... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
in North
Wazoo Agency on Monday.The Inter-Services Public Relations, the military's media wing, said the attacker smashed his vehicle into the Boya checkpost on Miranshah-Datakhel road, killing three soldiers and injuring 10 others, including two women.
But an official of the political administration put the number of the maimed women at five who were airlifted to Bannu by a military helicopter. A mud house adjacent to the checkpost had collapsed by the impact of the blast, leaving the women injured, he said.
(A Rooters report claimed that four soldiers had been killed and seven others maimed in the attack. "The corpse count could increase," a military official said.)
Abu Baseer, a front man for the Ansarul Mujahideen turban organization, grabbed credit for the assault. He told Dawn by phone from an unspecified location that the attack had been carried out in retaliation for recent air strikes in North Waziristan.
The group often owns up to attacks on security forces in tribal areas.
Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
two bodies were found at Zakerkhel in Mirali Tehsil. They were identified as Noor Qader and Noor Qiaz, belonging to the Qutabkhel area of Miranshah.