17 Insurgents Killed After Pakistani Jets Pound Taliban Hide-Outs

And it gets better , 17 Taliban goat loving insurgents were sploded to bits in Pakistan .




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PARACHINAR, Pakistan — Pakistani fighter jets pounded Taliban hide-outs near the Afghan border Sunday, killing 17 insurgents, local officials said.

The hide-outs were in the village of Mero Bak in the Taliban stronghold of the Lower Orakzai tribal region, said Rasheed Khan, an Orakzai official. The air attack killed nine militants, he added.

One of the bombed houses belonged to a local Taliban commander, Aslam Farooqi, but it was not clear if he was among those killed.

Jabir Gul, another local official, said the bombing in neighboring Upper Orakzai killed eight more Taliban fighters.

Orakzai is the base of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, who officials believe was killed in a U.S. missile strike early this year. The group insists he is alive, but has not provided any evidence.

Violence has surged in Pakistan in recent days as militants — thought to be part of a loose network of Islamist insurgents fighting the U.S.-allied Islamabad government — launched a wave of suicide bombings. The attacks have killed 88 people in a little over a week.