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News Source: The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
| 12 months ago
Rashid Rauf died when a missile hit a tribesman's house in the village of Alikhel, part of a border district known as a stronghold for al-Qaeda and Taliban militants. He had been on the run from Pakistani authorities for just under a year. Also among...
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News Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
| 12 months ago
A British citizen linked to a plot to blow up jetliners flying across the Atlantic was believed killed Saturday by an apparent U.S. missile attack on an al-Qaida redoubt near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said. If confirmed, the death of...
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News Source: USA Today
| 12 months ago
Pakistan (AP) A suspected U.S. missile strike killed five militants in a Taliban and al-Qaeda stronghold in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials said. There were unconfirmed reports that the dead included Rashid Rauf, a British suspect in...
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News Source: Islamic Republic News Agency
| 12 months ago
Afghanistan - Omar Saudi Arabian King Abdullah II has offered asylum to fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, succumbing to a mix of mediation efforts and pressure tactics by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and outgoing US President George W. Bush, the...
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News Source: The Guardian
| 12 months ago
United States forces are believed to have carried out about 20 missile attacks since August in north-west Pakistan , a sharp rise that reflects Washington's frustration at Islamabad's efforts to tackle militants on its own soil. Though the attacks...
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News Source: Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 12 months ago
Rashid Rauf, a British militant with al Qaeda links, was killed along with an Egyptian by a suspected U.S. missile strike in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, Pakistani television channels and intelligence officers said. Rauf, the suspected ringleader...
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News Source: CNN
| 12 months ago
Predator drone killed at least four people at a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan region early Saturday. The attack occurred in the Mir Ali subdivision in the village of Ali Khel, according to local political official Muhammad Nasim Dawar...Six...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 12 months ago
Pakistani media reports say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed a fugitive militant from Britain linked to a 2006 terror plot to blow up transatlantic airliners. Reports say Rashif Rauf was among five militants killed in the missile attack...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 12 months ago
A suspected U.S. missile strike at the home of a Taliban commander in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday killed at least five militants, officials said. The attack occurred before dawn in the North Waziristan region, part of the Pakistani tribal belt...
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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 12 months ago
The chief minister of Pakistan's most populous province called Saturday for Washington to stop aerial missile strikes on the nation's soil, as the latest raid killed four more suspected militants. Shahbaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab and the...