Posted on 03/10/2010 10:52:07 AM PST by milwguy
MIRANSHAH: Two US missile strikes killed at least 12 militants in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.
The first strike took place at 8:00 pm in Mizar Madakhel village, some 50 kilometres west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan and was followed by a second strike.
Eight militants were killed when the drone fired four missiles, hitting a vehicle and a compound which were being used by militants and killing four rebels, a senior security official in the area said.
He added that the second strike took place after a brief interval in the same area. It targeted two vehicles which militants were using to pull out bodies from the site of the first attack.
“Three missiles were fired in the second strike which killed four rebels,” he said.
US drone attacks routinely target Taliban and Al-Qaeda commanders in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt, which Washington calls the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda.
A US drone strike in Miranshah in February killed Mohammed Haqqani, a brother of Al-Qaeda-linked warlord Sirajuddin Haqqani, whose network is fighting against US and local forces in neighbouring Afghanistan.
More recently, three missiles fired by US drone aircraft killed five militants in Miranshah on Monday.
The covert US drone war against Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders has focused increasingly on North Waziristan, a bastion of multiple militant groups, since a December 30 suicide attack killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan.
North Waziristan borders Khost province, where a Jordanian doctor turned Al-Qaeda double agent blew himself up in the deadliest attack on the US spy agency in 26 years.
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And keep at least one close on site for a month. Make a very strong point. Nobody goes there again!
This reminds me of the sniper scene in Full Metal Jacket where the sniper would injure one of US soldiers so their fellow soldiers would come to the rescue. Then the sniper had one more target...
Sounds like we're learning from the jihadists.
Looks like the follow-up targeted the inevitable car-swarm, something we have been advocating for years.
Should do it for funerals as well.
This is a good idea for other reasons. The US has had a difficult time determining enemy KIA and post op intel gathering. The Jihadis remove the killed and injured. This will force them to alter their methods.
Barry is hoping he will get lucky with one of these and take out OBL to save his Presidency
too bad they don’t have a mini-napalm or something environmentally safe to drop on these so called militants... nice to see some method to the madness being applied and maximizing casualties to help keep gitmo polulation down. ;-]
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US airstrike kills 15 in North Waziristan
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The Kuwaiti News Agency reported that 15 Taliban fighters were killed in both strikes, and that more than a dozen fighters were wounded, some seriously.
No senior Taliban or al Qaeda fighters have been reported killed in the attack. US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal would not disclose the target of the attack.
Since Gitmo is closing ,...got no reason to take prisoners...
Unintended consequences or what? lol
I’ve been saying that for years.
The Israelis could have done the world a great favor by napalming Arafat’s funeral.
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