Military hits 'suicide bomb centre', kills 20: official

[Imran Khan]

Military hits 'suicide bomb centre', kills 20: official

Monday, 27 Jul, 2009 | 07:53 PM PST |
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Helicopters have shelled militant hideouts, killing 20 rebels and destroying four of their strongholds.—Photo by AP
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PESHAWAR: Attack helicopters Monday killed 20 militants and destroyed four hideouts, including a training centre for suicide bombers in the northwest tribal belt, the paramilitary said.

The operation was carried out in Tirah valley, 35 kilometres (21 miles) southwest of Landi Kotal, the main town in the Khyber tribal region that straddles a main supply route for Nato troops in Afghanistan.

‘Military helicopters shelled militant hideouts Monday afternoon killing 20 rebels and destroying four of their hideouts,’ a spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps, Major Fazal-ul-Rehman, told AFP.

He said that the hideouts included a training centre where rebels used to train suicide bombers and foot soldiers, adding that the air strikes were ordered after an intelligence tip-off.

Death tolls released by government are impossible to confirm in areas that are remote and largely cut off from independent media coverage.—AFP

 

[dabong1]

good job......more targeted ops.... the better

 

[iPhone]

that's great news.
I just saw on Geo a news coverage of captured suicide bomber kids ages 6-13 years old and there are dozens of them captured. They've been brainwashed to a point where they're calling their parents kafirs and even threatened to kill their parents on occasions when they came to get them. Furthermore, the army is giving them psychiatric help to bring them back to a normal life. Now my question is isn't that a big risk? are they ever gonna think like normal kids? I think aside from having a shrink talk to them other alternatives should be considered, too. Death penalty.