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US kills 18 terrorists in two airstrikes in North Waziristan
The Long War Journal ^ | Dec 17, 2009 | Bill Roggio

Posted on 12/17/2009 4:27:52 PM PST by EvilOverlord

The US military killed 18 terrorists during two airstrikes in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal
agency of North Waziristan.

The first airstrike occurred in Datta Khel, a region near the main town of Miramshah.
A Hellfire missile fired by either a Predator or a Reaper unmanned aircraft slammed into a vehicle parked outside a home.
Two insurgents were reported killed in the attack.

The second strike took place in the towns of Degan and Ambor Shaga, also the the Datta Khel region. Five or six unmanned strike aircraft fired upwards of 10 Hellfires at Haqqani Network hideouts.
According to Reuters, the strikes targeted "a cave complex, a compound and a vehicle."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: billroggio; hellfire; longwarjournal; pakistan; waronterror
At least 10 missles fired at ave complex, a compound, and a vehicle.

And, missles were fired at bad guys trying to dig out bodies from the initial attack!

1 posted on 12/17/2009 4:27:53 PM PST by EvilOverlord
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To: EvilOverlord
And, I misspelled 'missiles' twice.
2 posted on 12/17/2009 4:30:00 PM PST by EvilOverlord (Socialism makes workers into slaves and couch potatoes into kings)
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To: EvilOverlord

and ‘cave complex’...ugh...must be my keyboard today.


3 posted on 12/17/2009 4:30:57 PM PST by EvilOverlord (Socialism makes workers into slaves and couch potatoes into kings)
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To: EvilOverlord

Special delivery!

4 posted on 12/17/2009 4:34:32 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: EvilOverlord

Candygram!


5 posted on 12/17/2009 4:35:47 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: Allegra

Landshark!


6 posted on 12/17/2009 4:39:01 PM PST by Lawdoc (My dad married my aunt, so now my cousins are my brothers. Go figure.)
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To: Lawdoc

Flowers for the lady!


7 posted on 12/17/2009 4:43:34 PM PST by tongue-tied
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To: EvilOverlord

“At least 10 missles fired at ave complex, a compound, and a vehicle.

And, missles were fired at bad guys trying to dig out bodies from the initial attack”

I hope none of their lips were cut.


8 posted on 12/17/2009 4:48:22 PM PST by Cruz ("Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal t)
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To: EvilOverlord
That killing SUCKS!

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Only 18?

9 posted on 12/17/2009 4:54:47 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Nice shootin’.


10 posted on 12/17/2009 4:55:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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To: Liberty Valance
Special delivery!

Nice!

11 posted on 12/17/2009 4:56:20 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: EvilOverlord
Five or six unmanned strike aircraft fired upwards of 10 Hellfires at Haqqani Network hideouts.

Wave of the future.

We WILL reign free and proud!

12 posted on 12/17/2009 4:59:31 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: EvilOverlord

RACISM!/s


13 posted on 12/17/2009 5:17:11 PM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: Dallas59
RACISM!

No, no, no. We'll kill bad guys no matter what color they are.

14 posted on 12/17/2009 5:25:58 PM PST by EvilOverlord (Socialism makes workers into slaves and couch potatoes into kings)
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