Thursday, March 17, 2011

Two dozen killed in a U.S. attack on a Taliban stronghold Pakistani

At least 22 suspected insurgents were killed Thursday in a missile attack on a U.S. spy plane in the Pakistani Taliban stronghold of North Waziristan, as reported by the TV channel 'Express'. The attack took place in Datta Khel area, one of Pakistan's tribal regions bordering Afghanistan. The missiles fired by drones (a resource widely used by U.S.

troops to combat terrorism in the region) crashed into a house and killed, 22 suspected insurgents. The attack today is the deadliest of its kind since the start of the year and comes a day after he was released Raymond Davis, the contractor for the CIA who killed two Pakistanis in late January in the eastern city of Lahore.

His arrest caused a break of three weeks in attacks by U.S. spy planes, which require collaboration on intelligence, "but before delivery and restarted. Last year there were 118 attacks by unmanned aircraft, most of them in North Waziristan, where they seek shelter jihadist networks and Pakistani and Afghan Taliban factions.

U.S. considers Pakistan's vital cooperation in the development of the Afghan war and believes the spy planes are essential to weaken the fundamentalists.

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