Oh yeahhhhhhh! Paydirt! I think it is safe to say that the Taliban's leader in South Waziristan, Baitullah Mehsud, is literally shitting his pants ...wait, do they actually wear pants? Nonetheless, it is literally raining hellfires in South Waziristan province in NW Pakistan with U.S. predator drones claiming Taliban deaths in three separate strikes - one killing 12, another after that killing 8 and the last one, the biggie on a convoy killed 25 Taliban. I feel like my team just won the World Series!
Here's the article with details from The Long War Journal:
US kills 25 Taliban in second Predator strike in South
Waziristan
The US conducted a second Predator airstrike in Pakistan's
Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan today.
Unmanned
Predator strike aircraft pounded a Taliban convoy, killing 25 fighters and
destroying five vehicles.
"We have reports that 25 militants have been
killed," an intelligence official told Reuters.
The US was "gunning for a
HVT [high value target]," or a senior al Qaeda or Taliban leader, a US
intelligence official told The Long War Journal. "We believe there were some
foreign al Qaeda fighters in that convoy."
The attack on the convoy was the
second today, and the third in 24 hours. Earlier today, eight Taliban fighters
were killed when Predators fired six Hellfire missiles on a Taliban training
camp in Karwan Manza. The camp is run by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah
Mehsud.
Yesterday's strike on a Taliban training camp in the village of
Zangra in the Ladha region killed 12 Taliban and four al Qaeda fighters.
South Waziristan is a major focus of the US air campaign against al Qaeda
and the Taliban. Of the 29 US strikes carried out in Pakistan this year, 21 of
them took place in South Waziristan.
Baitullah Mehsud's territory has been
hit 13 times and Mullah Nazir's areas have been hit eight times. Both Nazir and
Baitullah host al Qaeda training camps and shelter senior leaders of the terror
group. Seven of the last nine attacks have targeted Baitullah's camps and safe
houses.
The US is well on its way to exceeding last year's total of 36
airstrikes in Pakistan.
2 comments:
holger! this is VERY good news indeed!
Nothing like hearing about a flock of predators having their way with the child killers, to put a smile on one's face in these trying times.
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