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| Pakistan Army Kills Two Al-Qaida |
| 2003-11-04 |
| Pakistani soldiers killed two al-Qaida suspects in a shootout along the Afghan border, government and intelligence officials said Tuesday. The gunfight occurred Monday in Zarray Lita, a small border town about 30 miles northwest of Wana, the capital of the South Waziristan tribal region, said Rahmatullah Wazir, deputy chief of the local administration. He said the identity or nationality of the al-Qaida suspects was not clear. "I can only confirm that the dead men were foreigners," he said. "How do I know that, I just can’t say." A local intelligence official told The Associated Press that three al-Qaida suspects were spotted by a Pakistani border patrol trying to enter Pakistan from Shkin, a town just across the border in Afghanistan. "They were asked to surrender but they opened fire," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Drop the guns and stick’em up!" "Like hell we will! Take that...ouch..ouch!" One of them managed to escape, returning to Afghanistan’s Paktika province. "Feet, don’t fail me now!" The area where the shootout occurred is close to Angoor Ada where the Pakistani army raided suspected al-Qaida hide-outs last month, killing eight al-Qaida suspects in a daylong shootout. Eighteen other suspects were arrested. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 Are they sure these aren't two of teh Pakistani AQ members that the Afghan forces returned yesterday? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-4 1:09:33 PM |