Posted on 07/08/2009 9:31:08 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Suspected U.S. drones launched two missile attacks on Taliban targets in the South Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday, killing at least 45 militants in the latest in a barrage of strikes close to the Afghan border, intelligence officials said.
The army said the top Taliban commander in another area of the northwest, the scenic Swat Valley, was wounded in a Pakistani airstrike. It gave no more details.
South Waziristan lies close to the Afghan border and is the stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
Pakistan's military is also bombing and firing mortars at insurgent targets in the region, saying it is chipping away at Mehsud's resistance before launching a ground offensive there to eliminate him. Mehsud is blamed for many of the bloodiest terrorist attacks in nuclear-armed Pakistan in recent years.
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Map showing South Waziristan in Pakistan's northwest. Up to 40 suspected militants were killed in a second US missile strike targeting a convoy of fighters travelling through Pakistan's northwest tribal belt, officials have said, raising the toll from an earlier 25 dead. (AFP/Graphic)
“Suspected”? Makes it sounds like we’re the bad guys.
Next!
If it were President Bush, the media would have claimed that the 45 killed were attending a wedding reception.
Or attending the funeral of a child killed by the previous US airstrike.
45? That’s really good shooting, plus the bad guys must have been standing “real close together”. Either that or they’ve got a really effective anti-personnel warhead on the Hellfire now.
bet they are sweeeping up the litte bits o’ brain over at the DU....
Yup. It really has to ruin your day when one moment you are just sitting there, shooting the $hit with your fellow mujihadeen, and then, the next moment, you’re not.
Rush order for 3,465 virgins, extra young.
That'll keep Mohammed busy. Last night Paradise must have been like a Burger King kitchen when a bus pulls in.
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