"Combat spreads to new area of Pakistani tribal lands" by Stephen Graham, Associated Press | August 28, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani troops drove off a Taliban attack on a fort and pounded another band of militants holed up in a health center, officials said yesterday as fighting spread to a third area of the tribal belt along the Afghan border.
Yesterday, fighting spread to South Waziristan, a tribal region that has experienced a stream of suspected US missile attacks on Al Qaeda hide-outs in recent months.
Then where's the reporting been? A "stream" is a STEADY, NEVER-ENDING FLOW!!!! How many missiles is the U.S. firing off on a daily basis, MSM, and how many people are we murdering!?
The military said 75 to 100 militants assaulted the Tiarza Fort around midnight Tuesday, but troops guarding the post and a checkpoint on a nearby bridge "repulsed the attack." Its statement said 11 militants were killed and up to 20 wounded, but it made no mention of any casualties among the troops. Spokesmen for insurgent groups could not be contacted to discuss the government's assertions.
What, you couldn't get them on the phone, MSM?
Aminullah Wazir, a shopkeeper in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan, said authorities imposed a curfew in the area yesterday. He said shops were shuttered and the streets deserted. "We heard shelling and gunfire almost all night," Wazir told the Associated Press by telephone.
The fiercest battles in Pakistan's restive northwest have been in Swat and Bajur, where officials say hundreds of militants have been killed by military operations and about 200,000 residents have fled their homes.
Yup, that is all going on and the AmeriKan MSM is damn near silent about it! Instead we are fed reams and reams of shit!
In the deadliest attack yesterday, troops rained gunfire and artillery shells on militants sheltering in a health center in Bajur, killing as many as 30 and wounding many more, said a military spokesman, Major Murad Khan.
????!! Isn't that a WAR CRIME, shelling a HOSPITAL?
Police said an additional eight militants were killed and 10 wounded when troops fired on suspect vehicles in two areas of Bajur early yesterday. Later in the day, militants ambushed a government convoy near Wana.
Khan said there were several casualties, without giving details. But an intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists, said two paramilitary troopers were killed and several others were missing.
I wonder if they defected!
Would you kill your brother for George Bush, Americans?
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Well, you know, they offered you peace and you turned them down, so I guess you deserve it, Paki army!
