SgtJim
09-24-2011, 07:06 AM
from Bill Roggio @ longwarjournal
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US Predators killed six "militants," including four "foreigners," in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, ending an 11-day-long lull in attacks.
The unmanned, CIA-operated Predators or Reapers fired a pair of missiles at a compound in the village of Khushali Turikhel in the Mir Ali area, Pakistani intelligence officials told AFP (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jKRRAfhavwVYcfKMdloAB2O7M11Q?docId=CNG.f5415 4970406d4c5caa5d6396ceb7243.e1).
"Two locals and four militants of central Asian origin have been killed," a Pakistani security official told the news agency. The official may be referring to members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan or the Turkistan Islamic Party, two al Qaeda-linked groups that are known to be present in the area.
The target of the strike has not been disclosed. No senior Taliban or al Qaeda operatives were reported killed in today's strike.
The village of Khushali Turikhel is known to have hosted top terrorist leaders in the past. Just over two years ago, on Sept. 14, 2009, Najmuddin Jalalov, the former leader of the Islamic Jihad Group, an al Qaeda-linked offshoot of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, was killed (http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/09/two_al_qaeda_leaders.php) in a US strike in the same village. Ilyas Kashmiri was also thought to have been present during the strike that killed Jalalov.
Today's strike takes place as the US and Pakistan are waging a war of words over the latter's support of the Haqqani Network, the al Qaeda-linked Taliban subgroup that is based in Miramshah in North Waziristan. Several US officials, including Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen have accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISI, of directly supporting Haqqani Network attacks inside Afghanistan. Most recently, the US said that the ISI aided the Haqqani Network in attacking the US Embassy and ISAF headquarters in Kabul.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/09/us_predators_kill_6_6.php#ixzz1YroZKoJN
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11673
US Predators killed six "militants," including four "foreigners," in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, ending an 11-day-long lull in attacks.
The unmanned, CIA-operated Predators or Reapers fired a pair of missiles at a compound in the village of Khushali Turikhel in the Mir Ali area, Pakistani intelligence officials told AFP (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jKRRAfhavwVYcfKMdloAB2O7M11Q?docId=CNG.f5415 4970406d4c5caa5d6396ceb7243.e1).
"Two locals and four militants of central Asian origin have been killed," a Pakistani security official told the news agency. The official may be referring to members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan or the Turkistan Islamic Party, two al Qaeda-linked groups that are known to be present in the area.
The target of the strike has not been disclosed. No senior Taliban or al Qaeda operatives were reported killed in today's strike.
The village of Khushali Turikhel is known to have hosted top terrorist leaders in the past. Just over two years ago, on Sept. 14, 2009, Najmuddin Jalalov, the former leader of the Islamic Jihad Group, an al Qaeda-linked offshoot of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, was killed (http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/09/two_al_qaeda_leaders.php) in a US strike in the same village. Ilyas Kashmiri was also thought to have been present during the strike that killed Jalalov.
Today's strike takes place as the US and Pakistan are waging a war of words over the latter's support of the Haqqani Network, the al Qaeda-linked Taliban subgroup that is based in Miramshah in North Waziristan. Several US officials, including Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen have accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, or ISI, of directly supporting Haqqani Network attacks inside Afghanistan. Most recently, the US said that the ISI aided the Haqqani Network in attacking the US Embassy and ISAF headquarters in Kabul.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/09/us_predators_kill_6_6.php#ixzz1YroZKoJN