Friday, October 31, 2008

22 terrorists killed today in Predator missile strike

Just two days after Pakistan summoned the US ambassador to Pakistan to protest US missile strikes inside Pakistan, Predator drones fire two missiles killing up to 22 terrorists. A mid level al Qaida commander, Abdur Rehman Abu Atasha, from Iraq was also killed in the missile strikes.

So I guess Pakistan got its reply from the US today regarding missile strikes inside Pakistani terroritory targeting terrorist scum.

Intelligence officials in Pakistan say two separate suspected U.S. missile strikes Friday killed at least 22 people in northwestern Pakistan, near the Afghan border.

In the first attack, officials say at least 15 people died when two missiles struck a house near Mir Ali village in North Waziristan. The strike appears to have targeted a mid-level al-Qaida militant, Abdur Rehman Abu Atasha, believed to be Iraqi. Intelligence officials and local militants say he was killed, but that has not been confirmed.

In the second strike, two more missiles were fired into a house in South Waziristan, near Wana, from what is believed to be a U.S. unmanned (drone) aircraft. Local officials say at least seven people were killed.
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