longwarjournal.org - 11/19/2008
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An unmanned US Predator aircraft attacked a Taliban and al Qaeda safehouse in the Bannu Frontier Region east of North Waziristan early today, according to reports from the region.
At least five people were killed in the early morning airstrike, including two "foreigners," according to Dawn . ...
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Bill Roggio: US Predator strikes al Qaeda Taliban outside of Pakistan's tribal areas
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Wednesday, 19 November 2008 Two The latest attack occurred in the Bannu Frontier Region, outside of Paksitan's seven tribal areas. Five Taliban and al Qaeda fighters have been reported killed in the airstrike. read ...
The Reaper Strikes Again In Pakistan
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... Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network. "He was a senior commander of Al-Qaeda and was involved in recruiting and training of fighters," the senior official said. According to US intelligence shared with Pakistan, al-Saudi was the main link between Al-Qaeda's senior command and Taliban networks in the Pakistani border region, an Islamabad-based senior security official said. The US uses Predator UAVs to target al Qaeda (sometimes the enhanced Predators known as Reapers), but this is the first time that one of these strikes took place outside the border provinces . Dawn said the ...
Al-Qaeda’s Idea of Hope and Change
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... “Obama makes the jihadists nervous because he is an appealing new face whose ascension undermines the belief that Islam and the West are locked in an inescapable clash of civilizations.” Ignatius also claims Obama would thwart the jihadists’ plan of “drawing America ever deeper onto the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Apparently he’s unaware that America is currently well-placed to begin withdrawing from the battlefields of Iraq, and is doing a pretty good job of knocking off al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders in Pakistan’s tribal areas from afar. And he must not ...
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US hits Haqqani Network in North Waziristan
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US Predators strike al Qaeda camp in North Waziristan
longwarjournal.org 11/7/2008 — After a one-week lull, the US has struck an al Qaeda training camp inside Pakistan's lawless tribal belt.
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The latest strike, which appears to be ...
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