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| India-Pakistan |
| Drone strike killed local Taliban commander |
| 2010-11-23 |
| [Dawn] A local Taliban capo and two foreign forces of Evil were among nine people killed by a suspected US missile strike near the Afghan border, Pak officials said Monday. Sunday's strike against a house in the North Wazoo tribal area was part of the B.O. regime's campaign to use drones to target forces of Evil who regularly stage cross-border attacks against foreign troops in Afghanistan. Pak intelligence officials initially said the attack in Khaddi village killed six people but raised that number to nine on Monday. The slain krazed killer leader was identified only as Mustafa. The officials said he was linked to Sadiq Noor, a key Taliban figure in North Wazoo. The nationalities of the imported muscle were unclear. Pakistain's border region is considered a magnet for forces of Evil seeking to fight Nato forces in Afghanistan or train for terrorist attacks. Three local rustics sheltering the forces of Evil were identified Sunday as among the dead. Unmanned American drones have launched more than 100 missile strikes this year on targets in Pakistain, roughly double the number in all of 2009. The US refuses publicly to acknowledge the covert CIA attacks, but officials have said privately that they have killed several senior al Qaeda and Taliban capos over the years. Almost all of this year's strikes have occurred in North Wazoo, an area in which the US has repeatedly requested Pakistain conduct a military offensive to neutralise the strongholds of hard boyz threatening the war effort in Afghanistan. The Pak government has resisted, saying its military is already stretched thin by operations being conducted elsewhere. Many analysts suspect, however, that Pakistain doesn't want to cross Talibs with whom it has historical ties and could be useful allies in Afghanistan after foreign troops withdraw. The US recently sought to expand the areas in which the drones can target Taliban and al Qaeda operatives, but Pakistain refused the request because of domestic opposition to the missile strikes, a Pak official said over the weekend. He was responding to a Washington Post report that the US had sought permission to use the drones -- now limited to the northwestern border region -- in areas around Quetta, the capital of the southwestern province of Balochistan. Pak officials often criticise the US dronezaps, calling them a violation of the country's illusory sovereignty. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The slain krazed killer leader was identified only as Mustafa That was all that was left of his name after the Hellfire was through with him. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-11-23 01:29 |