U.S. Predator Strike Hits North Waziristan Again, 9 Jihadis Turned To Goo

Yesss! Paydirt. A U.S. airstrike by a predator drone in North Waziristan has killed 9 Taliban in the area of Dhatta Khel.

From the report at Breitbart:

An apparent U.S. missile attack destroyed a suspected militant compound in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, intelligence officials said.
It was not immediately clear who was targeted in the strike, in the Datta Khel region of North Waziristan, said the two officials on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. An unknown number of people were injured.

The area is the home of Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a powerful warlord whose fighters are battling U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

As most of you know, I usually put up these reports of U.S. UAV strikes in NW Pakistan from The Long War Journal but I put this one up from AP just to show some differences. First, the length of the report is drastically less here. Second, notice the title of this article:

Pakistani officials: Suspected US missile kills 9

See that? 9 what? 9 who? That article title is meant to be ambiguous...did the U.S. kill 9 civilians? Third, notice the attack was on a "suspected" militant compound - again, this AP writer wants to create suspicion. And finally, probably the most damning evidence of slant in this article is that sentence that state:

killing at least nine people

Nine "people." Once again, this AP writer wants to allude that these might have been civilians. You know, I know and the writer knows that these were Taliban jihadis, but perhaps this writer's loyalty lies with the radical islamists, wouldn't you guess? Might be interesting to see what other pieces have been written by the AP correspondent, RASOOL DAWAR.

Pakistani officials: Suspected US missile kills 9


MIR ALI, Pakistan (AP) - An apparent U.S. missile attack destroyed a suspected militant compound in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, intelligence officials said.
It was not immediately clear who was targeted in the strike, in the Datta Khel region of North Waziristan, said the two officials on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. An unknown number of people were injured.

The area is the home of Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a powerful warlord whose fighters are battling U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

The CIA has stepped up missile strikes on militant positions in Pakistan's tribal regions since December, when a suicide bomber killed seven CIA employees in neighboring Afghanistan.

Pakistan publicly criticizes the U.S. missile attacks, saying they violate its sovereignty and fuel more anti-Americanism among the population, but Islamabad is widely believed to be sharing intelligence with the Americans on at least some of the strikes.

Washington refuses to publicly discuss the program, which uses unmanned drones, but Pakistani intelligence and government officials say privately the attacks have killed several senior al-Qaida and Taliban commanders in recent years.

Meanwhile, in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, police on Tuesday uncovered the second major weapons cache in as many days. Police, searching a fruit market warehouse, found 4,400 pounds (2,000 kilograms) of explosives, three suicide jackets and four machine guns.

A day earlier, police had discovered a weapons stash that included suicide jackets and more than 3,300 pounds (1,500 kilograms) of explosives. They were hidden inside an unused shop elsewhere in the city.

Lahore has been battered by a string of explosions in recent days. On Friday, two suicide bombers targeting soldiers on patrol killed 55 people and injured about 100 more in coordinated explosions