Pakistani Army Kills Suspected Terrorists in Raids

[maddezmom]

By Khalid Qayum

Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The Pakistani army killed ``many'' suspected terrorists in attacks at three bases in the country's northwestern tribal region, a military spokesman said.

``We had reports 25 to 30 terrorists were in the training camps,'' army spokesman General Shaukat Sultan said in a telephone interview from the capital, Islamabad. ``Many of them, including non Pakistanis, were killed in the raid by gunship helicopters'' in South Waziristan, close to the border with Afghanistan, he added.

Pakistan joined the U.S.-led war on terrorism in 2001 and has deployed about 90,000 soldiers in the border region to combat insurgents. Afghanistan has accused its neighbor of failing to control the frontier and allowing al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters to operate from camps in the tribal area, a charge Pakistan's government denies.

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Five compounds in the Zamzola area of South Waziristan were under surveillance for several days after intelligence agencies reported terrorists were training there, the army said in an e- mailed statement. Three of the compounds were destroyed at about 7 a.m. Islamabad time today, killing most of the terrorists present, the statement added.

Neither Sultan nor the statement said whether the suspects were linked to al-Qaeda or the Taliban.



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Interesting timing with Gate visiting today.

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. And now that they are dead...

We will never know if they really were terrorists, or just innocent fodder for the Beast.