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Army says no confirmation on Al Shahri's Death

Pakistan had no confirmation that al Qaeda’s chief of operations in the country had been killed in a recent drone strike in the northwestern tribal region, as reported by American officials.

Army says no confirmation on Al Shahri

And how does the US found out that the person killed in drone strike is the AL qaida chief of operation if Paksitan is denying the claims. From where they found out.

What is the US source if Pakistan is denying?

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Army says no confirmation on Al Shahri's Death

Pakistan had no confirmation that al Qaeda’s chief of operations in the country had been killed in a recent drone strike in the northwestern tribal region, as reported by American officials.

Army says no confirmation on Al Shahri

And how does the US found out that the person killed in drone strike is the AL qaida chief of operation if Paksitan is denying the claims. From where they found out.

What is the US source if Pakistan is denying?
 
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US Predators kill 6 'militants' in North Waziristan strike

By BILL ROGGIO, September 23, 2011

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.

"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 in a US strike in the same village. Ilyas Kashmiri was also thought to have been present during the strike that killed Jalalov.

The Mir Ali area is in the sphere of influence of Abu Kasha al Iraqi, an al Qaeda leader who serves as a key link to the Taliban and supports al Qaeda's external operations network. Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bahadar and the Haqqani Network also operate in the Mir Ali area. Moreover, Mir Ali is a known hub for al Qaeda's military and external operations councils.

Since Sept. 8, 2010, a total of 16 Germans and two Britons have been reported killed in Predator strikes in the Mir Ali area. The Europeans were members of the Islamic Jihad Group, an al Qaeda affiliate based in the vicinity of Mir Ali. The IJG members are believed to have been involved in an al Qaeda plot that targeted several major European cities and was modeled after the terror assault on the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008.

Mir Ali also hosts at least three suicide training camps for the the Fedayeen-i-Islam, an alliance between the Pakistani Taliban, the anti-Shia Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and Jaish-e-Mohammed. Earlier this year, a Fedayeen-i-Islam spokesman claimed that more than 1,000 suicide bombers have trained at three camps. One failed suicide bomber corroborated the Fedayeen spokesman's statement, stating that more than 350 suicide bombers trained at his camp.

Over the past year, the US has been pounding targets in the Datta Khel, Miramshah, and Mir Ali areas of North Waziristan in an effort to kill members involved in the European plot. Al Qaeda and allied terror groups such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the Islamic Jihad Group, the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and a number of Pakistani and Central and South Asian terror groups host or share camps in the region.

Read more: US Predators kill 6 'militants' in North Waziristan strike - The Long War Journal
 
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US missile strike kills three in South Waziristan

AP, (53 minutes ago) Today

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Pakistani intelligence officials say an American missile strike has killed at least three people in a militant stronghold near the Afghan border.

The two officials say a pair of missiles struck a house near the town of Wana in South Waziristan on Tuesday.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk with reporters.

Washington has fired scores of missiles into northwest Pakistan since 2008 to target Taliban and al-Qaida operatives.


US missile strike kills three in South Waziristan | Provinces | DAWN.COM
 
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Terrorists ‘flee’ US drone strike in Wana

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

PESHAWAR: Terrorists escaped a US drone strike targeting a vehicle in tribal region near the Afghan border on Tuesday, security officials said. The missile strike took place in the South Waziristan tribal district. “A US drone fired two missiles targeting a vehicle parked in a compound but the terrorists fled before they could be hit,” a security official told AFP. He said the number of terrorists present in the vehicle before the strike was not immediately known. Two other security officials confirmed the strike in Azam Warsak town, which is 15 kilometres west of Wana, South Waziristan’s main town. They also said there were no casualties.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
 
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He said the number of terrorists present in the vehicle before the strike was not immediately known.

They don't even know how many people were in the vehicle!!!

And then they say they only target terrorists. :hitwall:

If they were not even known how many people were inside the vehicle? How can they say all were terrorists?
 
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They don't even know how many people were in the vehicle!!!

And then they say they only target terrorists. :hitwall:

If they were not even known how many people were inside the vehicle? How can they say all were terrorists?

