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credits to Bill Roggio @ longwarjournal
By Bill Roggio - June 8, 2011
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The US launched a pair of attacks in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agencies of North and South Waziristan today, killing 22 Taliban fighters and "foreigners."
In the first strike, unmanned Predators or the more deadly Reapers launched at least five missiles (http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/08/five-killed-in-north-waziristan-drone-strike.html) at a "fortress-like militant compound" that is used as a training camp. The camp is located in the village of Zoynarai (http://www.geo.tv/6-8-2011/82250.htm) in the Shawal area of North Waziristan, which borders South Waziristan.
"Local residents described the camp as a major training centre on the top of a hill surrounded by trees and ice cold natural springs," Dawn reported (http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/08/five-killed-in-north-waziristan-drone-strike.html).
More than 20 people, including "foreign and militants from Pakistan's central Punjab province" were killed during the strike in Shawal. The term "foreigners" is used to describe members of al Qaeda and other terror groups from outside Pakistan that are allied with al Qaeda. Punjabi "militants" belong to terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami.
After the strike on the compound, the Predators or Reapers fired a pair of missiles at a vehicle in a village near the first strike, but across the border in South Waziristan. Four "militants" were killed in the attack, according to Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/08/us-pakistan-missile-idUSTRE7571NI20110608).
No senior Taliban, al Qaeda, or allied terror group leader has been reported killed at this time.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/06/us_predators_trainin.php#ixzz1OmAhl6Yc
credits to Bill Roggio @ longwarjournal
By Bill Roggio - June 8, 2011
---
The US launched a pair of attacks in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agencies of North and South Waziristan today, killing 22 Taliban fighters and "foreigners."
In the first strike, unmanned Predators or the more deadly Reapers launched at least five missiles (http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/08/five-killed-in-north-waziristan-drone-strike.html) at a "fortress-like militant compound" that is used as a training camp. The camp is located in the village of Zoynarai (http://www.geo.tv/6-8-2011/82250.htm) in the Shawal area of North Waziristan, which borders South Waziristan.
"Local residents described the camp as a major training centre on the top of a hill surrounded by trees and ice cold natural springs," Dawn reported (http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/08/five-killed-in-north-waziristan-drone-strike.html).
More than 20 people, including "foreign and militants from Pakistan's central Punjab province" were killed during the strike in Shawal. The term "foreigners" is used to describe members of al Qaeda and other terror groups from outside Pakistan that are allied with al Qaeda. Punjabi "militants" belong to terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami.
After the strike on the compound, the Predators or Reapers fired a pair of missiles at a vehicle in a village near the first strike, but across the border in South Waziristan. Four "militants" were killed in the attack, according to Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/08/us-pakistan-missile-idUSTRE7571NI20110608).
No senior Taliban, al Qaeda, or allied terror group leader has been reported killed at this time.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/06/us_predators_trainin.php#ixzz1OmAhl6Yc