Taliban said to be furious at latest missile strike

Poor dears, as these idiots look to a fictional deity they call “allah” to save them. Americans are trusting the high-tech application of explosives to eliminate them and prove allah powerless.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — The Taliban are unusually angry about the latest suspected U.S. missile strike in Pakistan, indicating that a top militant may have died, officials and residents said Sunday as the death toll from the attack rose to 24.
The U.S. has ramped up cross-border strikes on alleged al-Qaeda and Taliban targets along Pakistan’s side of the border with Afghanistan, straining the two nations’ anti-terrorism alliance.
-I think many Pakistanis are grateful for US actions it gives them plausible deniability. No one seems to have figured out that someone is pointing out the taliban nests inside of Pakistan.

The U.S. says pockets of Pakistan’s border region, especially in its semiautonomous tribal areas, are bases for militants attacking American and NATO forces in Afghanistan. It has pushed nuclear-armed Pakistan to eliminate the safe havens.

The frontier region is believed to be a possible hiding place for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, and several Arab militants were said to be among the dead in Friday’s strike in the North Waziristan tribal region.

Two Pakistani intelligence officials said that over the weekend two people wounded in the attack died at a hospital in Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to news media, said the overall death toll was now 24.
-Nice shootin

Based on information from informants and agents in the field, the intelligence officials said the Taliban appeared unusually perturbed over the latest attack. Their anger was a signal that a senior militant may have been killed, but that has yet to be confirmed, they said.
-They are angry because they were safe and now they are not. Muslim leaders are good at sending kids into the jihad while sitting safely out of harms way themselves. Looks like them days are over.

The insurgents were moving aggressively in the area while using harsh language against local residents, including calling them “salable commodities” — a reference to people serving as government spies, the officials said.
-Typical blame the people for their failures.

Taliban spokesmen could not immediately be reached for comment Sunday. Neither could Pakistani government and military spokesmen.

Earlier, Pakistan army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said initial reports indicated at least 20 people were killed. He said there was “speculation” that many were foreign militants, but cautioned that the army was still awaiting a detailed report.

The U.S. rarely acknowledges such attacks. 1st Lt. Nathan Perry, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, said he had “no information to give” about the reported attacks. He did not deny U.S. involvement.

Pakistan’s military and civilian leaders have complained that the attacks violate the country’s sovereignty, kill civilians and anger the local population, making it harder to crack down on the militants.
-Well if they were successful at cracking down on the militants we wouldn’t have to do it would we?

Extremists based in the border region are blamed for rising attacks in Pakistan, including the Sept. 20 truck bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad that killed more than 50 people.

The prime minister’s office announced Saturday that a special joint session of Parliament would be held Wednesday so intelligence agencies could privately brief lawmakers about the militant threat facing the country.

Ahsan Iqbal, a senior member of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League opposition party, welcomed the joint session, saying it could help clarify U.S. motives in launching operations in Pakistan.

The Pakistani military has been carrying out its own operations against insurgents in the northwest, most notably in Bajur, a tribal region Abbas called a “mega-sanctuary” for militants.

The U.S. has praised the military offensive in Bajur, but it has also led to a major humanitarian crisis. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced by the fighting.

Many are in refugee camps in Pakistan, but some 20,000 Pakistanis have crossed the border into eastern Afghanistan, according to the United Nations.

Meanwhile, a three-day ultimatum from the government for Afghans living illegally in Bajur to leave was due to expire later Sunday. Of an estimated 80,000 Afghans, only about 15,000 had left, said Abdul Haseeb, a local government official.

He said the exodus appeared to be continuing, and that “the administration may be lenient and give them another couple of days.”

“They are leaving with all their belongings and cattle and hopefully most of them will leave in another two days, but if they don’t there would be a massive crackdown,” Haseeb said.

It was unclear whether the Afghans were all heading back across the porous, disputed border to Afghanistan or simply going to other parts of Pakistan.

Ghulam Jan, an Afghan who said he came to Pakistan years ago as a child with his parents, was preparing to head across the border to Afghanistan’s Kunar province with 13 members of his family, a cow and two calves.

“My parents are buried here. I consider this my homeland, but suddenly we are being uprooted to build our home anew in a hostile situation,” he said.

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