Okay, so the U.S. drone attack on the home and school of long time Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani missed Haqqani but at least 7 foreign jihadists WERE killed in the attack and the warning to Haqqani is loud and clear. Here's some of the details of yet another strike inside of Pakistan from the report at Yahoo:
A newer update has Haqqani's son saying that his scumbag father was in Afghanistan (probably rigging up a bomb to kill some Afghan children). Haqqani is suspected of being behind the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. And even though the main target of the bombing was missed, Arab and Uzbeck jihadists were killed and there could have been some mid level commanders there - and to be able to see the look on Haqqani's face when he wanders back into his home town, would be priceless.
Missiles fired by U.S. drones killed 13 people, including 7 foreign militants, on Monday in a Pakistani village where a religious school founded by an old friend of Osama bin Laden is located, intelligence officials and witnesses said.
"There were two drones and they fired three missiles," said a resident of Dandi Darpakheil, a village in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border.
A military official said a house and madrasa founded by Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani were the targets.
A newer update has Haqqani's son saying that his scumbag father was in Afghanistan (probably rigging up a bomb to kill some Afghan children). Haqqani is suspected of being behind the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. And even though the main target of the bombing was missed, Arab and Uzbeck jihadists were killed and there could have been some mid level commanders there - and to be able to see the look on Haqqani's face when he wanders back into his home town, would be priceless.
U.S. drones kill 13 in missile attack in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – Missiles fired by U.S. drones killed 13 people, including 7 foreign militants, on Monday in a Pakistani village where a religious school founded by an old friend of Osama bin Laden is located, intelligence officials and witnesses said.
"There were two drones and they fired three missiles," said a resident of Dandi Darpakheil, a village in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border.
A military official said a house and madrasa founded by Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani were the targets.
Haqqani is a veteran commander of the U.S.-backed Afghan war against Soviet invasion in the 1970s and 1980s, and his links with bin Laden go back to the late 80s.
An intelligence official said six civilians and seven foreign militants had been killed in the attack but the nationality of the foreigners could not immediately be established.
"Both Uzbeks as well as Arabs were living in the house and adjacent guest house. Six people were killed but we don't know their identity,"
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