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US drones kill three Haqqani militants in Pakistan

2011-11-04

[One Pakistan] A US drone strike killed at least three Death Eaters in northwest Pakistain on Thursday, destroying a compound in a mountain stronghold of the Afghan Taliban's Haqqani network, officials said. The attack took place in Darpakhel Sarai, just outside Miranshah the main town of North Wazoo, the most notorious bastion of Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt. Covert CIA drones are the chief US weapon against Taliban and Al-Qaeda Death Eaters who use Pak soil as launch pads for attacking US troops in the 10-year war in neighbouring Afghanistan and plotting attacks on the West. "A drone fired two missiles on a myrmidon compound. At least three Death Eaters were killed," a senior Pak security official told AFP. He said those killed were loyal to Jamil Haqqani, an important Afghan commander in the Haqqani network whom US officials said was killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan on October 13. A US official at the time named him as Janbaz Zadran, saying he "played a central role in helping the Haqqani network attack US and coalition targets in Kabul and southeastern Afghanistan". Other intelligence officials in Miranshah and the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar confirmed Thursday's missile strike and casualties. Three other maimed Death Eaters were pulled out of the rubble and taken to hospital, witnesses said. One of them was carried out on a cot by seven to eight Death Eaters enveloped in dust. Militants cordoned off the area and were preventing anyone from accessing the destroyed compound, they said. A local intelligence official said about 10 Death Eaters had been inside the compound but that some had managed to escape. The latest attack is the 61st US drone strike reported in Pakistain so far this year -- a programme that American officials refuse to discuss publicly and which has been dramatically ramped up under President Barack I am the change that you seek Obama. American politicians are running out of patience with Pakistain, demanding that Islamabad cut all long-standing ties with Islamist myrmidons, after Navy SEALs found and killed the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no more... close to the Pak capital on May 2. Relations between Pakistain and the United States deteriorated after that, and again over accusations that Pak intelligence helped the Haqqani network in a September 13 siege of the US embassy in Kabul. Two US senators just back from talks in Afghanistan and Pakistain said Wednesday that the coming weeks will show whether Islamabad can be a reliable ally against Islamist hard boys. "It does feel, at times, like Pakistain is playing both the role of fireman and arsonist in Afghanistan," said Democratic Senator Tom Udall, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. "The next few weeks will demonstrate or not whether we can work together effectively with the government of Pakistain" against foes like the Haqqani network blamed for attacks in Afghanistan, said Democratic Senator Jack Reed.

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India-Pakistan

US missiles kill six in South Waziristan

2011-10-16

[Dawn] A US missile strike killed at least six suspected forces of Evil in northwestern Pakistain near the Afghan border Saturday, two Pak intelligence officials said, in the third such American missile attack in as many days. The officials said four missiles slammed into a compound near the border town of Angore Adda in the South Wazoo tribal region. The strike was targeting fighters of Maulvi Nazir, a myrmidon commander who is accused of working with the Taliban and al-Qaeda to direct cross-border attacks, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ... for fear of being murdered... Nazir is believed to have an agreement with Pak authorities that they will leave him alone so long as his men refrain from carrying out attacks on Pak soil. Since 2008, Washington has regularly used drone-fired missiles to target Islamic fascisti and their hideouts in Pak tribal regions where local and Afghan factions like the Haqqanis and al-Qaeda men are hiding. US officials do not acknowledge the CIA-led program publicly, and Pakistain protests the strikes, which are unpopular. Saturday's strike was the latest in a string of missile attacks targeting the myrmidon-infested border region. On Friday, US missiles killed four unidentified people in the North Waziristan tribal region. A day earlier, a missile attack in North Waziristan killed Janbaz Zadran. US officials say Zadran was a top commander in the Haqqani network and had helped orchestrate attacks in Kabul and southeastern Afghanistan. Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... police said Saturday they had placed in durance vile a Russian and two nationals from Azerbaijan in Lakki Marwat, a town located near North Waziristan. It was not clear how the men reached the region, which is off limits to foreigners, and authorities said they were still investigating to determine whether the men had any links to myrmidon groups.

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Mourners bury 'militants' killed in US drone strike

2011-10-15

[Dawn] More then 2,000 mourners including gunnies have allegedly buried two cut-throats killed alongside a top commander of the cut-thoat Haqqani network in an American missile strike. They were buried Friday in Lakki Marwat, a town just outside the tribal region of North Wazoo, where mourners say they were killed Thursday by the US missile. Locals identified the two as Maulana Iftikhar and Noor Ali Shah and said both were involved in "jihad". One of the funerals was attended by gunnies who were speaking Arabic. US officials say the strike also killed Janbaz Zadran, a top commander in the cut-thoat Haqqani network blamed for attacks inside Afghanistan.

