I have to tell you - I am absolutely loving this. It appears that the U.S. has launched another air strike from UAV Predator aircraft inside of Pakistan along the Afghan border, killing as many as five "foreign fighters." Whenever these news agencies, like the Breitbart/AP article here, list the dead as "foreign fighters" they mean al Qaeda and that certainly has been the target of these U.S. Predator missions so far inside of Pakistan. Here's some of the sketchy details:
I don't think there is any question this is an American strike against al Qaeda and what this means for us is another wait for more info as to who was hit in this airstrike. The announcements of dead al Qaeda leaders are starting to back up like an ice flow on the Mississippi in the spring as we have yet to hear of those targets killed in an air strike inside Pakistan three days ago as well as the first special ops raid of a Pakistan village just two days ago and now this.
I feel like a kid waiting to go to the County Fair and gorge myself on cotton candy, pronto pups and caramel apples! We literally could be looking at reports of over a dozen al Qaeda leaders and middle commanders in the next few days.
At the same time, I find it heart warming that the U.S. has decided to just say no to Ramadan. Hahaha! The only side on the war on terror that decided to take a vaction for the islamic circus of Ramadan was the government and military of Pakistan - the Taliban didn't, al Qaeda didn't and it's damn good to see that the United States hasn't.
You don't think the word is spreading through the mountains of NW Pakistan that al Qaeda and Taliban are NOT safe in Pakistan anymore? Mwahahahaha!
An explosion possibly caused by a missile strike killed five suspected foreign militants near the Afghan border on Friday, Pakistani officials said.
The blast occurred in a village in the North Waziristan region, part of Pakistan's wild tribal belt that serves as a base for Taliban militants and fugitive al-Qaida leaders.
Two intelligence officials, citing local informers, told The Associated Press that drone aircraft were seen above the village of Gurwak before Friday's blast and that they believed the aircraft had fired missiles.
The officials, who asked for anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly, said five suspected foreign militants were killed and several other people were injured.
I don't think there is any question this is an American strike against al Qaeda and what this means for us is another wait for more info as to who was hit in this airstrike. The announcements of dead al Qaeda leaders are starting to back up like an ice flow on the Mississippi in the spring as we have yet to hear of those targets killed in an air strike inside Pakistan three days ago as well as the first special ops raid of a Pakistan village just two days ago and now this.
I feel like a kid waiting to go to the County Fair and gorge myself on cotton candy, pronto pups and caramel apples! We literally could be looking at reports of over a dozen al Qaeda leaders and middle commanders in the next few days.
At the same time, I find it heart warming that the U.S. has decided to just say no to Ramadan. Hahaha! The only side on the war on terror that decided to take a vaction for the islamic circus of Ramadan was the government and military of Pakistan - the Taliban didn't, al Qaeda didn't and it's damn good to see that the United States hasn't.
You don't think the word is spreading through the mountains of NW Pakistan that al Qaeda and Taliban are NOT safe in Pakistan anymore? Mwahahahaha!
Pakistani officials report missile strike
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) - An explosion possibly caused by a missile strike killed five suspected foreign militants near the Afghan border on Friday, Pakistani officials said.
The blast occurred in a village in the North Waziristan region, part of Pakistan's wild tribal belt that serves as a base for Taliban militants and fugitive al-Qaida leaders.
U.S. commanders who blame those sanctuaries for rising violence in neighboring Afghanistan appear to be stepping up their efforts to hit militants inside Pakistan.
Two intelligence officials, citing local informers, told The Associated Press that drone aircraft were seen above the village of Gurwak before Friday's blast and that they believed the aircraft had fired missiles.
The officials, who asked for anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly, said five suspected foreign militants were killed and several other people were injured. They provided no other details of the victims' identity.
Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas confirmed the explosion and said the military had sent a team to investigate what had happened.
The U.S. military and the CIA operate drone aircraft believed to have carried out a string of missile strikes that killed at least two senior al-Qaida commanders earlier this year.
Foreign forces in Afghanistan are also authorized to pursue militants a short distance over the poorly demarcated and oft-disputed Pakistani frontier and to return fire over the border. They also can take action to avert an "imminent threat."
On Wednesday, U.S. troops ferried by helicopter to a village in Pakistan's South Waziristan region carried out a highly unusual ground attack on a militant target.
Pakistani officials claim that 15 people, including civilians, were killed during the pre-dawn operation, though the target and results of the raid in an area inaccessible to reporters remain unclear.
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