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India-Pakistan

US drone fired at seminary

2006-11-01

Eyewitnesses saw a US Predator drone fire three missiles at the madrassa in Bajaur Agency that was destroyed on Monday, casting doubts on the governments claim that the airstrike was carried out solely by the Pakistani military, according to a report by news analysis service Stratfor. The report says the airstrike could have been meant to kill Al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri, but Pakistani security officials told journalists in Islamabad that Zawahiri was not in the madrassa at the time of the raid, though he had visited it in the past.

Posted by:Fred

#19 Predators have their own laser designator. Hellfires also come with blast frag and thermobaric waheads just for the occasions you need to flatten a madrassa.

Posted by: ed 2006-11-01 18:00

#18 The Hellfire the drones use laser guided, and are not fire and forget. They require someone (FO, SOC) to provide laser spotting on target. The Longbow Hellfire version used on Apache Longbow attack helicopters are fire and forget radar guided.

The Hellfire is a GP anti-armor missle. They are not generally used to attempt to destroy a building as they only weigh around 100 lbs., with a warhead ranging from 20-30 lbs or so. Not exactly what you would used to blow up even a simple building.

Posted by: anymouse 2006-11-01 17:37

#17 What odds the eyewitnesses actually know what they're talking about? I mean, I certainly wouldn't, and I have the advantage of a Rantburg education. ;-)

Posted by: trailing wife 2006-11-01 17:09

#16 Would that make it a seminal explosion?

Posted by: mojo 2006-11-01 16:22

#15 a madrassa is nothing more than a human honey bucket. Look at it like we are emptying the honey buckets of pakiland.

Posted by: anymouse 2006-11-01 15:32

#14 lol, JAB! So true! Hey, you guys think we could hit the tip jar enough to buy another one of these and paint RB on the tail? Ya know, for the troops! What kinda press would Fred and mods get if the RB took out binny or Zawahiri?

Posted by: BA 2006-11-01 13:55

#13 You really cannot help but make the world a better place if you fire a missile into a 'seminary' located in Pakistan.

Posted by: JAB 2006-11-01 11:06

#12 Call Wonder Woman, 3dc.

Posted by: .com 2006-11-01 10:33

#11 but it looks like a bunch of missles flying around in extremely tight formation.

Posted by: wxjames 2006-11-01 10:25

#10 It would be nice to see one made out of clear plastic..
I think there is something there but ...

Posted by: 3dc 2006-11-01 09:16

#9 The Predator B can carry 14 Hellfires. Though there are only a few available, maybe 2 or 3 are in Afghanistan for some "operational testing".

Posted by: ed 2006-11-01 09:14

#8 Ummm... can the Predator carry three missles?

i thought it only carried 1 to 2 hellfires

The witnesses were rooters photoreporters!

Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-11-01 08:41

#7 i thought it only carried 1 to 2 hellfires

Posted by: sinse 2006-11-01 08:25

#6 Ummm... can the Predator carry three missles?

Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2006-11-01 08:16

#5 Come to think of it. They aren't screaming very loud over this. Normally there would be riots, burning Bush effigies, the whole 9 yards. Something else must be going on with this.

Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-11-01 06:41

#4 Just put wings on a missile and hit something everytime you send one out.

Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-11-01 06:39

#3 Just paint them sky blue with a big black UN on the tail...

Posted by: DanNY 2006-11-01 06:34

#2 If we have to build one drone for every madrassah, so be it. Let's get going with this. It's been far too long.

Posted by: Zenster 2006-11-01 03:49

#1 We're getting close, and there's more missiles where those came from.

Posted by: SpecOp35 2006-11-01 00:15

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