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To: AxelPaulsenJr

I needed a feel good story today.

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BBC has a report of more than 50 militants dispatched from a local official..

‘Dozens dead’ in US drone strike
US drone

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8115814.stm

At least 45 people have died in a missile strike by a US drone aircraft in Pakistan, officials there have said.

The people killed in South Waziristan region had been attending a funeral for others killed in a US drone strike earlier on Tuesday.

Intelligence officials said at least 45 people had been killed and dozens more injured in the later strike, when two missiles were fired.

But a local official told BBC News the death toll was more than 50.

The region is a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.


32 posted on 06/23/2009 12:32:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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Pakistan officially objects to the strikes by pilotless US aircraft

33 posted on 06/23/2009 12:33:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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