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2009-04-01 India-Pakistan

U.S. expands Pakistani drone-strike zone; 12 dead

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Posted by tu3031 2009-04-01 09:47|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 How you like us now, Meshud?

Posted by mojo 2009-04-01 10:49|| 2009-04-01 10:49|| Front Page Top

#2 For clarification, this is the Rooters rewrite of a AP story.

The calls were made to (or from, if there's any difference) an AP reporter.

Posted by Seafarious 2009-04-01 12:54|| 2009-04-01 12:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe we should say hit in Karachi or Quetta ? maybe that would send alot of the higher ups out into the open if they think we may have pinpointed one of them . What are they gonna do blow up another mosque in retalliation?

Posted by Mt Dew addiction 2009-04-01 14:09|| 2009-04-01 14:09|| Front Page Top

#4 I still say we need to go Mongol on the Pashtuns - on both sides of the border. A half-dozen ARCLIGHT strikes on Peshawar, Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi wouldn't hurt, either.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-04-01 14:24|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-04-01 14:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't even need to cause mass casualties, OP - just trash the infrastructure (we paid for), right down to the bedrock, and don't allow it to be rebuilt.

Roads? Electric? Water? Sanitation?

Nope. Not "Islamic" enough...

Posted by mojo 2009-04-01 15:03|| 2009-04-01 15:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Update...up to 14.

The drone strike in Orakzai killed 14 people, said local official Ghazni Gul.

Two senior intelligence officials said they believed the dead included close associates of Baitullah Mehsud. But it was difficult to confirm the exact identities of those involved because the Taliban surrounded the area shortly after the attack, they said.

Posted by tu3031 2009-04-01 16:08|| 2009-04-01 16:08|| Front Page Top

#7 the Taliban surrounded the area shortly after the attack

Fireball restrike Right NOW.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-04-01 19:22|| 2009-04-01 19:22|| Front Page Top

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