across Bajaur, where Pakistani troops and Islamic extremists have been locked in fierce fighting since August.
"Pakistani helicopter gunships, jet fighters and artillery hit militants' hideouts, killing 12 militants and wounding more than a dozen others," a senior security official told AFP.
Local administration official Mohammad Jamil confirmed the deaths of 12 Taliban fighters in Monday's offensive.
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Pakistani troops patrol in the troubled Bajaur region in September 2008. Pakistani forces killed 12 rebels after pounding militant hideouts in Bajaur -- a tribal region bordering Afghanistan -- with helicopter gunships, fighter jets and artillery. (AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)
The Taleban takes out a bus full of civilians including children and beheading them...while claiming they were soldiers... Well, send in the drones and introduce them to the god of hellfire. Allah’s Snackbar!
The naik with the RPG looks the The Devil!
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