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US Missile Kills Ten in Pakistan

Pir Zubair Shah and Alan Cowell, The New York Times: "Missiles fired from a remotely-piloted United States aircraft slammed into a village in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan along the Afghan border on Friday and killed between 10 and 13 people, according to a local intelligence official, a Pakistani reporter and two Pakistani television channels."

http://www.truthout.org/110708B

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Pakistan says 13 killed in US missile strike

ABC News

A suspected U.S. missile targeting a Taliban commander killed 13 people near the Afghan border Friday, a sign that America’s new general for the region is not heeding Islamabad’s pleas for a halt to the strikes. There has been a surge in U.S. cross-border attacks since August, angering Pakistani officials who say the raids violate the nuclear-armed country’s sovereignty and undermine its anti-terror war in the border region...

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6203426



US conducted secret ops in Pakistan, Syria

USA Today

11/09/08

The U.S. military has conducted nearly a dozen secret operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups in Syria, Pakistan and other countries since 2004, The New York Times reported Sunday night. Citing anonymous U.S. officials, the Times story said the operations were authorized by a broad classified order that then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld signed and President George W. Bush approved in spring 2004...

http://tinyurl.com/6fw7tq


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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