The newspaper article is relating what a Pakistani "security" official told the journalist, not what the drone operator told the journalist. How would the Pakistani security official know? In all likelihood, the Pakistani security official was no where near where the strike occurred when it happened. And then, the terrorists probably prevented anyone from getting a closeup view of the scene. So your reaction that this somehow shows that the drone strikes are not targeted solely at terrorists is simply your anti-American bias showing front and center.

Further, look at the two articles about this strike. One says three were killed and the other says there were no casualties. The fact of the matter is we, outside observers, do not know definitively who and how many are killed and injured in these strikes. I believe my government when they say these strikes overwhelmingly kill terrorists, and not civilians.
 
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The newspaper article is relating what a Pakistani "security" official told the journalist, not what the drone operator told the journalist. How would the Pakistani security official know? In all likelihood, the Pakistani security official was no where near where the strike occurred when it happened. And then, the terrorists probably prevented anyone from getting a closeup view of the scene. So your reaction that this somehow shows that the drone strikes are not targeted solely at terrorists is simply your anti-American bias showing front and center.

Further, look at the two articles about this strike. One says three were killed and the other says there were no casualties. The fact of the matter is we, outside observers, do not know definitively who and how many are killed and injured in these strikes. I believe my government when they say these strikes overwhelmingly kill terrorists, and not civilians.

First let me tell you i don't have anti american bias i only protest against those things which are wrong.

And the question remains there if we are not known about the exact figures of dead people than you are also not known about them.
 
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US drone kills three Taliban in Pakistan: officialsAFP Yesterday

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A US drone strike on Friday killed three Taliban fighters in Pakistan’s tribal badlands bordering Afghanistan, blowing their vehicle into a ball of flames, local officials said.

It was the first deadly missile strike in a week and comes as Washington appeared to ease pressure on Islamabad demanding action against the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network based in the North Waziristan tribal district.

The militants were killed in Baghar village of neighbouring South Waziristan, where the Pakistan military carried out a sweeping offensive against homegrown militants in late 2009.

“A US drone fired two missiles at a vehicle and at least three militants were killed,” a senior Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to media.

At least two other Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed the drone strike and the death toll.

The dead were identified as Pakistanis who fought under a nebulous Taliban umbrella, on behalf of Pakistani warlord Maulvi Nazir, whose fighters are allied to the Haqqanis and active in the 10-year war in Afghanistan.

One Pakistani official said a deputy to Nazir, named Haleem Ullah, was among the dead. The official said he was among those militants who had escaped survived a drone strike in South Waziristan three days ago by escaping.

The tense partnership between Pakistan and the United States in the war on terror took a further battering this month, with Washington demanding that Islamabad take action against the Haqqani network and cut ties to the group.

The outgoing top US military officer Admiral Mike Mullen, called the Haqqani network a “veritable arm” of Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and accused Pakistan of supporting attacks on US targets in Afghanistan.

Islamabad officially denies any support for Haqqani activities, but has nurtured Pashtun warlords for decades as a way of influencing events across the border and offsetting the might of arch-rival India.

The Pakistani military says it is too over-stretched fighting local Taliban to acquiesce to American demands to launch an offensive against the Haqqanis, a battle that not all observers think the Pakistani military would win.

Stepped up US drone strikes is the most probable alternative American course of action, local analysts say.

The United States does not publicly confirm the drone campaign, but are the only forces that deploy the unmanned Predator aircraft in the region.

Around 30 drone strikes have been reported in Pakistan since elite US forces killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden near Pakistan’s main military academy in Abbottabad, close to the capital, on May 2.

The raid humiliated Pakistan but is thought to have contributed to debate within the military about the merits of traditional support for jihadi groups.

On Thursday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington wants to work to put its relationship with Pakistan on a stronger footing.

At a rare conference in the capital Islamabad, Pakistan sought to deflect US pressure by gathering together more than 50 military commanders and politicians, and saying dialogue was the best way of easing tensions.

US drone kills three Taliban in Pakistan: officials | Provinces | DAWN.COM


Note that Dawn, a Pakistani newspaper, published the above sentences, lock, stock and barrel......
 
