Suspected US Missile Strike Kills 15 in Pakistan

[tekisui]

Source: AFP

ISLAMABAD (AFP) — A suspected US missile strike destroyed a Taliban training camp in northwest Pakistan, killing 15 militants and Al-Qaeda operatives, as well as wounding another 50, security officials said Friday.

Two missiles fired by an unmanned drone pulverised the den in the tribal area of Kurram, one of seven such semi-autonomous regions near Pakistan's porous border with Afghanistan, where US troops are battling Taliban fighters.

"Fifteen militants were killed and 50 wounded," a senior security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. He had initially said at least seven militants, including "foreigners" -- a reference to Al-Qaeda -- were killed.

No high-value targets were believed to have died, the official added.

Another security official said most of the dead were Afghan Taliban.

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[tigereye]

1. I just read 3 Cups of Tea - and it's so much harder to think about this

when you have a better sense of the people in that region. :( I can picture the area, and the villages, and the schools, and the mountains...

[endarkenment]

2. Who the fuck else has these missiles?

What is with this consistent "suspected US missile strike" bullshit? If it is death from above, and it doesn't involve commercial airplanes flying into buildings, we did it.