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News Source: The Hindu
| 5 months ago
While Beithullah Mehsud is said to have narrowly escaped being killed in a U.S. drone strike in South Waziristan on Tuesday, another top militant and an aide of the Taliban leader may not have been so fortunate, according to a media report. Dawn...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
Mehsud was not at the spot at the time of Tuesday's attack, but had gone to pay his respects to a Taliban commander killed in another American drone strike earlier the same day, a Pakistani security official told the New York Times. Though the strike...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
Here are details of some of the deadliest attacks, based on information from Pakistani officials: -June 24, 2009: Four suspected U.S. missiles strike a funeral procession at Makeen in South Waziristan for a militant killed in a strike earlier the...
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News Source: Asian Age
| 5 months ago
A deputy commander of Baitullah Mehsud said that they killed Qari Zainuddin because he was a rebel of Baitullah Mehsud led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). In Islamabad, interior minister Rehman Malik said that the investigation of the murder of Qari...
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News Source: Democracy Now
| 5 months ago
At least 60 people have reportedly died in the South Waziristan region of western Pakistan after a US drone attack Tuesday. The vast majority were killed when missiles from an unmanned American drone struck the funeral of a suspected Taliban...
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News Source: B92
| 5 months ago
At least 43 people have died in missile strikes by a U.S. drone aircraft in a militant stronghold of Pakistan, a Taliban spokesman has told the BBC. The people killed in South Waziristan had been attending the funeral of a militant commander who had...
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News Source: News 24
| 5 months ago
United States missile strikes killed dozens of people in a Pakistani tribal area controlled by Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, where the army is preparing an assault, officials said on Wednesday. Drone aircraft, which are only deployed by US forces...
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News Source: China News
| 5 months ago
As many as 12 people who were injured in the United States missile attacks in Pakistan's tribal area on Tuesday succumbed to injuries Wednesday, pushing the death toll up to 83, local TV channel reported. A suspected US drone fired missiles in...
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News Source: AKI
| 5 months ago
At least 50 people, including an important militant commander, were killed in a series of suspected US missile strikes in South Waziristan on Tuesday. But the death toll was expected to rise as Pakistan's Geo News service reported 60 others were...
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News Source: Times Online
| 5 months ago
A US drone fired at least three missiles at a Taleban training camp in the Makeen area of the tribal region of South Waziristan, killing at least seven militants, including a commander called Niaz Wali, according to local officials. A drone then...