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I wish and pray that there are no evil/terrorists live/left within the whole world.
Ameen
 
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Drone strikes happening before and after APC... What a FAIL.. Slave Army/Politicians
 
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Pakistani militant leader killed in U.S. missile strike

Associated Press | Posted: Sunday, October 2, 2011 12:00 am

PESHAWAR, Pakistan • Pakistani and U.S. officials say an American missile strike near the Afghan border has killed an al-Qaida-linked Pakistani militant commander.

Two Pakistani intelligence officials said Saturday that the commander, Haleem Ullah, was among three militants killed in a U.S. missile strike in South Waziristan on Friday.

A U.S. official says Ullah served as deputy to Afghan warlord Maulvi Nazir, who leads a group of militants in the Pakistani tribal region that is closely allied with al-Qaida.

He says the group works with al-Qaida commanders to direct cross-border operations against the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

But although experts argue over the extent of the deaths of innocents when missiles fall on suspected terrorist compounds, there is broad agreement that the drones cause far fewer unintended deaths and produce far fewer refugees than either ground combat or traditional airstrikes.

Read more: Pakistani militant leader killed in U.S. missile strike
 
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'German Taliban Mujahideen' leader thought killed in US airstrike

By BILL ROGGIO, October 4, 2011

The leader of a terrorist group known as the German Taliban Mujahideen is rumored to have been killed in a US airstrike in the Afghan-Pakistan border region.

Gazavat Media, a jihadist propaganda website that caters to Turkish jihadists belonging to the Taifatul Mansura, or the Victorious Sect, posted that Abdul Fettah al Almani, the head of the so-called German Taliban Mujahideen, was killed in a US airstrike. The statement, which was translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, did not give the exact date or location of the strike, and was clear the report is unconfirmed.

"Gazavat Media received unconfirmed news that Abdul Fettah al Almani, the leader of the group known as the German Taliban Mujahideen, was martyred. According to the source, the factor that caused the martyrdom of Abdul Fettah Almani was a missile fired from either a helicopter or a drone."

"This is the second leader that the German Mujahideen has lost," the source told Gazavat Media.

Abdul Fettah Almani, a German citizen, was named the head of the German Taliban Mujahideen in December 2010, according to SITE.

The German Taliban Mujahideen and the Victorious Sect are thought to be closely linked. The German Taliban Mujahideen are based in the Waziristan region. In 2009, the group released a video that showed foreign fighters conducting weapons training in the snow in the Waziristan region. The video shows Abu Ibrahim Amriki, an American terrorist operating in Pakistan, and a spokesman named Ayyub Almani. Also shown is a German "village" in the area.

The Victorious Sect is a transnational Turkic jihadist group that operates along the Afghan-Pakistani border and is based in North Waziristan. Its fighters operate in Eastern Afghanistan alongside the Taliban and its powerful subgroup, the Haqqani Network.

The Victorious Sect was established in 2009 by the Islamic Jihad Union, a splinter faction of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, to accommodate the increasing influx of European foreign fighters in the region, according to DPA. Scores of German and other European fighters belong to the Victorious Sect.

The Victorious Sect has issued multiple statements from Pakistan's tribal areas. In June 2010, Abu Yasir al Turki, the spokesman for the the group announced the deaths of two al Qaeda fighters and a Turkish fighter in a US Predator strike in North Waziristan. The Victorious Sect also announced the death of Eric Breininger, a German member of the Islamic Jihad Union who was killed while fighting Pakistani security forces during a clash near Mir Ali in North Waziristan on April 30, 2010. In 2009, Abdul Fettah Almani was seen in a video seated next to Breininger.

In August 2011, the Victorious Sect issued a statement that Mounir Chouka, a German citizen known as Abu Adam, may have been wounded in a US Predator airstrike. The report was not confirmed. Chouka and his brother, Yassin, fight with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in Pakistan. Mounir is also a senior member of Jundallah Media, the IMU's media production arm.

Read more: 'German Taliban Mujahideen' leader thought killed in US airstrike - The Long War Journal
 
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(Another illegal drone attack that probably killed more innocents)

US drone strike kills four in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH: A US drone strike on Thursday destroyed a militant compound in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt on the Afghan border, killing four militants, local security officials said.

The unmanned aircraft fired two missiles in Dandey Darpakhel village, some seven kilometres north of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan tribal district.

The area is considered a stronghold of the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, officials said.

