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Afghanistan/South Asia
Pakistani soldiers wounded in rocket barrage
2005-07-25
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan - A Pakistani army major was wounded early on Monday as militants unleashed a barrage of more than 30 rockets on four different army locations near the Afghan border, security officials said. Another army officer was slightly injured when a remote-controlled bomb hit his patrol convoy overnight in the violence-plagued tribal region being used as a hideout by Al Qaeda and Taleban-linked insurgents, they said.

The overnight rocket attacks started around 11:00 pm (1800 GMT) Sunday and continued intermittently until 4:00 am Monday, a security official said on condition of anonymity. Troops in retaliatory strikes arrested three suspected militants, one of whom was wounded, one security official said. At least seven rockets targeted a checkpoint outside Miranshah, the main town in the tribal North Waziristan region, wounding the army major. Seven rockets each also hit near the Saidgai and Shawal check posts. And about a dozen rockets struck near a troop base in Razmak, damaging a nearby telephone exchange but causing no casualties.
Posted by:Steve

#3  violence-plagued tribal region
Where are you from young Jihadi man?

Sirrah! I am from the Tony VPTR.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-07-25 15:10  

#2  Allah be cursed upon you, Ahmed!

I told you to point the rockets northward towards the Americans, not southward you goat's unwashed ass!
Posted by: Jeper Elmeath5805   2005-07-25 14:46  

#1  red on red violence - friendly fire's always terrible ...
Posted by: Frank G   2005-07-25 14:40  

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