Posted on 03/25/2009 10:32:17 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) – A suspected US missile strike killed up to seven alleged Al-Qaeda militants on Wednesday in an extremist stronghold of northwest Pakistan on the Afghan border, security officials said.
At least one vehicle was targeted in the strike in the Makeen area of the semi-autonomous tribal district of South Waziristan, where suspected Afghan and Pakistani Taliban militants are also holed up, local officials said.
Initial reports said no high-value targets were believed to have died.
"A vehicle carrying six foreign militants was targeted in a single missile attack in Makeen area on the border between North and South Waziristan," a senior security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Pakistani officials use the word "foreigner" in reference to suspected Al-Qaeda fighters, but the precise identities of the dead was not confirmed.
"Two vehicles were hit in the strike, killing seven foreigners, including Uzbeks and Arabs," a tribal security official, Haq Nawaz, told AFP.
Other security officials in the northwest also put the death toll at seven and described the dead as "foreigners".
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no high-value targets were believed to have died.
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Darn.
We can be sure they weren’t Fuller Brush salesmen.
A US Predator drone flies over Kandahar, Afghanistan. A suspected US missile strike killed up to seven alleged Al-Qaeda militants on Wednesday in an extremist stronghold of northwest Pakistan on the Afghan border, security officials said. (AFP/File/Joel Saget)
We need someone with the guts to drop “the” A-bomb on this war and end this thing once and for all. Wars HAVE to have a finality about them. Nothing says finality like a big bomb.
Unfortunately, there’s only pablum in the White House and Congress.
Watered down Kenyan pablum.
“We can be sure they weren’t Fuller Brush salesmen.”
Or the Electrolux guy.
How do the Obama-nauts with the “War is NEVER the Answer” bumper stickers rationalize this?
What, no women or children slaughtered?
When Bush was president, every air strike against terrorists resulted in dead babies and dad grandmothers.
Planting their carbon footprints all over the soil of Pakistan. I wonder if the obamination is gonna put a carbon tax on the PREDATOR! ! !
Is this an unproven missile system? mr obamination?
Foreigners should stay out of Afghanistan for a while. Not safe.
Actions like this have to be driving the Code Pinkers, MoveOners and DUers even more insane than they are.
I completely agree. Let's get the hell out.
I can’t believe Obama is having our military air raiding villages and killing civilians.
Boy his lobbyists are going to have fun with this!!!
His actions are not going unnoticed in Pakistan.
Can’t leave until we’ve cleaned up after ourselves. We’ve made it less stable than ever.
Need to get the State Dept. weiners out of it, first. Then there’s the fact that they cannot cultivate enough profitable crops, then there’s the religion thingy, and the history of tribalism/barbarism, resisting modernity...
Maybe you’re on to something.
/mark
Code Pink and other moonbats could not be reached for comment.
A sit in to demonstrate against US imperialism was called for at Nancy Pelosi’s office.
Queen Nancy of Syria could not be reached as her staff reported she is in mourning for the senseless violence directed at the muslim community.
I love the fact that we are killing these monsters using robots. Quite fitting, really.
Thay shouldn't be surprised that a muslim wouldn't treat other muslims well.
They could have been community organizers, though. It's so sad......OK, I'm over it.
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