“The US drone fired two missiles. Four militants were killed in the attack,” a Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Another intelligence official confirmed the drone strike and the death toll.

The United States does not publicly confirm its drone strikes in Pakistan, but its forces are the only ones that deploy the unmanned Predator aircraft in the region.

Around 30 drone strikes have been reported in Pakistan since elite US forces killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden near Pakistan’s main military academy in Abbottabad, close to the capital, on May 2.

The unilateral raid humiliated Pakistan but is thought to have contributed to debate within the country’s military about the merits of traditional support for jihadi groups.


US drone strike kills four in Pakistan | Pakistan | DAWN.COM
 
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US kills Haqqani Network's 3rd in command in North Waziristan strike
By BILL ROGGIO, October 13, 2011

The Haqqani Network's third in command was killed in a US Predator airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, US officials said.

Jan Baz Zadran was killed in the town of Miramshah, US officials told The Associated Press. Unmanned US Predators conducted an airstrike in the Miramshah area today, and according to previous news reports, a Haqqani "coordinator" identified as "Jamil" was said to be one of three people killed in the strike. A US official told The Long War Journal that Jan Baz and Jamil are the same person.

The Haqqani Network has not confirmed reports that Jan Baz was among those killed in today's Predator strike in North Waziristan.

US officials contacted by The Long War Journal said that Jan Baz was high on their "target list" due to his role in the top tier of the Haqqani Network's leadership circle. The officials described him as the Haqqani Network's third in command. He is the senior-most Haqqani Network leader killed or captured in either Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Jan Baz was a powerful leader in the Haqqani Network. He was considered to be the top aide to Sirajuddin Haqqani, the operational commander of the Haqqani Network. Jan Baz served as the Haqqani Network's logistical and financial coordinator, and also acquired weapons and ammunition for the network.

He is one of the most wanted Taliban commanders operating in the Afghan theater. Coalition and Afghan special operations forces have been hunting Jan Baz for years. His brother was captured during a May 13 raid in the Zadran district in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan. At the time of his capture, the brother was described by the International Security Assistance Force as "a senior adviser for the insurgent network" who was "responsible for logistics and communications for a major portion of Haqqani operations" in Khost province. The brother "was intimately involved with the Haqqani command structure and tactical operations," ISAF stated. He also "recruited young men and suicide bombers for the Haqqani Network."

Jan Baz is the third senior Haqqani Network leader killed or captured along the Afghan-Pakistan border in three weeks. On Sept. 27, special operations forces captured Haji Mali Khan, the Haqqani Network's operational commander for Afghanistan, during a raid in Paktia province. ISAF described Khan as "one of the highest ranking members of the Haqqani Network and a revered elder of the Haqqani clan." He managed bases used by Haqqani and foreign fighters in eastern Afghanistan, and served as a key link to the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. Khan is Sirajuddin Haqqani's maternal uncle, and is an Arab from the Middle East.

And on Oct. 4, US forces killed Dilawar, "a principal subordinate to Haji Mali Khan," during an airstrike in the district of Musa Khel in Khost, ISAF stated. Dilawar "actively coordinated numerous attacks against Afghan forces and facilitated the movement of weapons" along the Afghan-Pakistan border. He also "facilitated the movement of foreign fighters and was associated with both al Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan." The Haqqani Network is known to work closely with both al Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

The Haqqani Network has become a focus of ISAF operations in Afghanistan and CIA operations in Pakistan as the terror group remains entrenched in the Afghan east and continues to direct high-profile attacks in Kabul. In August, Major General Daniel Allyn, Commanding General of Regional Commander East, told The Long War Journal that the Haqqani Network is "enemy number one."

Read more: US kills Haqqani Network's 3rd in command in North Waziristan strike - The Long War Journal
 
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Suspected US drones 'kill 10 militants' in Pakistan

At least 10 suspected militants have been killed in two apparent US drone strikes in Pakistan, officials say.

A strike in North Waziristan killed four suspected militants. Officials say one of the dead is a commander from the Haqqani militant network.

Another attack targeted a compound in South Waziristan, killing at least six suspected militants, officials said.

BBC News - Suspected US drones 'kill 10 militants' in Pakistan
 
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