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2011-06-04 India-Pakistan

Reports: Ilyas Kashmiri killed by a drone in Pakistan

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Posted by ryuge 2011-06-04 08:53|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Update
"There are strong indications that he has been killed in the strike, but we cannot confirm it and we are still trying to confirm it," a senior Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Militants on the ground sealed off access to the area of the drone strike and the bodies of those killed were burnt beyond recognition and already buried.

As a result, the official said: "It's impossible for anyone to confirm."

Nine militants were reported killed in the US missile strike at a compound in the Ghwakhwa area of South Waziristan, a stronghold of al-Qaeda-allied Taliban despite a sweeping Pakistani offensive in 2009.

Officials said Kashmiri had been in the area for several days and that all those killed where fighters in his Harakat-ul-Jihad al-Islam (HuJI) group.

"We have reports about his death and we are trying to confirm these reports," another security official told AFP.

"It is now confirmed that two of his close associates, Amir Hamza and Mohammad Usman, were killed in this drone strike," the official added.

Posted by tipper 2011-06-04 10:47|| 2011-06-04 10:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Head on a stick. It still looks like a pretty good score.

Posted by tu3031 2011-06-04 12:06|| 2011-06-04 12:06|| Front Page Top

#3 "all we found was some ashes wearing a beard"

Posted by Frank G 2011-06-04 12:43|| 2011-06-04 12:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Nobody was killed but a bunch of innocent women and children, and their fluffy bunnies. (Just wait a bit and you'll see.)

Posted by Glenmore 2011-06-04 12:46|| 2011-06-04 12:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Amazing how AQ and Taliban leaders suddenly find themselves dead from drone strikes right after they attack targets that the Pakistan establishment values. If I were a suspicious soul, I might suspect Pakistani intel knew where they were all along.

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-06-04 16:03|| 2011-06-04 16:03|| Front Page Top

#6 After the dronezap, and the scene is cordoned off, another zap needs to be done like rinsing after a wash when the body swarm starts up.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-06-04 16:11|| 2011-06-04 16:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Since we got #1 three weeks ago, and the new #1 yesterday, it looks like #23 has moved up to #21...
(I never have understood the news reports of Al Queda rankings) And I have no idea who the MSM thinks the new #21 is... Suspect Zawahiri doesn't want tho be announced as the new #1... It has gotten to be a dangerous designation recently...

Posted by BigEd 2011-06-04 23:55|| 2011-06-04 23:55|| Front Page Top

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