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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 |