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06-20-2011, 07:15 PM
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By Bill Roggio @ longwarjournal
June 20, 2011
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US Predators targeted the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of Kurram today, killing 11 enemy fighters. The strike hit in an area run by a Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan commander who supports the Haqqani Network.
The remotely-piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired four missiles at two compounds and a vehicle in the Khardand area of Kurram.
"Eleven militants were killed," a local Pakistani intelligence official said, according to Dawn (http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/20/seven-dead-in-drone-strike-in-kurram-agency.html). "Nine of them were Afghans and believed to be linked to the Haqqani group."
No senior Haqqani Network, Taliban, or al Qaeda leaders have been reported killed in the strike.
Today's strike took place in an area run by a Taliban commander known as Fazal Saeed, who is said to be "closely linked to the Haqqani Network," Dawn reported.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/06/us_predators_strike_27.php#ixzz1PrRV7Y9V
By Bill Roggio @ longwarjournal
June 20, 2011
---
US Predators targeted the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of Kurram today, killing 11 enemy fighters. The strike hit in an area run by a Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan commander who supports the Haqqani Network.
The remotely-piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired four missiles at two compounds and a vehicle in the Khardand area of Kurram.
"Eleven militants were killed," a local Pakistani intelligence official said, according to Dawn (http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/20/seven-dead-in-drone-strike-in-kurram-agency.html). "Nine of them were Afghans and believed to be linked to the Haqqani group."
No senior Haqqani Network, Taliban, or al Qaeda leaders have been reported killed in the strike.
Today's strike took place in an area run by a Taliban commander known as Fazal Saeed, who is said to be "closely linked to the Haqqani Network," Dawn reported.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/06/us_predators_strike_27.php#ixzz1PrRV7Y9V