Posted on 06/19/2007 10:51:51 AM PDT by SevenMinusOne
17 Taliban fighters at madrassa were said to be killed
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan - Explosions at a suspected militant hideout in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Tuesday caused casualties, the army said.
Three missiles fired from Afghanistan destroyed a training facility in Pakistan, killing 17 militants and wounding 10 others, according to an intelligence official in North Waziristan.
But Pakistan army spokesman Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad claimed that the explosions were caused when bombs militants were making at an isolated compound exploded accidentally.
The intelligence official said it was a local Taliban militant training facility, housed in a big mud-brick compound in the border village of Mami Rogha, about 25 miles west of Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan.
He provided no further details but maintained the compound had been hit by missiles fired from Afghanistan.
Other Pakistani intelligence officials, who also requested anonymity, said the compound lay about two miles inside Pakistan and was surrounded by forests. The officials said some militants were sitting in an open area of a madrassa, or Islamic seminary, when they were attacked, but they could not confirm whether the missiles were fired from Afghanistan.
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Ping
Hate it when that happens.
I think their convocation just ended.
Ahmed! Not THAT button!
Doing the jobs American Democrats won’t let American Soldiers do PING!
“claimed that the explosions were caused when bombs militants were making at an isolated compound exploded accidentally.”
Darwin Award?
Media then completely excuses the terrorists for making the bombs which they then use to blow up children in schools, or police trainee's on a bus trying to learn the skills and contribute to their couintry's return to some form of civilized behavior, after booting out the woman hating Taliban men with erectile disfunction. (at least when it comes to making out with women, They seem to have no troubles having anal sex with each other in the dark corners of the Taliban Maderassa's)
Put some ice on it
I hear that the last words heard on the electronic eavesdropping devices planted by the CIA were, “What is this little button for?”
(that being Tehran under that dust)Most likely they were training new recruits to be suicide bombers!
Inspector: "OK Yuseff, here's what we got... three of your suicide vests lack the proper day-glo orange safety panels. Two of your IED's lack the proper safety lock-outs on the detonators. Out back I noticed that you are mixing flamable liquids without the requisite number of fire-extinguishers on hand... One careless cigarette butt or stray NATO missile and you're history..."
Taliban Leader: "But..."
Inspector: "And another thing. Your guys are dumping waste chemicals in the creek behind your bomb-making hut. I'm gonna have to report that to Pak-EPA. They're gonna go ape-shiite when they see the mess you made back there..."
They must have fell into the temiation of lighting their fatwas..
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