As if there needed to be another reason to have a few drinks this weekend !
But we will take em ! Dead Taliban Is Good Taliban !
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JAMRUD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani troops backed by helicopter gunships killed about 43 militants Saturday in attacks on hideouts in the northwestern Khyber Pass region, a spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps said.
The Khyber Pass is a main route for supplies trucked from the Pakistani port of Karachi to Western forces battling al Qaeda and Taliban militants in Afghanistan.
The airstrikes took place as troops mopped up militant positions in the northwestern Swat valley, where the military says over 2,000 fighters have been killed since an offensive was launched in April.
Troops began a new operation in the Khyber this week against militants who included those who had fled the Swat offensive.
"Our forces targeted a headquarters of Lashkar-e-Islam and about 15 militants were killed in the attack," said a Frontier Corps spokesman in Peshawar, referring to a group under the command of Mangal Bagh, an ethnic Pashtun Islamist militant.
A further 28 were killed elsewhere in clashes with insurgents and airstrikes on suspected militant hideouts.
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