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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: missile strike

missile strike stories: 14 news summaries

(AP) - A US missile strike today in Pakistan's lawless tribal region killed a wife of Baitullah Mehsud, the Taliban commander, the AP reports. Mehsud has been accused of orchestrating dozens of suicide attacks in Pakistan, including the assassination of former PM Benazir Bhutto in December 2007. The US, as usual, did... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Baitullah Mehsud • Pakistan army • South Waziristan • missile strike • Tehrik-e-Taliban

 US Pinpoints New Drone  
 Targets in Pakistan 

Missile strikes evaluated as part of regional policy review

Mar 26, 09 7:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the US reviews its controversial air strike program in Pakistan, US and Pakistani intelligence officials are adding new targets to its list, the Wall Street Journal reports. Pakistani officials hope that expanding the drone program to target extremists will win them public support; at the same time, the Obama... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • drones • Predator • al-Qaeda • missile strike

US Strikes in Pakistan Have Hammered al-Qaeda: Officials

9 militant leaders killed in six months

Mar 22, 09 11:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some six months of US missile strikes in Pakistan are rocking al-Qaeda, sparking violent infighting among militants, the Los Angeles Times reports. The frequency of attacks was upped last August by the Bush administration when it began launching strikes without Pakistan’s permission. Since then, there have been at least... More »

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Bush administration • Pakistan • militant • al-Qaeda • missile strike • George W. Bush • Obama administration • President Obama

 US Missiles Kill 8 
 Militants in Pakistan 

Islamabad complains that drone strikes help Taliban

Mar 1, 09 2:02 PM CST
(Newser) - An American drone attack today killed at least eight militants in a Pakistani tribal area, Reuters reports. "There are 'guests' among the dead," an anonymous intelligence official says, referring to non-Pakistani militants. The missile assault struck either a house or a bunker in South Waziristan, a Pakistani Taliban... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • drones • Pakistan militants • South Waziristan • missile strike • Obama administration

Pakistan: US Strikes Boost Local Qaeda Threat

But attacks are cutting fighters' global abilities

Feb 25, 09 12:26 PM CST
(Newser) - US drone strikes are heightening al-Qaeda’s threat to Pakistan, even as the attacks hurt the organization's ability to coordinate on a global scale, Pakistani officials say. The strikes have helped decentralize the group, but pockets focused on local jihad are fighting back. The officials also worry that an upcoming... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • drones • militant • al-Qaeda • missile strike

UPDATED

 US Drone Kills 31 
 in Pakistan Strike 

Attack is first in region bordering Waziristan

Feb 16, 09 5:44 AM CST
(Newser) - A US drone plane fired missiles at a building reportedly housing militants in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 31 people, reports the New York Times—the second time in three days such a strike has claimed upward of 30 lives. "Afghan Taliban were holding an important meeting there when... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • drones • North West Frontier Province • missile strike

 New Strikes Push 
 Gaza Toll to 275 

UN statement calls for 'immediate end' to violence

Dec 28, 08 4:51 AM CST
(Newser) - A new wave of Israeli missile strikes on the Gaza Strip today has hiked the death toll from the latest Israeli offensive against Hamas militants to 275, with closer to 800 wounded, reports CNN. UN Security Council members expressed "serious concern" and called for "an immediate halt to... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Palestinians • Gaza Strip border • missile strike • rockets

US Drone Strike Kills
7 in Pakistan

Attack mounts pressure for government to act

Dec 22, 08 6:48 AM CST
(Newser) - An unmanned US drone is suspected of firing two missiles in Pakistan that killed seven people, the BBC reports. Taliban were seen pulling bodies from a fort-like house afterward as tribesmen fired at the aircraft. Since August, American-operated drones have launched more than 20 missiles in the tribal areas near... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • US military • drones • missile strike • Afghanistan war

 Pakistan Warns 
 Petraeus on 
 Missile Attacks 

General told that US cross-border strikes are giving anti-American Islamists a boost

Nov 4, 08 6:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan has told the new chief of US Central Command that missile strikes inside its territory must stop, the Guardian reports. Gen. David Petraeus was warned that the strikes on suspected al-Qaeda militants in tribal areas across the Afghan border are fanning anti-American sentiment and creating a "credibility" ... More »

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Pakistan • David Petraeus • Asif Ali Zardari • tribal areas • al-Qaeda • US-Pakistan relations • missile strike

 US Missiles Kill 5 in Pakistan 

Strike is second this week in militant stronghold

Oct 12, 08 6:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - A pair of US missiles yesterday killed five militants in a Pakistani border community, according to a local intelligence official. Some were foreigners living in a village in North Waziristan, an al-Qaeda and Taliban stronghold, the official said. US drones had been circulating for hours and delivered the missiles after... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • militant • al-Qaeda • missile strike • North Waziristan

US Missile Strike
Kills at Least 10 in Pakistan

New fuel for tensions between US and Pakistan


Sep 12, 08 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A US missile attack killed at least 10 people today in northwest Pakistan, where many al-Qaeda and Taliban militants are based, Reuters reports. Drones fired missiles at a former government school that housed militants and their families in the latest move in  a heated US-Pakistan disagreement over militants in the... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • Waziristan • militant • al-Qaeda • missile strike

 Strike Kills at Least 9 in 
 Pakistan Militant Stronghold 

US missiles thought to have hit both terrorists and children

Sep 8, 08 7:54 AM CDT
(AP) - Explosions reportedly caused by missiles fired from drone aircraft hit a house and seminary linked to a key Taliban commander in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least nine people, officials and witnesses said. The blasts took place in a militant stronghold in Pakistan's wild tribal belt, a possible hiding place... More »

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Pakistan • jihad • civilian casualties • US military • Osama bin Laden • Pakistan militants • missile strike

Suspected US Strike Kills 5
in Pakistan

Drone attack is the latest of several near Afghan border

Sep 5, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A suspected US airstrike on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan killed at least 5 people today, part of a stepped-up effort against militants in the region, the AP reports. The victims' identities remained unclear. Conflicting intelligence reports called them either al-Qaeda operatives or innocent women and children, AFP notes. US... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • militant • Afghan border • al-Qaeda • missile strike

US Fires Missiles at
al-Qaeda Target in Somalia

Strike killed 3 women,
3 children, wounded 20

Mar 3, 08 10:13 AM CST
(Newser) - The US military has fired missiles at a terror target in southern Somalia, CNN reports. The strike destroyed two houses, killing three women and three children and wounding 20 others, a local commissioner reports. A US official says the strike was aimed at a "facility where there were known... More »

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Somalia • civilian casualties • US military • terrorist • al-Qaeda • missile strike

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