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US drone attack kills four in Pakistan

2011-10-15

[Dawn] A US drone strike killed four Islamic fascisti in northwestern Pakistain on Friday, the third such attack in 48 hours against Taliban hotbeds in Wazoo near the Afghan border, officials said. The drone fired two missiles into a vehicle as it drove through Darpa Khel village about four kilometres (two miles) west of Miramshah, the main town in the district of North Waziristan, the Pak security officials told AFP. "The US drone fired two missiles," one of the officials told AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to the media. "Four Islamic fascisti were killed in the attack, they were all in the vehicle," he added. The identities of the dead were not clear, but the village is a stronghold for Islamic fascisti fighting against US troops in Afghanistan. Covert CIA drones are the chief US weapon against Taliban and al Qaeda Islamic fascisti who use Pakistain's lawless tribal areas as launchpads for attacking US troops in Afghanistan and plotting attacks on the West. A US official in Washington described a commander in the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network who was killed on Thursday as "the most senior Haqqani leader in Pakistain to be taken off the battlefield". Pak officials reported 10 Islamic fascisti killed in two US drone strikes on Thursday and named the Haqqani commander as Jamil Haqqani, a coordinator for the Afghan Taliban faction in North Waziristan. The US official said he was known as Jamil and as Janbaz Zadran, accusing him of having "played a central role in helping the Haqqani network attack US and coalition targets in Kabul and southeastern Afghanistan". Pak officials said the slain commander was not a relative of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the Afghan warlord who founded the Taliban faction, but had been close to his son Sirajuddin Haqqani, who now runs the network. The United States blames the Haqqanis for fuelling the 10-year insurgency in Afghanistan, attacking US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... troops and working to destabilize the Western-backed government of Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... The US military has accused Pakistain's premier intelligence outfit, the ISI, of having close ties to the network and of being involved in a 19-hour siege of the American embassy in Kabul on September 13. After that attack, which killed 14 Afghans, Washington significantly stepped up demands on Pakistain to take action against the Haqqani network. But Pakistain has refused to launch a sweeping ground offensive in North Waziristan, the Haqqanis' leadership base, leaving American response largely limited to US drone strikes. More than 50 have been reported in Pakistain so far this year including dozens since Navy SEALs killed al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... in the garrison city of Abbottabad, close to the capital Islamabad, on May 2. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... has said for the first time that the United States was waging "war" in Pakistain against Death Eaters, referring to the covert CIA drone campaign that Washington refuses to discuss publicly.

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10 militants killed in drone attacks

2011-10-14

[Dawn] Ten hard boyz were killed in US drone attacks on targets in North and South Wazoo on Thursday. The attacks took place as Special US Envoy for Pakistain and Afghanistan, Marc Grossman, arrived in Islamabad and held talks with civilian and military leaders. In the first attack, two missiles struck a compound in Dandi Derpakhel area near Miramshah in North Waziristan, early in the morning. Official sources said a commander of the Haqqani network identified as Jamil and three other hard boyz were killed. They said the drone fired missiles when Jamil came out of the compound. Members of Jalaluddin Haqqani's family and close relatives have been living in Dandi Derpakhel area since the start of the Afghan war. The group had set up a seminary in the area. Another drone attacked an outpost of hard boyz on a hill in Zeba mountains close to the Afghan border. Sources said the hard boyz were using the outpost to keep an eye on the movement of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... and Afghan troops at their forward base in Machadad Kot area of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province across the border. Two Afghan and four local hard boyz were killed in the drone attack, sources said. Agencies add: "Jamil Haqqani, an important Afghan commander of the Haqqani network was the target and was killed," a Pak security official said, adding that Jamil was working as a coordinator of the network in North Waziristan. The official said the three other hard boyz killed in the strike were Haqqani's fighters, guarding the commander in the compound. Other officials said Jamil was not related to Jalaluddin, or his son Sirajuddin who now runs the network but that he was "very close to the top commanders, including Sirajuddin". Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... a US official on Thursday confirmed that a top Haqqani commander had been killed in a strike in Pakistain. "It's been confirmed that Janbaz Zadran, aka Jamil, was killed earlier today in North Waziristan, Pakistain," the official said, adding that his death "makes him the most senior Haqqani leader in Pakistain to be taken off the battlefield."

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Haqqani big shot confirmed killed in Pakistan

2011-10-13

And our winner is... A top leader in the Haqqani network who played a central role in attacking coalition forces was killed Thursday in Pakistan, U.S. officials said. Janbaz Zadran was killed in the Haqqani stronghold of Miram Shah in North Waziristan, Pakistan. The area reportedly was targeted in a drone strike the same day he died. Golly gee, we found him when the mighty Pak army couldn't. Or wouldn't... U.S. officials say Zadran's death makes him the most senior Haqqani leader in Pakistan to be taken off the battlefield. The officials said Zadran helped the Haqqani network orchestrate attacks on troops in Kabul and southeastern Afghanistan. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.

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