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| U.S. Planes Bomb Pakistan |
| 2003-09-19 |
| U.S. warplanes taking part in the anti-terrorism campaign in Afghanistan dropped three bombs that landed about 50 yards inside Pakistani territory on an empty field, residents and Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday. No one was injured in the incident Thursday near the border town of Wana, 240 miles southwest of Islamabad. Damm Three Pakistani intelligence officials, all who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they believed the U.S. forces were targeting Taliban militants, who often take refuge on the Pakistani side of the border. U.S. forces do not have permission to pursue them across the frontier. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said he had no information about a bombing on Pakistani territory. U.S. military officials at Bagram air base, the main military headquarters north of the Afghan capital, Kabul, had no immediate comment. "Nope, no comment." A Pakistani military official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said he was unaware of the incident. However, he added that if the bombing did occur, Islamabad would consider it an unintentional attack and would not complain. Hummm, that’s nice of them. Residents in Wana say they often see U.S. planes flying on the Afghan side of the border. The villagers said the three bombs caused no damage. Three bombs in a empty field, huh? Accident or attention getter? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #4 Humm, part of this operation?: U.S. troops fought a one-hour gunbattle with suspected Taliban after coming under fire near Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistan, the military said Friday. The fighting occurred Thursday near a U.S. base at Shkin, in Paktika province, which has been the site of near-daily skirmishes and rocket attacks. The soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division fired back with small arms and artillery and called in American warplanes for close air support, according to a statement from Maj. Ralph Marino, a spokesman at Bagram Air Base, the U.S. military headquarters. The fighters retreated toward the Pakistani border, Marino said. I don't have a map that shows if Paktika province in Afghanistan borders the Pak town of Wana. Anyone? |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-9-19 12:46:27 PM |
| #3 3? One is either a miss or an abort to a safe area. Two is strange. Three is a large target or a demonstration of rug bombing. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-9-19 12:21:22 PM |
| #2 Bet the fields were not entirely empty when the packages were dropped. |
| Posted by: john 2003-9-19 11:23:44 AM |
| #1 I was hoping a particular 40 square mile area in the Northwest frontier was levelled. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-9-19 11:21:33 AM |