Pakistan: 310 Killed In Al Qaeda Insurrection
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) - A month of fierce fighting near the Afghan border has killed about 250 militants and 60 Pakistani troops, the army said Friday, hours after the deaths of six soldiers in a suicide attack and roadside bombing.
Pakistan, a key ally of the United States in fighting terrorism, has deployed about 90,000 troops in the border region to try to contain al-Qaida and Taliban militants and their local supporters, who often target security forces. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is under growing pressure from Washington to crack down on militants in the area.
Violence has surged in the region since July, when militants scrapped a September 2006 peace deal after accusing the government of violating the agreement by deploying more troops and targeting their hideouts.
“In the past one month, we lost about 60 soldiers in suicide and other attacks,” Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad told The Associated Press. “We security forces also killed about 250 miscreants during this period.”
In the latest violence, suspected Islamic militants drove an explosives-laden car into a military convoy and detonated a roadside bomb Friday, killing six soldiers and wounding five more, officials said.
The suicide car bomber struck on a road near Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing five soldiers, a local security official said.
Hours later, a roadside bomb exploded near another military convoy in the nearby village of Razmak, killing at least one soldier, the official said.
Arshad confirmed the attacks and casualties, but provided no details.
The official, who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media, said troops rushed from Miran Shah to the scene of attacks, and that authorities were trying to cordon off the area to catch any accomplices.
Earlier Friday, rebels fired several rockets at a ary checkpoint in Miran Shah, wounding two soldiers, the official said. Troops responded with mortars, rockets and assault rifles, but it was unclear whether the militants suffered any casualties.
The latest attack came two days after a rocket attack killed four soldiers in Bannu, a troubled town just east of North Waziristan.
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love the use of miscreant as a description:
miscreant \MIS-kree-uhnt\,
adjective:
1. Disbelieving; heretical.
2. Depraved; behaving badly.
noun:
1. A disbeliever; a heretic.
2. A scoundrel; an evildoer; a villain.
’subhuman goat fuckers’ works for me also
August 24th, 2007 at 10:52 am“Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad told The Associated Press. “We security forces also killed about 250 miscreants during this period.””
Miscreants? Interesting term.
August 24th, 2007 at 10:58 amToo bad that they didn’t kill “all” of them. However, it was very encouraging that they made no mention of prisoners being taken
August 24th, 2007 at 12:17 pmI am just glad that there are starting to be some body counts of the scum bags. Maybe if the American people knew how many thousands of THEM have been killed, they would pay less attention to the incessant body count of our boys and girls.
And before anyone rips off my head and shits down my throat, I am NOT trying to dismiss our losses or to trivialize them. What I want to point out is that from the liberals I have spoken to in Northwest and Northeast Ohio, they think we aren’t getting any of the bastards, for the loss of our troops, and we all know that isn’t the case. I always felt that if I were to die in a war, if I could take more than one of them with me, great. Now maybe that is how their homicide bombers are thinking, but I would be looking at it as taking as many of them out as possible, wiht all intentions of staying alive. That is what the Corps teaches, and what makes sense. I’m not going to die in an explosion, I’m gonna just disappear some day, figure since I have been keeping everyone that knows me guessing for over 40 years, I’ll eventually keep’em guessing
August 24th, 2007 at 1:07 pmBrad W, you infidel,
August 24th, 2007 at 1:48 pmyour right, would like to have an idea of a kill ratio in the ’stan and Iraq. I have never seen anything in the press regarding that either.
The actual kill-ratios are probably on a par with what we did in ‘91, if not higher.
One of the facts that the media and the defeatists in Congress are twisting so that they can say that the Surge is “lost” is that there’s an up-tick in the numbers of CF casualties.
The jackasses refuse to acknowledge the unpleasant fact that whenever we go deliberately huntin’ the muj’s, they are allowed to shoot back….
August 24th, 2007 at 8:13 pm